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Since Valentines Day is just around the corner and Deviants are starting to pop up with roses and hearts to commemorate the mood… I decided I would try my hand at something similar (with one such preliminary attempt being my prior Deviant Moonlit Embrace ) that focused on using the Midjourney V6 style reference (--sref) command.

While creating Moonlit Embrace I did come across a few variations that were good prospects for future Deviations (I generally end up with a number of good candidates, but I try to be selective on what actually makes it as a Deviation).

One candidate, that I will refer to as the proto maiden, caught my eye and gave me a number of ideas (the dark expression on the maidens face really resonated with me) but I knew it would take quite a bit of work to get it into something presentable (where it started at and where I wanted it to end up at was going to require quite a bit of Inpainting and photoshop work).

As the project developed, I ended up migrating towards a scornful sorceress either begrudgingly thinking about romance or reminiscing about lost opportunities. A staff with dim colored hearts was added (that symbolizes her internal monolog) along with a heart shape window that I eventually decided to turn into a magical viewing portal.

At this point I knew I wanted to display some type of mood counterpoint within the portal and generated several romantic images along with portal effects but had a rather difficult time settling on something profound enough to use for the final product. After configuring a photoshop mask and trying several variations I was about to settle on one but then remembered photoshop does support animation and decided to try my hand at creating one (why select a single image when you can use them all).

Currently I am still learning quite a bit about photoshop animation (I do have access to aftereffects and hear it is a better platform for this so I might try it later) so I consider this a reasonable first attempt. I also wanted to see how video deviants work, as this is a relatively new concept to me (the video is designed to be looped but I am unsure how Deviant art will render it in a Deviation).

Thus, I present these results here for fun, depending how this goes I might post a follow-up singular image render as well ... Enjoy!

Description

Since Valentines Day is just around the corner and Deviants are starting to pop up with roses and hearts to commemorate the mood… I decided I would try my hand at something similar (with one such preliminary attempt being my prior Deviant Moonlit Embrace ) that focused on using the Midjourney V6 style reference (--sref) command.

While creating Moonlit Embrace I did come across a few variations that were good prospects for future Deviations (I generally end up with a number of good candidates, but I try to be selective on what actually makes it as a Deviation).

One candidate, that I will refer to as the proto maiden, caught my eye and gave me a number of ideas (the dark expression on the maidens face really resonated with me) but I knew it would take quite a bit of work to get it into something presentable (where it started at and where I wanted it to end up at was going to require quite a bit of Inpainting and photoshop work).

As the project developed, I ended up migrating towards a scornful sorceress either begrudgingly thinking about romance or reminiscing about lost opportunities. A staff with dim colored hearts was added (that symbolizes her internal monolog) along with a heart shape window that I eventually decided to turn into a magical viewing portal.

At this point I knew I wanted to display some type of mood counterpoint within the portal and generated several romantic images along with portal effects but had a rather difficult time settling on something profound enough to use for the final product. After configuring a photoshop mask and trying several variations I was about to settle on one but then remembered photoshop does support animation and decided to try my hand at creating one (why select a single image when you can use them all).

Currently I am still learning quite a bit about photoshop animation (I do have access to aftereffects and hear it is a better platform for this so I might try it later) so I consider this a reasonable first attempt. I also wanted to see how video deviants work, as this is a relatively new concept to me (the video is designed to be looped but I am unsure how Deviant art will render it in a Deviation).

Thus, I present these results here for fun, depending how this goes I might post a follow-up singular image render as well ... Enjoy!