as of 10/11/25 i've been a married man. as married as one can be. i got my ring and i got bling (which is only the ring). but let me talk about the wedding itself. on top of custom invitations, i did two things to prepare:
i wrote my vow (high risk vow - it went super well)
and this video was so soooo stressful. i think i finished it the day before - the brief corridor saga really made it last minute. the plan was to play it right before my wife and i came out for our first dance. that's what happened - but just barely!
our day-of-coordinator (who apparently was a major ass to our wedding party) didn't ask for the flashdrive - they couldn't connect my laptop to their av system - the fallback copy (youtube version) played, but buffered! luckily it was in the song part. although our band took over and it was... pre-pubescent. i think i heard actual voice cracks.
anyhow. the video was about 50% aging effects and 50% the animation sequence. and for the first time i got to use some new workflows using comfyui and my rtx3090.
for the calendar shot in the beginning, i rendered out my 3d sequence and added random objects per frame via flux kontext dev
for the aging i used faceapp (certified bloatware) for aging a single frame. i then ran this with my source video through wan 2.2 animate to get the general motion. finally, i stabilized both shots to do an eye replacement (the original eyes is what makes it look like us - the ai generation also deviates and changes poses so the stabilization was necessary)
occasionally i did the faceapp aging but tied it together with reactor for lores face swaps (with 2x upscaling). this wasn't great since the underlying swap model is limited to 128px (the creator regrets making it so he hasn't updated)
and the animation sequence is 100% inspired by this scene from it's what's inside:
one of my childhood friends at the wedding recognized this scene as the influence!
overall one wedding is enough for me. no need to do it again :)
