It's pretty easy to dismiss this stuff but I've found it has been very fun to play around with and certainly has allowed me to create imagery that far exceeds my skill.
Twitter seems to have an endless stream of examples with the aiart and generativeart hashtags. Also I really like Katherine Crowson's twitter because she builds Colab notebooks that n00bs like me can use to tinker:
Some examples I shared a while back using Katherine's VQGAN+CLIP notebook: https://imgur.com/a/1R5UZQb Promp was 'mad max dieselpunk alien spaceship landed in a desert' and then I upscaled the images. These are cherry picked from a set of about 3x this size.
One thing I find pretty remarkable is how good it handles shadows and depth of field. These are all kind of mud tones but if you let it run away with color you'll get some really brilliant results.
I was just looking at some of her stuff yesterday, very cool. I'm even more of a noob though, since I'm not sure how to get this code (similar to other notebooks I've played with) into Colab to test out. If there's an obvious first/next step I should be taking, could anyone point me in that direction?
Scroll down to prompts and put in your prompt. I just did:
prompts = ['fire ants attacking a school bus cinematic 35mm']
(re 'cinematic 35mm', you'll find that there are little bumper phrases, like 'in the style of <artist>' or 'trending on artstation' that sort of thematically guide the output)
Click on 'Runtime->Run all' and let the notebook execute it's initialization steps and then start to generate the image. By default it goes 1000 iterations, and spits out what it's working with every 100 iterations. Once you get one you like you can update the prompt, re-run that cell and the one below it to generate something new.
I pay $9/mo to get access to better GPUs (usually P100 sometimes get better), the free accounts tend to get slower ones so it might take 30-60 minutes to complete per image.
Oh yes I pay for Colab - didn't see this linked from the other page, or rather wasn't sure where to find it in the various notebooks. This is exactly what I was looking for - setting up to do a run now. Thanks very much.
No problem. This is an older notebook. Poke around, Katherine has posted more recent ones and lots of people have added bells and whistles to make them easier to use. Have fun!
Twitter seems to have an endless stream of examples with the aiart and generativeart hashtags. Also I really like Katherine Crowson's twitter because she builds Colab notebooks that n00bs like me can use to tinker:
https://twitter.com/RiversHaveWings
https://github.com/crowsonkb
Some examples I shared a while back using Katherine's VQGAN+CLIP notebook: https://imgur.com/a/1R5UZQb Promp was 'mad max dieselpunk alien spaceship landed in a desert' and then I upscaled the images. These are cherry picked from a set of about 3x this size.
One thing I find pretty remarkable is how good it handles shadows and depth of field. These are all kind of mud tones but if you let it run away with color you'll get some really brilliant results.