MIDJOURNEY - How To Create a Complete Graphic Novel in ONE Day
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2024
- Midjourney is a pretty incredible AI tool for creating images you can use to create your own graphic novel in less than 24 hours.
Check out the time stamps to see a timelapse of each step and my tips on the process.
0:00 An Idiot Talks About Making a Book
2:53 Step 1 Midjourney Renders
4:04 Step 2 Script Generation via Inferkit
5:47 Step 3 Layout The Panels in Comic Life 3
13:21 Step 4 Design A Cover and Publish
16:02 An Idiot Shares His Recap
Using artificial intelligence to create full comic books isn't as far fetched as it sounds. This video lays out a high level walkthrough of how I can create a full graphic novel in a single day using AI (Midjourney and Inferkit) along with Comic Life and Affinity Designer.
Outside of Midjourney I also use these apps/sites but you could do the same thing in GIMP or any other free design software.
Inferkit
inferkit.com/
Comic Life 3
apps.apple.com/us/app/comic-l...
Affinity Suite
affinity.serif.com/en-us/ - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
Every Midjourney comic is some nameless protagonist wandering around describing things we dont SEE (visual medium) with no consistent tone.
It's like my brain in book form, maybe that's why I dig it... 🧠😵💫
@@philftw Ah im not trying to kill your buzz. Im sure there will be improvements to help AI sequential art, especially because its gained so much interest
Its basically good looking trash
@@gabrielWachong That was my nickname in high school.
I don't think everyone is obsolete. What always happens with time saving tools is the studios expect you to do more. We're not yet to the point where an exec pushes a button and a GOOD comic/movie comes out the other side.
Just matter of time
Well the tools are here, and won't be going away. Most artists can probably extend their relevancy by leveraging AI to turn themselves into a full art department, using their own abilities to customize the work in ways non artists can't. If you've ever had thoughts of doing your own thing but could never afford to take it big, now is the time.
Which is exactly the main problem. I still don't get why are we so interested in saving time. Investing time in your work is precisely the most important thing in art, the outcome always comes second place.
But that's exactly what could bring artists in trouble.
The studios expect the artists to do more even on an individual level, which makes any artist not full embracing and relying on AI economically unviable.
ai is crap. its a sex robot. it is not the real thing and its embarrassingly pathetic when one choses to use it.
super helpful intro to the layout software and general steps for speed + well produced vid instant subscribe
This is not sequential art (comic), it's just a succession of illustrations without graphic continuity.
Thanks for taking the time and creating this very informative video. Good job!
Thanks for putting this in one video. I was talking about this once I saw this technology and I immediately saw the potential. I also shared for video on various art and comic book discord. With varied opinion. But as one who have seen the industry for art, comics, animation and visual communications over 4 decades. I think as artists and writers we must be open to all tools that will aid us in out journey to get out stories out to the public. What we don't get back is time so I welcome all the tech that can aid me in my journey **Pun intended*.
Excellent video, thanks for the great content and your delivery style.
That looks way more amazing than I would have expected!!
Absolutely incredible. Fantastic video.
This is amazing information, thank you for sharing. I love the EC influence!
Outstanding presentation, thank you!!
So generous to share this information. Great and informative video. Also, side note, you just seem like a great human. Have a great day!!
This is awesome! Very inspirational.
incredible breakdown! I really want to give it a try
I did one of these 24 hour comics years back and it was pretty dire. But, some of the framers were pretty respectable, even if the whole thing was a bit of a mind screw. It's definitely a good way to start out if you haven't done one before as it completely removes the inner critic as you race to just get something done and can blame the rushedness if there are quality issues.
As an artist who studied art for years and once had dreams of making comics I'm going to go promptly yeet myself off of the nearest cliff in the hopes of ending up in a universe where those skills are actually worth something.
bro, that comic looks like shit wth
@@gonzalo5162 I know but to some people (like the guy making this video, seriously his TH-cam bio says he makes "ugly art") it won't matter. Just the fact that someone can make a comic faster with ai is what matters.
dont, AI cant be creative but you can.
After using midway for a bit, i honestly believe art will just turn into a performace art. Think of strong men who carry huge weights while machines can do that with ease. But eventually ya, i might be right there with you on that cliff...
@@17th_Colossus very, very, very small number of people making a living as carnival strong men...
Saw your post on midjourney, thanks for making this!
Really interesting video. Bravo
Fantastic! I am going to watch this over and over and get this down.
Wow this is amazing. Thanks for the informative video. Lets go!
love this frame for exploration, really interesting, thanks for sharing
Really appreciate this instructional, and your no-nonsense (but no less engaging) delivery.
Thankyou for sharing, great inspiration and helpful tips, greatly appreciated.
Thank you! You inspire. I had to say that because I've consumed many YT presentations, and most of the time end up thinking "great job!" and then go back to whatever I was doing. I watched this and ended up feeling "Man, I want to go out right now and try this!!" Thanks for that enthusiasm
Great video, I did not know about Inferkit and Comic Life and I'll be exploring those!
Thank you so much for all these tutorials bro. So much valuable knowledge
Enjoyed ths video walk-through of your process for creating a graphic novel, very much!
It certainly sparked some ideas with me.
Having a consistent art style and matching colours will also be a challenge.
Thx for this video Phil.
You have really opened a new world for me :)
Ha! I thought I was the first one to think of this!😆 Can’t wait to see what you did😎
this was very informative, thank you!
Great video! Thank you so much for this.
This is great. Thank you, man.
Wow, this is almost as fast as Disney writing a screenplay for their 250 million remake Flopbusters
Awesome work super helpful. Thanks for sharing 💪✌️
Incredibly knowledgeable and we'll-spoken teacher. Nice tutorials comfortableness with the subject makes starting soft real exciting!!
Great video! You inspired me to do my own comic book, and mine turned out amazing! Thanks so much! 😊
That’s barely a visual novel though. More like a collage of random images.
That would work for me if I'm trying to make a graphic novel prototype of my script
Many are saying that creatively couldn't be replaced,but people willing to pay money for some concepts will stop doing so when they see what ai can do. I am sure many in the advertising world will find a use of it during what they call brain storming. This world of advertising is full of corrupt and unskilled people , and this tool will help them bypass many artists just for the sake to put the money in their pockets instead of paying artists.
This is what I figure it's going to come down to it's going to cut out a lot of kind of specific art jobs like concept art and stuff of that nature. Also for things like animation it may eventually cut out some level of the in between animators. Basically a lot of the grunt level of art jobs.
We're nowhere near the point where that's an issue. We may eventually get there, but only for things where the amount of creativity is limited. You'll never see AI being the equivalent of David Lynch or Salvador Dalí. Even if I'm wrong about this, you're still talking many decades before it's even plausible.
@@buttsbrown2442 Yes, this is far more likely. I'd expect to see animation switching to a model where a human is doing the layout artwork, and the final touch ups, but the computer is doing the drawing in between those points and adding in between frames and less important details. If anything, this would lead to increased creativity as it is enormously expensive to create full animation, even if you're employing people in places like Vietnam where the cost of living is practically nothing compared with the US.
Also, computers have been used for colorizing old TV and movies for decades. It wasn't particularly sophisticated, but much of what Turner was colorizing was done via computer. And that was decades ago at this point. The results weren't great, but they probably weren't much worse than what could be achieved by hand. I know because I've seen hand colored black and white pictures, and they look the same. By contrast, if you pick up a more recently colorized film, like the colorized version of It's a Wonderful Life, the color is so much more realistic, and I'd wager they'll get even better at that in coming years.
@@buttsbrown2442 Already is, seen it myself.
@@buttsbrown2442 Concept art and illustration aren't what I would call 'grunt level' art jobs.
That was the most impressive video on AI I’ve watched for quite a while. I like what u do & how u think about it :)
Superb thanks for sharing you creative process
Great video Phil, superb. You got a new subscriber. *thumbs up*
Wow. This was remarkable. Hats off to you, mate for not only creating an original manuscript so swiftly but also for articulating every step with precision, care and humility. And I concur: AI has not and will never (imo) entirely replace humans and our art but utilized in the right way, it can be an extremely useful tool to help us with our endeavors. Well played, sir 👏🏼
Great channel ❤️ Thx for the tutorial
Awesome video! Interesting work. Love it. Even though I draw by hand these are all cool techniques to use in tandem with my drawings, plus I never heard of that app Comic Life, until seeing this tutorial it’s amazing. You rock! Thank you so much 🙌🙌🙌
That's that's Incredible.
WOW!!! Incredible!!!
TL;DR of all comments here:
1. You can't replace hand made human artwork.
2. True, but we artists who barely survive on custom art commissions are almost absolutely f***ed.
Absolutely fantastic! I really learnt a ton out of this video. Quick question, where would you recommend getting the final book printed?
That's the last thing he addresses in the video when he pulls out the physical copy.
I write and illustrate my own Comic Books and Graphic Novels and rely a great deal on Digital Art. Mostly I use programs like Photoshop because they really reduce the time factor, but using Midjourney is in no way a threat to graphic Artists or illustrators and the original content we create.
Truth be told we should explore these software avenues to see what we can develop from it or use to enhance the original work that we have in mind. Don't limit yourself people.
P.S.
Excellent video!
You're a very clever man, Phil.
A measured and well written comment on a youtube video?! Get out of here before you infect the rest of the internet with your thoughtful and polite ways! I only want "YOU ARE TRASH AND THE CAUSE OF GLOBAL WARMING AND EVEN DOLPHINS HATE YOU!" in my comment section. (for real though, there's going to be value in AI for comic creators that are willing to explore it. Even just in rendering background scenery where the environment is only there to frame the foreground action could really help take some of the tedious work off artist's plates. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, sorry I'm 6 months late in responding!)
@@philftw LOL!
Better late then never, Pal.
So you don’t do the art *or* the writing? When people ask what you do for a living, what do you - never mind.
Amazing!
damn, tf it looks so damn good and amazing
Very cool
Good stuff. Thanks
Amazing
Very interesting video, I enjoyed. Sidenote, you look like Dr. Cox.
Seems like fun.
I do find the robotic generic electronic background music is kinda a perfect match for a “creative” endeavor like this.
Thank you
Thanks man I'm a 46 year old digital artist and you just set my path on fire I've used programs for years published 47 books the hard way you just gave me my creativity back what you're doing and the simplicity is ingenious screw the negative people you are ahead of your time thanks so much for giving me my drive and passion for art back hope to see more of your work and find a way to send you something when I've completed one
Dig the stace dude
"with great power comes great responisbility", and here is my Like, like boss.
Next time I'll be promting out in the channel, ' 6x9 graphic novel of a sad suffering dog, each frame like a surrealist painting, add black ink to edges, add 80's printer noise bakcground layer, glossy finish to cover" . yay!
Straight up plagiarism if you ask me
@Seth Baker bad is the level of plagiasrism that is going on
Very insightful!! Thank you for this very informative tutorial!
Now I just need to figure out how to get MJ to generate voxel assets and I'll be set!
nice!!!!
this video is for lazy people only, and as an artist myself, I loved it haha thank you!
Before my recent exposure to MJ, I had no clue; rather, I was scared to think of graphic novels. You gave me wings. Tx
so complicated to use dicord for that... Is there a native app planned for midjourney?
very informative video, i'm gonna try doing the same thing using Stable diffusion, and also, what music are you using in the video at 5:30?
Awesome video! How do you maintain character consistency when generating characters in mid-journey?
That's what i was curious about
Wow! Great tools for writters to create drafts and idea diagrams. Definitely AI its gonna change multiple notches and all this tools would make creators even wilder!
I just asked dor brothers about this possibility and ... character design persistence is being worked on as we speak
Is there a way to get the same renders of people used when you put them in an AI? or do I have to use photoshop or something else to keep the same characters as the comic progresses?
This is a freaking amazing tutorial, I love this idea so much, thanks for the inspiration.
That was pretty awesome. I don't know what I was expecting when I clicked on this, I'm clicking on all midjourney content and wow, this doesn't make me think I'm going to become a super great and successful graphic novel 'artist' but it looks like I can have some fun, engage my creative brain without too much stress and make use of some of the midjourney pictures I've been madly creating. Creativity with some direction! That's a win win. And if we make that crazy 'graphic artist' who tried to badmouth and shame that one person who did create a comic with their midjourney work even madder, all the better! Cool beans.
Phil great video! Wondering if you ever had this problem where you started your project on a script in the comic life app. Am I able to transfer it over to the comic portion?
Nevermind found out what to do. I'm just now figuring out how to size the right pages. This is such an awesome technology. Definitely opening so much new doors for artist and gives people that don't have much time to express their selves
Wow!
Man, I've been trying to create my book using Photoshop templates and pulling my hair out in the process.
Comic Life is SOOOOO much easier!
BTW, I convert my own short stories into Scrivener to create my scripts. Doing it this way really keeps your story into perspective and allows you to visualize the layout and flow of the story even before you commit to creating images for it.
Again, thanks for the video!
Thanks for this. I have an idea of comic adaptation of a short lived program i want to do. Didnt have much success with that online asking someone to do it
This was incredible, thanks! I like how you took us through the entire process in such detail. Would love to see how you upload to Amazon/Kindle. Subscribed!
yes please we need that othr part
I have a question: I'm creating a graphic novel in Clip Studio Paint. When I'm done with it, it'll roughly be around 200 pages.
How do you save or work on a file that has so many pages without slowing the program down?
Do you only do a certain number of pages with multiple files and then combine them all using a different program?
This is EXACTLY what I was looking for, thank you so much! I have this story I keep working on but keep getting stuck, the Inferkit will help with that, then I've made hundreds of cool images with Midjourney but not really sure what to do with them. Now I have so many ideas, thanks for this!
Just learn to draw, it’ll be more rewarding and it doesn’t require electricity
Or plagiarism
Phenomenal!!!! 👏🏾 So exciting and inspiring to see. I did the 24-hour comic book challenge many years ago and was only able to finalize 2 hand drawn pages before I crashed and burned from lack of sleep. But I did manage to complete the storyboard and story. I gave up on the project because my skill level as an illustrator was non existent. 🤣🤣 But this makes me want to revisit the story. Thank you so much for sharing this. ♥️♥️♥️
How did you manage to get consistent character and art style images?
GL bro
Great video, and explanation of the process. Just found your channel, so you may have already made a video on this. Are you aware of anything similar that will help with a choose your own adventure type project?
I used this process to make a PDF for a game, so thanks! After my friends and I beta test it, then where could I post it to be sold? Any ideas? Thanks again for all the help through this video!
fuck, this is scary tbh.
To download soft soft is the download free or do u have to pay for it?
Thanks for this! Could we also create the Cover page in Comic Life 3?
AMAZIMG
Where do we buy your books?
Would be fun gifts if you decide to offer print versions (I only found Kindle version of Meating People)
What's a good Comic App for the PC? I don't have a tablet. I do have an old Macbook Pro...does that app exist for Macbook Pros too or just the tablet?
I used chatgpt for script sotry and dialog and midjourney for concept art. Should I use comic life you suggested in tandem for structure?
the video answered my question, i guess ill just have all my text from chatgpt for comic life was my concerned. Excellent video
any tips for getting midjourney to use the same rendition of a character for multiple pages? I guess I'm asking how you get it to use the same character throughout.
How did you create enough coherent images in midjourney to have enough choice to fit the dialogue?
I think the "Generate lots of text approach and delete lines" creates a bit too incoherent story. I think rewriting them slightly or adding some custom lines for consistency might make them a bit more interesting.
For sure, absolutely agree. As they say, your mileage may very. I've treated it more like an experiment with some arbitrary rules (like no changing lines and no photoshop) so I can track the AI's progress but to your point, the output is a mixed bag of really great stuff and some non sequitur nonsense.
Hi, great tutorial! Can you tell me on Midjourney is it possible to hide all the other peoples creations as I'm finding it hard to find my own images whilst processing? Is this an option when you subscribe? Many thanks.
Looks Great! I have a Question>>>Is'nt the content you create on Mid journey Copyrighted (ie you can't use it for profit??) or NFT's or anything for profit?
You can use Stable Diffusion. That's open source.
Is there a way to create a character and then "save" it to use it in multiple images from different angles and doing different actions?
Do you have link to see your book ?
Where can I get different fonts? For the book and cover?