Pika Labs is a text or image to video ai. It is still in its infancy and the videos are only short, six seconds is the maximum length it will produce, but it is awesome. I have used Midjourney enough that it does not amaze me anymore, even though it should. All technology is like that, when we first got mobile phones, they were a wonder but now we take them for granted. 

I am fortunate to have quite literally; hundreds of images at my disposal, having spent a few months using Midjourney and I have begun to feed them to Pika Labs for animation. The service is much the same as Midjourney, just join; if there’s space on the server and you can access it through Discord. Instead of the imagine/ prompt, you use the /create prompt. To upload your own images, just click on the +1 and upload from the window that pops up above or drag and drop. 

A typical prompt looks like this: /create her hair moves gently as she smiles, you then hit the enter key and wait for a minute or two. Pika will message you when your video is done, and you can download it or ask it to have another go if you do not like the outcome. You can assign values to each of your selected actions for instance if you want the smile to be broader, assign a higher value but there are instructions on the server and there is no need for me to include them here. 

I have only used Pika to animate my own images so far, but I will have a go at the text to video over the next few days. I will also try out assigning values to the animated actions and see how that goes. Of those that I have done so far, I have just accepted what the AI gave me. In the cat image, which I will post below, I asked for the ball to roll, though it does not move, and I asked for Winston Churchill to smile, though he does not. This would matter if I had a project where it was needed, so I will experiment with and see how good it really is. 

For now, I will just post what I have done so far and update my posts as I progress. 

Hope you like them.

Cheers,

Old Man