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A 17-minute Backrooms short film, made by one person with AI. Javi Lopez, co-founder of Magnific, walks me through how he pulled it off, the "don't do handheld" lesson, and the thing no one tells you about making a film this long alone: form a band. This is the first of what…

AI coding agents can now mod almost any PC game you own, so I put DOOM inside Skyrim. SkyDoom is real Skyrim with all the NPCs, except Doom monsters spawn everywhere and I have a chaingun. Built with UniversalModder in about an hour, and I'll show you how to mash up any two…

In this episode, I’ll show you how to use Ming Image 0.1 in ComfyUI, a free image generation model focused on graphic design, text, layouts, and image editing. Ming Image is especially interesting for designs that contain a lot of text. I’ll test it with posters, infographics…

In this tutorial, I'll share with you one of my favorite Free AI Tools. You can download it and run it locally on your Mac (woot!), or you can use Fal.ai. Using a depth map as a reference is a phenomenal way to ensure your AI videos have strong accuracy when changing…

In this video, we tested some of the LAtest AI tools to see how they are affecting sound design and the future of video production. We tested multiple workflows against a Curious Refuge member's work and came to a conclusion on the current state of AI sound design tools. Check…

Four is your lucky number today. Kling 4 is here — kinda. But, I ran it through the usual tests: text-to-video, image-to-video, Omni with Flamethrower Girl, a noir scene in Malloy's office, and my keyframes-plus-Omni trick. Then Google wakes up with Gemini 4 Argon (announced…

In this video, we test all of the top AI Creative Agents against the work from a real AI artist to see how AI holds up when compared to Human creativity. We also dive into some new AI Filmmaking tech that might begin to make AI Creative more obsolete in the near future. Check…

In this ComfyUI tutorial, I’ll show you Qwen Image 2.1 with more than 20 workflows for image generation and editing. We’ll start with text-to-image, including different image sizes, low VRAM workflows, prompt enhancement, image-to-prompt, transparent PNG generation, and Turbo…

OpenAI's DevDay was all about dots, ChatGPT's new always-on AI agents — basically its catch-up flex on Meta's Muse. So did OpenAI cook? And if so, how much is that meal going to cost? On the menu: ChatGPT dots (on Pro from $100/mo, rolling out now), ChatGPT Space, GPT-6.1 Sol…

In this tutorial, we teamed up with our AI Animation Instructor, @albertbozesan to show you the latest AI workflow for combining 2D animation with live-action footage. Check out a full breakdown here: https://curiousrefuge.com/blog/the-best-ai-workflow-for-a-2d-live-action-film…

In this video, we let GPT Astra organize and edit a video including doing VFX, SFX, and producing marketing assets. Check out our tutorial for what worked and what didn’t. Check out the full written breakdown and prompts here…

Despite the name, Qwen Image 2.1 isn't only for text-to-image tasks, but also has great image editing capabilities as well! Supporting up to 10 image references, you can provide inputs for your main characters, their clothing and a background - or anything else you fancy. Swap…

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Learn how to use MiniMax Fast H3 in ComfyUI with three video workflows: text to video, first frame to video, and first and last frame to video. I’ll show you how to set up the model, choose your video size and duration, create prompts with Google Gemini, and run each workflow…

In this video, we tested a hybrid filmmaking workflow that combines live-action footage with AI to transform simple greybox shots into entirely new environments. Check out the full written breakdown and prompts here…

In this video, we tested three different ways to create new camera angles with AI, and the results were pretty wild. Check out the full written breakdown and prompts here: https://curiousrefuge.com/blog/how-to-change-camera-angles-with-ai Check out our courses…

Learn how to use Pixal3D Multiview in ComfyUI to generate more accurate 3D models from multiple image views, plus how to use the new Load 3D and Save 3D Pixaroma nodes. In this tutorial, I show how to set up the latest Pixaroma Nodes, enable Kitchen Attention for faster…

Running MiniMax H3 on your own computer at home is great, but generating higher resolution videos can take a while. Thankfully we have various upscale methods to help us! Using Ultimate Upscale, Latent Upscale 3D and SeedVR2 you can quickly generate your lower resolution (0.2…

ChatGPT Images 2.5 surprised me with some seriously weird ideas. I test OpenAI's new image model and view some wonderfully cursed creations from the MattVidPro Discord. My verdict: an upgrade over Images 2.0, especially in how it handles complicated ideas, with familiar limits…

Image to 3D Made Easy: Trellis 2 + Pixal3D in ComfyUI (Ep33) Turn images into 3D models in ComfyUI using Trellis 2 and Pixal3D. In this tutorial, I’ll show you several image-to-3D workflows, compare their speed and quality, and show you how to turn the generated 3D models into…

World Labs Atlas is a new omni world model for spatial intelligence from Fei-Fei Li’s company. It generates, reconstructs, and simulates 3D worlds from text, images, video, and camera poses, not just flat clips. Atlas claims pixel-perfect camera control, up to 1 minute of 1440p…

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Another ComfyUI workflow power-up to dive further into the world of extending pre-existing or freshly generated videos using the MiniMax H3 Reference conditioning nodes, testing Sparse Linear Attention (SLA) along with the new Lightx2v SLA LoRA and the PDD Acc LoRAs too…

Here is how to create interesting, deep, rich ART with AI. It is a lesson I have learned over many years of studying and observing art. In this video, I will show you visual examples and break it down for you in a really simple way to give you the perfect starting point to…

Speed up MiniMax H3 video generation in ComfyUI with the Speed LoRA, optimized sampler settings, and Pixaroma VRAM monitoring nodes. In this tutorial, I show you how to reduce MiniMax H3 generation from the standard 20 steps to 8 or even 4 steps, while finding a practical…

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Most people treat the Dead Internet Theory as a death sentence for the web. Here is a different perspective In this video I explore why the rise of agentic AI bots, especially ones that pay per crawl, could actually be the beginning of something better. Instead of a lifeless…

MiniMax H3 works great on your own PC at home, and thanks to ComfyUI we get loads of custom nodes so we can make things our way! Turbo LoRAs for the First/Last and Reference models help to speed things up, and there are loads to choose from. If 20 steps is too many - why not try…

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SUNO just made a very darmatic and agressive Move. In this video I will show you what you need to know, what you should DO NOW and how to FIGHT BACK This is a really bad day for AI and AI music. Will SUNO recover from this or lose most of it's users? This extreme move could…

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Forget the rest because MiniMax H3 really is the best AI video generation model you can run at home, on your own PC using ComfyUI. With a whole range of model sizes available, Comfy have done an AMAZING job of getting this behemoth to run even on something as lowly as an Nvidia…

Got a low VRAM card? Or perhaps you just like editing images REALLY quickly? Then why not give Mage-Flow a try? Mage-Flow is a compact 4B-scale stack from Microsoft Research for speedy text-to-image generation, as well as instruction-based image editing. The stack is built from…

Two new INT8 models models are now supported by ComfyUI - JoyAI Image Edit and JoyAI Image Edit plus... but how do they fare again existing models such as Qwen Image Edit, Krea-2 and Flux.2 Klein? Image Edit focuses on editing of just a single image, whereas Image Edit Plus can…

Say goodbye to FP8 models and hello to INT8 Conv-Rot. Faster with more clear details? Yes please! In this video I compare some of the latest models to have conversions to INT8 including Qwen Image Edit 2511, Boogu Image Edit, Z-Image-Turbo, Krea-2 Turbo and SeedVR2 using my…

Krea-2 Turbo can be loads of fun, and if you like being creative then why not play with composite images and character creation? Building on my previous workflow tutorials, in this video you'll learn about 2 method for compositing, and also a 1-click random character creator…

Ever wanted to use more than 3 reference images in your Krea-2 ComfyUI workflows? Perhaps you'd just like MORE ways than using the Qwen Image Edit Plus node for your references? No worries - got you covered. I've been super busy testing all sorts of new nodes for your Krea-2…

Krea-2 is now supported in ComfyUI with a wide range of model options available to run at home, on your own computer. The tiny, fast NVFP4 model is great for most people, with larger models available all the way up to the huge BF16. Their Turbo model needs just 8 steps, meaning…

Bernini-R now has native support in ComfyUI and provides a great way for you to do both image and video editing. Bernini-R uses the Wan2.2 architecture, employing two separate transformer models for high and low noise denoising, and so the existing lightx2v LoRAs work well to…