MIDJOURNEY - How To Create a Complete Graphic Novel in ONE Day

[@octosalias5785]

Every Midjourney comic is some nameless protagonist wandering around describing things we dont SEE (visual medium) with no consistent tone.

[@philftw]

It's like my brain in book form, maybe that's why I dig it... 🧠😵‍💫

[@octosalias5785]

@@philftw Ah im not trying to kill your buzz. Im sure there will be improvements to help AI sequential art, especially because its gained so much interest

[@gabrielWachong]

Its basically good looking trash

[@philftw]

@@gabrielWachong That was my nickname in high school.

[@Xopple001]

There's just no soul in it ​@@philftw

[@RM_VFX]

I don't think everyone is obsolete. What always happens with time saving tools is the studios expect you to do more. We're not yet to the point where an exec pushes a button and a GOOD comic/movie comes out the other side.

[@edwardalvarado8508]

Just matter of time

[@RM_VFX]

Well the tools are here, and won't be going away. Most artists can probably extend their relevancy by leveraging AI to turn themselves into a full art department, using their own abilities to customize the work in ways non artists can't. If you've ever had thoughts of doing your own thing but could never afford to take it big, now is the time.

[@vanbu7365]

Which is exactly the main problem. I still don't get why are we so interested in saving time. Investing time in your work is precisely the most important thing in art, the outcome always comes second place.

[@Minecraftzocker135]

But that's exactly what could bring artists in trouble. The studios expect the artists to do more even on an individual level, which makes any artist not full embracing and relying on AI economically unviable.

[@ithurtsbecauseitstrue]

ai is crap. its a sex robot. it is not the real thing and its embarrassingly pathetic when one choses to use it.

[@lamaldiciondeldibujo426]

This is not sequential art (comic), it's just a succession of illustrations without graphic continuity.

[@foxmcfly9246]

TL;DR of all comments here: 1. You can't replace hand made human artwork. 2. True, but we artists who barely survive on custom art commissions are almost absolutely f***ed.

[@xevios.9336]

You are literally teaching people how to plagiarize

[@angosalvo5734]

Many are saying that creatively couldn't be replaced,but people willing to pay money for some concepts will stop doing so when they see what ai can do. I am sure many in the advertising world will find a use of it during what they call brain storming. This world of advertising is full of corrupt and unskilled people , and this tool will help them bypass many artists just for the sake to put the money in their pockets instead of paying artists.

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

We're nowhere near the point where that's an issue. We may eventually get there, but only for things where the amount of creativity is limited. You'll never see AI being the equivalent of David Lynch or Salvador Dalí. Even if I'm wrong about this, you're still talking many decades before it's even plausible.

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

@@buttsbrown2442 Yes, this is far more likely. I'd expect to see animation switching to a model where a human is doing the layout artwork, and the final touch ups, but the computer is doing the drawing in between those points and adding in between frames and less important details. If anything, this would lead to increased creativity as it is enormously expensive to create full animation, even if you're employing people in places like Vietnam where the cost of living is practically nothing compared with the US. Also, computers have been used for colorizing old TV and movies for decades. It wasn't particularly sophisticated, but much of what Turner was colorizing was done via computer. And that was decades ago at this point. The results weren't great, but they probably weren't much worse than what could be achieved by hand. I know because I've seen hand colored black and white pictures, and they look the same. By contrast, if you pick up a more recently colorized film, like the colorized version of It's a Wonderful Life, the color is so much more realistic, and I'd wager they'll get even better at that in coming years.

[@orztirr1417]

@@buttsbrown2442 Already is, seen it myself.

[@Pneumanon]

@@buttsbrown2442 Concept art and illustration aren't what I would call 'grunt level' art jobs.

[@Pneumanon]

@@buttsbrown2442 Oh on that I agree with you 100%. That will definitely happen.

[@ArtwithAmarBrisco]

Thanks for putting this in one video. I was talking about this once I saw this technology and I immediately saw the potential. I also shared for video on various art and comic book discord. With varied opinion. But as one who have seen the industry for art, comics, animation and visual communications over 4 decades. I think as artists and writers we must be open to all tools that will aid us in out journey to get out stories out to the public. What we don't get back is time so I welcome all the tech that can aid me in my journey **Pun intended*.

[@user-bl4le4pv5j]

That’s barely a visual novel though. More like a collage of random images.

[@brianlewis6229]

That would work for me if I'm trying to make a graphic novel prototype of my script

[@llothar68]

Wow, this is almost as fast as Disney writing a screenplay for their 250 million remake Flopbusters

[@onlyfriendyeah]

super helpful intro to the layout software and general steps for speed + well produced vid instant subscribe

[@SmallSpoonBrigade]

I did one of these 24 hour comics years back and it was pretty dire. But, some of the framers were pretty respectable, even if the whole thing was a bit of a mind screw. It's definitely a good way to start out if you haven't done one before as it completely removes the inner critic as you race to just get something done and can blame the rushedness if there are quality issues.

[@pedroantunes896]

I'm 30 years old now. I'm very impressed with Midjourney, I subscribed the $30 plan, and I finally got able to work on making comics of screenplays which I wrote in 2006 and could never produce a comic or record a movie about that until now. I'm also working on bringing to life even characters that I idealized in 1998 when I was a kid. Midjourney practically changed my life.

[@Jandrø-8]

im glad many of us can finally manifest our creativity

[@beautyofthetribe520]

Same

[@m0thdm]

YES!

[@BandoDNC]

This comment may have singlehandedly decided this for me. I felt something deep in me when you said the part about how you had them since a kid

[@edwardalvarado8508]

Yes it also changed my life now I have no work thanks to midjourney

[@reese6938]

Sir, you can’t justify using a program and AI to steal other artist’s work and create something that you didn’t even really come up with. That’s ridiculous. You’re mad cause it’s true. Why don’t you take the time to learn how to actually create and draw comics? I’m 28 and make my own comics and do studies. AI generated art is soulless af. And the fact you don’t see an issue in using someone else’s art to make a profit is very telling. The cognitive dissonance is real.

[@all.day.day-dreamer]

Don't be an idiot. Did you know that being an artists means studying other artists work and then incorporating elements of this artist's work, through study and practice, into their own art style? Sorry, but Leonardo or Michelangelo didn't invent art all on their own out of thin air, no, they learned from others. It's been that way for 1,000's of years. All the masters did this and in many cases, it's on record that one artist or another studied under other artists. Computers do the same thing, they study other artists works and generate a style of art that the computer has calculated based on prompt input. It's absolutely not stealing. I'm an artist, retired. I worked for Hallmark for 27 years. Furthermore, I generate art daily, and all of it is original art. In fact, I am a part of many art based communities where A.I. art is shared daily and very rarely does anyone complain that these A.I. generated images can be attributed to others. Stop parroting others. A.I. art is not going anywhere.

[@skyradtvcomics4981]

I write and illustrate my own Comic Books and Graphic Novels and rely a great deal on Digital Art. Mostly I use programs like Photoshop because they really reduce the time factor, but using Midjourney is in no way a threat to graphic Artists or illustrators and the original content we create. Truth be told we should explore these software avenues to see what we can develop from it or use to enhance the original work that we have in mind. Don't limit yourself people. P.S. Excellent video! You're a very clever man, Phil.

[@philftw]

A measured and well written comment on a youtube video?! Get out of here before you infect the rest of the internet with your thoughtful and polite ways! I only want "YOU ARE TRASH AND THE CAUSE OF GLOBAL WARMING AND EVEN DOLPHINS HATE YOU!" in my comment section. (for real though, there's going to be value in AI for comic creators that are willing to explore it. Even just in rendering background scenery where the environment is only there to frame the foreground action could really help take some of the tedious work off artist's plates. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, sorry I'm 6 months late in responding!)

[@skyradtvcomics4981]

@@philftw LOL! Better late then never, Pal.

[@photobackflip]

"hey check out this graphic novel I made...." "did you make the art?" -no "did you write the story?" -no "did you design the layout?" -no Weird that you feel pride in creating something when you had nothing to do with creating it.

[@jones1618]

He _did_ write the story and curate the art in the sense that he created the concept, story prompts and art prompts and probably spent a great deal of time sifting through the results which reflect his style, taste and judgement. True, this is a whole new world of creation but the human's role is closer to being an art director & editor than being an artist. Would you fault a filmmaker who expresses their vision in a film where they didn't touch the camera, do all the acting themselves or create all the costumes and props? Consider also that for this tutorial the creator may have emphasized the step 1, step 2, step 3 procedure involved but it is still a creative process.

[@gabrielWachong]

Its like playing a video game using cheats and thinking your sooo good at that game. Delusional thinking

[@thedude3445]

But he did design the layout, and even did it manually. Not to mention the hours it takes to create the correct prompts to generate all the art and script output. It's not the same type of creating, but it's still creating.

[@gabrielWachong]

@@thedude3445 layouts are templates not to mention the actual art style is being stolen from a real artist. This technology is just a way for non artists to steal art from the ones that put in the work and skill.

[@photobackflip]

@@thedude3445 "But he did design the layout" he selects from layout templates multiple times. Comic artist's use the panels to tell a story. Choosing a template is not "designing".

[@trevsanna]

There's no copyright protection. No major publisher will go near AI comic books.

[@WhatDoesEvilMean]

You should look up David Mack. Haha

[@mbanini6848]

"with great power comes great responisbility", and here is my Like, like boss. Next time I'll be promting out in the channel, ' 6x9 graphic novel of a sad suffering dog, each frame like a surrealist painting, add black ink to edges, add 80's printer noise bakcground layer, glossy finish to cover" . yay!

[@gabrielWachong]

Straight up plagiarism if you ask me

[@gabrielWachong]

@Seth Baker bad is the level of plagiasrism that is going on

[@bubandlisa]

AI ARTISTS 🤣🤣🤣 Its like bragging about training your replacement at work after they fire you.

[@gabrielWachong]

and bringing them their coffee too 🤣... Ai artist is just like saying no talent button pusher hack

[@tjramini991]

Wow. This was remarkable. Hats off to you, mate for not only creating an original manuscript so swiftly but also for articulating every step with precision, care and humility. And I concur: AI has not and will never (imo) entirely replace humans and our art but utilized in the right way, it can be an extremely useful tool to help us with our endeavors. Well played, sir 👏🏼

[@chrislane6474]

I do find the robotic generic electronic background music is kinda a perfect match for a “creative” endeavor like this.

[@hasan7786]

Amazing video. Thank you. Gives me ideas on how to move forward with the tech beyond just generating images.

[@mohammedsadam8747]

fuck, this is scary tbh.

[@lewisone]

Wow. After 30 years in animation and comics... I am working way too hard. AI is taking over the world and making me obsolete. lol. Good times. Great video.

[@James-rm7sr]

The issue I have with most AI made art is it lacks soul. You see an image which took no thought or real imagination. It would be like walking into an art museum and looking at a painting thinking about what the artists had thought or what is the meaning behind it. Where an AI it doesn't have that. No real soul, but that being said it could help massively for say one person to make a comic a lot faster.

[@123leehodson]

Just use it as a tool.. use your creative imagination and experience to prompt the AI to give you something to work with..

[@Shlyapik1]

The world is cruel and it doesn't care

[@jimconner3983]

im tired of the world now. why try anymore. .

[@Shlyapik1]

@@jimconner3983 To be the best for yourself. To be happy. It is a terrible mistake to chase material things, fame and recognition from other people. You will never be happy with that. But if you're happy within yourself, you won't notice how you get everything.

[@jahnocli]

All that's missing is soul, intent, and the feeling that any of it matters. If you can make an object look like something else, is that what it really is? If I can imitate a work of art, does that mean I've painted a masterpiece?

[@philftw]

I think the romanticized idea that only humans can create meaning through physical expression will be one of the tropes that changes pretty abruptly in the future. To me it has always had nothing to do with who (or what) makes an image if that image elicits an emotion in me. I think the human connection to art is less about the output itself and more about the act of creating, the culture of the movement/community, and the dialogue it generates. I'm also just an idiot with a mustache on KZbin so don't take me too seriously.

[@basti7878]

Short answer: yes, you could have painted a masterpiece. Longer one: no human in the history of humans ever invented or created anything in a vacuum. All were influenced one way or the other by things/ideas/experiences/people long before - knowlingly or not. Influence does not negate your piece maybe being a masterpiece.

[@Gamezmodz444]

Additionally, did humans make the mountains, moon and ocean? All were beautiful prior to human art.

[@warforlight805]

Essentially it is still made by humans because humans invented that AI and another human typed in the prompts

[@jahnocli]

@@Gamezmodz444 Mountains, moon and ocean are not art

[@askersatz]

Thank you! You inspire. I had to say that because I've consumed many YT presentations, and most of the time end up thinking "great job!" and then go back to whatever I was doing. I watched this and ended up feeling "Man, I want to go out right now and try this!!" Thanks for that enthusiasm

[@Pneumanon]

How to make yourself completely redundant while churning out mindless drivel in ONE day. Truly inspiring stuff.

[@TheDeerPrince]

Finally. A reasonable comment.

[@teleportsaroundyou4629]

“We’ll we’re not at that point where it’ll replace artists yet” why is that an argument for it? Just gonna wait around and feed the beast that’ll grow to consume you because it’s in an infantile state? “It’s not Salvador Dalí or Picasso” neither are most artists that make a living doing it. No shit it won’t replace prodigies that we celebrate above others. That’s less than 10% of all artists ever. But whatever right? The comfort and convenience that technology provides is worth the unintended consequences. Instant gratification is a good thing for our brains, I can’t wait for a majority of the population to be iPad babies with 3 second attention spans. Reply to argue if you want but you’re wrong and I don’t care about what you have to say. I will not be convinced and neither will you. Only time will tell

[@philftw]

You mean me putting together a rational and thoughtful response to an anonymous internet comment disagreeing on a highly contentious topic isn't going to change everyone's mind? That doesn't sound like the internet I know.... (I do appreciate you sharing your POV though, it's really interesting hearing how polarizing this technology is for artists and creators and welcome the critical feedback)

[@stress395]

@@philftw I'm actually shocked at your rational reply. As an artist, I absolutely hate this technology as it's going to devalue multiple fields in the art industry that were already suffering financially because people don't respect artists enough to pay them a fair share of money. Along with the devaluation, it's going to be oversaturated by AI generated images that people "created". It was already difficult to make a living off of visual arts before because people did not respect it, but now it's going to be impossible and reduced to a "simple weird hobby." I don't say this to sound pretentious, but I do think that this is a negative for the future. It would be different if this was an AI to generate storyboards, composition, lighting, or something that would significantly aid the process without destroying it. Though instead, with it being able to automatically create images it takes the value out of everything equally. It would be wrong for me too say that AI artwork isn't art if it has the possibility to invoke emotion, but at the same time, the people who use it are the commissioner rather than the artist. With graphic novels it's a bit different though, since you have to actually format everything into scale and stick to a coherent style while using the AI, along with writing the story itself. I don't think it's lazy for an author to use AI to figure out themselves visually, but it becomes a problem when that person views themselves as the actual artists rather than the commissioner. Which due to the simple nature of humanity, is guaranteed to happen.

[@ChadGardenSinLA]

So glad this was my first video on this subject. I've been wanting to get the stories of my novels out of my head & notes and into a book. What a great way to start off!

[@robertstephen6130]

Thanks for taking the time and creating this very informative video. Good job!

[@kiillabytez]

Man, I've been trying to create my book using Photoshop templates and pulling my hair out in the process. Comic Life is SOOOOO much easier! BTW, I convert my own short stories into Scrivener to create my scripts. Doing it this way really keeps your story into perspective and allows you to visualize the layout and flow of the story even before you commit to creating images for it. Again, thanks for the video!

[@jrr7031]

Thanks for this. I have an idea of comic adaptation of a short lived program i want to do. Didnt have much success with that online asking someone to do it

[@bloodstreamcity]

I've published two comics so far using MidJourney, Lungflower and The Eldridge. I generate images in MidJourney and then tweak and assemble them in Photoshop. The technology still has a long way to go, and it's a challenge, but it's very possible to do.

[@ZEFFENWULF]

Even better now

[@ajstudios9210]

Smh. Cheater.

[@bloodstreamcity]

@@ajstudios9210 🤣

[@curtisjohnson9570]

Where can I find the comic at ?

[@valkopuhelin2581]

What kind of tools would make this easier for you?

[@MarcoLopez-sl5qz]

Next up, a tutorial of how to make an AI to cosume media for you. So you can spend your time thinking on how an AI could simplify the current task you are working on.

[@wisdomeel]

OR LEARN TO DRAW

[@CryptofSkulk]

While I 100% agree, you gotta admit the people who would choose AI over traditional art are either too impulsive to learn to draw or don't have the financial stability to pay an artist to draw for them. I get *why* people gravitate towards using AI art, I still think against it though. As for me? I ain't got the fkn patience to learn to draw I'm just gonna write a novel lmao

[@kingkai2000]

Something you should learn from the looks of your channel 😂

[@CryptofSkulk]

@@kingkai2000 what compelled you to be a p.o.s to a random person on the internet?

[@wisdomeel]

@@kingkai2000 maybe you should finish middle school before commenting on a 8 month comment,

[@kingkai2000]

@@wisdomeel I'm 28 😂

[@yangtze2000]

Really appreciate this instructional, and your no-nonsense (but no less engaging) delivery.

[@kinnaa1234]

Before my recent exposure to MJ, I had no clue; rather, I was scared to think of graphic novels. You gave me wings. Tx

[@goth_ross]

My favorite part of this. Is where you didn’t bother to tell anyone to maybe go support the estate of the original artist, or to even maybe check out and appreciate the person you are completely ripping off. This is the epitome of lack of ethics in this entire new paradigm. Thank god you can’t copyright any of this .. yet. Second favorite part. Don’t ripoff fonts. But a persons life work is totally fine and fun! Saying it is ironic doesn’t really quite cover it. Are you planning on actually selling this? If so. How much will you be giving to the estate of basil wolverton? If you did sell it. How would you feel seeing MJ sell it as well and not give you any part of the proceeds? “I don’t see this ruining careers etc, at least not for a couple years” having said all of that. I do like your moustache. It’s fun.

[@gabrielWachong]

He is indeed selling them. This is plagiarisim and borderline art theft! Also wtf Ai writes the thing too, why would a human want to read anything coming from an AI? its like eating a very well cooked and condimented turd

[@philftw]

@@gabrielWachong I'll give you style points for creatively turning condiments into a verb and being the first to use "turd" in a comment but will strongly disagree with you on everything else both factually and spiritually.

[@gabrielWachong]

@@philftw what can I say, Im a creative guy. Thanks for the points they mean a lot, Ill use them feed my family once AI has completely ran out artists from their jobs 🤣

[@blurtam188]

@@philftw Ignore this guy! He's the milk man crying about people not buying his milk from his horse and buggy now that everyone can make their own milk!! Thanks so much for actually helping people create!!

[@blurtam188]

@@gabrielWachong If you're good AI art will have no effect on you - if you're some hack you'll have to find work where technology can't do a better job than you.🤣😂🤣

[@mygad]

That was pretty awesome. I don't know what I was expecting when I clicked on this, I'm clicking on all midjourney content and wow, this doesn't make me think I'm going to become a super great and successful graphic novel 'artist' but it looks like I can have some fun, engage my creative brain without too much stress and make use of some of the midjourney pictures I've been madly creating. Creativity with some direction! That's a win win. And if we make that crazy 'graphic artist' who tried to badmouth and shame that one person who did create a comic with their midjourney work even madder, all the better! Cool beans.

[@spirocorbett3839]

I will never use this junk. Ever. And for that, my work will be infinitely more valuable than anything made by a toaster. Toaster art! Lol

[@kevkeisha]

Honestly. This is coming off as desperate and scared. Moreover, it's not a question of you using AI for "creative content." It's more of a question of clients using mid journey instead of employing YOU (which I doubt will be the case in the short term). For instance, a burgeoning storyteller that can't afford an illustrator could use this.

[@rebelliousjukebox1251]

If you know toasters doing that I'll buy you some

[@AIGMateYT]

That's that's Incredible.

[@TeaCius1]

Ha! I thought I was the first one to think of this!😆 Can’t wait to see what you did😎

[@iamvulgar8188]

Very interesting video, I enjoyed. Sidenote, you look like Dr. Cox.

[@tomm57890]

This is EXACTLY what I was looking for, thank you so much! I have this story I keep working on but keep getting stuck, the Inferkit will help with that, then I've made hundreds of cool images with Midjourney but not really sure what to do with them. Now I have so many ideas, thanks for this!

[@xevios.9336]

Just learn to draw, it’ll be more rewarding and it doesn’t require electricity

[@xevios.9336]

Or plagiarism

[@dinosaurseatskittles]

So generous to share this information. Great and informative video. Also, side note, you just seem like a great human. Have a great day!!

[@sajanraghavan]

Amazing. Thank you

[@osnessenso8324]

That was the most impressive video on AI I’ve watched for quite a while. I like what u do & how u think about it :)

[@rayr1950]

Inconsistent "art" with incoherent "writing", slapped together in a collage. A keyword search does not a comic make. Hardworking artists and writers that can actually tell a story struggle to get by while dreaming of creating something special. Meanwhile... talentless hacks dog barf garbage like this, dragging the industry down with it. I see a use for AI. Creating images of a world for reference, helping come up with something you may not otherwise think of, but come on, this is basically googling images, but not getting in trouble for using them in a "product".

[@philftw]

Not cool. I know a couple really swell dog barfs, don't go dragging them down to my level. That's just rude.

[@vortexvibes5944]

That looks way more amazing than I would have expected!!

[@vanyakapetanovic4018]

AI is for amateurs and dilettantes.

[@philftw]

Jokes on you, I don't even know what that word means. I'm too dumb to be insulted.

[@vanyakapetanovic4018]

@@philftw There's no joke and no one was trying to insult you. I am just stating that it has no use in any professional environment.

[@philftw]

@@vanyakapetanovic4018 I'm already seeing AI images being used in video game and series pitches. These image work great as scrap for mood boards or concept frames and can be tailored more exactly to the idea and in shorter time. No one is putting out features built in AI (yet) but now that it's leaking into the production pipeline upfront you'll see acceptance and adoption on the backend as the quality evolves.

[@MrRich777]

Great video! You inspired me to do my own comic book, and mine turned out amazing! Thanks so much! 😊

[@NathanWind99]

This is amazing information, thank you for sharing. I love the EC influence!

[@renomtv]

I just asked dor brothers about this possibility and ... character design persistence is being worked on as we speak

[@franklee6746]

What's sad is everyone who complains about AI and just needing to learn to draw will never even publish a single comic, let alone a run of them.

[@flickwtchr]

Excellent video, thanks for the great content and your delivery style.

[@richardreid2501]

Fantastic! I am going to watch this over and over and get this down.

[@QuranPerry-cz3ks]

Dig the stace dude

[@DorianGeist]

Saw your post on midjourney, thanks for making this!

[@afccpmongolia5207]

Incredibly knowledgeable and we'll-spoken teacher. Nice tutorials comfortableness with the subject makes starting soft real exciting!!

[@naturallydope247]

I can relate to your ADHD. I use Privacy for the free trials. It helps but the subscriptions drive me crazy mostly.

[@MichaelDeNicola]

incredible breakdown! I really want to give it a try

[@kasperrzuelow]

Thx for this video Phil. You have really opened a new world for me :)

[@mornepatterson218]

Wow this is amazing. Thanks for the informative video. Lets go!

[@wolfiezdreamscape]

First of all refreshing to see a tutorial that is actually helpful. Is there any way for me to incorporate my original character into Midjourney so I can generate scenes through it's program?

[@kernsanders3973]

not mid journey no, but with Stable Diffusion you can get it to learn your art and character. Go lookup Aitrepreneur on youtube. He has tutorials on to do just that, as well various other tutorials on different free AI image generators around. Also how to setup a local version if you want to run the stuff locally. Although it does require a bit of resources. But in my case it runs much faster and not dependent on being online.

[@moonpost]

yeah, the image-to-image function lets it start from an existing source and refine/iterate from there and you can do it multiple times of course with each result refining it further

[@yeahnigga1984]

@@moonpost how do you do that?

[@Powner187]

Seems like fun.

[@UnleashedDogTubeTV]

You completely described me to a T when you said you don’t like subscriptions because your ADHD takes over , you move to a whole new idea and forget you even have it! 😂🙋‍♀️

[@philftw]

ADHD crowd keeping the subscription industry thriving!

[@UnleashedDogTubeTV]

@@philftw 🤣

[@crispyrobot77]

Basil Wolverton was an amazing creator. If anyone has not heard of this wonderful artist then Google his name. He's one of a kind and was an asset to Mad Magazine.

[@goth_ross]

Thank you for doing that. Someone had to.

[@Candy_McK]

That's why he can use his own style to generate pictures. The AI knows him. Most people can't do that.

[@goth_ross]

@@Candy_McK when you say "his own style". are you referring to basil wolverton or to Phil?

[@Candy_McK]

@@goth_ross Basil Wolverton. The AI is trained on pictures of famous artists. Add their name to a prompt and you'll get a picture imitating their style. If you want your own style - and you're not famous - you have to train the AI on your own pictures. You can't do this with Midjourney - you could do this with Stable Diffusion, it's open source and you can run it on your own PC, but that would be a horrible amount of work.

[@goth_ross]

@@Candy_McK Right. you can understand my confusion at your other comment because basil wolverton has been dead for a long time. .

[@darronslagle6245]

Absolutely incredible. Fantastic video.

[@Oh_W0W]

This is awesome! Very inspirational.

[@chriskilbane]

love this frame for exploration, really interesting, thanks for sharing

[@loopdsgn]

Mind blown. I’m literally shocked by the stylistic consistency of the imagery. Tx for sharing.

[@philftw]

Wait till you see what I'm dropping tomorrow.... 👀

[@ssanumy]

@@philftw Waiting...

[@washburnlane]

Outstanding presentation, thank you!!

[@pushingpandas6479]

so complicated to use dicord for that... Is there a native app planned for midjourney?

[@Artiststan]

Great video, I did not know about Inferkit and Comic Life and I'll be exploring those!

[@darrenelkins5923]

How do you get consistency on the look of the characters? Thanks

[@randomscandinavian6094]

As I understand it he enters «Basil Wolverton» into each request string, thereby ordering up the style of an established artist. (His own pseudonym is a twist on this name). This I guess gives each render a somewhat consistent visual look. How to the characters in the story a consistent look is a different issue. I recently learned that you can also offer up an image url as a reference photo so maybe that could be used somehow. However that might involve actual artistic work if you are to make the reference images yourself for each panel. :P

[@billyliar1614]

If the ''creator'' doesn't write the script or draw the story, they aren't really creating anything they're just assembling machine-generated, synthetic content and if we care at all about art they should have to credit this rather than be able to put their own name to a book - eg the author and illustrator of the book is Midlife rather than themselves, and they should be credited as the 'assembler'. To my mind, just because the artist is a machine and not a biological human shouldn't make any difference. It's down to who or what is doing the work and this should have to be made clear. If that is we care about art, culture and artists. If a guy didn't write or draw something he shouldn't be able to put his name to the book, end of. It's a book written and drawn by 'Midlife' or whatever software programs they used. If this guy were to just rip off an artist (or keep him chained up in the basement producing material) and call it his own work there would be problems, so why is it any different if he's getting a machine to do the work and then taking the credit ? Rights for AI anyone ?

[@philftw]

Interesting point but do you credit the camera and film when someone takes a photograph? Would you credit the GPU when a 3D background or character is created for a movie? I'm not disagreeing with you but the line is arbitrary to some extent. You could argue that me putting in the prompt titles and doing the layouts is the "art" of it just like the person pointing the camera at an object is the "art," not the process of light creating a reaction on exposed film which is then transferred to paper photograph. Love the debate it's creating, I don't have any right or wrong answers and appreciate you sharing your POV.

[@billyliar1614]

@@philftw Thanks for your response. I understand what you're saying but for me the line is whether the new tech has transgressed a boundary and ceased to become a 'tool' as the camera is and has actually started to get into conceptual territory itself - a whole different ball game and I guess why this is so controversial . EG the camera doesn't actually decide what to shoot for the person holding the camera.

[@maoa-cdh1389]

Midjourney and Tik Tok will end of the world as we know it… and it all began with Napster

[@Hyper5nic]

Enjoyed ths video walk-through of your process for creating a graphic novel, very much! It certainly sparked some ideas with me. Having a consistent art style and matching colours will also be a challenge.

[@kcsandidge6600]

Amazing content. You earned a new subscriber! I have been using Midjourney for a while now and this was one of the coolest uses I have seen. I’ve published two photography books using blurb and soon to be a third AI art book thanks to you and this tutorial. Again, great content and video!

[@reilandcash511]

Absolutely fantastic! I really learnt a ton out of this video. Quick question, where would you recommend getting the final book printed?

[@iamvulgar8188]

That's the last thing he addresses in the video when he pulls out the physical copy.

[@amandabastian2722]

Hi! Super fun to watch. Miss ya in the halls.

[@philftw]

Miss you too! Don't be a stranger, we should catch up soon.

[@lucyclyde4998]

Thankyou for sharing, great inspiration and helpful tips, greatly appreciated.

[@butchpeace]

Artists will never become obsolete. This tech may be used by corporations someday to create fake commercial “art products” but people who actually like art won’t give it the time of day. Real art-loving people want the authenticity of work that’s been created by a real human, with their own real human ideas and a real human personal art style. That’s a big part of the appeal for most of us. This tech may make the commercial world value artistic skill less, but that’s nothing new when you look at the past 200 years of technological innovation in the art world. Photography, printing, software, etc.

[@Pink_Mommy]

this was very informative, thank you!

[@MindBenderEnt1]

Great video! Thank you so much for this.

[@thereallycool]

This should be titled HOW TO TAKE THE LAST BIT OF SOUL OUT OF THROW AWAY LITERATURE FOR NON-TALENTED HACKS.

[@philftw]

That was the original title but the algorithm didn't promote it enough so I changed it to something a little more search friendly with not as much yelling.

[@Sterldogg1906]

Thank you

[@RebeccaReedmystic]

I think ai digital works like comic books, wall art and so on should be honest when selling their works as “ai art rendering” because punching words in prompts should not get the same wow value & respect as an actual artist who labors over their art.

[@jeandepaname8251]

Really interesting video. Bravo

[@subhajitmoyra6275]

Thank you so much for all these tutorials bro. So much valuable knowledge

[@pogoananda]

This is great. Thank you, man.

[@danomanw]

Very cool

[@gamedizzy]

Very insightful!! Thank you for this very informative tutorial!

[@philftw]

Now I just need to figure out how to get MJ to generate voxel assets and I'll be set!

[@ThatGuyNorm]

I'm a screenwriter and I have an Action/Adventure screenplay that scored really well in testing and placed in some competitions. Problem is it would be too 80's and expensive to make. I really want to turn it into a grahic novel.

[@ssanumy]

Great video Phil, superb. You got a new subscriber. *thumbs up*

[@hulonthesurvivor5884]

Amazing

[@Someone-wr4ms]

This is absolutely brilliant!!! I personally used dall-e or artbreeder whenever I need a temporary illustration for a background, or whenever I'm working with a client that is having a really hard time explaining what exactly he wants... But making an entire comic?... That's just taking it to the next level...

[@ibuprofeno400pa]

I feel like throwing up after this video

[@Kenbomp]

What's more amazing is the low cost to print that book.

[@ckowalski1029]

Thanks for this! Could we also create the Cover page in Comic Life 3?

[@wrongbutnotaliar5606]

Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

[@jeanclod8810]

Awesome work super helpful. Thanks for sharing 💪✌️