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Alex
Spirinaka Sxela
aka @devdef
I make pixels flow. Co‑founder of Mago, creator of WarpFusion and ArcaneGAN — open‑source video tools that hit 300M+ views on Instagram alone.
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(02)About
I build tools that turn any video into any style — frame by frame, without the flicker. It started with notebooks shared on Colab, grew into a cult open‑source pipeline used in music videos and ads, and became a venture‑backed company in Paris. In between, I like to use AI in ways it wasn't intended for.
(03)By the numbers
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pre‑seed for Mago, led by Atlantic Labs (Nov 2024)
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GitHub stars across WarpFusion, ArcaneGAN & Disco Warp
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Instagram posts tagged #warpfusion, with 16M+ likes — the top reel alone has 34M views
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likes on the ArcaneGAN Hugging Face Space
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place in a Telegram contest with the face2comics style‑transfer model
(04)Selected work
Things that moved the internet
012026 — now
Mago Local
Mago as a desktop app on your own GPU: write a script and get a film, restyle your footage, mask, upscale and cut. Runs on ComfyUI — your own install or one it sets up — so local renders cost no credits and footage never leaves your machine.
022026
REGIS & Survivors
Reverse Engineer Games Into Survivors — an agent skill that reads a classic game's files and rebuilds it as a survivors‑like. Shipped Allods Survivors and Britannia Survivors (Ultima Online) with web, Windows and Linux builds.
github.com/Sxela/regis ↗032024 — now
Mago
Paris‑based startup I co‑founded with Alvaro Lamarche Toloza. A universal filter for professional video: transform and stylise live‑action footage and 3D animation with full creative control. Spiritual successor to WarpFusion.
042022 — 2024
WarpFusion
Video‑to‑video stylisation on Stable Diffusion: optical‑flow warping, consistency masks, ControlNets, TemporalNet, AnimateDiff, SDXL. Dozens of releases shipped through a Patreon community; #warpfusion posts on Instagram alone gathered 300M+ views.
Seen in Yaeji — “Pondeggi”, dir. Andrew Thomas Huang · shy kids music video (via MIT Tech Review) · Chivas Regal ad by RealDreams
github.com/Sxela/WarpFusion ↗052022 — 2023
Disco Warp & ComfyWarp
Video warping for Disco Diffusion — one of the notebooks that kicked off the AI‑art wave — where I'm among the credited contributors. Later ported the whole pipeline into ComfyUI custom nodes.
github.com/Sxela/DiscoDiffusion-Warp ↗06Dec 2021
ArcaneGAN
A filter that turns any face into a character from Netflix's Arcane. A U‑Net trained on pairs generated with a blended StyleGAN — released days after the show and spread virally through Hugging Face, Colab and gaming media.
github.com/Sxela/ArcaneGAN ↗(05)Path
20212026
2021
face2comics
3rd place in a Telegram contest with a face‑to‑comics style transfer algorithm.
2021
ArcaneGAN
v0.3 on Dec 12, v0.4 on Christmas day. The internet turns itself into Piltover.
2022
Disco → Warp
Video warping for Disco Diffusion, then Stable WarpFusion is born.
2023
SDXL era
ControlNet XL, TemporalNet, AnimateDiff, ComfyWarp — a steady stream of releases.
2024
Mago
Co‑founded in Paris. €1.5M pre‑seed led by Atlantic Labs.
2026
Agents play games
REGIS: AI agents that reverse‑engineer old games into new ones.
2026
Mago Local
Mago ships as a desktop app — the whole pipeline on your own GPU.
(06)Contact