Curly_rincewind
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Curly_rincewind
3mo ago
I think by and large they are terrible at it and don't. There are a few different techniques that claim to achieve this, but as someone who follows this closely it's all still fairly bad. By far one of the biggest remaining hurdles of mass commercial use.
Matching Eye colour hair colour, clothes etc are doable with stuff like retraining the model, a reference or prompting with a well known actor/figure
God forbid you try to recreate a character that passes the filter of someone who's not faceblind
God, I find woman like this grossly unnatractive. If a girl is drug adjacent, and doesn't have her life in order, its a No.
I know it's partly a nice guy ism, but skanks are not capable of consenting to me. We're just not in the same ballpark of decision making capacity or agency.
Their brains are so contorted, with all their little pathologies vying for attention that it makes me complicit in engaging merely because I'm aware.
If I've known them for longer then maybe, but that's only after I've established a connection to all the disparate parts of their unstable personality and I myself have had my agency reduced by the powerful emotional force of time+proximity.
I don't begrudge most other men for "tapping that" but only if they are either unaware of how broken that person is or they themselves are psychologically compromised.
Either you're a big enough manwhore to drown out short memories of woman or those spiritual scars are going to stick with you.
Knowingly canoodling with "a bad idea" is weak. Just jerk off (without porn) before going out. Your too old and experienced to be bed post notch maxing. It's your job dealing with these people, surely that makes it worse somehow.
Aside from that. Great series of posts! You have really struck gold with the "Indian immigrant goes to Scottish gay bar" device. For the television mini series adaption I would make your character have a bleak and empty social life outside the new friends he's made at the bar, while he's grappling with moving back to India due to family pressure of his arranged marriage. Grueling grey work and a cold damp Appartment contrasts with the warm sunny flashbacks of his native home.
The episode structure is the immigrants refreshing non judgemental curiosity of the absurd and colourful characters leading him to learn parts about them no one else bothered to because they couldn't look past their larger than life personalities. At the end of each episode the Indian immigrant gives an impromptu therapy session, leading the subject of the episode resolving some deep issue they had been carrying with them.
Add some bitter struggles with casual racism, and you have all the right ingredients for a BBC dramedy. In my head you look like a young Jason Mantzoukas. Would be Kino casting.
Curly_rincewind
7mo ago
The Munich one is pretty well visited. Theres also a small one in Erlangen. Can DM you the group chat links.
Curly_rincewind
7mo ago
Nah this is the plot of S07E01 black mirror "common people".
Curly_rincewind
8mo ago
Damn. Been reading posts about your Marital issues for a few years now. This did feel inevitable. Not going to lie, I got the impression you were chronically miserable.
Even though I don't usually share your perspective on things I really enjoy reading your posts.
Anecdotes of your life and work are of great interest to me because from the bits and pieces you put out there, I feel like your an older version of me. I'm a young german graduating in a technical field and looking to start a family with my partner soon.
So it does pain me whenever you write about how unaffordable everything is and how having a young family in Germany sucks hahah. I still choose to be more optimistic.
I really hope I will see more upbeat posts from you in the future!
The bar for me is not that it's recognizably consistent. It's actual consistence. For something like this to cross the commercial viability threshold stuff needs to stay on model.
The character needs to stay consistent in different lighting conditions, angles and FOVs.
Finally it needs to be able to handle unique appearences, not average pretty faces and clothes.
The issue isn't that it's impossible to make a video of a character from an image be consistent with that image. Although in my opinion we're still not there. The difficulty arrises from the fact that such a video will inevitably have to conjure up new details in the process. Keeping the newly created information consistent with the next generated clip gets exponentially harder with each new clip and required context. Similar to how LLMs fail if the context is long enough.
I doubt you can make something like bill gates wearing tiger face paint and a floppy sleeping cap from a flat front shot, to an over the shoulder partial view, to a side view without messing up the direction of the flop of the cap or the position/amount of tiger stripes in the make-up.
Not going to bet money on it because I'm sure with enough tries it's doable, I'm just illustrating a point that the amount of stripes and flops or whatever is essentially the same as subtle facial features like the angle of the jaw or the tilt of the eyes.
The technology is fundamentally just not designed for this sort of thing. There's tons of workarounds and it will still be very impactful, you can work within the constraint to achieve amazing stuff, but the constraints are still there.
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