Lara’s special Halloween Show

The time has come!
If I remember correctly, this is my first ever dedicated Halloween post/media ????.
(Always wanted, never had time ???? but this year I found some time with the final phases of Mei’s Corruption being a lot of render time, I could find some mental load to affect to this)

Lara Croft 3D model by Wildeer Studio
Sound Design and Music by Mathieu Hellot
Lara Croft’s voice by Patapon

ANYWAY
Let’s answer the question right away because this is also and most importantly my first official prod including AI tools ????!
(Yeah I know this is fitting with Halloween because it’s a scary subject ????)

I’ve posted some WIPs of this project for supporters (https://subscribestar.adult/theropedude) including the first version I tested as a proof of concept and a compilation of some of the sections I didn’t use in the final puzzling but that I find cool.

TLDR : I love playing with this, see you next time ????.

If you have been following me long enough, you may recognize the first image of the video because it was indeed the first image of a full 3D video I crafted back in the days ????(https://the-rope-dude.com/2024/05/19/lara-breast-tease-01/). But you may also know that I’ve been playing with AI tools since at least 2023 and I find this kind of tech absolutely amazing. I’ve tried a few things and failed a lot but now I feel like the time has come to successfully integrate some of these tools in my workflow and therefore, here is the first example that I’m confident enough to call a success ????.
Of course it’s not perfect and I’m not perfectly satisfied with everything but I never am and I’m always learning + the tools apparently can’t stop to get better and better every 2 months ????.

I want to share with you how using these tools make me feel (production wise)
As a 3D animator I feel like a puppeteer, precisely pulling every string of my puppet to make exactly what I want. I have a lot of detailed control but it takes a lot of time.
With AI Tools I feel more like an art or movie director, trying to guide actors in the direction I want and iterating with several takes until I have the “good one”.
Both have their pros and cons (Mostly control and speed of prod imo) so I’m looking for ways to have the best of each world ????.
Also for example a specific camera movement is a lot easier to do in 3D but animating 6 hands groping and playing realistically with boobies and flesh is a nightmare ????.
(And to quote Kurzgesagt : I want to use AI like the align tool in Adobe Illustrator.)
How was it made exactly?
Of course this is overly simplified but I may explain more in depth if some people are interested but to summarize the process :
– Make an image in Blender.
– (Optional) Generate a 3/8 sec video with Wan2.2 (I2V) and take the last image of the video.
– Make an image in Blender or Edit the previous one with Qwen/Photoshop/Blender(Control-Nets).
– Generate a 3/8 sec video with Wan2.2 (FLF2V with the last frame you just edited)
– Repeat
– Puzzle everything in DaVinci Resolve to make it as seamless as possible.
– Upscale/Upframe with Wan2.2/DaVinci Resolve
– Edit/Mask/FX/patchwork in Blender/DaVinci Resolve to improve/refine/hide/modify the things hard to manage otherwise.

On that matter I want to give a big thanks and shout-out to IchibanFutsuJin (https://civitai.com/user/IchibanFutsuJin/posts) we share a lot of helpful technical knowledge with each other and he does some of the most creative and amazing uses of these tools I’ve seen so far ????. Definitely go check his work!

In any case I hope you appreciated this little comeback of Lara Croft and I wish you a great Halloween ^^!

Take care ????????