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Growing old together by your side.

by GymDreams
A gay love story. Rendered with Stable Diffusion, Deforum, and Virile Fusion.
Gay love story animation series.

This is a gay love story of a young man dreaming of finding love, and meeting his husband during cherry blossoms. They do everything together, growing old together, and sharing their lives together.

I made this thinking about the love that Tim & Rod have for each other, and the Instagram posts that they post, sharing their love with the world around them.

I’d like to dedicate this video to all the gay men who are in a relationship — may you grow old with your partner, lover, husband, and enjoy the love that you share together.

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Technical Details

This is a remake of the By your side video posted yesterday. It uses a similar prompt and workflow, though I have tweaked the camera movement to flow in a rotating fashion, instead of an infinite zoom — so as give proper focus to the subjects.

Additionally, I have modified my prompts and keyframes so that I was finally able to age the couples appropriately as the video plays — as I had originally intended.

The original video is longer than the 90 seconds allowed by Instagram, so I removed some of the early parts of the animation, and reimagined the story as a man dreaming of finding love instead of starting with a kiss.

The video is intended to be viewed in square format. I have decided to post just one version everywhere, even if a vertical format is better for Instagram, so that you get to experience my intention as fully as possible. Viewing this in square format is especially important given the motion of the camera movement. It would be much more apparent after you have seen it.

I will not be posting separate stills from the video as an Instagram set. If you’d like to see the stills, please visit GymDreams8.com. Link in bio.

Text prompt in Stable Diffusion, with Automatic1111 Deforum extension, Virile Fusion v2.

  • Virile Fusion v2, Euler a, 40 steps
  • 512x512
  • Deforum key prompts at frame 0, 300, 600, 900, 1200, 1500
  • Seed: iter, 2D animation, 1500 frame, Replicate border, 15fps
  • Soundtrack: Licensed soundtrack “By You Side” by Justin Lee
  • Animation: Adobe After Effects
  • Video Post: Topaz VideoAI 4x, 2048x2048, 30fps
  • Stills Post: Topaz Gigapixel HQ 4x, 2048,2048

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