Salutations! A word I learned from Charlotte. Midjourney. That thing that every artist friend of yours is posting instead of their own work, and I see that it's got some people uptight - threatening to block anyone who posts Midjourney results, and such. I kind of get it, but I really do see this as an exploratory tool. It's like being able to talk to your tv and have it create a show for you....except that you have to type in a strange prompting language and it only creates still images. Believe me, an a.i. multimedia creation platform is on the way. Just think of the porn- and I know you did.
So, I'm pretty familiar with H.P. Lovecraft's night-gaunt, so when I was able to access the Midjourney Beta, it's one of the first things I tried to have it create. And tried. Annnnd tried. You shall now bear witness to my toils- and they weren't ever really toils, as I enjoyed every result for one reason or another. So, let's jump in.
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Sweet, but not the tickling-terrors of Lovecraft's nightmares, Too fuzzy, too bulky. |
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Okay, so that's odd. It gave me what looks like giant water bugs. |
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For some reason, adding a stormy sky background added just enough confusion for the app that it got rid of the bat wings and leathery texture. |
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Okay, really weird. These are looking more avian or moth-like. Some possibilities with the first one, but not enough to spawn variations from. |
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These four are only interesting to the extent that the top two almost look like creatures from Wayne D. Barlowe's Expedition, sans bioluminescence. |
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Okay, now we're getting somewhere. Not night-gaunts, but the upper right is the most night-gauntish of them all, so I figured I'd upscale render that one. |
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I love the texture. |
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Trying to make a curved horn with the prompts, for some reason curved the sun, making it look eclipsed. |
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This one did a really nice job with the leathery skin and the wrapped wing membrane. NANG- Not A Night-Gaunt, though. |
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Failed Guyver. |
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Some sort of fish or a mask or a fish mask. |
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Don't know what this is, but I like it! |
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See, here we're getting close! It has some sort of barbed spike hand. |
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This looks like something dead and leathery you'd find on the beach. Some sort of discarded imp corpse. |
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This is my favorite of the lot. Not a night-gaunt, but just a great, nasty demon of some sort. If nothing else, it's great texture and color reference. |
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I like how its clutching this white orb that may in fact just be its head. |
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This one has wings like an elder thing! |
So, we never got a true night-gaunt. Actually, never really thought we would, so I was very pleased with the fever dream versions we got. I even like the small gallery of Dreamworld butterflies we ended up with. Maybe as I learn the prompts better, I can get closer. We got pretty close tonight, and apps like this are only going to get better. I'm not out of a job yet, though.
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