The Bavarian Dwarf
Created using VIDU img2vid with start and end images — 16 generations in total, with 8 final clips selected for the edit. (🔥Q1ntessential Video Contest entries🔥)
🕒 Total time spent: 24 hours
⚡ Buzzes used: 6400
🎵 Audio sources: Suno, ElevenLabs, Hume.ai, and original sounds/voices
🎬 Post-production: Edited in Audacity and Adobe After Effects for atmosphere and fine-tuning
A significant part of the process was spent searching for AI voice models capable of a Bavarian dialect — unfortunately, without success.
In the end, I voiced the Dwarf myself.
Living in a thin-walled apartment meant recording had to be quiet and muffled — and sadly, you can still hear that, even after editing.
Why is the dwarf speaking Bavarian? Most people on this platform probably don’t even understand it, right?
Well, I thought long and hard about whether I should just let the dwarf rant in English.
But since I was born and raised in Bavaria – and I deeply love my home dialect – I really wanted to give it a little spotlight.
The famous Bavarian "Grant" – that grumpy, sarcastic way of complaining – is actually quite well-known beyond Germany’s borders, so I thought it would be a fun and fitting idea.
(Important note: Swearing and colorful insults have a long tradition in Bavarian culture. Even if some of the expressions sound harsh or downright offensive in translation – they’re usually not meant as bad as they sound. It’s just part of the art of proper Bavarian “Granteln” 😉)
English translation (close to standard German & free):
"Hey, tell me — who the hell shit in your brain, huh?!
Just roaming through my forest like it’s nothing?
Listen here, this ain’t no beer tent, you idiot!
I could really get worked up right now.
I can’t calm down at all — you damn Japanese Prussian!
Oh wait, you wanna see my forest?
Alright then, you can have it — you clueless fool!
Now it’s on, boy!
(Guardian) Now I’m grabbing you by the scruff!"
Orginal Bavarian:
"Ja sog a moi, wer hoat’n dir ins Hirn g’schissn, ha? Einfach so durch mein Woid roasn?
Geh her zua, des is koa Bierzelt, du Depp!
Do ko i mi a so aufreg’n.
I kimm gar ned runta, du japanischer Saupreiß!
Na wart, du wuist mein Woid seng? Ko’st hoam ... du Haumdaucha!
Jetzt geht’s rund, Burschi!
(Guardian) Jetzt pack i di am Grawatl!"