Generative AI Art Links

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Jason Keys

Overview

I've spent every day this year learning and using AI tools. They augment and to some extent obsolesce my abilities as a software developer, but I find myself most drawn to AI tools that generate and manipulate images.

Right now you can type a prompt that is a few words and generate an image capable of capturing thousands of words in just a few seconds. You can also use the same prompt to exponentially capture emotions beyond words in moving images in minutes.

I think there is a seismic shift happening in content creation, movie production, and the abilities we all now possess to perform and "do our thing" on the global stage. I'm learning and I'm gaining momentum.

Hopefully these links help you on your journey if you are interested in these things.

Links

Below is a chronological list of links I encountered over the last months as I moved from simply creating images with DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion to animating images, training models, and programmatically creating videos.

Stable Diffusion


Text-to-Video

  • Pictory AI

    • A great tool for setting text against videos, automatically splicing it up into scenes, and even syncing it with voice overs or music.


Running Stable Diffusion in the Cloud (w/Deforum)

  • Run Diffusion

    • This is an awesome managed service for running Stable Diffusion in the cloud. They offer different machines at different costs preloaded with lots of models, extensions, and file storage. I had to start running my own SD in AWS because I was giving these guys too much money.


Image Tool: Face Swapping (w/Midjourney)


Video Tool: Talking Heads

  • D-ID

    • Take an image of any face and have them start talking or singing with the audio you upload. I use this for some of my type: entry-hyperlink id: 4HrOfwsIp9FRVjVFvCqQ1n.


Video Tool: Animate

  • PixaMotion

    • Animate any image, drawing your own flow, adding masks and pinning certain parts of the picture. One of the first apps I actually paid for given the cheap price and coolness of the output.


Video Editing

  • Filmora Wondershare

    • This is currently my go-to video editing software. I find it extremely easy to use.

  • DaVinci Resolve

    • I haven't used this yet, but I think it is the best free software and everyone seems to use it. I will be trying it at some point.


Prompting

  • Prompt Hero

    • I go here all the time to look at pictures and see the prompts that generated them.

  • Lexica.Art

    • Similar to Prompt Hero with a slicker UI. I'm using this one more and more.

  • Stable Diffusion Prompts

    • This is just a text file on Hugging Face with thousands of prompts. There are no images, just the prompts, so there is some rolling of dice here which is fun.


Image Generation

  • Open AI's DALLE-2

    • I started here with the free credits. Then I gave them $10 more when I started generating images with their API. The ability to generate images with an API has great use cases in video creation. More to come on this.

  • Midjourney

    • The reigning king of image generation. Extremely easy to use with some great customization options built into the prompting. You gotta use Discord to use it which is OK I guess.

  • Leonardo AI

    • I have access to Leo but I haven't yet used it. I'm excited to try it.


Deforum


Running Stable Diffusion on AWS


That's it. I will keep adding links here as I come across them, so bookmark the page. I hope these links accelerate your learning in AI image and video creation.


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