When people were talking about Dall-E, Dall-E 2, Mid Journey and started to speculate if Graphic Designers/Artists as we know will become obsolete it got me thinking as well.
Is my job in serious danger, will I be replaced by a bot.
But when I tried the AI art creation bot MidJourney, I understood what it can and can’t do.Yes, the way it creates an image in seconds is awesome and it is quite scary how bizarre keywords can get such beautiful results. But it all depends finally on the human input.
Yes, you may have the worlds best cooking range, but you still need the right ingredients and human intervention to cook a wonderful meal. The better the tools, the easier some tasks are but your knowledge and skill is what makes the dish awesome. Moms for generations have been proving just this point.
So, I am not worried, but excited to see what I can pull off and what could be the practical application for it beyond a like-bait artworks on social or cool looking wallpapers.
It is a great starting point for speculative or concept art. After doing a few random ones, I finally gave myself a brief and created a concept art for a Futuristic Tamil action movie with my favourite star but shot with a retro psychedelic aesthetic.
And after a few tweaks, I landed with an interesting starting point.This is where I see artists begin their Journey, From the Middle, and perhaps that is why maybe the program is called Mid Journey. And where they eventually land is up to them.
And like Rajnikanth, Artists are forever, technology will only aide them to reach new heights and you will still be the SOLO-BOSS.
