This isn’t the case. Midjourney doesn’t receive any VC money since it has no investors and this ignores genned imagery made locally off your own rig.

Hahahahhahahaa okay just seeing this now after being Mia for a while on Lemmy. This make me so happy. Don’t care if it’s a downvotes that’s awesome.

That’s not how it works or ever will work.

The of the first episode of my Ai series Beyond The Valley ends with this fun fact. This meme nails my intention perfectly chefs kiss Thanks for sharing.

Commercial interest wants to see free communities like this die out. I won’t name names.

Ha yeah, it’s my little status update of where we’re at with AI video. No images were given as references, it was all done with text prompts.

Thanks! Last bit I’ll share with y’all is I was livestreaming when I came up with the comic idea.

My pleasure!

Here’s a full breakdown instead (warning: big file)

Thanks, will do! :P

The whole comic is actually Ai but the characters, especially Victor, are derivative of traditional sketches and character art. I essentially establish the composition with Ai then superimpose my own style on top of it.

Haha okay this reminds of a time my partner was irritating with one specific bird at the… Are you spying on us OP?! This is like verbatim lol.

He is the undo button

12k ain’t that much. I run a sub of 75k and they only amass two or three posts a day max unless something happens. Just post your OC if it bothers you.

I do too hope the strikes are successful. That said, you’ve likely already been consuming generative technology for some time now. Disney alone has nearly a decade of research into it already. Advanced VFX applications use all sorts of generative tech too. When I was working in LA we referenced public data all the time. I know it’s gotten a huge spotlight on it given private AI capitalizing/evangelizing it all but the very real threat of digital scabs taking people’s jobs needs the biggest spotlight right now. I do think the tables will turn if nothing good can come out of Hollywood and those artists begin weaponizing that same tech against the execs. I see what studios are doing as no different than impersonation & identity theft by using this tech to limit working hours to skirt union protections.

Gonna offer my two cents as someone who entered the industry during the last writer’s strike. You’ll see some interesting creative divergence as said creatives crave expression and reach out to new venues like YouTube for the first time. It was one of many changes to the industry at that (and now this) time. I use generative tech because it’s part of this exploration of the taboo. Back then, YouTube was the taboo because it was effectively working for free and with no insurance or protection by comparison to a stable studio gig. Take away the studio gig, anything and everything could be opportunity for change and especially so the longer this goes on tbf.

My recommendation is not to only prompt the exact emotion that you want. I’ve had a lot of great luck by thinking of moments that might evoke those emotional states and put your characters in them. “Getting a new puppy” might create a more overjoyed state but will also generate a puppy. Just thinking like a director rather than a painter or a photographer gives me more interesting results. I hope that helps.

This was three separate V4 midjourney prompts with the middle being a variation of one or the other. I forgot which one came first. Lastly, Leo (the head) is their own three prompts composited into each frame using Photoshop. The animated panels on my website were done in Ae.

Just before joining Lemmy, I made a modern updated version of this comic if that helps.