An Overview of Various AI-Powered Text-to-Image Tools

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demonstrated lots of cool-looking images generated by him using DALL-E 2,
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At first, I was using Unity as my go-to tool, but for the past 2 years, I've been working in Unreal
Engine as a Landscape and Lighting Artist. I am presently doing lighting and cinematics for Feudal
Lands, and working on my solo dev project ATMOS, a voxel-based world-level building system in
Unreal Engine.


Getting Into Generative Art
My wife started pointing some AI-generated work at me over the last few months, and only
recently have I gotten time into taking a closer look at AI and its potential uses and applications for
gamedev and art creation. Below my first text prompt was "Eadweard Muybridge Studies of
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I started this AI journey one month ago with Disco Diffusion at Google Colab, Colab is quite
powerful but too slow to my taste. I then started seeing images online that were being created
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just two days and two sleepless nights, I blew through my monthly subscription plan.
These tools have access to millions and millions of image datasets they are pulling from to create
the generation. For example, DALL-E 2 is said to be accessing upwards of 50 million images.



Tools for Generative Art
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tools presently out there in the open. Here is a good list to start with. The AI of
these tools analyzes each
chunk of the sentence as a digestible segment of data and then attempts
to produce an image as closely related to that initial sentence. Through various modifications and
variations, you can create some amazing work. Art styles can be applied to all of these AI platforms
such as Giger Dali Picasso and various impressionistic styles
such as Giger, Dali, Picasso, and various impressionistic styles.

What you can do after is to push the image through Gigapixel AI to get a large image, bring it into
Photoshop for minor cleanup, and then downscale it to a more reasonable size. Many artists are
doing separated art components and then creating a composite mashup in Photoshop.
Here are some interesting pieces of software that you should definitely check out:
DiscoDiffusion by Google Colabs
This was my first kick at the cat, so to say. DD has an extremely powerful toolset, though it does
not have a very elegant interface. I found great help getting started from this YouTube page. It was
quite amazing to use a photograph I had shot at a specific location and have these used as
image_prompts in conjunction with a text prompt. The challenge with DD is that it is quite slow to
render out a 1000-step image and in many cases over 1 hour to render.
Google is presently building Imagen, a more powerful, faster, and consumer-friendly Text Prompt
to image AI. I do know that Google is very hesitant to show much of Imagen.



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Midjourney is an invite on-boarding system, it uses Discord as an i/o to send and receive calls to
the AI servers. The dev DavidH and his team have done an amazing job with the Midjourney
Discord integration and there is a great and growing community. Using simple text and image
prompts you can create some incredible and other-worldly images. Depending on the subscription
plan you are on, you can spend that money pretty quickly.
Results from your initial text prompt slowly reveal the latent 4 proxy images over 30 seconds. At
this point, variant and fresh generations can be generated to bring you closer to your desired
ideation. You have the ability to modify the aspect ratio within your text prompt with a maximum
resolution of 2048x1280. Once you burrow down and are satisfied with your chosen variant, you
can then upscale it, and pull it down to your local machine.
The Midjourney team is very responsive with the tools evolution and grand plans, and keep the
community well informed on issues regarding their server scale onboarding and expanding UI and
toolset. MidJourney being on Discord allows for you to access the tool via both the PC/Mac and also
mobile phone.




DALL-E 2

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at many points hilarious, I blissfully hammered hard to the point of exhaustion. The next day I
was capped with the ability to only generate 50 prompts. OpenAI is using this initial research
testing to even out the AI models and to see how people respond and react to the code of conduct.
The process is: You submit your text prompt on the app (PC and Mobile) and it will generate nine
1024x1024 images. You then can download your selected square hero images or regenerate them
again from a modified prompt.
There is also a variant option, it is currently quite weak in its present state (this is all early days
and things do change quickly, across all of the mentioned platforms). There is a cool tool that
allows you to paint out certain parts of the displayed image, and then replace the area with a new
text prompt.
In addition, DALL-E 2 seems to have a great ability to accurately position hands and feet in an
accurate and realistic position. Such as a lion driving a motorcycle.



Currently, EA, SquareEnix, and Ubisoft have AI labs set up to develop methodologies using all forms
of AI to improve their in-house toolsets, and art generation.
I have been creating some initial tests with both DALL-E 2 and Midjourney on how they could be
used for gamedev. Concept ideation and exploration are incredible with these AI platforms and
really help with generating images that can be overpainted and composited, in other use cases an
artist is using it for Materials Creation.
Can AI Replace Artists?
Here is where my objectivity dissipates. I believe that image-based AI and its rapid evolution are
going to have a profound and deep impact across many, many creative industries. Please find that
my hands/mouth are somewhat tied based upon the terms of the various Content Holders Policy
Terms.
To be frank, I am 63 years old and have used many hardware and software tools over my 40 years
in film, post-production, and game development. I can say, I have never seen anything as powerful
as these tools. The speed of innovation and iteration cannot be underestimated with these AI tools.

The future-forward ability to tune and scale these AI tools to be resolution independent, and the
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their current workflow. Looking back to the great media disruptions of history: from the wheels
falling off the horse with the invention of the auto car; to the current deep permeation of the
internet and LIDAR camera phones, we are all slaves to technology and its beckoning evolutions.
Conclusion
In closing, with one of these tools, I have been able to generate images of people in any context
that are indistinguishable from reality (as we know it). This was quite overwhelming, and in the
wrong hands, these tools could be used for very nefarious undertakings. I have come to believe the
gatekeepers are very, very anxious and want to hold the door closed, and on the other side are the
artists, and explorers who want to rip the doors from their hinges.
Final Note: 97% of these images have had NO retouching and come from various platforms.DALL-E
2 images have a watermark on the bottom right.
Taylor Moore, AI Generative Artist
Interview conducted by Arti Burton
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