Old lady from the future
Videos with speech are becoming popular, and Veo 3 and LTX are solid options, but expensive in credits or time.
That was the theme for the Daily Art Challenge on February 7th.
My first entry was inspired by the future, and the Jetsons. I imagined Judy Jetson has Alzheimer's or dementia and wanders off. See where, or rather when, she wanders off to.
There is a plot twist at the end....
My second entry was created by just looking through the MidJourney Gallery for "Grandma". I like this particular lady's face. She was holding some bottles. I decided to make them beauty products. And applying something on the left side of her face which makes it younger...
My third entry is the one I am most proud of. Most of the other entries had stereotypical wrinkled old ladies with white hair. I imagined grandmas in the future would look younger and younger.
- I first created a Princeton High 50th reunion sign in OpenArt, nano banana.
- Then I created a Dr. Antony's robotic plastic surgery sign also in nano banana, but using an image found on the internet.
- Third for Omni reference, I found a beautiful young lady from the future.
- And I combined them all in OpenART using the VO 3.1 model, so that there is sound.
A 68-year-old grandma !
For the fourth image, I was most proud because I actually used LTX Studio. This was an annual subscription I paid for on Black Friday.
I searched for more "futuristic grandma" images on Midjourney. And when I saw one of a grandma with a robot, I liked the idea and modified the prompt to make it my own. In OpenArt nanoBanana, I added the PixAroma logo to the chest of the robot. And animated it with LTX Studio with speech.
I didn't quite figure out how to get the old lady's correct accent speaking slowly. But unexpectedly, the robot gives a very interesting expression at the end.
It costs a lot of credits, but it is really fast with 4K (3840x2160) quality!
For the same challenge, my friend Chris had done a very impressive video using LTX running locally. The quality was outstanding.
He very patiently and kindly send me the workflow and helped me install it. It took about 45 minutes, downloading seven or eight different files, including a very large one.
The LTX video model ran for me in ComfyUI locally, but it proved extremely slow.
A 480x480 pixel 5 second video takes me 13 minutes 20 seconds on my RTX 4090 😭
Conclusion
Videos with spoken text is what is currently in vogue. However, it is expensive.
It's expensive in credits if you are using a cloud service like LTX or Veo3.
And it's very expensive in terms of your time if you are running it locally on a gaming computer.
In my case, I have purchased enough credits during Black Friday, and time is more precious than money. So when I need spoken text, I will be using the cloud service only.