in today's video I did pick up some awesome techniques along my journey when it comes to
prompts in mid-journey now if you're thinking to yourself what is mid-journey very briefly it's an
algorithmic design software based on Discord where you type in prompts which it then takes and turns
into artwork simples so what famous designs did I try and recreate using mid Journey well firstly
we're going to try and make the Snapchat logo which should be simple right and then secondly
a movie poster and finishing things off with a Pokemon card design and then at the end I held
some very design s commands at Mid journey and to kick things off for the Snapchat logo I wanted to
be really fair and avoid using the word Snapchat and I tried what I thought would be a winning
prompt solution and actually I'm using the 30 a month plan with mid Journey so I have my own
chat room with the AI how sweet and things are typically faster using this plan this was my
very first result and as you can see the design isn't flat because there are drop Shadows despite
my prompt of a flat to logo design now before we move on quickly what are these buttons below
my results well the U is for upscale which will bring my image to higher resolution and quality
and a higher finish and the V is for variations so for example I could click V4 and this will
show me my fourth design in different variations but I did dislike the first results and I wanted
to beat my computerized companion here and get better results my next prompt stated no shadows
and no eyes which I would learn later is a mistake the results were starting to render in but I fired
another prompt just to save some time plus the results that we're rendering in didn't look
too promising to be honest out of the next few results I had a mix of random flat graphics and
then what appears to be paper cutouts of childlike ghosts yeah this was my first Challenge and I was
a noob at this point just so you know so I dug in deep and I started using the variation button and
changing up the prompts a tiny bit now I feel like these were heading closer to the Snapchat
logo because we have that black outline that is synonymous with that logo but I'm not sure how
these three black marks actually came into the party during this mid-journey exploration also
there is a shadow on this design still and to sign off the first challenge here is what I managed
to come up with for Snapchat using the available time that I had now it's quite close I guess but
the shape is not right obviously and neither is the color also this isn't a vector design
so if you are intending to use mid Journey for Vector designs you're going to have to vectorize
them thereafter but it was pretty close I'm sure you agree anyways it's time to get trigger happy
and we're making a film poster and this one got interesting thing I wanted to make a poster for
John Wick and I did try one prompt which I then expanded upon and as you can see in the prompt
I start off with the main focus of the render and then I add in effects and other descriptive words
this is when I started to experiment with words like cinematic lighting realism and so on and we
are going to expand on that later in the video now I wanted John Wick AKA Keanu Reeves to be standing
in a city street in the rain holding a pistol and I gave me a journey a couple of different
prompts right out of the gate oh I also started to use 8K as a prompt here as well these looked
way too cartoonish for my liking and too artsy I was after some raw realism on this design and
the ones from behind also were a bit too artsy as well however often when you upscale a design
in mid-journey the realism does become increased as well I thought to add in a prompt movie poster
to see what would happen to the design and I liked what I was looking at from here I
started to get trigger happy myself and I started creating variations of certain design outcomes
I really like the cityscape and vibe from these designs right here it was starting to take the
appearance I really really wanted however making John Wick was proving to be the most difficult
part of this challenge there wasn't enough realism there for me and often his face would be deformed
or he'd have a hand missing or just something weird like that this is when I learned of one
of the most useful things in mid-journey after upscaling a design you can do things like upscale
to the max or remaster two things we'll use in a big way later first let's take a look at some of
the honorable mentions that could have been used on this design this one would have been almost
perfect if it wasn't for his face looking so weird and non-realistic however I loved everything else
about this design the way the lighting plays along the middle section is just really really neat
and it's pretty epic however his legs are really deformed and it's not what we need for this poster
which is a great shame this one did a good job approving the likeness of Keanu Reeves but it's
too cartoonish and almost looks like something out of the game GTA so I had to scrap that one too and
the last one before the final design a really cool design that shows insane detail in his suit jacket
the rain on the floor and so on but I did think I could do better and here is the final design it
still isn't what I was aiming for precisely which is a theme I found with mid Journey actually as a
designer but it does the job and I did add some work in Photoshop but it's more or less the same
design as I got for my journey and for the third and final design a Pokemon card can we actually
make a Pokemon card using the journey well to do that we first need a Pokemon and I want to try
and make Pikachu because it's the most well-known Pokemon I thought mid Journey might pick up on it
after one failed prompt due to me being the typo King I decided to try out a shorter prompt and
this time around I gave Pikachu a Fighting Chance in a forest I also started a new prompt using
the word realistic some of the first results were actually pretty cool and I could see that creating
variants and upscaling them had potential I really like the neon lighting on these designs as well
the second results did look a bit more odd actually and seemed to have lost that typical
Pikachu look even more so in the third set of results where Pikachu started to resemble that
of a kind of cross between a rabbit and a rat so next I went for a prompt that would actually
prove to be a Wise Wise move a very short prompt that directly spoke about a specific type of
Pikachu yes these look very odds some of them really cool for sure but not what we need this
four-eyed thing is straight up creepy actually but at this point I hadn't actually used any
upscaling or variations of Pikachu so I upscaled the fourth design and I used the remaster trick
that we did for the movie poster and this was the first result that we got which yes looks
creepy and weird but I expanded on this design and if by Magic the remaster option gave me this
which was so so cool it even has the red cheeks that Pikachu has as well I'm not sure what this
text is at the bottom here but I expanded on this design and we found a winner here's the
Pikachu that we finish with and the Pokemon card that I made using midgeny so those are the three
challenges but I wanted to try something a bit different at the end of this video I Threw in
prompts that specifically asked for a certain kind of logo for a certain Niche and I wanted
to see what the results would be this is at four times the usual speed by the way and so you can
actually see the results are not very great for the prompts I'm giving now I've seen some fairly
decent logos being made using mid-journey but I haven't actually really been able to do that
myself and produce anything meaningful for a logo design it's great for art for Concepts or
backgrounds and other materials but for straight up precise logo designs that are clean I think it
still has to go some way before it's actually going to achieve this just yet it can kind of
work and I've learned some prompts since this video in regards to logo design but that would
be for another video later in the future on this channel and that's the thing with mid Journey
though it can help create something you have in mind but it cannot kind of finish off a design it
can't add typography alignment to other finishing touches the finer details a designer will have to
add later and of course they design needs to have that kind of eye for design in the first
place so mid Journey still has a way to come and humans are still in control at the moment a client
isn't going to be able to head into something like mid journey and make an efficient brand
that appeals to their target audience there are knowledge factors and skill sets that cannot be
replicated by AI just yet but hey if you want to see a video about a different kind of AI
then just click the video on screen but until next time guys design your future today peace
thank you foreign