ONE YEAR of Work for TEN SECONDS of Film

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Every once in a while, a shot comes along that pushes the artform forward. It advances cinematic language, or action filmmaking, or visual effects. Bullet Time did all three. I’m gonna try to recreate it with nothing but a personal computer and a coupla phones.

TECH DETAILS ————-
Hey whaddup everybody. Interested in some deeper details on how I approached this shot? I got you covered-

I’m using a Wan 2.1 + VACE workflow here in order to interpolate the keyframes. Utilizing the VACE add-on, you are able to control the Wan 2.1 video model in some pretty unique ways. In this case I’m triggering an inpainting pass, which is controlled by a mask, as well as a neutral gray area in the video frame that will be filled in. This can be used to remove objects in frame, or to bridge a temporal gap between frames.

I’m running this process in ComfyUI, and if you’d like to check out my workflow, you can find it here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IdfMIKCKJKvE-z1TqkyMRZOfC1ABt57y/view?usp=drive_link

This process also uses a z-depth control video and a DWpose control video to keep the “Neo” element from getting all mushy, as well as an “outline bounding box” control video to trigger and control the camera orbit. There are a ton of control videos in this! That’s the only reason this worked. I had to throw everything I could at this in order to achieve the level of direct-ability that a shot like this would demand in a movie production. After all, we’re trying to execute a specific vision while also preserving the footage of the actor!

There was a second pass needed in order to help with the rotoscoping process, which was a huge pain. Then of course there are the more conventional parts of the vfx process- camera tracking, compositing, etc.

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