Short answer: Jordan Metzner says the idea came from Paige Bailey of Google DeepMind. The app captures a webcam photo, Nano Banana turns you into a chosen costume in about 20 to 40 seconds, and Veo 3.1 makes a happy Halloween video.
Watch this answer from Episode 18 (starts at 3:15) · Episode 18 notes and transcript
From Episode 18: TrickOrTreat!, starting at 3:15.
Jordan Metzner [3:14]: Okay. Cool. So before this starts, I got the idea from someone on Twitter, and her name is Paige Bailey. And her Twitter handle is DynamicWebPaige, that's spelled p a I g e. And she is the DevEx Eng lead at Google DeepMind, previously at GitHub. And I saw Paige essentially post a little product demo that you built with a webcam, and using Nano Banana, Veo 3.1. And I thought, oh, that's like a cool tool. I think that'd be something fun to use. So I built our own version of it. I know, we have our own flavor to it here at Ryz Labs. Doesn't have the most creative name as you mentioned earlier. Trick or treat Ryz costume builder or something like that. I don't know. Might maybe we need a better name generator as next week's episode. But I told Paige that I would shout her out to make sure that, this idea was definitely hers. But I took her idea and ran with it and built something for ourselves, and I know internally our teams have had a ton of fun doing this. So I'm going to jump into the app now, and I'll walk you through how it works. What it does is a multi step process. So the first thing it does, it uses your computer's webcam, and this works both on the computer as well as on your phone. And what it'll do is take a picture of you.
Jordan Metzner [4:36]: Once it takes a picture of you'll be able to pick a predesigned costume, and you'll see what I mean by that. Or you can type in your own costume. And then once it does that, it'll take that costume as a lead image, use it in Veo 3.1 generation, and it'll say a happy Halloween message. So it doesn't have your voice, it doesn't really know that much about you, it just has this one kind of image. And, yeah, here you can see my office space here without my background on. Let's do a quick image capture, and then we can get the side together what we wanna generate. So Perfect. Let's do this. Okay. Cool. Alright. And, should we be a pirate, a superhero, a ninja, or should we create our own?
Sam Nadler [5:24]: Let's try ninja.
Jordan Metzner [5:26]: Okay. Let's go for ninja.
Sam Nadler [5:27]: Haven't haven't seen that one yet.
Jordan Metzner [5:29]: And then I just click here, transform into a ninja. And the Nano Banana generation is pretty fast. It's usually about like twenty to forty seconds or so, and I should become a ninja. And then it takes about there I am, a ninja. I don't know if those are exactly my eyes, but or even my face, but it's definitely my body movement in my office. So there I am a ninja. And you can download the image here, and so you got like a little ninja. But now what it should do is take this ninja and make a little happy Halloween ninja video with it. And we can try this a few different ways and try some, different prompts just to see how well it works. But, yeah, once it finishes, I'll show you we have like a little gallery. And, yeah, I think it was just, the culmination of kind of the newest technologies on the edge to make a little fun tool. I know people in the office made all different things from, vampires to wizards to, custom costumes as well. And, yeah, I was just trying to get everyone into the Halloween spirit a little bit, and a fun little tool to build, and yeah, I can just, even when it generates these videos, you can kinda see like what part of it is good and what part is bad. I mean, the image generation, you can see kind of it's the early days and, it's not exactly me, but here we go. Alright.
Jordan Metzner [6:44]: Here we go. Happy Halloween. Well, it's pretty dramatic. So here, you can download the video, you can download the image, you can go to the gallery, you can see some technical details here. And why don't we create another one more time? This one, I can do. Let's do it with just one hand, let's say.
Sam Nadler [7:08]: What about a rock star in a fist? There we go.
Jordan Metzner [7:12]: Okay, cool. Alright. So how about we do like a eighteen hundreds gunslinger? There we go. Cool? Cowboy. My hand yeah. Cowboy kind of thing. Alright. So I got my hand like that. Trying to look a little more serious in this one. And the Ninja one's pretty funny. It just Yeah. It's not a oh, that one, kinda looks like me. Yeah. You can see how fast it is. I mean, it took my whole background out. It kept my hand impression. I mean, the hand is almost, I think, the identical hand. Even though the microphone is, like, cutting off my wrist a little bit. So in that case, like, pretty good. The style is pretty good. I mean, we didn't give it much context. And then we should get another, 18 hundreds happy Halloween video. Let's see how it goes. So we'll put these in kind of full content inside the podcast and post. But, yeah, I'd love to get your feedback on it. I know you've tried it a little bit, but love to hear what you think of the Ryz Labs costume creator tool and Wait. Happy Halloween.
