I don't even know where to start but I guess a introduction to the topic: I wanted to see if AI video generation from your own PC has reached a usable state, and yes it has and it's sort of ignored by most bot AI slop dispencers and artist.

In this post I want to talk about the programs internals and all different AI all open source. Mainly for long form AI videos

The programs: A best way to start is introduce the open source programs used and what they are used for and how.

ComfyUI: Most widelly know, hated and accept mostlly as the best alternative to writing your own code. It's Scratch code for ai except 100 times more complicated breaks all the time and is slow cause it runs on Python. Their is no good tutorial no guide and because AI has become a tabu not a lot of usefull advice.

it can genrate everything except you need to instruct it manualy

Example: You set up the loaders Val- audio Val-Video The model Crop for what video clip generation. Ksamplers, Text promp Plus and minus boxes, Image refernce or a make a entire Image generator form text that transfers the Image to the Image reference that then gets transfered to the video that then uses references from the training the model you picked was trained on to make a video as accurate to the video text prompt instruction given.

This is a very very simple ComfyUI Text to Video explanation. It would take about a hour to set it up if you knew what you were doing.

Mago.Studios: A studio for the industry it uses referenes like poses videos already recorded blender animations and stuff like that. To use it you already need to be able to animate in blender it's basically a cote of paint on top of gray figures.I haven't seen impressive things be done with it cause it's hard to use set up etc. And it's not made for the common person. it shows with all the options.

And it's obviuslly a subscription service reverse engineered to be Open source

LTX Desktop: Simple to use limited just basic stuff. Comerial.

Maestro on Pinokio - It's probably the best because it dosen't melt your PC it has clear UI that you can understand. Can use all the AI models like ComfyUI but it's way way simpler.

Takes a long time. A lot of options for a lot of things complicated. it can do everything. A good middle option between comfyUi and the others

The AIs: Different AIs do different things almost all open source are chinese.

Main LLm to write with you is Qwen3.8 27B for this. Does the job best it's the most modern open source option. Gemma 4 31B.

Their is also Underdog Saluki that is a distilled Qwen 3.8 version making it faster and 7.8 GB from the 54GB it is. It makes it 20% lower quality when scored but that depends for what you will be using it for.

(I understand most people don't understand wht the B means what a distilled AI is or what I am talking about the basic is B is like procesing power. Different AIs have different processors so bigger isn't better if the AI you have with 1 Trillion Bs is made for cooking. Distilled is a guy grabbed the AI and quantified it and that is a whole rabbit hole. Best i can say bigger isn't better here. It depends how it's used)

MiniMax H3 - The big boy of open source video generation it compares to all the big boys you usually pay a subscription for. It's open source it's a good over all option.

LTX- focused on cynematics and more profesional videos. It's consistent and made for cynematics

Wan - it's alibaba's video generator and they use a shotgun aproach on Ai from tinny ais to big models. It depends best describes it.

You will be using Minimax for everything.

Images:

Flux or Moss

Moss is really good if writing is involved

Flux is the basic do stuff model.

Their is also qwen but it's really just there. For images their is a lot of models I can't really explain all of them.

Requirements: Most just need a minimum of 8GB of Vram. It's gonna take a long time no mater what you use. It's gonna break no mater what you use. It's gonna take you knowing the basics of animation writing and all that no mater who said otherwise.

A lot of the options are set up to work with reference not make stuff up.

My opinion of AI: It's alright. People who talk about it don't use it to understand it. Even the AI bros just google browser generators that existed way before all this. The bottom line is I ain't paying for your subscription.

If you want to know more. Brows Hugging face. This is a tech that is from the 80s we have been using it for a long time and their is a lot of things.

Не ми пука за кой сте, те са толкова не компетентни и отцепени от реалноста че вече е просто досадно.

Гледам Твоя ден по нова за да видя какво говорят и е винаги "Хората" кои хора ? Защото говорят все едно сме общесвто от 19 век за хляб и вода е главната тема, дори не се базикам.

Толкова не са свързани с реалноста където се опитвам да слушам опозиция и всеки и нещата са "Много харчиш но трява да харчиш повече" или " Не се знае от къде е и видеото снимките информацията от Франция, Турция, Румъния не са доказателства." Но разбирасе това не се отразява на икономиката все още имаме ръст на БВП от 3.5%.

Или безработицата расте защото хората са тъпи тези дори вече не ги слушам.

Та да

It just kept getting spammed about things I didn't care about so i watched it. I am gonna discus writing and animation. Just genuin advice.

I am writing the review while watching it scene by scene for the second time.

Episode 1: Animation looks great skits are funny. Knowing the witch is trans, the guy could have been doing a more girly voice I know it can be, done and it makes things later on way more funny and interesting.

After entering the game the film grain makes things look worst and makes details to disapear. End of episode 1 overall good.

Episode 2: Screeming and talking are a bad combination. The guy ranting and the guy panicking is not great. Info dump when the beast shows up in the grave yard and it forshadows a wider problem.

Overall the animation is really good but it's held down by the voice acting and writing here. The reveal was out there and it was weird. Because their was no context or buildup.

I like the guy is a book nerd but everything being conected to being a Lesbian and calling himself a Ally is weird and with no context for me personally.

11 min everything goes down hill. INFO DUMP. I get the reason but dosen't work. I don't know what they are doing really. Animation is still great.

14 it goes back to good. Until gender gets involved you know I get the bit, but what's with the dam rant of the beast. It's just bad writing from there. Everything untill the skeleton giving back his hat is just bad writing and not needed.

The 18 min mark it feels like I skiped 10 episodes and I am at the end of season 1 best way I can explain it and after that. "Hey kid wants some drugs".

The dam main charecter isn't explained at all and this all is just out there. I understand the end scene but it is way too rushed and nothing is explained.

6/10 Great animation great sceenes good idea horrible execution rushed writing. Expecting I automatically care about things like corectlly calling people by their gender considering their is genderless languages and most normal people irl don't care about it.

It expects I know or related to a lot of things I don't. It could explain it to me but rushes way too fast and way too out of nowhere.

I think it's a perfect example of great idea and quality but horrible execution. it does not deserve the 1+ hour video essay recomendations but it does deserve genuin critique.

As a kid from 10 to 18 I drew modeled etc. Filled scetch books drew 12 hours a day or at least 4 hours hunched over and doing stuff. Now it's hard for me to pick up a pencil, or open blender without a existential crisis or something like PTSD hiting me and I become really stressed.

I want to creat but I become so stressed. I haven't drawn in 5 years now, only from time to time trying to do it every year and failing every year.

It's hard to explain. I got perfectionism, performence anxiety from my past drawings and it makes me just sad. Every time I try to draw trauma flies up and makes things harder. The proces it's self I love. I love the hobby but these things are making it hard to finish anything.

Another major problem is online everyone talks about it like I work at at a AAA company and it's making things even harder to enjoy. All the artist I followed left the internet as a whole altough they post 1 drawing a year at best.

How do I push trough this ?

After I found old telltale games I wanted to see how the new story telling scene is. First thing I remembered was people going crazy about Dispatch, mainly the voice actors that's why I didn't really care.

After playing it. Their is less jank then the old games. Because they are using a actually functioning engine people didn't know but the 3d Engine telltale used had no gravity or physics everything was done by hand. Animations were good voice acting was good. Writing was amazing and it's really the reason I am writing this.

AdHoc is making Until Dawn 2 right now and it's set to release 2027 and they have some other project witch is I assume Dispatch season 2 TBA.

The writers obviously left so many holes for season 2. And they already have the assets. Why take years to make their most successful project.

The worst thing I have seen was the fan's theories on the heroes. It's just good writing and it's stupid they aren't working on it while expanding for Until Dawn 2

9/10 Tell tale type game a must play especially. If you are a fan of the 911 games as well that is the reason I played it but not some other game.

The reason it's not a 10 is because they could have done more with what they had already. And looking at the quality of everything they were given the time they just decided not to go in to it.

Telltale is not a good example on time as they had a lot a bad things in the back but even with that they are taking a long time.

Edit: After a day and some. I would say a 7.5. The more you think about it the worst it gets. Also tryed a second playtrough and it does not hold up.

Edit of the edit: it's a Itch io type game turn out 7