AI Drew This Gorgeous Comic Series. You’d Never Know It
There are two points that I think should be noted:
First: “AI image generation is advancing so rapidly, he adds, that The Lesson, out Nov. 1, marks a clear visual step up from the first comic in the trilogy, Summer Island, a folk-horror story in the spirit of Midsommar that came out in August. During those three months, Midjourney went through two upgrades.”
Second: it’s free to download.
I have not downloaded or read it, but the writer of the article seemed to like it, and noted that it was a substantial improvement over the issue published a few months before. That should worry comic artists, who can take many years to go from “adequate” to “good” to “great.” And the fact that it’s *free* should worry *everyone* in the comic industry. Because while I doubt “free” will be the way this sort of thing will remain, it’s a safe bet that its far cheaper to produce AI-art-comic books than human-art. Soon enough the market will be flooded with AI-art books.
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A bit skeptical of all this… The AI can’t even remember that it’s supposed to draw the same character in different comics panels it seems. Even extremely bad human artists still in elementary school know that. Each AI panel is its own artwork, that may by chance resemble the next one.
*That* AI might not remember character design from image to image… but the one demonstrated at the post below *can.* What’s more, said characters can be based on actual people, using as few as five photos.
https://up-ship.com/blog/?p=50672
It’s still early days in AI art, but the advancements in just a few *months* indicate that we can expect great and culture-altering things in just a few years. I imagine that in the near-ish future, the “writer” will sit down and explain to the AI what each character looks like and it’ll instantly produce a 3D model of the character; the writer will then describe whatever needs changing. In a little short of no time the writer and the AI will come up with character designs, and the AI will stick with it throughout the work, making appropriate changes… dirtying them up, costume changes, consistent wounds/scars, etc.