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New horizons and the future of Warp
🕑 Added 2024-11-26 18:51:53 +0000 UTCLong time no see, my fellow Warp enjoyers!
I’ve been working on a new UI for Warp early this year and oh God did I get carried away!
Driven by your invaluable feedback I’ve tried to make something that’s easy to run without a prior CS degree or inherited GEEK skills. I also took some notes on the UI, something about making it less complex than the current fighter-aircraft-cockpit style web-apps.
As you know, Warp was initially following the ‘designed-by-the-best-programmers paradigm, which didn’t hold up as soon as a non-disco-diffusion bros joined the party.
I’ve had an awesome friend of a designer, who helped me outline the future of my vision, but sadly, it’s just not technically possible in its current Colab notebook format (and also requires a bunch actual developers for it to be implemented)
While I’d still been testing some things with Warp in its current interface, most of my time is being spent working on a better and more friendly version of it. The one where you don’t have to deal with Colab update errors or local install stuff.
I guess this is the sad part of this post where I say that WarpFusion Colab updates are not to be expected anymore.
While I’m personally still using and tweaking it (and sharing the tweaks obviously), I cannot guarantee you any future updates, except for fixes for fun-breaking bugs.
If you get an update once in a while, it would probably be a Christmas miracle or something like that.
You can star the Sxela/WarpFusion: WarpFusion github
and its ComfyUI version here - Sxela/ComfyWarp: WarpFusion Custom Nodes for ComfyUI to follow them stay tuned for the future updates, but be moderate in your expectations.
The ComfyUI version seems like a long-term option, as you can already implement the whole workflow just by using nodes! (and replace SD1.5 with Flux for example)
I’m eternally grateful to all my supporters. Warp Colab has even outlived other popular colabs thanks to your persistence :D
Your inputs and feedback have driven the development for almost 2 years. But there’s only so much a Google Colab notebook can take.
I guess we all know that the future lies in another castle, Mario. That castle’s name is Mago, an app developed by actual developers with actual designers in mind.
The good news is, that you are all invited to the new castle homecoming party! Most likely the higher tiers will get access first, but all supporters, active or former, will get a priority pass.
Stay tuned for more updates on the Mago beta schedules, and thank you once again for being awesome!
P.S. here's a humble link to the project I've been working on in stealth mode - Mago Studio - AI Style Transfer, you can get a sneak peek on the new interface there. The beta is planned to happen late Q1 2025.
Love, Alex.
Comments
Aleksey Calvin
Hi, Alex Spirin. This is Aleksey Calvin typing. I just tried to sign up for the Mago Beta/waitlist, but am being told that my email address (alekseycalvin@gmail.com) is for some reason "not allowed" into the sign up. I'm aware that this is a closed Beta, but I thought that the waitlist (at least) was open. It seems relevant for me to add that I've been supporting WarpFusion as a paying Patreon member for two years now, since June 2023, and continuing to support the project even after having personally moved on to other tools in my active usage/video-creation projects/workflows. I know that I'm a "mere" low tier member. But 5$s every month over two years still adds up. Meanwhile, I had that whole time remained a broke artist/creator with minimal income, sometimes hardly able to pay for anything at all. As such, it would be nice if I could perhaps leverage this continuity of support in any way whatsoever, beyond access to a few bug fixes. Preferably, to get to actually sample, experiment with, and hopefully use anything you've been working on for (at this point) a substantial portion of these last two years. As for "credentials": Nearly two years ago now, I had leveraged WarpFusion, alongside many other tools, in my production work on a 40-minute long hybrid live action/AI independent film ( link to the unlisted/otherwise unfindable film: https://youtu.be/P6rKrYXq0H8?si=WMYiyeTbJ5sqKK8f ) which got screened at a few events around the Bay Area that year, but had since, alas, been allowed to fall into the obscurity whence it came (in large part due to my own lack of promotional verve). I'm presently working on several video projects, utilizing fresher tools (wan, hyvid, etc), but am still looking for solutions comparably practical at scale (and for someone with rather limited hardware/resources) as the WarpFusion and Deforum Colabs of yore. Therefore, it would be great to get to at least sample what you're working on.
Warpfusion
It was the idea at the beginning, but we just don't have the manpower to troubleshoot it for various local envs
AI Tripz
So Mago is a hosted product? Will there be a self hosted option?
Warpfusion
can you use english please
光規 平倉
こんにちわ。ローカルにインストールするにはどうしたらいいですか？
Andrea Terenziani
Yes, that's exactly what I needed to know, thank you veyr much
Warpfusion
Yes, current latest versions will be opensourced, sooner or later. But newer versions still might be embargoed for some period of time. Is that why you were asking about?
Andrea Terenziani
thank you for replying, but before subscribing we need to know if the code that is here will be eventually open sourced one day, due to an internal policy. We'll also try with ComfyUI but that would mean a bit of a rework of our pipeline
Warpfusion
Hi, the latest public version that's here on patreon is a bit ahead of github iirc and is more than enough for most cases. You can also try comfyui warp nodes that implement crucial warp functions there, and the rest can be done using other existing comfyui nodes
Andrea Terenziani
Good luck with everything! Completely unrelated, I have recently started using WF for my internship (the public version available on GH) and we're considering subscribing to the patreon to get up to date. Will every version posted here eventually be released publicly?
Lam Son Do
I am glad to read this. Warp plays a very important role in my workflow. I hope that Warp takes the route of After Effects or Blender, complicated but great, tools for people who take art seriously. It would be the harder route, but a steadier one. You are always my rockstar for creating such a strong tool.
Sagans
Good luck Alex!
MDMZ
Awesome! signing up now
Ced Pakusevskij
Good luck Alex! Mago looks good. Are you in Paris now?
Tom Furse
So excited to see what you come up with. The Mago preview looks sick - signed up for the beta :)
Michael Carychao
Awesome!
