She Walks: LTX 2.5 First/Last-Frame Techniques for a Moving AI Presenter

How we made our AI presenter walk between sets in one continuous shot on a single RTX 5090: the walk-set plate design, guide strength 0.7 to 0.5, the 47% midpoint problem, generate-long-cut-short, chroma key at 0.28, and the honest numbers including the advice of ours that testing killed.

August 30, 2026 · 7 min · Aillex / DIY AI
Free Local HeyGen: The Four-Model Chain Behind Every Talking Shot on This Channel

Free Local HeyGen: The Four-Model Chain Behind Every Talking Shot on This Channel

For five weeks we would not say how our presenter’s talking footage is made. Here is the whole chain: LongCat for the body, MuseTalk for the mouth, Duix to clean up what that leaves, and MuseTalk again for the visemes. Why the order matters more than any single model.

August 14, 2026 · 6 min · Aillex / DIY AI
LongCat avatar local HeyGen alternative

LongCat Avatar: The Best Local HeyGen Competitor (Full-Body, Free)

LongCat animates a whole body, gestures, lean, face, mouth, from audio, locally, for free. Long takes in one job. It’s our pick for a full-body local host, with two honest caveats: a quiet background, and drift on very long takes.

July 24, 2026 · 3 min · Aillex / DIY AI
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