{"id":1792,"date":"2026-11-10T10:56:04","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T10:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2026-11-10T10:56:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T10:56:06","slug":"gorillaz-in-the-mist-video-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/10\/gorillaz-in-the-mist-video-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"“Gorillaz in the Mist” video progress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I colorized my pencil sketch – <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then used NanoBanana on OpenArt.ai to, eventually, generate a character model sheet based on my sketch – <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s not exactly the same. It took several tries to get the details this close. I had to combine a few generations together in GIMP, then use GIMP to stretch the rabbit ears upwards, since NanoBanana made them too short. I eventually got close enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I’m trying to generate some good keyframe shots to animate. Here’s the best one so far – <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Many of the costume details are wrong, the lighting is flat and the composition is too symmetrical. The red in her bunny ears might be a bad choice. Overall, I’m getting close to what I envisioned. Really close. A few more rounds of improvement will put it over the top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I generated a bunch of poses, a few times what I’ll show here. Most are unusable, but a few could be good – <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s a little weird using something other than a pencil, or stylus, to turn vision into reality – but life doesn’t always let you do things the way you want to do them. Or at all. I don’t have much free time these days, so I’m going to use the most productive tools available. I’m just trying to tell a joke. One that few will get anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I colorized my pencil sketch – Then used NanoBanana on OpenArt.ai to, eventually, generate a character model sheet based on my sketch – It’s not exactly the same. It took several tries to get the details this close. I had
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