Take this one, for example, where I’m prompting the AI to imagine Batman as Hugh Laurie. There’s another interesting quirk here a lot of the styles are recognizable, and some of the faces are recognizable, too. I gave it a whole bunch of tries, but there weren’t a lot of illustrations that made me think “yep, this is what I was looking for.” If I’d given that prompt to a human, I expect they’d tell me to sod off for talking to them as if they were a machine, but if they were to create a drawing, I suspect humans would be able to interpret that prompt in a way that makes conceptual sense. But the scary thing (for artists) and the exciting thing (for non-artists) is that we are in the very infancy of this technology, and we’re going to get a lot more control over how images are generated.įor example, I tried the following prompt: Batman (on the left) and Dwight Schrute (on the right) are in a fistfight in a parking lot in Scranton, Pennsylvania. If you are a visual director like myself, the algorithm is often frustrating because my creative vision is hard to capture in words, and even harder to interpret and render for the AI. Of course, you can get a lot more detailed with your prompts to get a lot more control of the final image - both in terms of what’s going on in the image, the style and other parameters. The only real shortcoming of the algorithm is that it favors the “you’ll take what you’re given” approach. generate four new images from the same prompt), render out a high-res version of one of the images or iterate based on one of the versions. I come up with a prompt - for example, Batman and Dwight Schrute are in a fistfight - and the algo spits out four versions of something. Now, I have a visual mind, but there isn’t an artistic bone in my body. Generating all of the above - and hundreds more - only had three bottlenecks: The amount of money I was willing to spend on my Midjourney subscription, the depth of creativity I could come up with for the prompts and the fact that I could only generate 10 concurrent designs. There are hundreds and hundreds of candidates, but here is a selection showing the breadth of styles available: If you really want to go deep down the rabbit hole, check out AI Dark Knight Rises on Twitter, where I’m sharing some of the best generated pieces I’ve come across. Why Batman? I have no idea, but I wanted a theme to help me compare the various styles that MidJourney is able to create. Over the past week or so, I may have gone a little overboard, generating hundreds and hundreds of images of Batman.
When someone can, at the click of a button, generate artworks of anything, emulating any style, creating pretty much anything you can think of, in minutes - what does it mean to be an artist? It’s hard to put words to exactly what that means to conceptual illustrators around the world. Not only did it come up with the image at the top of this article, it spat out four completely different - and oddly perfect - illustrations of a concept that’s hard to wrap my head around: All I did was type a bizarre prompt into Discord, but these images wouldn’t have existed if it hadn’t been for my hare-brained idea. These illustrations weren’t drawn or conceptualized by me. I feel more graphically represented by these machine-generated works of art than almost anything else I’ve seen. But, not gonna lie, they did something to me. And, my goodness none of these generated graphics are something I’d have conceptually come up with myself. As someone who’s had a lifetime of mental health wobbles, including somewhat severe depression and anxiety, I was curious what a machine would come up with. The picture at the top of this article was generated using MidJourney, as I fed the algorithm a slightly ludicrous prompt: A man dances as if Prozac was a cloud of laughter. But what it, by and large, has in common, is that it was created by humans who had a creative vision of sorts.
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In the recent movie “Elvis,” Baz Luhrmann puts a quote in Colonel Tom Parker’s mouth, saying that a great act “gives the audience feelings they weren’t sure they should enjoy.” To me, that’s one of the greatest quotes I’ve heard about art in a while.Ĭommercial art is nothing new whether your mind goes to Pixar movies, music or the prints that come with the frames in Ikea, art has been peddled at great scale for a long time. As with all technology, there’s going to be a time when you no longer trust your own eyes or ears machines are going to learn and evolve at breakneck speed.
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