Still wishing on a local editing model that can compete with NBP

In exactly two months, it will be 1 year since the release of Nano Banana Pro, and we still don’t have a comparable local model when it comes to editing. Google really nailed its reference capabilities. You send a good face reference to it and it can generate a totally different photo of the person …

Doing the Desktop girl with Minimax h3

But unfortunately some of the icons goes missing. Didn’t exactly follow the prompt either. Prompt (10 sec each) – subject_definitions: <Subject 1> is the centered young woman from <Picture 1>, preserving her exact facial identity, shoulder-length dark hair, natural skin appearance, oversized cream sweatshirt with the cat illustration and visible text “Good Night”, plaid pajama …

For anyone wondering how I manage to do this, here’s a quick explanation with a small tutorial

First, in Minimax, I use a prompt like this: “The character remains completely frozen in place, perfectly still like a statue. The camera smoothly orbits 360 degrees around the character in one continuous shot. No character movement, no pose change, no cuts.” Then I use COLMAP: Create a new database and import the frames extracted …