Show HN: We've built an Open Source plugin to make using AI easier for VFX
deepmake.comHi, I’m Bryan Lyon, the CTO of DeepMake. We’re making plugins for VFX software suites (Right now we have a pre-release of our After Effects plugin ready) that enable you to use Open Source AI tools without leaving the workflow. It makes all the AI tools work just like another plugin in the VFX software.
In the past, I worked on VFX adjacent AI and was more than once asked to make AI tools easier to use so the VFX experts could use them. In many cases my job was little more than making it easy to install and make sense to use. After writing dozens of “one-off” scripts that made an AI tool usable I decided there should be a better way. To that end we’ve simplified the process. Right now our public release is still not the easiest to install, but once you’ve installed one plugin and the backend, installing new plugins is as simple as extracting a zip file or cloning a repo (and we’re going to make it even easier).
Our target audience isn’t non-technical people, but rather people who don’t have the time or experience to go through installing an AI tool which may not even include an easy way to send your own data through the pipeline. We hope to make VFX easier for people who can’t really do VFX now due to either a lack of time or experience. We also want to make VFX more powerful for VFX experts.
We’ve built the backend to make plugins extremely easy to make and hope that the community will be able to take advantage of an easy way to integrate with VFX tools. IN the spirit of open source we’ve released our code as open source (We’re cleaning up the AE plugin side, but it’ll be released too).
We plan on monetizing based on managing massive plugins across compute farms for big VFX shops and other features that benefit those larger teams, the core of the system will remain open source and freely available.
So far, we’ve released a Stable Diffusion plugin, and have more including Masking, Super Resolution, and more coming up in the pipeline.
I hope you like our software and look forward to hearing from you. Sounds good but needs some demo videos to show what it's capable of before I'd think about downloading it. We're working on demo videos and will be releasing regular content updates at our Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@deepmakeai soon. Bear with us as we get everything up and running. No mentioning of training data sources. Did you use unlicensed content? As that makes it useless for serious content creation. We don't train any models, we're just bringing existing AI models to the VFX workflow. The choice of models and technologies is up to the individual artists . Well is there any information about the product at all? The website doesn't really have any. What information would you be interested in? I wouldn't know what people are looking for to add to the site and would love any advice on that front. It's a plugin for motion software maybe some videos or at least images to see what to expect from the interface and the output.... Hey I'd like to get in touch with you directly, what's the best method to contact you? You can contact us through our contact page at: https://deepmake.com/contact