MIDJOURNEY and RUNWAY ML Short Film " Byzantium"

MidJourney 5.2

"byzantium" ai film unused material

A set of renders I made in Midjourney that did not make it to the cut of our video. I still like them a lot in terms of characters and design.

See the final film Dan and I made...

Summer 2023

One Prompt:

I ran one prompt concept throughout the whole process, then just re ran them and tweaked certain parts.

Runway.ML

I took those MJ images and ran them through Runway's Gen. 2 for many iterations. I also ended up editing the photos from MJ, running photoshop generative fill of them, then running them through again ..

Runway to Upscale ..

I ran them through upscale and then cleaned up some noise, not all of it though .. I wanted to retain the what I could get. The process is still so young.

Early stages

Regardless of what people think about tools like Runway, or Pika etc.
It is very exciting to be able to generate Ideas on the fly
and then run it through this process. It is world building at its finest..

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photos

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Future Use

Some of the ideas I used here will most likely be revisited again at a later date.
Also the prompt I used to create all of these images.. It was from of the list of props for Alice Cooper's 1973 Billion Dollar Babies tour..

I used those props ( Mannequins and lightbulbs to name a few )
as the basis of my prompts.. :)

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