I guess the biggest challenge concerning AI is the crazy pace of development. Studios and individual artists alike are overwhelmed by the demand for flexibility while established workflows are put in question. This is exhausting! The only way to face this is to accept the challenge and invest some part of your power in R&D. Otherwise, you will fall behind.
Corona is perfect for us because it delivers uncompromising photorealism in areas where high accuracy and quality are required.
In every studio, you will have illustrations that just don’t work out. We found that throwing them at Stable Diffusion and playing with the prompt and the creativity can yield helpful and inspirational results.
In the example below we needed to give some background skyscrapers a more futuristic look. So, we simply painted some rough color ideas and reflections on top of our render output, and Stable Diffusion created some variations. A selection was then manually patched on the original render.
Magnific AI is a very approachable and easy-to-use web solution that gives the final touches to surfaces and details, especially small variations and imperfections that are hard to pull off. The tool does this within a minute. So you take your final image, enhance it in Magnific AI, and then decide by masking off in Photoshop with masks which parts you want to keep.
Cosmos was great for quickly dropping in a 3D character, which then offered a solid base for AI enhancement. Playing with the prompt resulted in a firework of funky variations in absolutely no time. That was great fun and felt very powerful!
Get started with AI now (if you haven't already) and dedicate some time to research and development. Also, try to stay open-minded, curious, and positive. There is no point in being afraid of AI. But you have to be prepared to throw some old workflows overboard and learn new ones. Technological revolutions have happened before - so will this one, there is no stopping it.
