You can just type a request in the box if you don't particularly care what the result looks like and also don't care that some of the features might be copyrighted (since large models are quite capable of memorizing their training data.)
Asking for two different images in a series that have similar "art styles" is going to be enough work to still need a specialist aka an artist; it'll be most useful in cases you never would've bothered finding one before.
Re:How Imagen Works
by treesprite82 on Friday June 24, 2022 @04:37AM
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> Asking for two different images in a series that have similar "art styles" is going to be enough work to still need a specialist aka an artist
Running a separate style transfer network on the generated images is currently possible, although won't achieve the best possible results.
I wouldn't be surprised in the near future to see generation models that can take a text prompt and an image to mimic the style of, which could let it take style into account when generating the image rather than at just the surface level.
Since “style” isn’t at the surface level, you can’t take it into account with a single input. It means whatever the client wants it to mean. Getting an AI to do what you want there is still going to be a long conversation they won’t want to do.
It might (likely will be) easier to use the AI as a storyboard generator and have your in-house artists redraw it.
Re:How Imagen Works
by SleekEagle on Thursday June 23, 2022 @03:21PM
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I'm not sure there has been a period of more rapid development in DL than Diffusion Models (maybe transformers?). The next few years will be really interesting.
But if you've never considered that a computer can produce an original image, this is just a new thing computers can do. OTOH I think it's also a lack of imagination in how useful this is, so far the output has been kind of random, so it seems a little gimmicky. Already "Parti" has gotten much closer to allowing a user to describe exactly what they want in the image, and as people start to see the use cases for them personally, it will hit them that they no longer have to hire someone, they can just type a request into a box.