The character is pasted into the background. The AI model is quite GPU intensive so you don't want to waste render time on parts of the image that aren't supposed to be animated. Even if they remain static like you want, there will often be color drift and artifacts.

For this image, I cropped the character closely and rendered at 544x960. This produces clips 5 to 8 seconds long. I have some color stabilization and rife crossfade scripts to stitch multiple clips together. There was one shot where her hand went out of frame, so I ran a video outpainting pass to fill that in.

I put all the character clips together then ran auto-masking on it. Then a bit of manual touchup on the mask. I went back to the original psd file and made a clean background plate and placed the masked video of the character on top of that.

Her legs are like that in the original image, perhaps a bit too splayed but, eh.

It did a pretty good job with this considering these were never meant to be keyframes. Makes me rethink what sort of shots I could get away with on a dedicated animation project.

Sorry about the delay, should be able to get the next 5 pages out quickly, then hopefully a more normal schedule for the second half.

This uses a LoRa I trained on video data, with the parent image used as the starting frame. It doesn't follow the art style of the original image, but it produces a result that isn't possible with default models, so the training worked.

Another one using my POV LoRa, was able to keep the style on this one but the motion is not quite as good. Her body is masked out with a rife fade for completely seamless movement while the background does a simple crossfade because it didn't line up.

A shady botnet was trying to crawl all of the /engageClick urls (used for the random thumbnails). But they're randomly generated and never end, so it ends up looping and hammering the ajax endpoint 10 times a second. Not enough to be a DDoS, but it was >100k different IP addresses from third world mobile providers and it ran the analytics to the moon which is annoying to look at. I figured out a filtering method that works for now.

This is hot on the heels of a bot successfully posting a comment here for the first time in many years (it spammed a bunch of quote escape attempts). The javascript post system filters out most bots but there's a growing trend of using headless browsers that execute javascript. This is especially stupid when kiddies dump a huge list of injection attacks into their bot, not realizing that half of them are javascript injections that then execute on their own client so they end up posting "1" thousands of times. You now get auto-banned if you post 1, so don't do that.

Speaker icon is a good idea.