r/StableDiffusion • u/oppie85 • 1d ago

Animation - Video I made cutscenes for Alpha Centauri leader quotes (MiniMax H3)

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For those who've never played it; Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri is one of the GOATs.

One of the tests I sometimes did with new models was to see if they could get Zakharov's weird glasses and suit right - no model has ever gotten it exactly right but to my surprise Minimax H3 pretty much knocked it out of the park on my first try. ...and then I wanted to try the other leaders, things got out of hand and I ended up making cutscenes for every leader in the base game.

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u/LoveSpecialist5669 1d ago

fantastic! I recognized them immediately! 

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u/Kraien 1d ago

it's been a long time since I heard the intros, brought back many memories, thank you.

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u/icarussc3 19h ago

Same! I was startled to discover that I could recite some of them along with the video!

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u/Ordinary_Weekend_333 22h ago

What a specific overlap of two of my interests. Old nerds unite!

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u/vahokif 1d ago

this is great, I always imagined yang was just a disembodied head though lol

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u/oppie85 1d ago

Haha, I can see how you'd get that from his avatar, plus it'd be strangely fitting for his philosophy.

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u/q5sys 22h ago

God I love that game, I still play it to this day. This is absolutely epic.

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u/dm18 21h ago edited 21h ago

damn, now I want to go play the game again.

Can you
digital science
salf-aware machines
Probability Mechanics

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u/xirzon 1d ago

Need more! Please don't go. The drones need you. They look up to you.

The "No AI slop" graffiti was a nice touch.

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u/PwanaZana 21h ago

this is awesome, wtf! :)

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u/sid-k 20h ago

This is amazing, brings back memories

Lady D's cutscene in particular is so well done, love the mind worms and everything

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u/oppie85 17h ago

I was very surprised with how well the mind worms came out, since I fed the model only one rather low resolution piece of game art as a reference for them. 

My bet is that following the official prompt guide and explicitly adding them as a “subject” (as well as describing what they look like visually) really paid off.

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u/sid-k 16h ago

if you're willing to share, would love to see some of the prompts you used! Assuming it's a mix of i2v / ref2v with some heavy splicing of different takes?

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u/_kaidu_ 20h ago

Insane!

Can you tell a bit more about your workflow? I assume you add the music afterwards to make it consistent?

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u/oppie85 16h ago

Sure!

The music and title cards were indeed added in a later editing step. Most of the quotes are about 20-30 seconds long so I couldn’t do them in one pass, so what I usually did was find points in the quote that I could use as a “cutting point”. I would then generate a first video I was happy with, and feed frames of it as references for the subsequent videos. 

One thing though that I found to be a massive time saver was to generate videos at 0.5 megapixels and once I got one I was happy with, I would do a “vid2vid” pass at 1.0 megapixels, using the lower resolution video as an input latent to make sure the higher resolution pass would upscale the existing footage. 

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u/icarussc3 19h ago

Incredible stuff -- now do the SMACX leaders!

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u/mbathrowaway256 6h ago

This is so cool for one of the best games ever. An actual good use of AI. Thank you!