AI Art Community Newsletter

Pixar, G.I. Joe & Meta

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Hey folks!! Welcome to the 15th AI Art Community Newsletter. 🎊 On Thursdays, we share news in AI, artist features, memes and more. Thanks for being here 🙂

Your first letter? Would love to learn a bit about you. Where you’re from, what you do outside AI art, etc. Join me for a mini interview here.

Top Referrers This Week

For your 5+ referrals, a sticker is on the way to you @adamiko_art! <3 And a big entrance for @misskosmic.ai - thank you!! 🤗 ❤️‍🔥

Genesis - AI Movie trailer

Amazing use of AI to create a movie trailer, called Genesis. Tools: RunwayML + Midjourney + CapCut. Best of all, Nicolas followed up its release with a full & fascinating How-To.

🎬 Trailer: Genesis (Midjourney + Runway)
We gave them everything.
Trusted them with our world.
To become enslaved - become hunted.
We have no choice.
Humanity must rise again to reclaim.
Images: Midjourney
Videos: #Runway
Music: Pixabay / Stringer_Bell
Edited in: CapCut twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Nicolas Neubert (@iamneubert)
6:00 PM • Jul 26, 2023

🧪 The Making of "GENESIS" (Midjourney + Runway)
(Spoiler: This will be a very long post. However, it covers the whole process of how I created the trailer!)
Your support for this project has been outstanding! So many of you asked for a tutorial! As promised, here is a detailed… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Nicolas Neubert (@iamneubert)
6:08 PM • Jul 28, 2023

AIAC Tournament Champs

The July AI Art Collab Tournament comes to a head this weekend. Five teams remain, all vying for a chance to win great sums of cash, prints, and fanfare in our Finals this weekend.

This is our fifth Collab Tournament. The first in October 2022 saw 36 artists. This month: 136. With a new coronation in the near future.. here’s a brief celebratory look back at winners from May & June.

Artists: @arkymonart, @zenithworkshop, @honeyflower_art

Artists: @melmattersjourney, @nephty__s

Such a fun event to host. We’ll do it every month & keep raising the stakes. Make sure to cast your vote in Discord today!

Me fixing bugs in our mobile app

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🗞️ AI News

Last week was a biggie with Stable Diffusion XL 1.0, RunwayML’s image-to-video, and DALL-E 3. This week: many solid reads, especially on Pixar & AI.

Thank you as always to our trusty crew of Newsies. This week’s links powered by: @focused.instability, @barbara.chira.ai.art, twilight_dreams123, @tmp.ai.

Famous for being the most popular artist used as a prompt in Stable Diffusion, Greg Rutkowski continues to not catch a break - Stable Diffusion removed him, then AI artists added him back
Notes from the most recent Midjourney office hours - 2 weeks and we’ll have inpainting
Meta might soon label AI-generated art on Instagram
Pixar lays foundation for AI based workflow in animation
Nice article about using Midjourney to imagine new worlds - of female Sumo wrestlers, an all-black MotoGP team, and more
Hasbro (GI Joe, My Little Pony, Transformers) is dabbling in AI
Artist optimism around AI-enhanced creativity

Not art, still noteworthy

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Artist spotlights

Ya made it! Artist spotlights ❤️. Browse profiles of your fellow AI artists, representing US, Denmark, Australia, Austria & Germany. Production coordinators, electricians, musicians and more.

Want a feature? Let me know!

@_nineteenfortyeight (Nashville, TN) - Interior Direction and Production Coordinator

@kuro_a.i (Austria) - currently I’m jobless and looking for a job. I make AI Images as a hobby

@aiplaygrounds (Denmark) - Film, Special effects, Editing, Camera, 3D

@myrandoor (Australia) - hospitality

@tommybdigitalart (Germany) - Electrician

@manikfox.ai (St. Louis, MO soon to be Indianapolis, IN) - I make fun electronic music as a hobby, and for work I process Medicaid claims for the company that owns Medicaid in the US.

Twitter tips: “Dashboard” “Fujifilm” “Phantasmal iridescent”

Twitter is great for unlocking new, fabulous prompts. Favorites this week:

🤖Tips&Tricks - Want to create minimalist illustrations in #Mid#Midjourney've got the prompt for you. "Flat illustration, [Scene description] , Dashboard, in the style of light navy and pink, pastel palette, data chart, soft lines and shapes, white background, gradient" httptwitter.com/i/web/status/1…p
— Pierrick Chevallier | IA (@CharaspowerAI)
10:42 AM • Jul 26, 2023

How to make gorgeous fruit pictures with Midjourney
These images are perfect for posters and advertisements.
Prompt:
[FRUIT] on tree, droplets, fujifilm, fujicolor c200, depth of field
Here are the 2 most important elements in the prompt:
1) Fujicolor C200
Fujicolor is a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Chase Lean (@chaseleantj)
11:17 AM • Jul 31, 2023

🫶Brought this shining prompt for #aiartcommunity
Prompt : Phantasmal iridescent of [SUBJECT] --ar 7:4
Tip : Refresh output and you will get more enhanced artworks! 😍
Follow♻️Tag friends✌️Share your shinersss
Tagging @L4it7@AiaiaiStyle@tijanadizajn@sara4ai
#Promptshare
— Aiming_AI (@Aiming_AI)
1:00 PM • Jul 31, 2023

Want to @Learn Midjourney? We’ve got our very own thriving little AI education center - 130 classes taught. Led by @Death.Milk.Designs, @Midjourney.man, @Midjourney_collection, @Iva_ai_popsurreal. 🥂 Come on down.

Not totally sold? Here’s Midjourney man’s art up in display at the inaugural in-person gallery event hosted by Deforum + Bright Moments last weekend 🙌 Great to see celebration of AI art enter the physical realm…