Midjourney 5.1 has arrived. It’s more “opinionated” in its image generation but also comes with a “raw” mode that removes that trait and is sharper and more accurate, with fewer unwanted borders or text artefacts in images. During testing, Forbes’ Barry Collins used the same prompts in version 5 and version 5.1, left all other […]
Using characters and scenes he generated with Dall-E, writer / director Chad Nelson and creative agency Native Foreign have made the animated short Critters, which recently debuted on YouTube. The five-minute film, which was partly financed by OpenAI and is a cross between something from Pixar and a David Attenborough-style documentary, we meet a cast […]
One of the more interesting technologies debuting at NAB 2023 in Las Vegas, which starts today, is Cuebric from Seyhan Lee, “a creative-led A.I. production studio founded in 2020 by Pinar Seyhan Demirdag and Gary Lee Koepke“. Cuebric is being touted as the first comprehensive generative AI system to produce and edit images for film […]
Not really much to go on with this other than it was created by Chennai-based VFX artist Prakash Kumararajan (AKA Wild VFX) using the Beta version of Wonder Dynamics’ Wonder Studio, “an AI tool that automatically animates, lights and composes CG characters into a live-action scene”. If this has grabbed your attention and you are […]
A new Midjourney feature called Describe aims to take the guesswork out of generative AI art. It works like any other Midjourney command, but instead of using /imagine, you use /describe. After entering the command, a drop / drag box appears, allowing you to upload a picture you want to use as the basis for […]
Vox video producer Phil Edwards looks at why AI art tools struggle so much with generating hands that are at best a bit weird and very often downright disturbing. He speaks to artist Stan Prokopenko, MIT Robotics student Yilun Du, and scientist Roy Shilkrot about the mechanics of reproducing hands and how the developers of tools like Midjourney, Dall-E and […]