AI Art Community Newsletter

DALL-E 3 preview, RunwayML's Image-to-Video + new SD release

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Hi all!! Welcome to the 14th AI Art Community Newsletter. Nearing 2500 readers! 🎊 On Thursdays, we share news in AI, artist features, memes and more. Big one this week..

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

Thank you to @aifinity76, @adamiko_art, and @visions.a.i for referring new subscribers 🤗 ❤️‍🔥 one step closer to custom prints of your art…

Big : RunwayML’s Image-to-Video

In June, RunwayML released Gen-2, state-of-the-art text-to-video generator. This week, they added a mega upgrade: Image-to-Video.

A few popular threads showing it off:

Runway Gen-2 can now transform images into videos.
And the results are mind-blowing!
Here are the best 10 creations I’ve found in the last 48h (ALL NEW):
— Alvaro Cintas (@dr_cintas)
1:46 PM • Jul 24, 2023

Photo experiments with the new Image to Video mode of Gen-2.
— Runway (@runwayml)
1:07 PM • Jul 25, 2023

This is my final Runway image to video compilation for a while(till next big update?).
Had a lot of fun doing them.
🖼️2⃣🎥😎
#midjourneyv5 #midjourney#digitalart#AIart#AIArtCommuity#midjourneyart#AIartists#midjourney52#runway#text2video#image2video
— Orcton (@OrctonAI)
5:13 PM • Jul 25, 2023

🗞️ AI News

Last week: Actors Strike & DeviantArt. This week, a bouquet of releases & previews: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0, RunwayML’s image-to-video, and DALL-E 3.

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

RunwayML’s image-to-video (above)
Stable Diffusion releases XL 1.0!
DALL-E 3 preview - video (spoiler: it’s really good)
Netflix posts $900k AI job amid the strikes
Human artists lose ground in legal battle against AI
How the video game industry is leaning into AI
Google can generate music from your brain activity (listen)
We - AI Art Community - were featured in an article! Alongside @troplanduniverse, @iva_ai_popsurreal, @midjourney.man, @julian_ai_art 🔥
Elon Musk laughed at an image of him and Mark Zuckerberg playing on the beach, created by @julian_ai_art - it proceeded to go very viral on Twitter

Not art, still noteworthy

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Artist spotlights

Welcome to the most important section of the letter - artist spotlights ❤️. Take a gander at your fellow AI artists, representing US, Denmark, Italy, UK & Germany. Students, warehouse workers, plant-lovers, bird enthusiasts and more.

Want a feature? Let me know!

@honeyflower_art (New England, USA) - I'm a certified life coach and also pursuing my MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. I take a wholistic approach to healing by promoting a healthy harmony between the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual elements. Outside of my work, I enjoy cooking (and eating!) delicious, plant-based food (I teach cooking classes, too!), birding, running, hiking, teaching the Bible and mentoring others, and engaging in some other creative outlets like storytelling. Currently, I'm learning piano and would love to learn ukulele next!

@mkamata_ndoto (United Kingdom) - Freelance photographer / Retoucher

@visions.a.i (Germany ) - Working in a Warehouse

@kingpingu.ai (Denmark) - I’m preparing for exams, that’s what I have time for. AI and exams.

@midjourneyaddiction (Norfolk, VA. US) - I’m a single mom of 3 kids, I have a full-time job as a satellite communications program manager for the DoD that I despise and will be transitioning out of soon, and I have over 200 house plants, 3 cats and a snake. So I stay pretty busy. Art is my happy place.

@rosso_cobalto (Italy) - Marketing

Twitter tips: “Moebius and dune” “Rubik’s head” “Taxonomy”

Twitter is great for unlocking new, fabulous prompt phrases. A few favorites this week:

PROMPT CHALLENGE 9#: Moebius & Dune
Prompt : [concept or character] in the style of moebius and dune, vivid color --ar 9:16 --v 5.1 --s 750
Jean Henri Gaston Giraud was a French artist, cartoonist.
Inviting all AI artists.
#mid#midjourneyo#Promptsharec#AIcommunityp
— Ashok Kumar Pandiyan (@Ashokkumarpndy)
4:33 PM • Jul 19, 2023

🤯I could be playing with this prompt all day long!
🪁Rubik's head | paraphernalia | [subject] | portrait | Maya render | bold | multichromatic | White background --style raw
💪It's super consistent!
😎I want to see your images!
#aiartcommunity#midjourneytwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— TechHalla (@techhalla)
5:52 PM • Jul 15, 2023

Am I the only Midjourney user who overlooked the word 'taxonomy'?
#midjourney
#synthography
— Ronald van Oosten (@oosten_ronald)
10:54 AM • Jul 26, 2023

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