Ok guys, my new MiniMax Director node is ready! If you wish to use it, all you need to do is upgrade your subscription to advanced tier and you will see the 'Muse Advanced Nodes' folder in the Classroom. At present there is only the installation video available but the others will be uploaded over the coming week (once I have recorded them 😁). So if you want to wait till then that's fine, or if you just want to get stuck in, you can do that too. Please note that the advanced tier (premium), is not just going to be for MiniMax Director. As an advanced tier subscriber, you will be able to download ANY of the upcoming advanced nodes. While subscribed, you will also get ongoing support with advanced nodes. Please note that you can downgrade from Premium at any time. If you need any help with it, you know where I am! Cheers Andy

This is where I'll post everything new, in one place that always stays at the top: node updates, new models, new and improved workflows, and changes to the classroom. How to use it: 🔔 Hit the bell on this post and you'll be notified every time I add something. 📌 The newest updates are listed first below. Each one links to the full details or the download. 💬 Questions about an update? Ask in the comments here, or post in Support/Help. Andy

Some good points came out of Mike's post, which raised a question that I'm hoping others can shed some more light on. @Wojciech Solarczyk made a good point about live monitoring "finding a bottleneck requires live monitoring: are you running out of VRAM? RAM?" The question I have is at what benchmark should you be looking for to know you are bottle necking? Based on a current render, my stat's are: Ram 76%, GPU 100%, VRAM 95%. Note that I'm only using KitchenAtt and Ref2VA_int8_pruned_convrot. I know this is not the fastes for a 5070ti, but i believe it keeps the quality decent, albeit this is still an area that is a soft spot for me as there are so many models and lora variations out there. Similar to Mike, I did discover that I need to keep the chunks bellow 13s, otherwise render times turn into full days vs 15-20min.

New to the group and thought I'd put up the music video that I'm hoping to put together before halloween. At my newbie level, this is a huge bite to jump in to and I've been hitting lots of walls in regards to the opening shuffle dance and voice synching. The opening is a 16s guitar piece, that leads into Franky singing the lead. Right now I've reverted back to doing single chuncks, while waiting for V2, I thought I could at least start working on the prompting as the duration is 255s. Rendering on the 5070ti takes some time, but its far better than the amiga days, where it took weeks to 3d model/texture and render a 60sec video.

Ok so after posting the video the other day where I create character sheets using ChatGPT I decided to make a local node instead. I still think that GPT 2.5 has better detail, but I know a lot of you would like a local workflow, so here you go, have 2! :-)