---
title: Celebrity Deathmatch
emoji: 🥊
colorFrom: red
colorTo: yellow
sdk: gradio
sdk_version: "6.0.0"
app_file: app.py
pinned: false
---

# Celebrity Deathmatch

Upload two photos, and an AI ring director books an MTV-style claymation brawl:
a fight script with round-by-round announcer commentary, a rendered keyframe
reel, a declared winner — and an optional **Animate** button that chains it into
one continuous fight video with the commentary burned in as captions.

> ⚠ **Parody.** All visuals are AI-generated claymation caricatures of public
> figures, for comedic effect. Not real.

## Models

| Stage | Role | Model | GPU |
|------|------|-------|-----|
| 1 | Fight director (reads both photos) | MiniCPM-V-2_6 (OpenBMB) | A10G |
| 2 | Claymation keyframes | FLUX.1-schnell (BFL) | L40S |
| 3 | Image→video fight clip (opt-in) | LTX-Video (Lightricks) | H100 |

## Architecture

- **Frontend:** this Gradio Space.
- **Backend:** Modal GPU app `deathmatch` — set `DEATHMATCH_API_URL` (the deploy
  pipeline does this automatically).
- **Mock mode:** run locally with `DEATHMATCH_MOCK=1` to exercise the full UX on
  CPU (canned fight, placeholder frames, GIF stand-in for the video).

```sh
DEATHMATCH_MOCK=1 python app.py
```