Liminal
So the other day I’ve paid for Midjourney. April the 1st deadline was approaching and I needed a number of illustrations for the video. It was the first time the Midjourney bot denied my prompt claiming it was too busy at the moment to communicate with non-paying customers. That’s how I received 200 minutes of machine time for $10.
With video illustrations cost of about 10 minutes I was left with some field for experiments. I’ve had a number of illustrations ideas for the future-over-the-horison time when I am rich enough to arrange creation of illustrations for T-shirts, so I fed all of my ideas to the machine. And here’s how it went:
T-shirt ideas.
Note: images are scaled down to 500x500 since I’m hosting on Github and I don’t want to abuse it’s generosity. Originals are around 1000x1000
Note: Some of the prompts are written before the images on a separate line
Note: Comments are written below the images
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Lineage2 - themed:
- La2 item+15 + in the enchant window generator
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- La2: 923 . . -_-
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- La2 hero glow effect+optional class logo generator +nickname?
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La2 Elpi lvl 2
Gotta add text “Elpy lvl 2” in light green on top of his head
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La2 Buff slot generator
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La2 castles series (Check image models to beautify screenshots)
MJ: Not good enough:
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La2 Bighead zaken cute (check image models)
MJ: BAD
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Queen Victoria taking selfie: “My life my rules”
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Unshaved Kennedy toothbrushing: -I wake up in the morning.. Not because it is easy, but because it is hard
President Kennedy just woke up and is shaving in front of bath mirror. Depressed, realistic, archive photo, portrait
President Kennedy doing morning procedures. Archive photo
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Motivational “Wake up in the morning? I Can! I Will!” (?Because I can?)
Cold war agitational poster for early wake up company
A poster with a strong lady sleeping https://s.mj.run/bAZ9fdfOk_0
An agitational poster of a sleeping woman from this image https://s.mj.run/bAZ9fdfOk_0
Perhaps another text would be better. Or no text. The image turned out nice if one does not mention the fingers
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“Waking up is not a coincidense. It was intended!” ?Waking up today was intended. Not just luck?
A depressed man happy to wake up
An owl man in a classy suit is sleeping in a big white bed in the big classy bedroom
Image is better than I expected. Although not enough literally interpreted
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Marthin Luther King giving a speech holding an iPhone: “I used to have a dream”
Martin Luther King is giving his speech holding an iPhone. Archive photo
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Brain portrait giving a speech in BW archive: “I have a dream!”
Mouse is giving big speech in front of the audience. Mouse taken from image https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/animaniacs/images/d/d8/Brain10.jpg
Mouse is giving big speech in front of the audience. Mouse taken from image https://s.mj.run/0-yvrJvvRVo 2d, flat, cartoon, warner brothers, confident
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Chicken Boo meditating “A spirit lies within”
A chicken from this image https://hidefninja.com/community/attachments/chicken_boo_by_bonermachine-png-jpg.142108/ is meditating
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Moon landing scene with a surprised giant spermatozoid getting out of the lander “One small step for one. And a decent sized step for someone else”
Considered inappropriate by company code
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Tourists in the jungle. A-la abbey road. Wearing VR headsets. “Welcome to the Jungle”
This one is from Dall-E
Another attempt with a different prompt
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Chicken Boo “We shall fight in the hills”
A chicken from this image https://i.pinimg.com/474x/10/4f/3e/104f3e49cf59e658bbb9c114e7e8c2cc--childhood-memories-chicken.jpg looks like Roosevelt
Nope. Not even close
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Rosa Luxemburg in front of the mirror “When you look into a mirror, do you see a better woman or an equal woman?” -Philomena Cunk
A strong woman is looking into a mirror. Poster cold war
Not exciting
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Official merch of “Quantum Chimp Cryptography Research Center”
Quantum Chimp laboratory. Physics, optical table, lasers, mirrors
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PvZ-themed sheriff “I am the Law. The Law of the Lawn”
A plant from this image is a sheriff
Nope. Keeps inventing new characters
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Hawaiian Cowboy wardrobe “I’m heading for the last round-up”
Two-door wooden wardrobe closet standing on the beach of Hawaii with closed doors. There is a huge cowboy hat ontop of it and a flower lei. Flowers in the frame, sunny, green mountain and ocean in the background –niji –q 2
This was the hardest but the most priority for me. And still it needs too much rework
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Logo “Manual brainwash only”
Brains in the washing machine. Flat 2d logo, black and white –q 0.3
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Spike Milligan with pants down: “So you like subtlety?”
No go. ‘Pants down’ is not allowed as a prompt. Although the continuation of the story was “… and then he pulled down the other pants”
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Tom and Jerry in the court “If I had a hammer”
Creepy cats and creepy mice. Totally not the ones needed
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Sexy Garth from Wayne’s World “SHWING!”
Man from the image for Tinder photo https://s.mj.run/jLWSHdDq3M8
No?? I mean he is shwing but he is not Garth. Shoul have polled my photoes through. Silly me
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Garth and Bugs bunny in a dress: “Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny?”
Stupid idiotic references and over-fitting stupid furries drawn by amateurs. No go here. Tried twice
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Yakko Warner “If at first you don’t succeed - blame it on your parents”
Same problem. Make it draw this exact ‘rabbity-monkeyish’ character happenned to be impossible for me
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Andy Warhole - stilysed drawing of black hole photo
I’d rather do try it myself
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Ghetto swag gothic font typographic with english gramar rules as filler text
Requires common sense. Not for networks. ALthough they say Adobe released something with texts and fonts. Too lazy at the moment
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Dirac sea formula + “Antimatter lives matter”
Will DIY
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A classy gentlemanish dude showing OK with an owl on his head/shoulder “Oll Korrect”
Best thing was to add an image of owl as a decoration to a classy suit. Second best try was to make a classy owl man
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Elton series. For those who does not know the reference, there’s a song I’m still standing. So I fell in the loop. I’m still..
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Spending: in the glasses shop?
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Sanding: as a sandblaster/carpenter
Forgot to prompt for a carpenter
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Sending: ski jump
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Saddning: Keanu Reeves on the bench
Not the best shot but the image was nice still
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Branding: with a baseball costume “Elton”
And it turned out he has already made a baseball-like costume himself. What a man!
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Trending: holding a twitter with his photo?
This one was cool
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Vending: near coke vending machine
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Landing: as a pilot in the Broigler 747?
Wish network added piano keyboard to the plane cabin. Not this time
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Lending: behind the bank reception
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Handing: as a santa Claus with piano keys in his sack?
Not quite the santa. But I like the image anyway
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“МОЩНЫЙ. ОН ДЕРЖИТ СОТОНУ ЗА ЯЙЦА”
No neurons required. DIY
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Brain protrait. “Dream big @ Work hard”
He can draw a mouse. And he can draw a brain. But not Brain The Mouse
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The Tick as a bum with a cardboard: “Will spoon for justice”
Far from the expected quality but it’s so bad it’s good. Used ‘blend’ feature for this one
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The Tick for president holding a bill: Tick4life
Did not even try. Cartoon characters are way worse than Elton John
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Toad Mushroom the pickuper: “Girls ain’t calling me magic mushroom for nothing”
Got a nice reference photo but turning humanoid mushrooms into pickupers is not the top skill of the network
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Ghetto Toad the Mushroom with a “Hello my name is REISHI” badge
Ref:
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Donkey Kong as an asian truck driver: “Honk if you Donk Kong”
Not enough asian. Also it copied the vertical photo framing of a mobile phone. Still satisfied with the blending of two images. Not production ready though
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Tick hand: “Let’s go sane in a crazy world”
It was bad
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Dwarves ASCII We neet to go deeper
Not the best but not the worst. Would have been better with a silouette of the second dude for visual reference.
Also, it was Dwarf Fortress reference
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Dwarves: “Yeah, bed rock. Very funny”
Although drawing hot:: dog:: is in the manual, drawing bed:: rock:: was impossible
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“It’s a match!”: ccorr_normed formula
DIY. Does this make me a nerd officially?
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Avoid the so-called real world for as long as possible. It hit me in this video at around 1.30
There is a big lack of skateboarding photoes for learning. I’d rather use the original screenshot
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My friend likes to hang around (a deprressive dude with a slip knot tied): - Hi, nice to meet you
I failed to get a proper prompt for two dudes at the party and one of them is presenting the other to a random person. When the other is looking shy and is has a tied rope on his neck
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Communicating with people verbally.. That’s always a pain in the ass -Slash. Quote from the video interview by Nikki Sixx
Slash is guaranteed to be Slash. All of his photoes present one single person for decades
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Bonus: an illustration to the ancient(?) song Chihuahua
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Bonus: I’ve tried to remix Keeanu Reeves photo without Elton:
Overall
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Cool tool
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To push it as a t-shirt prints I’ll have to spend couple hundred dollar equivalent more fr designers to cleanup or redo the generated stuff
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It is way better to use the tool with flags and other tricks from (this article)[https://habr.com/ru/articles/732206/]
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I’ll try to make a T-shirt shop even with 3-4 images in the coming weeks because yes