Testing Civitai

 In principle this CIVITAI is a great and very comprehensive site: one can choose between a wide variety of models, approaches, techniques. Must actually be already an expert user in order to make full use of the many benefits and options.

But there is one shortcoming: one can only upload images up to PG-13. The system automatically (with the help AI of course) checks the content of the pic and classifies it. And when the resulting video is above PG-13, then it is hidden, and the paid credits are lost.

The site does have tons of NSFW AI content, and they seem to be more open to this than other AI sites. But they apparently had a battle with their credit card payment processor, so currently no direct credit card payment is possible. But they are very creative and have found a good solution: allowing the purchase of gift cards which then can be redeemed.

To please their linked services, such as VIDU (who are VERY strict and adamant about only being up to PG-13), CIVITAI limits uploading your own images (e.g. as starter images) to PG-13. One would have to create an AI image from scratch using CIVITAI or one of the other linked AI services (e.g. comfyUI) to generate an AI image, and then during the upload, the metadata for those are checked. If the uploaded image does not have those metadata, then it is not allowed.

So far this is the most comprehensive AI site which has a wide variety of imagery and videos. Very impressive is their partnering with VIDU who are providing the VIDU Q1 concept. This create very nice videos (4 sec long) from a starting and an end image.

Here is an example:

I also created this, ensembled of a series of short VIDU Q1 video snippets:

I have to see how I can use this site to create also more elaborate NSFW videos. For PG-13 content, this site is unrivalled by any other in terms of quality and content.

Their support seems to be slow... I sent an inquiry and have not yet heard back from them.

Cost per video of length 3-5 sec: $0.40, which is quite reasonable.

Testing Unlucid.ai

The web app Unlucid.ai is a very simple AI site: it has only a few preset models, which can be applied to a single picture and create a 4 second clip. 

There are 4 NSFW models which work relatively well when the source picture is more or less aligned to the starting situation of the model.

Here is the pricing for purchasing "gems":

Creating a video costs 30 gems, which is between $1.56 - $2.25 per video - relatively expensive.

The models to be used are fixed - maybe they will be changed once in a while over time, but currently there is not much change or customization possible.

But the resulting videos are OK.

 

A video with male dolls

With Vidnoz and other (audio) tools I created this video:

Testing Vidnoz

In summer last year I discovered Vidnoz, and I have experimented a bit with it. It is quite powerful and allows talking videos to be generated from still images.

The main point of Vidnoz is to create advertisements or presentations, for example for online training. 

https://aiapp.vidnoz.com/avatar/index.html

There appears no limitation on NSFW, I was able to upload all kinds of images. 

Overall the site is a bit confusing - there are a several Vidnoz products, which require separate subscriptions:

• Vidnoz AI
• Vidnoz Gen
• Vidnoz AI Voice
• Vidnoz AI Video Translator
• Vidnoz AI Interactive Avatars
• Vidnoz Flex

The individual tools have even more choices: 

There are more than 1200 different voices, in different languages. When speaking English, these "foreign" voices even can speak in their native accent.

Is a great tool, very capable, but a bit confusing with all these various tools and options.

Testing DreamFace

Already for a while I had the DreamFace app on my mobile phone. It allows there to swap faces and do a few things with faces.I did get a "Perpetual Pro" subscription which allows:

• unlimited standard avatar video
• unlimited standard AI photo
• high-def and no watermark
• 3 mit per video
• 5 weekly credits

It allows upload of a single image, then animates it, For example a body shake, dancing or pets speaking.

Nothing NSFW unfortunately.

The desktop version then has a few more benefits: https://tools.dreamfaceapp.com/ 

One can upload a video, then one can upload an audio or type a text, and then the video is animated with the text or the audio, lips moving properly. This is quite a useful feature, and I have used it already a few times.

Unfortunately it does not store the created setups, so one has to memorize the voices used and the text entered. Only the resulting videos are stored.

Here are two examples of the cats speaking (these are German cats, so they speak German...) :

And here is a video of a doll sitting near a lake:

When the audio / text is shorter then the source video, the video is cut short.

When the audio / text is longer than the source video, the video begins to roll backwards.

My dolls

Here is a living spreadsheet that is updated with information about my doll heads. As of today, there are 91 different heads and 38 different bodies.

This spreadsheet also shows a few specific details on how the dolls are used in the context of OneSixthuals: e.g. age, backstory, etc.

AI - Artificial Intelligence for my doll videos

In December 2021 I began taking pictures of dolls. These are dolls in scale 1:6, similar to the Barbie doll scale. These dolls look very realistic, and I realised that one could create scenes in which dolls interact.

So I began taking picture series, with still shot of the dolls, then putting captions and speech bubbles like in a cartoon. This way I was able to create "Graphic Novels". 

Then in summer 2024 I discovered that AI technology can actually animate those static doll pictures. So I experimented a bit and was fascinated that I could give my dolls a voice. Face animation is done automatically, fitting to the text they are speaking. 

And so I began experimenting, and I will share the results here on this blog. I will introduce a few of the apps that I have used, but I must state that this will just be a snapshot of the current situation: the technology is very much in flux, things are rapidly changing, and there are new innovations everyday. So my "reviews" may get outdated soon, but at least for now they may provide a starting point for those who are interested in follow these developments or give them a try.