Category Archives: Midjourney

Wesley Crusher riding a unicorn into battle

Wesley Crusher riding a unicorn into battleThis one is just for fun.

Last month actor and writer Wil Wheaton who played Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: the Next Generation, got a rare Dall-E invite, and used “Wesley Crusher riding a unicorn into battle” as his first prompt, “because OBVIOUSLY.”  You can see what he got here on his tumbler.

I decided to see if the Midjourney art machine was up to the same challenge.  After several tries with the Beta –test renderer that weren’t very good, I tried the good ol’ V3 engine and finally got this image.  It almost looks like a Star Trek uniform. It almost looks like Wesley Crusher.  …And he almost has legs.  It’s wonkey and creepy but we like that, ‘cuz that’s the way AI art should be.  A few years from now when AI art is perfectly realistic, artists will attempt to re-create this wonky style just like Instagram filters today try to make your digital pictures look like old fashioned faded film prints.  Because realism is nice but interesting is better…

Midjourney “thinks” and creates a portrait of a cyborg with an electronic brain

Watch as Midjourney “thinks” and creates a portrait of a cyborg with an electronic brain.

EricSusch_portrait_photo_of_a_cyborg_with_electronic_brain_and__8541faa7-7d06-4d58-831d-7a269f35beaf#Art I made with #Midjourney #AI

 

Midjourney remaster feature

Midjourney introduced a “remaster” feature today.

We want to try letting people ‘remaster’ images from the v1/v2/v3 algorithm using the ‘coherence’ of the –test algorithm.

Here’s a comparison using one of my first successful renders with midjourney.  Top is the original rendered with V3 algorithm and the bottom is the new remaster.

Midjourney film noir V3 - remaster comparisonThere’s been debate about the new “–test” and “–testp” algorithms verses the older versions.  The new algorithm  emphasizes “coherence” and is more realistic but less “artistic.”  I think a blind rush to “realism” is a mistake because images start to look like boring cell phone images, but this new algorithm at Midjourney looks pretty damn good.  I like both images here.  They are quite different but both are dramatic in they’re own way.

 

These are stories of the future… (again)

EricSusch_These_are_stories_of_the_future_beautiful_cinematic_c_5db01eac-3117-4882-900e-a4fd057f2a01This is another variation on the vague prompt “These are stories of the future…”  It’s fun to see what the Midjourney AI does with these poetic prompts.  Is it a peek into the developing mind of a childlike machine that is still learning?

This vision looks like a more positive future than Midjourney’s previous version.  This is a berry and ice cream, cotton candy future.  And is that Princess Leia?

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