Lately I have seen a lot of example of AI generated images in my Twitter feed. The new Stable Diffusion AI have been mentioned. Recently the code and all necessary stuff to run the code was released to the public. I have not yet tried to install it on my computer. I am not even sure it will run on my laptop with Iris Xe graphics.
I were still very eager to try some prompts with Stable Diffusion. After some searching I found out that it is actually made available in a very user friendly and easy way at NightCafé. You get to generate a few images for free each day. If you want to do more you can sign up for a subscription or buy credits that can be used to generate more images. I could not resist the temptation, so I got some credits and started generating images like a mad man. Let me share some results after my first two days of AI frenzy.
Test #1
Goal: Generate a beautiful visualisation of a dreamlike cityscape. Highly detailed painting. Beautiful lighting. Vivid colors.
Prompt: City in sunset, Sweden, Balboa trees, 8k, 4k, intricate details, vibrant colors, high focus, unreal 5 render, rhads, Bruce Pennington, Studio Ghibli, tim hildebrandt, digital art, octane render, beautiful composition, trending on artstation, award-winning photograph, masterpiecePrompt: City in sunset, gothenburg, Sweden, snow and ice, glimmering, extremely detailed oil painting, intricate details, unreal 5 render, rhads, Bruce Pennington, Studio Ghibli, tim hildebrandt, digital art, octane render, beautiful composition, trending on artstation, award-winning photograph, masterpiece”This one I really like. Prompt: City in sunrise, Balboa trees, 8k, 4k, intricate details, vibrant colors, high focus, art noveau, unreal 5 render, rhads, Bruce Pennington, Studio Ghibli, tim hildebrandt, digital art, octane render, beautiful composition, trending on artstation, award-winning photograph, masterpiecePrompt: Art noveau city and colorful Balboa trees in sunrise as William Turner, epic in scope and scale, 8k, intricate details, vibrant colors, impressionism, high focus, unreal 5 render, Bruce Pennington, tim hildebrandt, studio Ghibli, digital art, octane render, beautiful composition, trending on artstation, masterpiece
The results turned out better than I expected. I find the images very beautiful and the composition feels strikingly coherent, compared to earlier iterations of AI image generators. I would love to have some of these images as prints at home. It is interesting to note the difference in style in the last image where I added William Turner and impressionism.
Test #2
Goal: Generate colorful and highly detailed portraits inspired by Egypt gods.
Ibis. Prompt: Egypt godess of the underworld ibis, intricate green and gold design, highly detailed, sharp focus, art by artgerm and greg rutkowski and wlop, detailed painting, 8k resolution concept art, hyperdetailed, polished illustration, impressionism, vivid colorsOne of the generated images above. Upscaled 6x by the AI scaling at NightCafé.Osiris. Prompt: Egypt old male god of the underworld osiris, intricate white and gold design, highly detailed, sharp focus, art by artgerm and greg rutkowski and wlop, detailed painting, 8k resolution concept art, hyperdetailed, polished illustration, impressionism, vivid colors, symbolismSekhmet. Prompt: Egypt goddess of the lions sekhmet, intricate red and gold design, highly detailed, sharp focus, art by artgerm and greg rutkowski and wlop, detailed painting, 8k resolution concept art, hyperdetailed, polished illustration, impressionism, vivid colors, mythicalSome tests turned out a bit weird. Prompt: Egypt god Thoth by Anna Dittmann and Alphonse Mucha. Incredibly detailed, maximalist matte painting. Portrait of a god. Polished illustration. Colorful hue of green, gold, black. Glimmering darkness. 8K resolution, HD, DSLR, realistic oil painting.
Test #3
Goal: Generate a profile image for me and for this blog that encapsulates the phrase “urban meeple”.
This is the one I like the most so far. It took some trial and error to get there. Prompt: A chess piece in a cyberpunk city by Simon Stålenhag, Irina French, Paul Gauguin, Dan Mumford, Cyril Rolando trending on Artstation hyperdetailed Unreal Engine romanticism filmic photorealistic post-apocalyptic sci-fi digital illustration. Vibrant colors. Chess Queen. Epic scale.”First try. Beautiful images, but the AI did not pick up on the phrases game pawn or meeple. Prompt: A game pawn in a cyberpunk city by Irina French, Paul Gauguin, Dan Mumford, Cyril Rolando trending on Artstation hyperdetailed Unreal Engine romanticism filmic photorealistic post-apocalyptic sci-fi digital illustration. Vibrant colors. Urban MeepleSecond try. The AI makes the pawn or chess piece as big as a building and the shape is often very abstract. Prompt: A very big chess piece in a cyberpunk city by Simon Stålenhag, Irina French, Paul Gauguin, Dan Mumford, Cyril Rolando trending on Artstation hyperdetailed Unreal Engine romanticism filmic photorealistic post-apocalyptic sci-fi digital illustration. Vibrant colors. Chess Queen. Epic scale.”
This is so much fun to play around with! I need to get a proper graphics card and install Stable Diffusion on my own computer. Or else I will use up all my money to buy computing time at NightCafé instead.
Some of the prompts that are circling around in the community is hilarious. One very common phrase is “unreal 5 engine”, another one is “trending on artstation”. These are added to the prompt almost by routine, with the hope that it will improve the quality of the generated images. And maybe they do. After all, I guess a large part of the dataset that the AI has trained on is composed of images from Artstation, and the ones that are trending there are usually spectacular images And images based on the unreal engine really can be extremely photorealistic. But I have also seen very impressive images without these trendy phrases. It is also fun to see what artist names are used in the prompts in order to simulate their particular style. Artgerm, Greg Rutkowski and WLOP are extremely popular and they are often used in combination on prompts. Studio Ghibli is also frequent. It’s almost like a magic spell used to summon a demon or a creature from the other side. Instead of searching some old dark magic book in a library for a spell, you search the community image archive for prompts.
It is really exciting to hit the button labeled “Create”, then wait to see what will appear. Almost as exciting as it is to find out what creature was summoned in the magic ritual in the fantasy story. Was it what you were hoping for or was it something completely different, an abomination? Maybe I should have added “unreal 5 engine” or “hyperdetailed” to the spell…eh, I mean…to the prompt.
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