Keef Harmon’s Super Epic Happy Fun Timestarted out as a science experiment. For years at Pixar people asked me what I did there (because I worked in so many different departments), and my response was that I was working on a “make movie button”. In today’s age that is now a very real and tragic reality that anyone can make a movie with a single button. But at the time making this project that technology didnt exist.
This project utilizes 3D animation in Houdini, Coqui Text to Speech, Stable Diffusion XL, Google translate, and Rhubarb Lip Sync
Each episode is written out as a JSON file which defines the name of the episode, the soundtrack file, the location, the order of who speaks, and the camera position (close, medium, wide), and then the pipeline I created renders each shot and stitches them all together.
There are 50 episodes.
Make movie button.