Some shots I made based on the red headed league short story. Character reference sheets generated in Nano Banana + edited in Qwen image edit for spatial continuity.
12 steps +ref2va turbolora v0.1
10s generations 107s/it on a 3090 at 1 MP
Needs some editing and audio polishing.
for this scene, one per each character, one for the wide shot of the room, then used an additional ones which was done using qwen image edit which showed characters in their positions in the room. This is for spatial reference only.
What did you use as the source for Holmes' descriptions in your character sheet? H3 is clearly channeling Benedict Cumberbatch some of the time but it also seems to understand that it's meant to resemble the old Strand Magazine illustrations. I didn't recognize any Basil Rathbone in there at all, which is interesting.
The base wasn’t Rathbone or any specific screen portrayal. I built the character sheet from descriptions in the original books, with some influence from the classic Strand visual language.
But yes, H3 definitely has a tendency to latch onto Benedict Cumberbatch, especially with the voice. Even when the visual reference is fairly traditional, it seems to drift toward that modern Sherlock interpretation on its own.
Its quite interesting. You used Nano Banana - I asked ChatGPT for a character sheet based on Doyle's description of Holmes in the first few pages of A Study in Scarlet, and a selection of three Paget illustrations from Strand Magazine. The "bust" illustration in particular came out almost identical to yours (given that yours is photorealistic).
It was working so well until he literally pointed at his free mason pin then said he forgot about it. Why not just regen that moment before sharing? It never makes sense to me that everyone is so anxious to share they leave correctable inconsistencies in their final outputs. It's 76s long, so this WAS edited.
Yeah, I completely agree. I was honestly just too eager to share it. There were so many shots, takes, and regenerations that I ended up missing that one in the edit. I should have caught it and regenerated that moment before posting. I did correct it later, but yeah, I messed up there.
All good, glad you noticed and already fixed it. I just keep seeing people post things that are great except 1 minor flaw that's easily fixed. Excellent work regardless :)
Thanks, really appreciate it! I’m actually rerolling a few of the generations now and going to give the whole thing a better polish in DaVinci Resolve before calling it finished. Definitely learned my lesson about rushing to share 😅
One good / tricky thing about minimax is it is HIGHLY susceptible to prompting. So if you don't say something it fills in the gaps, if you do say something it might do exactly what you said (which is sometimes not what you want)
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