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Creating Video Images with Artificial Intelligence (AI)
As an Instructional Designer and eLearning developer, I’ve been wondering how I can use AI tools to my advantage. In Part 3 of my series of posts on artificial intelligence, I use Adobe Firefly and Microsoft Designer to create images for my video on creating a Murder Book.
Blog post: https://tracycarroll.net/chatgpt-as-sme-part-3/
Interactive Rise course: https://tracycarroll.net/homicide-investigation_4.15.23/content/index.html#/
I follow this guy on Medium. https://medium.com/@johnwalter-counsellor
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He's done some interesting things.
- Create a single setting to call up a character profile using Discord
- From there, you have a consistent starting point and get really good results
i will check it out! Thanks for the tip!
That's pretty cool. I've been playing around a lot with MidJourney. Trying to perfect creating a single character and then prompting poses with it so get the same (or generally the same) character in various images
Tom, I've been playing with Midjourney quite a bit these past few months. I really love it, but it may not be the best tool (at least, as of this writing) for generating consistent characters. It seems like Stable Diffusion, which lets you train your own model with images of your character, may provide a stronger basis for generating consistent characters across multiple images, but I haven't tried Stable Diffusion yet.
I have used Midjourney in a couple of more limited ways, including:
- To modify stock images. Feed Midjourney a stock photo of, say, someone who is NOT wearing a reflective safety vest, and add in the text prompt "Wearing a reflective safety vest" and you can usually get a picture that takes the general pose and other clothing from the stock photo but adds the safety vest. Very handy for adding things like safety glasses, hard hats, leather gloves, etc. to stock photos that don't have these things already.
- To generate technical equipment for training scenarios. Need a photo of a hotplate-stirrer to place on a research-lab benchtop? Ask Midjourney to generate one for you. You sometimes have to do some cleanup in Photoshop, but it's still a nice way to get items like beakers, chemical bottles, voltmeters, and other items that you can use in Storyline to let learners interact with them.
But I haven't tried to use Midjourney to wholesale create characters unless I only need them in a single image. If/when you figure out a consistent way to do this in Midjourney, I hope you will post about it!
I tried out Stable Diffusion and couldn’t get a usable image using similar prompts to mid journey. I thought their prompt generator was cool but in the end it didn’t help much.
Have you had any luck with that Tom? Any tips to share? None of mine look the same.
Thanks, Tom! MidJourney is on my list of AI tools to try. I'll have to learn how to use Discord, too.
Tracy, that is a very dramatic bit of storytelling you've done! Really cool. Did you write the music, too? It's excellent.
Thanks, Ray. No, I didn't write the music--I wish I had that talent! I have a subscription to Twinkle Audio Suite, and I found the music there.
