#generative-media
11 posts
2026 - April
2 posts2026 - February
1 post2026 - January
1 post2025 - April
7 posts- Changing Clothes Using A.I. (ComfyUI)
- Using A.I. (ComfyUI) to Generate NPCs in Game Development
- Understanding the Basics of ComfyUI to Generate AI Images
- Generating AI Images - even Ghibli style 😂 - with Docker and CUDA
- Generating Up to 2-Minute Videos from a Photo with A.I.
- Upscaling Old Anime to 4K with AI
- Colorizing Black and White Images with A.I.
2026 - April
2 postsSeedance 2.0 Is Finally Out: First Impressions
ByteDance opened Seedance 2.0 to the public today after months of restricted access. I tested audio-driven lip sync with my anime avatar, and a Blender render fed in as a video reference. There's real work you can do here, but it's nowhere near professional production yet. Also: deepfakes just stopped being hypothetical.
How ElevenLabs Was Not Killed by Qwen3 TTS
When Qwen3 TTS dropped, half the internet called it an 'ElevenLabs killer'. I spent weeks trying to run Qwen3 in production on my podcast. Yesterday I finally switched to ElevenLabs v3. Less than a day later, I can tell you: open source is still miles behind.
2026 - February
1 postServing AI in the Cloud: My Personal TTS | Behind the Scenes of The M.Akita Chronicles
Behind the scenes of putting Qwen3-TTS in production on a serverless GPU to auto-generate a weekly podcast: cold starts, voice cloning, sampling, loudness, and prompt engineering.
2026 - January
1 postAI 3D: Can You Actually Model 3D With Prompts Now?
A practical walkthrough of generating high-quality 3D models from prompts and images using Nano Banana, Hunyuan, Hitem3D, and Blender, all the way to a physical Bambulab print.
2025 - April
7 postsChanging Clothes Using A.I. (ComfyUI)
A walkthrough of a ComfyUI workflow using IDM-VTON and IPAdapter to swap clothing on photos while preserving the original face and pose.
Using A.I. (ComfyUI) to Generate NPCs in Game Development
A walkthrough of Mickmumpitz's ComfyUI workflow for generating coherent NPC character sheets from scratch, running on my Docker Compose setup.
Understanding the Basics of ComfyUI to Generate AI Images
A hands-on, no-nonsense walkthrough of ComfyUI's core concepts (checkpoints, LoRAs, ControlNet, VAEs, samplers) and a real workflow for turning a photo into anime-style art.
Generating AI Images - even Ghibli style 😂 - with Docker and CUDA
A technical walkthrough of running ComfyUI locally with Docker and CUDA to generate AI images, including anime and Ghibli styles, with full control over models, extensions, and workflows.
Generating Up to 2-Minute Videos from a Photo with A.I.
Using FramePack with Tencent's HunyuanVideo in Docker on an RTX 4090 to animate photos of action figures and drawings into videos up to two minutes long.
Upscaling Old Anime to 4K with AI
Using Real-ESRGAN and Video2X inside a CUDA Docker container to upscale old anime files to 4K on an NVIDIA RTX 4090.
Colorizing Black and White Images with A.I.
Using DDColor inside Docker to colorize old black and white photos, plus a Reinhard global color transfer hack to bias the result toward a reference image.