​How to build an NFT series using AI (Part 3)

Similar immediate. Similar reference picture. Completely different consequence (with a constant type).

And the method of re-submitting the immediate and reference picture to Midjourney took all of two seconds.

(There’s actually a ‘🔄’ button that you may click on to resubmit your request).

To harp on my level from yesterday:

AI hyper contracts all of that point, work, studying, trial and error that exists between ‘concept’ and ‘closing creation’.

I didn’t must scout a brand new location, rent fashions, monitor the climate, arrange any lighting, course of any movie, or change any lenses with the intention to experiment additional right here…

All it took was two clicks. (Spooky, no!?).

It seems like a artistic cheat code…

So what’s the distinction between constructing a photographic type manually, and doing it with AI?

(No surprises right here) it’s completely different in nearly each approach. Each approach, aside from one.

I may very well be approach off right here, however that is how I am beginning to see it….

The course of of making your personal artwork type is completely different in every scenario, however the system is similar. This is what I imply…

The system:

Private style + influences = new artwork type.

(The stronger your private style is, and the extra influences you pull from, the extra distinctive your type turns into).

This system appears to remain the identical, no matter course of.

Course of vs. Course of:

The guide means of operating that system (within the case of pictures) would possibly seem like this:

Soak up a spread of influences, whereas testing completely different movie shares, digital sensors, codecs, compositions, lenses, digicam our bodies, lighting results, subject material, set styling, chemical processing, digital submit results, and so forth.

Repeat that course of over years of trial & error till you will have your self a brand new photographic type.

The AI course of seems like this:

Provide the AI with your personal authentic pictures (informing your private style), describe the scene you need depicted and record your creative influences.

Repeat that course of with 5-10 minutes of trial & error (tweaking prompts and reference pictures as you go) till you will have your self a brand new photographic type.

Okay…however the place’s the road between affect and plagiarism?

There’s been push again from many artists, which have a really comprehensible (and justified) drawback with AI fashions that permit people/corporations mimic their creative types nearly 1:1.

I am not right here to imitate, however to mix and create anew.

Which is a pleasant sentiment – nevertheless it doesn’t reply the query: the place’s the road between affect and plagiarism!?

For me, I’m drawing the road utilizing a easy query:

If [artist(s) you’re using as influences] have been to placed on an exhibition exhibiting the AI based mostly work you’ve created:

Would everybody be shocked by the brand new path of their work and the obvious departure from any earlier types?

Or higher but: if the work didn’t have an artist’s identify credited subsequent to it – would viewers be at a loss as to who was chargeable for making it?

If sure, you’re good. It has turn into its personal factor.

If no, it’s too near that artist’s type.

(It ain’t good – nevertheless it works).

Okay, that’s it for now – see you in Half 4.