- Pika has just published the video creator Pika 2.1 AI with features such as scene ingredients and realistic movement control.
- Features such as dynamic lighting and style transfer rationalize cinema production.
- Compared to Sora, Pika 2.1 aims at any level of competence.
The Video Creator Pika Labs wishes to stand out from possible competitors like Openai and Sora, and its new model adds real power to this effort. Pika 2.1 adds an entire suite of new features and updates just over a month after the fall of Pika 2.0.
The new model offers users tools to make animation more fluid, more dramatic lighting and physics more realistic. It is not quite Pixar, but it is closer that you do not imagine it first, and it is always usable for those who watch YouTube tutorials to edit family album videos.
The figure of stage ingredients introduced with Pika 2.0 is always the star of the new model, offering to incorporate people, objects and locations raised from photos that you download. Your living room becomes a bridge, and your dog can play in a romantic drama in a few clicks. However, the new advanced movement control functionality is the place where Pika 2.1 really bends. The fluid and graceful animation is suddenly much more feasible, replacing more robotic and annoying movements of the previous models. Ballerinas and gymnasts can play in your video without looking like models filled with straw.
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Thanks to the new realistic physics simulation feature, all videos are more like reality. The objects behave as if they really existed in the real world, which means that a character throwing a bullet now results in an arc and a rebound – just as Isaac Newton says. Although a somewhat subtle upgrade in some respects, it always changes your animation to feel like a video game kinematics with greater live performance.
The new dynamic lighting effects also allow you to improve these scenes with a real mood. The shadows deepened, the strong moments and the sunsets seem to have been torn directly from the coil from a travel influencer. And if you prefer to have a much more stylized type of cinema, the new seamless style transfer feature allows you to reorganize your modern and realistic video in a neon-black from the 1980s or a moving watercolor painting.
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Of course, Pika 2.1 does not enter an empty arena. It is against Sora and many others like the dream machine of Runway, Pollo and Luma Labs. Sora has won praise for her video text skills, but is really mainly for professionals, not occasional filmmakers. Runway has impressive creations and multimodal inputs that can create videos from existing text, images or video clips. However, there is also a bit of a steep learning curve to unlock all its features.
Pika 2.1, on the other hand, presents itself as a good tool for professional animators and weekend stamps. That said, you will need a subscription to use Pika 2.1 and all new features. Otherwise, you can only use the Pika 1.5 model. It is nothing to sneeze, because Pika 1.5 offers a multitude of fun visual effects to encourage you to register and access the last Pika model.
