Just to underline its powerful autofocus function.Ī lesser-known feature of Midjourney provides us with the possibility to feed it one or more images and then combine them as we like. For example, we want to sell an idea of putting the new Panasonic LUMIX S5 II we recently reviewed here into a wildlife habitat for the product shot. Image credits: created with Midjourney by CineD A lesser-known feature: combining different images and altering themīut what about something more down to Earth? Let’s say, we’re about to shoot a commercial and currently looking for a creative setup to present our product. Impressive, right? An example of a mood board. So, it took me only 10 minutes of playing around with Midjourney to put together a decent mood board for a possible short film project. In my case, I already had some visuals in my head. In my opinion, it’s worth a try out if you’re at a loss for concept ideas. Or leave it as is and adjust your prompt to get a completely new one. Now it’s possible to develop and upscale each of them several times until you get the desired results. What you get after only mere seconds of waiting is four different image variations based on your wording. Image credit: created with Midjourney by CineD Image results in the prompt “a small girl in the dense forest finds a mystically looking empty camper van, fog, night, cinematic look, in the style of David Lynch –ar 16:9”. In addition to this, their machine learning system is aware of different artists and filmmakers, so you can use the styles of your favorite ones. By the way, you can also set up the aspect ratio for generated images by adding “–ar 16:9 (2:1, 9:16, etc.)” at the end of your prompt. So, I go over to Midjourney for some sparks of inspiration and type in my rough ideas. I don’t know what “mystically” precisely means though. Suddenly, she comes across an empty mystically-looking camper van. For example, I have a story in mind about a small girl who has been lost in the forest. In my opinion, Midjourney is perfect for boosting creativity at the very start of the project and for turning your ideas into mood boards. Just go over to one of the newbies’ channels and type in “/imagine” followed by a text description of what you want to have visualized. Image credit: Mascha Deikova / CineDĪfter you’ve created a Discord account and joined their beta, you will be redirected to the Midjourney server and can get started. Screenshot of the Midjourney server on Discord. Probably, even while I’m writing this text. They are still in the beta phase which means Midjourney constantly brings new features to the table. Their AI creates images from text descriptions via so-called “prompts” and operates online through the simple Discord bot. Midjourney is a small independent research lab with a huge community. Midjourney – AI-based tool for the first creative ideas and mood boards It’s easy to get lost in the ocean of opportunities, so in this brief overview, I’ll show you a couple of selected tools that don’t require coding skills and that I myself use at the beginning of a new video project. There are dozens of them out there: from the famous DALLE-2 to Deep Dream Generator and Nightcafe, just to name a few.
I’m sure every one of you has tried to generate an image from text using AI at least once. Let’s start with image generators like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion for creating mood boards with AI tools! Putting aside the worrying question of whether neural networks will take over our jobs, we’d rather talk about how filmmakers can use this technology to their advantage. It’s also a rapidly evolving new system of tools that are already changing the industry immensely.