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| license: other |
| license_name: minimax-h3-community-license |
| license_link: https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3/blob/main/LICENSE |
| base_model: MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3 |
| base_model_relation: adapter |
| pipeline_tag: image-text-to-video |
| tags: |
| - lora |
| - video |
| - text-to-video |
| - animation |
| - style |
| - minimax-h3 |
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| # STUDIO 1939 |
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| **A hand-painted, golden-age animation style LoRA for video generation.** |
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| STUDIO 1939 is a style LoRA **for MiniMax H3** that turns any text prompt into footage that looks like it was painted and inked by a 1930s animation studio — gouache backgrounds with visible brushwork, warm celluloid palettes, and classical character animation. It was trained on a carefully curated selection from a public-domain 1939 animated feature. The weights are available now in two strengths — **light** and **strong** — and run today on MiniMax H3 on [fal](https://fal.ai). |
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| Two entire short films were written, generated, edited and scored with it **in one night** (see below). |
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| ## Two flavors |
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| | **studio1939-light (r16) — painterly.** Softer, more pictorial: detailed painted texture everywhere, closer to an illustrated storybook in motion. | **studio1939-strong (r64) — full cel.** Bold flat-shaded characters with clean outlines over painted backgrounds: the pure golden-age cartoon look. | |
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| Same prompt, same seed — only the LoRA rank changes. |
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| ## Character consistency, from text alone |
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| No character sheet, no reference images. Freeze a character description word-for-word and repeat it verbatim in every prompt — the same character comes back, scene after scene, world after world: |
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| ## Made with STUDIO 1939 |
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| - **SIX BILLION YEARS** — an 8-minute animated film about the entire history of the universe. 87 scenes; all 261 shots generated in **28 minutes**. |
| - **THE SEVEN DOORS** — a 5-minute adventure: a boy chases a storm-bird through seven worlds to get his kite back. All 108 shots generated in **21 minutes**, the whole film made in under an hour. |
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| Both films: one frozen character description, exhaustively art-directed prompts (palette, camera, and an explicit list of what must *not* appear), voiceover passed through a 1930s optical-track effect, and a fully scripted edit (crossfades inside sequences, hard cuts between worlds). |
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| ## Recipe |
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| - Trigger: start the prompt with `gulliv3r, ` |
| - Prompt expansion: **off** — write the full art direction yourself |
| - Works in 21:9, 16:9 and 4:3 |
| - Scale: `1.0` for the full look; `0.4–0.8` to blend it under a modern art direction |
| - Best results with exhaustive prompts: name every color, every element, and end with what must not appear |
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| ## Get the weights |
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| Both versions are **available now** and can already be used with several video models: |
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| | Version | Rank | Character | Download | |
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| | **studio1939-light** | 16 | painterly, storybook | [studio1939-light.safetensors](./studio1939-light.safetensors) | |
| | **studio1939-strong** | 64 | full golden-age cel | [studio1939-strong.safetensors](./studio1939-strong.safetensors) | |
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| Use them today on the standard MiniMax H3 LoRA endpoints on fal — `minimax/h3/text-to-video/lora`: |
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| ```json |
| { |
| "prompt": "gulliv3r, a white horse gallops across a windswept meadow at golden hour...", |
| "aspect_ratio": "21:9", |
| "prompt_expansion_mode": "disabled", |
| "loras": [{ "path": "<safetensors url>", "scale": 1.0 }] |
| } |
| ``` |
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| **The new massively accelerated endpoints (the ~20-seconds-per-shot workflow used for the films) land on [fal](https://fal.ai) this Wednesday.** |
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| *by [Lovis Odin](https://x.com/OdinLovis) — style source: a public-domain 1939 animated feature.* |
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