Velocium
Herbst wrote the text in 2023 as an emotional vent, never meaning to film it, and later realised machine-learning animation could carry it. Connection and isolation are each shown as both a prison and an escape. Images came from Flux in ComfyUI, then were animated with several image-to-video tools and Gaussian splats, and Herbst released the LoRA trained on the final imagery.
Awards
- Third Place — Project Odyssey (Civitai), 2025 (Winner)
Credits
- Written, animated, edited and directed by: Calvin Herbst
- Sound design and mix: Daryn Ady
Genres
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