Tropical Mirage
At a tropical party, muscular men and gay couples appear and disappear into the jungle.
This is conceptually similar to Kiss, like flower, like water, except the camera moves vertically infinitely instead of a rotating motion, thereby allowing you to see the complete figures. The visual depictions of the men are extremely realistic, and the lack of rotation allows them to stay in the frame long enough to see them completely.
Some of these men turned our better looking than I expected. This checkpoint model — Juggernaut Aftermath (Civitai) — was recommended to me by Scratchproof, the creator of the popular Virile models. He reasoned that I don’t need to use gay-specific photorealistic models since I only make SFW works. I am pleasantly surprised by the results. Deforum renders images in a single pass only — so no hires fix and no ADetailer after the first pass. So to get these results in a single 25-step pass is impressive.
If you want to try it out, I should caution the following — Juggernaut installation is a bit more involved than other checkpoint models, as it comes with three parts:
- The checkpoint model
- A VAE model
- A YAML config file, which you put alongside the checkpoint
I don’t know what happens if you don’t use all three, but I recalled that I was not happy with the results when I tested it before I knew about the custom VAE and YAML config.
This is now definitely on my top lists for the most photorealistic checkpoint model right now. I will continue to test more of it through image generations in the future.
Technical Details
Text prompts in Stable Diffusion, Deforum, 1500 frames (1 min 40 sec), edited to 1 min 25 sec.
- Juggernaut AfterMath, DPM++ SDE Karras, 25 steps
- 512x910
- Deforum key prompts at frame 0, 300, 600, 900, 1200, 1500
- Seed: iter, 3D animation, 1500 frame, Replicate border, 15fps
- Soundtrack: Licensed music “I feel good” by All Good Folks. Remixed to animation length in Ableton Live Suite
- Animation: Adobe After Effect
- Video Upscale: Topaz VideoAI 2.1 x (custom upscale)
- VideoAI: 1088x1920, cropped to 1080x1920, 30 fps
- VideoAI: Progressive, Proteus AI model
- Stills: Topaz Gigapixel HQ 4x, 2048x3640
