If you have been following this series of posts, you will know I am learning how to create a LoRA character model for consistent character rendering with Wan2.1 in ComfyUI. There are lots of videos and posts, but they frequently have problems when I try them. So here I start with generating faces until I … More ComfyUI and Wan 2.1 Head to Fully Body Images
I have been writing a series of blog posts on my journey to create an AI generated series on YouTube (or similar). One post I realized I skipped was how to generate the first image of a face. So I explain how I approached that with ComfyUI, as well as exploring ways to turn the … More ComfyUI Stable Diffusion Image Generation
Can AI write formulaic screenplays as well as humans? There are many formulaic structures around: Save the Cat, the Three Act structure, and the heroic journey, to name just a few. These predefined templates have a recommended structure to follow based on previous experience of what has worked well. As a result, the structures are … More Can AI ‘Save the Cat’? Exploring Predictability in Scriptwriting
NVIDIA had a number of announcements at the recent CES 2025 and the OpenUSD team at NVIDIA had a great round up of announcements relevant to 3D aficionados. While my personal interest is more into animation, technologies related to 3D modeling always interest me due to their potential application. For example, can robot animation techniques … More NVIDIA and OpenUSD at CES 2025
Omniverse have announced Omniverse Cloud, “a fully managed platform-as-a-service offering for developing generative AI-enabled OpenUSD applications.” While full details are yet to be published, browsing the Omniverse documentation, they describe how to build microservices using Omniverse Kit (their application building framework) with support for cross service API calls and a message bus. Omniverse Enterprise is … More Designing Enterprise Applications leveraging OpenUSD
Interested in high quality 3D product configurators for your ecommerce site? The Omniverse team livestream today recapped the recent GTC conference, and over half the video was talking about product configurators including web delivery! What is Omniverse? Sometimes it’s hard to keep up with everything that is happening with just Omniverse, let alone the rest … More 3D Product Rendering in Web Pages with Omniverse Cloud
A personal side project is converting textual descriptions of camera positioning (for filmmaking) to a machine readable form. Screenplays normally do not include camera directions (that is left for the Director to do on set), but I am interested in creating 3D animations from just a screenplay and want to give the writer control over … More Text to Camera Shots with LLM AI
I am working on a web based 3D animation project where you can create an animated video using 3D character models, like a cut scene in a video game. Facial expressions in 3D are frequently animated using “blend shapes” (aka “morphs”, “shape keys”, or “facial landmarks”). Google MediaPipe can be used to live capture a … More Getting Google MediaPipe to control VRM Characters
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