For people accustomed to blue skies and green hills those places where it is the other other way around give no comfort.
Prompt, process, and more under the fold. This one's a doozy.
'Lets talk image prompting.
I've covered it in other posts, but Midjourney has had image prompting for some time. basically, it's a system by which an image is submitted, broken down into the token language the AI converts text prompts into and uses those tokens in the prompting process.
No actual pixel data is extracted, rather, it uses the image-recognition systems that all generative image systems have to engineer a machine-prompt that draws on information from the dataset. The new Style prompt uses the same system, it just filters out the subject matter and keeps the style.
Clip interrogator without the middleman, so to speak.
So for this job, I started with this image:
Which was actually originally a lava flow that I used deep dream and deep style on a few years back with a bunch of cell phone and other tech-junk pics, before changing the lava red-orange to poison green.
That was used as an image prompt with the text prompt:
a landscape of green slime and strange circuitry, deepdream vibes
Under version 4 of Midjourney. Which produced these:
Which were then image prompted together (you can't prompt with just an image, either 2 images or an image plus text prompt is required in MJ's system) under Midjourney V6.
With some iteration and outpainting, that made:
With a couple variants apiece.
Those were then composited and recolored in photoshop to produce "For People Accustomed". I went with a more varied color palette to give more of a feeling of a strange alien sunrise.
Having some fun in the impressionistic/expressionistic areas.
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“haha odo is so beige and bland and boring despite being a literal shapeshifter” like ok yes I laugh at those jokes too and find them funny I literally have no issue with them but sometimes I also wanna talk about how that’s kind of the whole point of his character.
like odo’s abilities and way of being is so unlike any other known species in the alpha quadrant that it’s shown to be disturbing and off-putting to a lot of people — or at the very least that’s what he was led to believe. like we see this in the alternate where mora tries to convince him he’ll either be locked up in a prison or put in a zoo to gawk at if he’s perceived to have committed any sort of crime or transgression.
so despite being able to literally become anything he can think of, he chooses his default presentation to be as standard, bland and uninteresting as he possibly can. male, always in a beige uniform, very standard hair cut.
odo is so plain because he was made to be afraid of being literally anything else
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