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Bubble 2. Deep sea exploration. Bearded men in orange and white bodysuits and translucent luminescent shells. Stylized deep sea flora. Scifi themed. Photorealistic anime / illustration.

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After Bubble 1, I tried to explore the idea of deep sea exploration further, by adding abstract flora and plants into the environments. I switched up the color scheme so that I could visually tell the different batches apart. I also added deep sea flora and plants to enrich the environments.

If you prefer a more story-driven line, you can see these men as going deep into the ocean to explore the sea creatures, but something happened to them and they were progressively transformed into deep sea life forms themselves. I tried to play with this theme in my “But does it float” series but I think that Midjourney’s rendering made them overly serious so ultimately they just didn’t work as well.

Some of the hands are wonky and not human like, but I think that it’s ok since they’re no longer 100% human.

Like my other early experiments with image prompts inside Midjourney, it could be hard to control the results. Up to this point, I had generated around 20 images, so they were made fairly early in the process. As I wrote this right now, I have generated about 1000 images and I have a fairly good idea of what types of image source would work well.

What I find most interesting is how the images that worked the best inside Midjourney also appeared to work the best using this workflow in Stable Diffusion. Although Midjourney continues to deny that they use Stable Diffusion tech in anyway, this similarity makes me question exactly how dissimilar they really are.

Tech: Text prompts in Midjourney v5.2 + Stable Diffusion: 25 steps, DPM++ SDE Karras, Airfuck’s Wild Mix v1. Post: Topaz Gigapixel HQ 4x, Adobe Lightroom color correction.

Description
Bubble 2. Deep sea exploration. Bearded men in orange and white bodysuits and translucent luminescent shells. Stylized deep sea flora. Scifi themed. Photorealistic anime / illustration.

gymdreams8.com/blog/bubble-2/
www.instagram.com/p/CvNGiFuLDm…
twitter.com/GymDreams8/status/…

After Bubble 1, I tried to explore the idea of deep sea exploration further, by adding abstract flora and plants into the environments. I switched up the color scheme so that I could visually tell the different batches apart. I also added deep sea flora and plants to enrich the environments.

If you prefer a more story-driven line, you can see these men as going deep into the ocean to explore the sea creatures, but something happened to them and they were progressively transformed into deep sea life forms themselves. I tried to play with this theme in my “But does it float” series but I think that Midjourney’s rendering made them overly serious so ultimately they just didn’t work as well.

Some of the hands are wonky and not human like, but I think that it’s ok since they’re no longer 100% human.

Like my other early experiments with image prompts inside Midjourney, it could be hard to control the results. Up to this point, I had generated around 20 images, so they were made fairly early in the process. As I wrote this right now, I have generated about 1000 images and I have a fairly good idea of what types of image source would work well.

What I find most interesting is how the images that worked the best inside Midjourney also appeared to work the best using this workflow in Stable Diffusion. Although Midjourney continues to deny that they use Stable Diffusion tech in anyway, this similarity makes me question exactly how dissimilar they really are.

Tech: Text prompts in Midjourney v5.2 + Stable Diffusion: 25 steps, DPM++ SDE Karras, Airfuck’s Wild Mix v1. Post: Topaz Gigapixel HQ 4x, Adobe Lightroom color correction.