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So, @Google said, "Hey, wanna make a film for #GoogleIO ? You have Carte Blanche." 🤯 For a brain that’s been mainlining animation and questionable VHS tapes since forever, that kind of freedom is both a dream and a mild panic attack. To be honest, until recently I never really thought film making was in the cards for me. Life happened, and although I ended up being a designer, film was more of a distant dream of a young version of myself. Following the unexpected attention and warm reception for Kitsune earlier this year, Electric Pink came out as my own self-administered therapy session: a coming-of-age story that’s basically me trying to figure out my own creative wiring, from the fuzzy nostalgia of childhood to the full-on HD chaos of the present. Turns out, the path to making stuff is paved with a lot of self-doubt and sudden left turns. I’m hoping this film can build on the connection Kitsune fostered. For this project, focused on exclusively using a lengthy process involving leveraging Imagen 3 to create the base of still frames (Imagen was amazing at iteratively enabling me to lock art direction) which I would then heavily retouch and prepare to get them as perfect as needed. Then each scene would be run through VEO2 to get animated clips based on those images (and then a very obvious bunch of sound design, voice design, editing, post-production and what not). Now, what's been amazing as I was nearing the end of this project, is to see individual separate tools converge towards becoming "Flow": Google's AI filmmaking tool built on DeepMind's brilliant tools (Veo, Imagen, Gemini). I must say it’s been fascinating seeing how this tech can translate the random noise in my head into something… well, film-like. It felt like a real step forward in allowing creators to iterate and refine their vision without getting bogged down in organization, and for example having an opportunity to use a first-frame to last-frame interpolation proved to be extremely useful as I could fully control the action I was aiming for. Now in its current version, Flow offers even more features such as the scene builder to easily expand storylines, or ingredients to control character, object, and environment consistency...can't wait to dig more into those possibilities...they definitely would have made my life easier during the creation of this film which I hope you will enjoy. Read more here: blog.google/technology/ai/… And there: labs.google/flow/about

Thank you for all the amazing artists who contributed their pieces to showcase what is possible to create with ComfyUI! comfy.org/videos @CitizenPlain @karenxcheng @shanef3d @paultrillo @makeitrad1 @Dogstudio @henrydaubrez @CoffeeVectors @thinkdiffusion And a special thanks for some original contributions:

We're so excited to share that our website has won Gold in the 2024 MarCom Awards! Thank you to our design partners with Field Theory and @Dogstudio for helping us create the premier online destination for Muhammad Ali's life and legacy. alicenter.org

With @dogstudio, I created this new workflow in ComfyUI, that generate for you 3D object from Single prompt and tried to make it better than before. I use Comfyui-3d-pack from @MrForExample and I modify the workflow to latent upscale and bring "correction" to the image generation before doing the 3D generation.