Ivan Jotta Jimenez

Realizador audiovisual - Sonidista

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Magnific One

A new way to bring art direction into image generation

Unlimited in Magnific Desktop until October 15

[Ivan Jotta Jimenez @Jotta_Jimenez]

@NoContextHumans Yes, like Auropa

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@freddier Aunque la mala calificación, según lo que veo en la imagen, viene de los críticos profesionales, la audiencia la ha calificado bien.

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@applefiles_ Is useless af!

[Javi Lopez ⛩️ @javilopen]

Backrooms Nemoris S1E01: It Eats Light

I've spent the last six months working in secret on this pilot episode for a new Backrooms canon. We premiered this week in Toronto and a it's now available on all platforms: a new Magnific Originals series!

This is quite possibly the most complex project I've ever taken on in my life. Yep, even if that sounds like an exaggeration, it took even more effort than building the first version of Magnific Upscaler.

I had never before tried to bring such a concrete, specific vision to the screen while pushing the current state of the art as far as possible. Every scene you see in this episode, every object, every movement of a character's hands, every space, every hum of the fluorescent lights... it's all there for a very specific reason, with absolute control and intention on my part. I never imagined that something that looks so simple on the surface could be so incredibly complicated.

The script is my own, based on the original Backrooms concept (the iconic 4chan image) but developed to create an entirely new canon from scratch. In this first episode, I reveal barely more around 5% of the overall puzzle, so you may end up thinking: what the f*ck did I just watch? Or you may need multiple viewings to pick up on some extra clues, because several of them are genuinely hidden. The idea is to create a full 10 episode series, an anthology, and have you, the viewers, gradually piece together the puzzle yourselves as the clues are revealed.

Beyond the video and image generations, I did all of the editing in DaVinci Resolve, with particular attention to the sound. I'd say around 60% of the time I spent on this project went into sound. In some scenes, there are more than 13 stereo tracks layered at the same time, using sounds I recorded myself or created and edited from generations and foley libraries. Every sound, every voice, and every gasp is designed to pull you into the world of the story and make you feel like you're actually there. That meant spending an enormous amount of time on sound design, thinking about things like the individual position of each sound in space, EQ, reverb to simulate different environments, the sense of immersion, etc. I've never learned so much about something so quickly.

As for the generations, a few numbers:

• 12 hours of total generated video for 17 minutes of final footage 🤯
• More than 7,000 generations in total.
• An average of around 60 generations for every 15 seconds of final footage.
• 6 months of work, including many weekends, with just one person behind the whole thing... I almost lost my mind.
• Platform: Magnific, of course. Models: mainly Seedance 2.0 and 2.5 for video generations, and Nano Banana Pro and Seedream 5 for image references.
• Approximately $20,000 in total token costs, not including the value of my own time.

For the next episodes, I can't do this alone again or I'll go crazy. My plan is to put together a small team: voice actors, a colorist, 3D VFX artists, a sound designer, and, in general, people from the traditional film industry who can help us professionalize our pipeline and take this story to another level. If you're reading this and you think you might be interested, please leave a comment.

Ah! If you have any technical questions about how this was made, I'd be happy to answer them. Feel free to ask me anything you like!

Anyway, I'll leave you with the episode. For the love of everything holy: please watch it at home, relaxed, on a big screen, with a good sound system or a quality pair of headphones, the lights off, and some popcorn.

And most importantly, enjoy.

Nemus te reddat!

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Magnific Originals by Javi Lopez

Tomorrow, 5 PM CEST / 8 AM PT

You do not want to miss this one

[Ivan Jotta Jimenez @Jotta_Jimenez]

@platzi hay alguna manera de desactivar los retos? Me sacan completamente del rollo. Gracias! 😀

[Alexander Ruiz Ponce @fenixkim]

@magnific Magnific is now a macOS service. Select images in Finder → batch Upscale → done. This is Magnific everywhere.

Grab the shortcut: https://t.co/lZPSUy2fn9

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Remove the friction

Magnific Desktop is live for macOS and Windows

Sync folders, native shortcuts, tabs that remember and local processing. Every part of your process, with no friction on your desktop

Live webinar today at 6pm CEST · 12pm ET. We'll show you every detail

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@MaysaDiye 04

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@MoureDev A

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@akacronos Funciona bien con el MX Keys?

[Ivan Jotta Jimenez @Jotta_Jimenez]

@anachiis_ Si me dices cómo puedo bloquear los anuncios en la app del TV (qué es donde lo veo el 95% del tiempo) lo dejo de pagar

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@Ramboghni Sand blasting

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@midudev Uy! por lo visto, ese tipo de errores parecen ser algo común del modelo, ya lo venía notando. Menos mal que en mi caso no ha sido nada grave.

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This is what launch day actually looked like from the inside

April 28, 7:30 a.m. Málaga. The day Freepik became Magnific

→ 25K+ project hours
→ 72 language migrations
→ 14B+ redirected URLs

Once we started, there was no going back

To the team behind it: thank you

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Freepik is now Magnific

One platform to rewrite the rules of creativity

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https://t.co/qFOWWpzuLo

[Ivan Jotta Jimenez @Jotta_Jimenez]

@yeipicine Ella pidió ese look

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@platzi Que dejen de marcarse como “visto” las clases solo con darle click. Además sería bueno si añaden un botón de “marcar como no visto”.