Theme of the workshop

Environments

The prompt of an environment is about describing a scene, situation arrangement of subjects and actions inside a space. After exploring this definition, you should focus on experimenting with its style.

Giving a style means applying a set of arrangements taken from a particular artistic current, a single famous artist or any kind or acknowledged “vision”. Examples are “pointillism” “painted by Van Gogh” or “as in a Wes Anderson movie”

Hybrid creatures

The prompt of an hybrid creature is about describing a chimera, some sort of whatever individual creature, a subject, in its appearance and details. After exploring this definition, you should focus on experimenting with the image composition.

Setting a composition means establishing and controlling the elements on the canvas, their presence, central or marginal, their disposition, the details about the subjects and so on. Examples are anatomy, accessories, but also pose and position, interactions and so on. An example could be a detailed description of clothing.

Hybrid Objects

The prompt about an hybrid object is about describing a new, peculiar, incredible, different, impossible inanimate “thing”, in its nature, role, or simple existence. After exploring this definition you should focus on experimenting with its presentation.

Working on the presentation means choosing a way to represent the subject. Is it a photo? A drawing? A painting? A render? A watercolor? A sculpture? A sketch? Is there a particular lighting? And so on.

Tools

Text to image

Stable diffusion Text to image model without any generation limit.

Dalle 2 Text to image model with some edit tools.

Midjourney Text to image model with some edit tools .

Text to text

GPT3 Text generation model. It can help in writing your prompt.

(Create an account and select "Playground" in the top menu)

reminders

Upload your result on your Google Drive folder

All the result that are interesting to you must be saved in your Google Drive folder, otherwise they will be lost. Bad results are still result, we are exploring those new tools, and we are interested in what they achieve as much as we are interested in what they fail.

Keep your page updated with your prompts and image

It is really important to associate every image with its prompt, otherwise the result can not be "reproduced" and discussed, and it is not useful for research purposes.

Be consistent in your process and documentation

Collect the prompts and the images on your site with accuracy and respect the webpage layout. So your work will be ready and helpful for your mates too. All the results must be ordered in chronological order from the bottom of the page to its end.

Do not mess your mates folder and webpage

For practical reason of license giving you have access to everybody's Drive folder and webpage, always double check you are in the right folder and page in order to avoid overwriting.