SkyworkAI/SkyReels-V1

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

SkyReels V1 is an open-source human-centric video foundation model with Text-to-Video and Image-to-Video variants, fine-tuned from HunyuanVideo on millions of high-quality film and television clips. The repository provides model checkpoints, inference code, a Gradio web demo, and multi-GPU parallel inference support including consumer-level RTX 4090 inference.

Use cases

• generate cinematic videos from a text prompt
• animate a still portrait image into a video
• run video diffusion inference on a single RTX 4090
• generate human-centric footage with realistic facial expressions
• parallelize video generation across multiple GPUs
• compare open-source text-to-video models against Kling or Hailuo
• self-host a gradio demo for video generation

When to choose

• you need open weights for text-to-video or image-to-video generation with a focus on human faces and cinematic quality
• you want to run video generation inference locally on consumer GPUs or scale it across multiple GPUs
• you are building on top of HunyuanVideo-style diffusion transformers and want a film-tuned checkpoint

When to avoid

• you need 720p output, CFG-distilled or lite models, or ComfyUI integration - these are still on the TODO list
• you have no GPU available, since inference requires substantial VRAM
• you need a fully permissive license - the license is marked NOASSERTION, so verify terms before commercial use

Facets

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video-processing machine-learning deep-learning llm-inference artificial-intelligence image-processing deep-learning media python text-to-video image-to-video diffusion-transformer video-generation human-centric-video hunyuanvideo generative-ai gradio-demo multi-gpu-inference film-generation video gpu linux docker

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