COLOUR PLAY MAY 1
As a neurodivergent creator Colour plays such a huge part of my process and I often have played with mixed medium and I have been in search of new ways to reinterpret these tools using 3d programs and it was what attracted me to working with blender before it became the centre piece of my workflow with UnrealEngine, Now I am working toward experimentation with Midjourney to explore and experiment and with this in particular. I’ll be excited to share more details in future posts. But I am in search of a look and attempting to be able to achieve it with a specificity as deliberate as anything else in my pallet.
Here is my continued experimentation getting friendly with my new AI co-workers with today’s thought as visualized with the aid of Midjourney. working on an ongoing series.
I’m using my name and threading it into strings as I’ve attempted to find the right string of words and prompt pairings to art direct an “attilaadorjany type detail or material or style” or “in the style of AttilaAdorjany” a 3D render or illustration, but these represent clean versions of my total art direction from thumbnails to previews of our game worlds. These are unaltered by me outside of Midjourney and are *not* what I would call finished more a look into my sketchbook. I’m representing ideas and characters from our original worlds and doing so with as much authenticity as possible. If you understand the terminologies of synthography or prompt engineer, then you’ll understand a better the concerns I have.
I’ve established a sort of code-of-conduct for myself when utilizing AI: I won’t use any artist’s name, as a reference point for style, nor any famous IP or person’s name when inputting my set of instructions; I want to avoid the obvious pitfalls of these tools, and am doing my best to not create a scenario where I’d be accused of any sort of plagiarism. My intention is to use this as a tool of expediency, to render polished mock-ups or layer elements for use in UnrealEngine and or as part of an animation or narrative sequence combining other traditional materials as I work in the ways I’ve always done.
Trying to find the right language to remain ethical as I represent and market our company’s IPs, brand, and my own work is important to me and something I feel is worth mentioning. For years I’ve shared access to my original characters protected under the Creative Commons. So it might be a challenge but I’m hoping if I share the process through my channels I can help others find the right communication tools to continue to work ethically. To share knowledge and promote this idea as I have done in the past. A worthwhile challenge I think. I hope you think so too.
My commonly used “traditional” tools are:
SCULPY, CREATURE CLAY, AIRBRUSH ACRYLICS, STRATHMORE PAPER, & COPIC INKS.
My commonly used digital tools are:
ADOBE CC, PROCREATE, BLENDER, UNREALENGINE5, & ABLETON CHAT GPT and now MIDJOURNEY
