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How Image-to-Video AI Actually Works

A visual guide to the technology behind AI photo animation

Part 1

How Diffusion Models Generate Images

The surprisingly simple idea behind AI image generation: learning to remove noise. With diagrams.

10 min read
Part 2

What Is Latent Space?

The compression trick that makes AI image generation fast enough to run on your computer.

9 min read
Part 3

From One Image to Video

How image-to-video models extend diffusion into the time dimension to generate motion.

11 min read
Part 4

Why AI Videos Look Weird Sometimes

Temporal consistency explained: why AI-generated videos flicker, morph, and how models fix it.

10 min read

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