How to build an NFT series using AI (Part 2)</a#x3E;

ICYMI: Chevy is feeding his unique images to an AI to create an NFT sequence (and documenting all of it right here). Comply with on Twitter for first appears to be like.

Alright, so…day one in every of creating!

I logged in to Discord → signed up for the paid model of Midjourney (MJ, for those who’re nasty) → began experimenting…

First, I requested MJ to think about a bunch of various issues unrelated to the NFT picture sequence – you already know, to really feel out its limits.

These have been issues like:

‘A tech web site touchdown web page’

‘An area age laptop advert from the 90’s’

‘A late 80’s early 90’s model apple laptop advert, the place a younger man and his father are an Apple laptop of their dwelling workplace’

Okay, rattling! Fairly cool…

What’s cooler is you may give MJ a hyperlink to a picture and it’ll use it as a reference.

Or for those who don’t need it to reference a selected picture, you possibly can inform it to reference a normal model/mixture of kinds.

That is after I had my first ‘Oh. Sh*t. That is going to vary issues’ second…

See, my considering is: people don’t have the capability for true originality (every part is knowledgeable by exterior influences ultimately).

We are able to, nevertheless, create the phantasm of true originality by taking in a variety of influences, mixing them with our personal preferences, and making a bunch of joyful errors alongside the best way.

(Private style + influences=”new” artwork model).

As soon as I noticed I may feed my very own unique images to Midjourney, inform it which photographic kinds I used to be attempting to mix after I took it, and it’d spit out a photograph that mixes all of them…

That’s after I had my ‘Oh. Sh*t’ second – as a result of I noticed:

All of that point, work, studying, trial and error that exists between ‘concept’ and ‘ultimate creation’?

AI hyper contracts it. From days/months/years – to seconds.

(It’s as thrilling as it’s terrifying).

However why inform you, after I can present you…

First, right here’s a photograph I took on a go to to LA, again in 2019 (it’s going to play a task afterward):

Now, it is value noting that there are two photographers I actually love and aspire to mix the kinds of: Larry Sultan and Nguan.

Drawback is: I ain’t that good of a photographer (I will admit it).

However then once more – nor ought to I be – images is a facet pastime that I’ve slipped out and in of over time.

Larry and Nguan have devoted complete lifetimes to their craft.

So I received to considering…

What occurs if I give MJ my picture, together with the immediate ‘Photograph by Larry Sultan and Nguan’? I can inform you now: it’s nothing value sharing.

See, Nguan is like Cher – he goes by a single title.

And whereas Nguan seems to be a comparatively unusual surname (Ancestry.com solely has 3000 cases of ‘Nguan’ displaying up on census information), Midjourney struggles to align ‘Nguan’ with a photographic model.

So I jerry rigged it.

Nguan’s model is distinct in its use of pastel colours – the following neatest thing I may consider was the work of Nguan’s buddy, Petra Collins.