Midjourney’s Mid Journey
Spent 3 days trying to find the exact look I want. It took quite some time to get it close to what I envisioned. Though I am a bit of a perfectionist, so I could’ve settled for earlier iterations. I ended up sort of doing that anyway.
Style References
Used a couple of these as a style reference. However, I noticed text prompting was easier than styling – Especially if I attached more than 1 style, I’d get some weird results and the aliens I had established would change entirely.
Top Alien Contenders
I really like the detail in the first picture, but had trouble translating that to a background setting that looked like it would be a YouTube video and not 60 Minutes. Also had trouble getting them to smile. So, I used the first picture as my main reference for the other aliens.
Current Winner
I picked this one as my main characters, since the aliens and the background seem like it would be in a YouTube video. For a while, I’d either get a really good background but the aliens look the exact same or had no special detail or character to them. I’d also get the opposite, where the aliens look very personable and different from each other, but the background was plain. Instead of a bedroom, it looks like they’re in a low budget set, which works for these characters.
I used Photoshop’s generative AI to expand the image a bit and change their hands. In the above 10 photos, this original one, straight from Midjourney, had some stretched, morphed hands.
I might change the image again, as these two aliens are not looking in the same direction and I’d need a bit more room on the right side to follow the rule of thirds, as the PIP reactionary video would probably sit on the right bottom corner.