Worf on Casual Friday

Описание: When Starfleet Command introduced Casual Fridays aboard the Enterprise, most of the crew ignored it and continued wearing their standard uniforms.

Except Worf.

For him, it was a matter of honor — and his weapon of choice was the Hawaiian shirt. This compilation preserves those special moments.

The first recorded evidence of Worf on Casual Friday ➡️    • Captain Picard and His Crew Try to Work Fr...  

Why Worf is hanging out with Elaine ➡️    • Riker Did WHAT on His Desk?! - SeinTrek Ep...  

Update: A few week later Riker joins the party -    • Riker on Casual Friday  

#startrek #parody #worf

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/5PtTTj...
Apple Music -   / worf-on-casual-friday-single  

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For the creatively curious, here’s how this video was made:

This was my first time experimenting with a new type of AI model — actually two of them: ControlNet and VACE, both created by Wan and released free and open source and using my own PC (like all the other AI models I’ve used). They let me do something very specific: swap out Worf’s Starfleet uniform for a Hawaiian shirt. Sounds simple, but it took days of tinkering to get right.

The process needs three ingredients:
1. The original video segment.
2. A mask version of the video — I used Resolve’s Magic Mask to isolate Worf’s shirt, then exported it as a black-and-white mask.
3. A reference image of Worf wearing a Hawaiian shirt (which I made in PhotoShop)

With those pieces in place, I tested different prompts and settings until the model started behaving. Some shots came out better than others (still not sure why), but overall I was impressed — the AI didn’t just replace the uniform, it made the shirt move and fold naturally.

Out of the gate, the shirt looked too bright and artificial, so I layered in effects: noise, blur, and color tweaks (desaturation, balance, etc.) to blend it more convincingly.

The “Sad Pablo meme” shots were image-to-video using Wan 2.2, starting with Photoshop images I created the old fashioned way (cutting out Worf’s head and sticking it on the body). Same goes for Elaine’s cameo shot. Across all the Elaine + Worf videos I generated it was funny to see Elaine yapping non-stop at him, he couldn't get a word in (bonus points for anyone who can guess who Worf replaced in the original scene).

The entire video had some film look LUT applied, subtle Analog Damage 90s effect, and slight gamma push towards warmer tones (which felt more appropriate for casual Friday).

The music I created using Suno which was such a fun process. I’m fairly certain no one has ever made mid-tempo French-style bossa nova music with lyrics about a Klingon dressed on Casual Friday before. I downloaded the stems and used Ableton to add compression, saturation, EQ and lots of reverb, as well as splicing together a few vocal segments I liked. I also had to remove quite a few strange audio artefacts from some tracks that always seems to be a by-product of Suno. This is why downloading the stems into a DAW is a must for me.

As always — if you’ve got questions about the process, feel free to ask.

Happy Friday 🖖