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What do I do?

Videos about topics I’m interested in, like VFX, Blender, tutorials, living abroad, being self-employed, making money online as a creative. And so on.

Where do I live?

In Monterrey, Mexico with my wife since May 2022. I’m from Finland originally. I live in the small backroom I tenderly call a ‘studio’.

How do I make money?

I have my own marketing & online media business, SCRIIV. I earn money by doing copywriting, SEO, web design, video editing, social media marketing. And so on.

Want to talk with me? Send an email to mark@scriiv.com

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AI Art Animated #invokeai #ebsynth

How to animate your AI character #invokeai #ebsynth

How to use InvokeAI to ...

How to use InvokeAI to animate your videos? In this stable diffusion tutorial, I'll show how to match AI art with EbSynth (with some Photoshop) to create very interesting results. ...

I used single keyframes in this quick InvokeAI tutorial with passable quality. For better final results, I could create more keyframes and edit them in Photoshop to match the source frames better.

For me, InvokeAI is the best Stable Diffusion tool for the moment, and it runs quite well on my humble PC.

Follow this InvokeAI install guide to get it working without headache:
https://invoke-ai.github.io/InvokeAI/installation/010_INSTALL_AUTOMATED/

Chapters:
00:00 How to animate AI images
00:33 Creative ideas
01:12 Ask the AI
01:48 InvokeAI tutorial

So what is going on here?
Well, AI, such as Stable Diffusion, can generate amazing graphics in few seconds. With reiterative (and patient) prompting I got great results where I can overlay the AI generated style on my green screen clip, and fuse them together using EbSynth. Next, I can create any backdrop that fits the style and put them together in HitFilm Express.

This way one can create endless styles and characters. Which is pretty cool in my opinion.

This method does have its limitations. For one, creating all these styles and editing the videos took me many many hours. And if I move too much or move my head, the video becomes little wonky, because EbSynth needs to do more guessing. However, this can be a fast and useful method for shorts and quick effects. And with more effort, the results can be very convincing.

In case you are wondering how I changed the cyberpunk girl's voice, I used TikTok's voice editor, and exported the audio to my video editor.

If you have questions or other feedback, write below and I'll be sure to answer! Thanks for watching and reading!

And hey, if you know a better way, let me know! The AI technology is advancing quickly!

PS. If you watch all the way to the end, comment STONE COLD and I'll give you a heart.[+] Show More

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Which renders faster? GTX 1650 Super VS RTX 2060 #blender

As the final step on my ...

As the final step on my PC upgrades in my search of making Blender render faster, I am raising the stakes by replacing my Geforce GTX 1650 Super with RTX ...2060 - and comparing the rendering speed.

Are you ready for GTX 1650 Super vs RTX 2060 Blender?! Let's go!

RTX 2060 is surely a faster graphics card for 3d modeling and rendering, but how much? Does it make sense to upgrade a budget PC with a faster GPU?
In this video I am using the same short scene like in my two previous videos as a benchmark to test how much faster RTX 2060 is.

Check Amazon for RTX 2060 (affiliate link):
https://amzn.to/3AH1pnm

To my surprise, ASUS RTX 2060 exceeded my expectations in two ways:
1. It was faster than I anticipated!
2. It runs perfectly fine on a tiny 310W Power supply!

For this particular setup, my HP Pavilion Gaming PC is a perfect fit for 2060 and vice versa. Due to the slower Intel H470 chipset, it doesn't make sense to use RTX 3060 or similar faster cards on my system. Nonetheless, the speed boost in rendering in Blender is more than I expected!

Looking forward, I'm happy to use this setup for video editing, animation, graphic design and all things creative until I get a change to build a real Blender workstation.

My fastest render time was 75 minutes on Ubuntu 22.
Download the Blender file from here to run the scene yourself:
https://maruhieta.com/blender-windows-vs-linux/

Thanks for watching! Please leave a comment if you want to give any feedback and like the video in case you happen to like it! 👍

Chapters:
00:00 GTX 1650 S vs. RTX 2060
00:54 Why to upgrade?
01:45 Comparison table
01:54 PSU upgrade
02:17 Why 2060 and not 3060?
02:41 PCIe rev 3.0 bottleneck
03:14 Power consumption
03:22 Why not RX 6600?
03:52 Blender benchmark
04:24 2060 - Best choice
05:03 Blender render farm
05:24 Installing GPU & PSU
06:20 Gamble 2060 & 310W PSU
06:41 Blender render Win 10
07:48 Win 10 Results
08:07 Blender render Ubuntu
09:05 Ubuntu 22 Results
09:35 Cost of upgrading[+] Show More