Toby VirtualFilmer

Virtual filmmaking with Unreal Engine. MetaHumans, Rokoko Suit/Gloves, Maya, iClone, etc. AI skeptic but learning it so I understand / can survive.

[Toby VirtualFilmer @virtualfilmer]

X is all about being TEAM A ✅100% pro-GenAi, or TEAM B 🤬100% anti genai.

According to the TEAM B 🤬100% anti-GenAi team, you CANNOT test it or learn about it, or you’re evil. 😂 Also, you can’t be friendly to people who are in team A and ✅like Gen AI. No friendliness allowed! 😂 Um… I’ve known people on here for a very long time. Before “ai”. And some are now in team A a using ai and loving it, and no I won’t hate them for that. Sorry about that. 😂

And yes, I agree with TEAM B 🤬 that ai gen models should be trained only on licensed material if it’s for final pixel output in film and tv.

But I’m on TEAM A ✅ when it comes to previz or internal work - I think models trained only scraped models are usable. But it can only be for previz and internal work.

For 3d models or 3d work using gen ai… I 100% think it should be using licensed material only. But if it is, there’s nothing wrong with using it. So… TEAM C?

[Toby VirtualFilmer @virtualfilmer]

@GeminiApp This is... concerning. @OfficialLoganK So, three attempts to fact check itself. Now it says there IS no Gemma 4 12B. LOL.

[Toby VirtualFilmer @virtualfilmer]

Gemini Flash 3.5 just makes stuff up constantly. So frustrating. Even about Google's own models. Every single prompt, I have to ask whether its sure - and it always admits to hallucinating it all up. Then it tries again - but usually with incorrect facts. @GeminiApp @OfficialLoganK Is this expected behavior?

[Toby VirtualFilmer @virtualfilmer]

@GeminiApp This is... insane.

[Toby VirtualFilmer @virtualfilmer]

@googlegemma I'd love to know, with it being multimodal, if we can upload a video to it and ask it questions etc. is that possible in a windows desktop way, somehow?

[Toby VirtualFilmer @virtualfilmer]

@JSFILMZ0412 @Creaa_ai No, Jae. This time is different!! ;)

[Toby VirtualFilmer @virtualfilmer]

@k1rallik Nah it’s all BS until we actually use the results

[Toby VirtualFilmer @virtualfilmer]

@DeemosTech If it helps for your own testing, here are the input images I used for the mans head:

[Toby VirtualFilmer @virtualfilmer]

@DeemosTech Currently, "likeness" with Rodin is very close to the HD model of Tripo - but Rodin is still not quite as good. I'm hoping the results get closer (in terms of likeness) as the model improves

[Toby VirtualFilmer @virtualfilmer]

@DeemosTech The new PBR results are great too. They aren't perfect - I wish we could get separate eyeballs and mouth internals, like tripo's smart mesh - but its leaps and bounds over the previous result. Rodin is amazing.

[Toby VirtualFilmer @virtualfilmer]

@DeemosTech Rodin 2.5 excels at keeping meshes exactly like the source image - unlike tripod 3.5 smart mesh which massively changes things like faces, I’ve found

[Toby VirtualFilmer @virtualfilmer]

It's frustrating that Gemini Pro defaults to NOT giving you links anymore. It just says OH I FOUND THE PERFECT THING AND ITS XYZ but then doesn't give the link. You have to ask it AGAIN and it finally finds the link. @GeminiApp @OfficialLoganK

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@carlosedubarret Yes! It’s very exciting. I’m hoping it’s great. Is it full cd quality? 44.1khz? I can’t wait for weekend to test it :)

[Toby VirtualFilmer @virtualfilmer]

@carlosedubarret Yes it looks amazing!

[Toby VirtualFilmer @virtualfilmer]

@JonathanWinbush @eyedesyn @grok @grok is this true?

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@JSFILMZ0412 lol

[Toby VirtualFilmer @virtualfilmer]

@Cheliell Could you please consider doing a deep dive into the new spatial retargeting with unreal? With two metahumans? (Ie. From an original non-metahuman animation with two characters dancing together for example)