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   Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 03:25:42 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

   Midjourney v6’s new text feature is kinda fun — it does a much better job of integrating readable text into generated images

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     Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 03:25:25 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

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     Now that I have uncovered this hypothetical Kobold movie, I kinda want it to exist 😅 Studio pitch?

     Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) repeated this.
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     Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 03:25:25 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

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     Lesser-remembered thread in Love Actually

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     Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 03:25:27 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

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     A tip that's new to me; Midjourney's /describe function can take an uploaded image and spit out prompts that could guide it back to making more. And you can use this to reverse-engineer images it has generated in the past, of styles or elements you don't recognize, to figure out how to make follow-ups.

     There are so many features buried in slash commands that I might never come across

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     Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 03:25:27 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

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     These kind of live-action stills are gonna do a number on the Mandela Effect hawkers 😅

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     Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 03:25:28 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

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     Midjourney still lets you generate with each of its model versions, which is kinda neat! So I ran off the same prompt — "a boxer dog” — in the six major versions. V1 was released February 2022, V6 is the new alpha hotness

     (Bonus points for the tiny doggy boxing glove)

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     Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 03:25:29 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

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     ‘Kehinde Wiley’ makes for an amazing seed for a prompt, though the generator seems to struggle with body parts (I've had to reject more images than usual to get to these few) — perhaps because the artist's own backgrounds are so busy it might be difficult for the network to separate elements?

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     Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 03:25:30 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

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     To get a feel for what kind of keywords will make for great Midjourney output, I like to pick an artist name and ask for a 'landscape by <name>’. A really basic prompt — effectively ‘when I say this person's name, what comes to mind?’; makes for an easy comparison point. Oftentimes generated art looks nothing like what that artist would actually create, but still conjures distinctive reusable style elements

     Names used here:

     1) David Hockney
     2) Takashi Murakami
     3) Yayoi Kusama
     4) Kara Walker

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     Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 03:25:31 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

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     “50s album art depicting a 50s motorcar”

     v2, v6

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     Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 03:25:31 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

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     As a topic, I think this stuff is fascinating. If you're not keeping up with the bleeding edge on Midjourney, you would totally miss the huge improvements that have come to image generation since you last ran something like DiffusionBee on a Mac. It has gone from 'silly little images' to what I would say are stunning works of art and demonstrations of capability. I have no idea what this tech looks like one year from now, never mind ten

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     Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 03:25:32 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

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     Re-running last year's prompts (Midjourney v2) in Midjourney v6:

     "a vector illustration of david bowie performing on stage, bright colors”

     How do you quantify this kind of progress?

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     Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 03:25:32 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

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     "The weeknd in the style of sin city, painterly”

     Again, huge leap forward in v6

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     Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 03:25:33 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

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     Midjourney's take on 'podracing' is my new favorite thing

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     Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 03:25:33 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

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     I scrolled back through my Midjourney history to remind myself what its generated images used to look like, about 18 months ago. The difference to today (second pic) is *astonishing*

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     Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 03:25:33 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

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     Blimey. These ain’t movie stills, this is Midjourney’s attempt at ‘live action Luca’

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     Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 03:25:34 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

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     I guess we've taught the AIs that we really frickin like heavy depth of field, huh? It’s almost difficult to get Midjourney to not output something like this 😂

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     Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 03:25:34 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

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     It's kinda fun to give Midjourney completely abstract or nonsense prompts just to see where the fever dream takes you

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     Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 03:25:35 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

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     Midjourney is so much better at generating fake album art than it was a year ago, when I did all my marketing images

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     Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 03:25:35 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

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     Midjourney can be pretty consistent in style between runs, which makes it easier to see it as a useful tool in creative work. I’d love to see what comes out of a game jam that really embraces AI art

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     Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 03:25:36 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

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     One thing that's very evident now is that if you are a famous creative your voice, your likeness, your art style and more are all going to live on for public use looong after you’re gone. Donated to the gestalt. Digital ‘resurrections’ used to be the realm of high end visual effects studios, but now anybody can make Freddie Mercury sing All I Want For Christmas Is You. When AI-generated video catches up to this level of fidelity, we're in danger 😂

     Meanwhile, here's a Dinotopia-inspired scene

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     Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 03:25:36 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

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     Finding the magic keywords and phrases for compelling AI-generated art is incredibly satisfying. Every piece is like discovering something that nobody else in the world has seen before. You can easily spend hours crafting and iterating on a prompt to get the effect you're looking for; it seems silly to maintain that there's no effort or creative skill involved

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     Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 03:25:37 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

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     Midjourney v6 is much better at producing comic panels, and can even insert things like speech bubbles with the text you provide

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     Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 03:25:37 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

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     It's also got a whole lot better at generating pixel art, or at least what could pass for pixel art at a glance

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     Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 03:25:38 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

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     That famous Pixar scene where the ChatGPT guy stares in disbelief at the Siri guy failing to toggle the light switch.

     …maybe a bit of a stretch, but the image looked too good to not post. These characters and their personalities feel like they could go straight into production; how could you not include AI generation in your concept art process or mood boards?

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     Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 03:25:40 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

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     The next Jurassic Park movie? No, just AI…

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     Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Dec-2023 03:25:41 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

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     The level of photorealism is kinda incredible. You have to really start pixel-peeping to try and figure out whether this is a real image or not

     (It's not)

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     Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Dec-2023 05:01:24 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

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     2024 gonna be like

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     Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Dec-2023 05:01:25 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

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     Take your pick!

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.
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     Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Dec-2023 05:01:26 JST Steve Troughton-Smith

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     Just a happy little guy