AI experiments II - Midjourney Style Tuner

Mid-journey experiments part II. Using 'style tuner' to apply different styles to my calendar prompt. You can use "--sref" and any image (url) to radically influence the look of any text prompt, e.g.: “beautiful vegetables, cauliflower, kale, leeks, purple sprouting broccoli, rhubarb, salsify, spinach, spring onions, swede, wild nettles & wild garlic.  --ar 9:16 --v 6.0 --sref https://www.the_url_of_the_image.goes/here.jpg

Type by generated by @ideogram.ai e.g.: "The word "March" hand written in white marker pen on black"

Still alternating daily between awe/terror at the potential of the upcoming cambrian explosion of AI and the implications on society, ethics, and existing systems.

All images use the same prompt + an sref from the following humans:

50s' illustration - Mary Blair

Illustration - @favebrush

Watercolor - @willagebbie

Botanical - Public Domain

Colorful Photographic - @karenthomasphotography

B&W - Ed Weston

Nick Knight - @nick_knight

Frieze - α Dεad Grεεk

Knolled - @toddmclellan

Hi-res images download.

AI experiments I - UK seasonal veg calendar

I’ve been looking for something vaguely useful to make with AI other than fake film stills for a while. Also trying to extend my NY best intentions past the first week of Jan. So made this UK seasonal veg calendar for my iPhone lock screen. Download all 12 here.

I used ChatGPT to list all the UK seasonal veg in the month that it comes into season. Then used Midjourney in discord to generate the images. The latest version is basically witchcraft. Prompt was “A white marble work surface laid with beautiful vegetables, Celeriac, chicory, Jerusalem artichoke, kohlrabi, parsnips, rhubarb, turnips. --ar 9:16 --v 6.0”, change veg and surface as necessary. Used ideogram to generate the handwritten type (not 100% convinced that is how you spell January). This method is much easier than installing ComfyUI / control nets & Stable Diffusion especially for something this low effort - low stakes - low reward.

That making AI is so incredibly easy is still mind blowing in Jan 2024, but I have a gnawing feeling it’ll be like filtering the fuck out of my first 12 instagram posts circa 2012. An amazing novelty that is faintly embarrassing in hindsight. It took longer writing this caption and putting it on my insta, than it did to create the images. The future is weird. At least my microbiome is gonna be spectacular just in time for it to be obliterated in the coming AI apocalypse. Prob gonna make a meat, fish, cake and new beaujolais day version instead... At least one of those should age well.

Mad House BTS

I don't own the rights to Roger Rabbit, more's the shame. Very quick 60 second BTS of the process of making the mad house film.

Mad House - Previz

This only had 2 week pre pro, to give an much time to the animators Feral Child to do their magic. So i prevized the whole spot in 2 days, which explains how janky it looks. The previz was pretty important because the post schedule was so short and we only had 1 day to shoot, with a kid and a dog. The ending changed quite a bit but the rest is pretty close.

League of Legends - Behind the Scenes

Fire - Home Office - Previz

Prevized the whole spot myself in Maya. Mainly for camera timing and because the final film had to connect seamlessly, oh and we were setting fire to everything, so better safe than sorry.