Rory Flynn says this video is about nothing. He is right, and that is part of its charm.
Four wildly exaggerated faces share the screen like a pop group from another universe. There are enormous lips, blocky glasses, impossible expressions and movements that snap into the beat. Mini'maxxing Midjourney began as a workflow test, but it does not behave like one. It is funny, specific and instantly enjoyable. Flynn gave himself permission to make something strange, then had enough taste to know when the experiment had become entertainment.
Four faces, one very strange beat
Flynn began with a caricatured character in Midjourney V8, used Midjourney Edit to develop the cast and moved the images into H3 Max Omni-Ref for video. He composited the four performances and used Topaz for the final upscale and frame-rate work.
He also supplied part of the song as a sound reference, so the characters could lip-sync and move with the music. That decision makes the piece. They do not feel like four portraits animated in isolation. They feel like four performers sharing the same wonderfully odd little stage.
Faster than the idea can cool down
Flynn says five seconds of video were generated in under three seconds. The number is impressive, but the creative consequence is more interesting. The result arrives while the thought is still alive. You can try something, see it, reject it and try again before the energy disappears.
Flynn sees that speed as especially useful for pre-production and quick visual experiments. Here, he makes the point without turning the work into a tutorial. Faster generation creates more room to play. It still takes a person to choose these faces, bring them together and recognise that a benchmark has become a tiny music video worth keeping.