{"id":22630,"date":"2025-03-05T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=22630"},"modified":"2025-03-04T19:18:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T03:18:53","slug":"surrealism-blooms-through-pika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/05\/surrealism-blooms-through-pika\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrealism blooms through Pika"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Check out this delightful demo:<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">By combining <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pika_labs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@pika_labs<\/a> Pikaframes and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/freepik?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@freepik<\/a>, I now have the magical ability to jump through space and time and in this example, music becomes a transformative element teleporting this woman to a new location. This is how it&#8217;s done. 1\/6\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The videos below are fully narrated\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/06WtgI50ZV\">pic.twitter.com\/06WtgI50ZV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Travis Davids (@MrDavids1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrDavids1\/status\/1896653859839238539?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Individual steps, as I understand them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Generate image (in this example, using Google Imagen).<\/li>\n<li>Apply background segmentation.<\/li>\n<li>Synthesize a new background, and run what I think is a fine-tuned version of <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/lllyasviel\/IC-Light\">IC-Light<\/a> (using Stable Diffusion) to relight the entire image, harmonizing foreground\/background. Note that identity preservation (face shape, hair color, dress pattern, etc.) is very good but not perfect; see changes in the woman&#8217;s hair color, expression, and dress pattern.<\/li>\n<li>Put the original &amp; modified images into Pika, then describe the desired transformation (smooth transition, flowers growing, clouds moving, etc.).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this delightful demo: By combining @pika_labs Pikaframes and @freepik, I now have the magical ability to jump through space and time and in this example, music becomes a transformative element teleporting this woman to a new location. This is how it&#8217;s done. 1\/6\u00a0 The videos below are fully narrated\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/06WtgI50ZV \u2014 Travis Davids [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22630"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22632,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22630\/revisions\/22632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}