This FREE AI Comic Book Creator is Incredible!
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- čas přidán 22. 05. 2024
- Today we're taking a look at Comic Factory, a new AI Comic Book/Graphic Novel generator that will create Comic Book pages from a simple prompt! It is pretty amazing, and covers a number of different styles. We'll take a look at how to use Comic Factory with Photoshop so you can make your own stunning graphic stories!
Also, we're going to take a look at Ideogram, a new AI Image Generator that creates really great art, with TEXT. Yes, you can actually prompt for text and Ideogram will create it for it! I'll take you through a walkthrough of the platform and show you all the ins and outs.
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00:00 📚 Comic Factory is a free AI comic book/graphic novel generator with various art styles.
00:30 🦸 Styles in Comic Factory: Japanese, Franco Belgian, American modern, 1950s, Flying Saucer, humanoid, haddock, and Amoricon.
02:18 Channel Hit with Invalid Traffic Bug
03:15 📜 Comic Factory works best with shorter prompts for creating unique comics through collaboration.
04:37 - Using the Marvel Method to create an AI Comic Book
06:51 🖼️ Comic Factory outputs can be edited in image editors for better narrative coherence.
07:57 🎨 Ideogram.ai offers versatile AI image generation with text prompts and various styles.
09:43 🧠 Ideogram is great for custom logos, t-shirts, stickers, and graphic design tasks.
10:55 🤪 Ideogram can occasionally have AI-generated text errors, especially with longer words. - Věda a technologie
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The problem I see with all AI that attempts to do text is that, depending on the AI, it attempts to make all or most text all upper case 🤮. I haaaaate all upper case text for a variety of reasons. Until some AI fixes this terrible case bias, I'll stick with traditional text creation tools.
The comic book model looks quite worthy of checking out though. 👍
Try to turn off the embed link option on all videos, you can do a mass changing of this. This helped some people.
@@eri7-11 did it yesterday! And over the weekend I’m just going to do the old “turn it on and turn it off” trick that some folks have reported (occasionally) works.
But the whole thing has been super eye opening, and has really driven home the point that, for the health and longevity of the channel, I can’t rely on CZcams as a primary revenue source.
Given the other options of Audience support via Patreon, or just taking on every sponsor that slides into my inbox? Well, that choice is pretty clear to me!
@@LouisGedo hi Louis!! Great to see you!!
what i find especially lacking in those ai tools is the consistancy to keep characters or places ... it would be good to save models and keep them to try to generate and narrow scenes from them
Really good point this looks pretty cool but I was wondering about the consistency weather for characters or even props like ships or buildings
@@FluxNomad678there's surely some people freelancing using ai. But idk what other tools they use.
Yes I came here because I had an idea to see if anyone had something like mid journey but focusing on character, building and comics. I would like to create something where I can detail a character's appearance and personality generate those image. Then give that image a name. Let's say his name is Luke now when I talk about Luke the AI will recognize his appearance and put him in the scene Then you will always have Luke. Luke can write a motorcycle swim with dolphins or even eat a hot dog
You couldn' t be more right. I try alternatives: using artists on inputs, ages of art/paiting/comic strips, and so on, but I think I will always only be able to create concepts with consistancy, not a great work with a same line of art.
From what I'm seeing, some people try saving 4 to 8 best result pics and then using all of them in the prompt in future generations. Like maybe the 'average' of these is close. I might try this and also see how it works in MJ 6.
Thanks for all the great info! I love your channel!
Thank you so much! Me too!! Haha
Keep in mind everyone you can't copyright any of this due to the laws just passed.... which is fair to the models (people) it pulls from.
That argument is still in play. And to be honest, that only applies to US copyright law. I believe Japan has already decided to let AI fly,
And you can copyright if the work has been transformed by a human, but there aren’t any definitions of what that actually means. How do you quantify what transformation is? If I write dialogue balloons, is that 10% a change? 50%? Who decides what that means?
Personally, I think the whole fight is doomed to fail, namely because Warhol’s Campbell Soup artwork has already been upheld.
The fairness thing, I totally get. Look, I’m a proponent of UBI, but that’s a whole other discussion…
@@TheoreticallyMediawith that type of ideology you won't mind people using your "work" as a baseline for tweaks and edits. After all if it wasn't for AI most people wouldn't have the opportunity to profit from professional artists. If copyright does side with the AI, everything will be up for grabs
@@TheoreticallyMediaso you wouldn't mind me reuploading your videos with a "speech bubble added"? Or a watermark of my channel - would that be enough for you to consider it transformative?
@@TheoreticallyMedia - Is it? Whatever the US does, other countries will have to follow due to basic international agreements and treaties alone. You might want to re-check. Japan has not decided to just let 'AI fly', they've explicitly stated that the law still allows for copyright claims against AI. They've just made the distinction between generation vs. training, and that training is still ok for research and educational purposes, which is the same everywhere. Also the Warhol Foundation recently lost its case vs. Goldsmith, so no, just because Warhol's Campbell Soup case was upheld, isn't the blanket carte blanche as you think. So no, the 'fight' isn't remotely close to being 'doomed' to fail.
@@NovaaGrind Guys don't mind these talentless people, they always defend AI art because they cant do anything for themselves. It is true, if you follow that ideology so then everyone is going to copy each others to the end. Period.
Wow. Pretty cool. Marvel Method indeed. Was thinking the same thing.
I love using the marvel method, it’s such a unique way of working that can lead to some pretty unexpected results.
@TheoreticallyMedia it can be a really effective positive feedback loop
As a writer and artists, these new comic generation sites are pretty interesting, but they are really in their infancy right now. Anyone who already has a story, and a vision is going to find them incredibly limiting to use. Inconsistent characters/models, fixed panel layouts, and the bazaar interpretations of prompts to name few issues. The tech is moving so quickly though. Hopefully these issues will be addressed soon. With the fixed styles, I do wonder how quickly the audience will get burned out from the lack difference from comic to comic.
Audiences quickly become jaded to new technology due to their overuse. Like CGI use in films.
I suspect the temptation to produce cheap material quickly will cause enough people to reject ai produced artwork, as being cheap and artificial. A compromise between ai and artists will have to be reached.
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Terrific find, Tim! I like how you used Comic Factory, despite its limitations, to make something creative and coherent. Have you tried Comic Life 3 for laying out those images? I used it for a graphic novel. It does all things comic except making the images. So you have panels, text bubbles, sound effects, filters -- it's really handy if you have images but would like prebuilt pages and appropriate tools. You can even lay out the panels in whatever way you want. It's something like $10. It might come in handy once MJ actually shows us the storytelling tools!
And so sorry to hear CZcams cut your income. As if they don't take most of the money anyway. I hope you get many Patreon supporters, you definitely deserve it!
I haven't checked it out, but I will now!
No he doesn't. He's promoting plagiarism software and stealing from artists... He deserves nothing
@@animtonni - buggy whips
‘Armorica’ is the Roman name for the part of France we now generally refer to as Brittany. I think the ‘Armorican’ style may be a reference to the European comic ‘Asterix the Gaul’ which is situated in that particular part of France. I’m not sure though because this style in Comic Factory doesn’t match the style of the original comic very well. Anyway… great, informatieve work again Tim. Thank you!
Ahhhhh, there it is!! I couldn’t for the life of me connect Armorica to comics! Asterix is it! I kept thinking Nemo in Slumberland or Moore’s League of X as a style!
I think with some Asterix-y prompts, that style might show through a bit more. I’ll say the models can be a bit finicky and picky about what it produces.
Thank you!!!
I confirm! The style is a bit difficult to catch and we don't really see the difference I think, because I didn't want to be too explicit in the keywords. It would work better with a LoRA but currently the comic editor doesn't use one (the tool is more like an homage and its goal is to have fun, not to plagiarize living authors or copyright holders, so I'm trying to stay vague in the targeting of styles).
@@julianbilcke6922 thank you Julian! Both for the comment and Comic Factory!
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hm - it didn't look like Asterix though
@@TheWatchernator So, I think if you give it more of an "Asterix prompt" -- basically, something more in line w/ that style, it'll produce better results.
Give it a shot and let me know!
Not positive, but "Amorican" might be a play on Alan Moore's work through American publishers. The style shown reminds me of the detailed backgrounds in things like LXG and Top Ten.
That’s 100% what I was thinking. Plus, maybe a little Little Nemo in Slumberland, but I’m not sure what that particular style of art is classified as. Great minds, though!
They say, "If you want to play the blues, you've got to pay the dues."
gave it a try today after seeing you vid, not bad.. i think its good for getting a base idea and using that as a guide. Though i do believe in time it could generate a full book.. one thing is you could create set characters and the ai to know them with names and placing such in the comic book with the description it would be cool. Midjourney has something similiar when you create and ID and use that for characters.
Really informative thanks so much!!
Agreed! It’s not 100% there yet, but that’s what I find so awesome about the current state of tech, it is at a point where, with some home brew solutions, you can get it there, but it still take a little struggle/effort.
It’ll be “easy” one day, but I think when it is, we’ll look back on today as the era of unsupervised fun!
Interesting, but where does this art come from? Is this scratch made by the software or it based on something preexisting? What are the copyright implications? How much futzing before it’s not just ai?
Thank you
Welcome!
I'm actually more of a fan of Danka's earlier work.
That Comic Factory looks awesome! I don't understand why every old school art image creator tool from Paint to Photoshop had combined a way to add text over your image, but I've yet to see an AI art generator have that feature. Seems like it would be a no brainer. Ideogram is still hit or miss with the text. You can type in lyrics to be rapped or sung by music generators, but I can't get a little 14-point Times New Roman into my comic's thought bubble?
Still pretty amazing/cool stuff! Hope YT shares the wealth better.
You would figure that someone would have suss’d out a ChatGPT plugin to pop over an image. But hey, at least this keeps the lettering folks working!
And man, that is such a lost art. I still can’t believe there was an era where they did that BY HAND!
Dan Clowes probably still does his by hand @@TheoreticallyMedia
@@TheoreticallyMediaI'm old enough that I trained in constructing lettering by hand. (Do they still do that these days?)
I only remember enough of that experience to admire the talent and skill of professionally produced work.
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Thank you for the comment!
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Welcome!
the CB generator must be seeing a lot of demand. I tried multiple times and never got a comic. It finally worked.
It is kind of a “garage project” that is run by one person. I can imagine there’s been some traffic strain recently.
Maybe a little duct tape and a kick will get it going again!
What I see is a bit repetitive to say the least. Almost every shot is straight on. They'll need to create some camera-angle commands to diversify the cinematography. But for writers and film makers, this is very useful.
Agreed. I know the dev is still playing with the project, but it is a “garage project” of one person, haha, so I think of this as more “proof of concept”
But, agreed with your point! It is fun to play around with though!
Very interesting video- and the technology is amazing, but I do have a question- (an honest question about how you feel- this isn't meant as a way to upset anybody. I think AI will affect everything, not just art) -but as you promote the use of the tech for comic creation, what are your feelings about the fact that, at some point very soon, videos like this will also be created by AI? -replacing you and your channel, or at the very least, taking more of your traffic away and demonetizing you further? This is all uncharted territory, so Im not taking a stance here, Im just asking a question about how you feel about that possibility.
As far as personally replacing me? I don’t see it. The channel has largely been built on 3 things in my opinion:
1) obviously the tech itself, and covering the latest developments as they happen. I get beaten by Matt Wolfe on this all the time. I’m pretty sure that man never sleeps.
2) My personality and viewpoint, or…dad jokes, for lack of a better term? So, truth be told, I generally write out every video in full script form. It is very dry and very bland. But as I’m shooting, I’ll start improvising, and going on tangents or coming up with non sequiturs. AI just isn’t good at that.
3) I do a lot of hands on examples on the channel. That is one thing I kind of pride myself on and is something that I think separates me from a lot of the other channels in the space. I’m not calling anyone out or anything, but most channels will say: “hey; here’s a thing, isn’t it neat?” Whereas I tend to do things like: “Hey, here’s a thing, isn’t it neat? So I made a recreation of the famous scene from Titanic, only using the tool, I’ve turned Jack and Rose into rabbits.”
Even just in this video: most would probably say: Here’s Comic Factory, this is what it does…” but I’ll take the time to create 2 pages with it, and in doing so also talk about how awesome Mobius is.
So, no. I’m not worried about AI replacing me. There are too many elements that comprise “me” that any AI system just can’t factor. And that isn’t coming from a place of ego, I mean that about all of us.
Sure, there will be a sea of NPC AIs delivering the news soon enough, but I tend to think that people like connecting with people, so when someone runs across a video I made; they’ll come back.
…or they’ll roll their eyes and say: “ugh, this guy again?”
@@TheoreticallyMedia - I appreciate the thoughtful reply- the tools AI employs are mind blowing for being so new to the game, relatively speaking- and I hope that AI, indeed, helps people, but I fear that AI will start living "for" us instead of helping us live better for ourselves... I dont know if that makes sense, but its worth having meaningful discussions about, thanks:)
People like me people use this to make comics àre passionate ,them making something that they have wanted to make for a long time, even doing it in second means they will still cherish it
I im doing a comic/manga by hand and I'm making a reversed one with this ai to compare it to my hand made comic for ideas and advice
That’s excellent to hear, and exactly what this kind of technology excels at!
If you also do your own art, you might want to check out Prome as well: czcams.com/video/P1-VpUFHoEo/video.htmlsi=snUUe4WezzhV5Zd4
Not bad. I would love to see an AI tool that is able to accurately copy our original characters, and generate images with them by displaying them in a consistent way in each scene.
I think we’ll see something like that in the next three months. Fingers crossed here as well!
Some application of control net should be able to make that happen
Have a look at what Corridor Crew have been up to with "Rock, Paper, Scissors"
@@TheoreticallyMedia once we can have consistency set, maybe even cooler would be feeding an AI the comic/any comic, to produce a cartoon with voices and animation etc
You can do something similar one image at a time with 'reference' controlnet in automatic1111. Not always 100% but pretty close. AS for generating panels... yeah more people need to focus on that concept along with this.
Great find Tim, this will definitely help me storyboard an AI movie, I get stuck in la la land just marvelling over the outputs and lose track of the plot. Cheers 😀
Haha, I know the feeling! That's kind of what I love about this-- You can start with a rough idea and then play with Comic Factory to see where it goes!
@@TheoreticallyMedia great tip for the scene generation, i just got claude AI to write me 10 scenes based on the overview story I gave it, and its doing a great job.....its kinda like being in a band , where the front man is just singing for us to write songs and play music to....similarly ai chat, is a great for structure, even when it's clueless about scenarios ...Im really having fun being creatively critical about what makes sense, so that one can direct the art you want to see. Its funny how some people don;t even proofread the outputs of their Fully AI generated video content and just publish it. Great presenters, such as yourself, with a wealth of knowledge, sense of taste and creative outlook, will always have the HUMAN edge over lazy automated content, that doesn't even care to quality check its content...anyhoo, keep up the great work Tim.
I had no idea about Ideogram or Comic Factory. Can't wait to start playing around on both! Also, Alan Wake is such a great game, it's timeless so doesn't matter that your 12 years too late.
I love the episodic structure! I don’t have a ton of time to play games anymore, so the whole: ok, you’ve finished this “episode” is great. Also, the recaps, so I remember what the hell was going on!
Hoping the sequel follows the same format!
Comic factory does not keep character consistency dont pay
Pirate Software recently worked with the community to 'fix' one of the traffic bugs on youtube,
Thanks for this video. I wanted to ask since you mentioned but didn't go into detail: How have you solved the editing of the caption jibberish that AI attaches to the comic book illustrations?
I mean. The solve there is good old manual labor. You’ll have to go into Photoshop (or another image editor) and remove the original text captions via clone stamping (or maybe PS gen filll) and then manually redo it, either in PS or Adobe Illustrator.
Awesome. I see you are a fluent klingon speaker (9:16) XD
Oh, you'll love this little bit of Internet Lore: (Not mine, just an old Reddit post)
"At a scifi convention hotel party with a Klingon theme I was talking with a gentleman who spoke Klingon. He said it came in handy when he was on a business trip to Japan and got lost when he got off of at the wrong subway stop.
He tried speaking English and broken Japanese with other commuters but they were ignoring him.
Then he saw a Japanese man with a shirt that had Klingon writing on it, thinking "Oh what the hell" he approached the Japanese man and uttered a Klingon phrase. To the gentleman's delight the Japanese man muttered a Klingon phrase back and they both had a lively conversation in Klingon since they both shared the language. The gentleman was given the right directions and found his way again."
Love your video, thanks for sharing this info.
100%! So happy you enjoyed it!
oh man, I hope to see more styles with this comic thing, it's sweet!
Same! It’s a lot of fun!
That looks nice and all. And the sound of free is enticing until it's not free lol
Superb content as always, Tim. Thank you.
thank you so much! Working on a new version of this!
Thanks for making these videos !They have helped me so much and they have sparked my creativity and my imagination into a inferno!! ❤🔥🤘😎
Excellent to hear! I have a water bucket if it gets out of control, but let’s let it burn for a bit!!
@@TheoreticallyMedia Hell yeah!! But, you don't know me I'm like the energizer bunny and I just keep going and going and going......then I get burnt out. Ask my hubby. HE knows all to well. lol I have a hard time with having a balance with like streaming, content creating and LIFE OUTSIDE OF THE MATRIX. lol
Armorican reminds me 1950/60s British Eagle comics
For sure. EuroComics for sure-- Some speculated that it was based on Alan Moore's League of XGentlemen work, which in turn was riffing on those comics.
I loved messing around with Comic Factory. I'm not sure why but after an hour is crapped out but it has some mad potential.
Yeah, it’s a one man operation, so it kind of has a bit of a duct tape feel. But, when it works, it really works!
Great video and content mate,subbed !
Keep up the good work !
Excellent to hear!! Looking forward to seeing you in the comments!!
Thanx for the vid, I too am a huge fan of European Comix and was excited to see a shout out to Humanoids Publishing.
Did you know next year is it’s 50th anniversary? It’s kind of amazing they’ve been kicking around that long, and I know they’ve changed hands a number of times, but I think Humanoids longevity can totally be attributed to sticking to their guns and continuing to put out those weird and incredible titles that no other major publisher would ever touch!
where do you go to edit the dialog in ai comic factory?
wow, this going universal, like big bang theory, which happened about 15 bill years ago, now it's here, im ina state of confusion now, mayb going into the lv sphere will clear things up>
The idea is interesting...
if there was a way to train the generator .
I think I understand how to use it.
Technically, you could use the code to train a LORA, but that wasn’t the intended use case. But- it could be done.
Can you use your own character design to make comics with? That is consistent with the same characters and the same costumes. And every frame screen or was it just random like AI usually is?
that would be the greatest if you could get ai to duplicate your own style
@@kennycooper294 and people
THIS IS PERFECT! Thank you so much. I've been trying to find something to help me with storyboard images for my book -- just ways to keep me writing in the right direction.
Wasn't aware of Comic Factory. Looks awesome!
Definitely going to check it out soon.
It’s a TON of fun. Looking forward to seeing what you generate with it!
Great channel. The things AI can simplify and time reduce for one is insane!
Is taking the completed AI comics generated and posting them in various platforms ok in terms of copyright? Are they ok to post as comics on CZcams for example? I'm assuming the idea behind the work is our own?
Appreciate any help anyone can offer on this topic.
The ai program doesn't allow uploading of my own character modelsheets.
So it doesn't place my characters in the scene.
But what this can do is set up the layout, and then I can draw my characters within the layout. Saving time.
Yeah. It’s kind of what I like about it. It isn’t a “prompt and you have a magic page” it takes human work to make it happen. It’s an important aspect of these tools!
Very insightful and highly informative. Thank you!
Excellent to hear!
This is kind of horrifying for those who painstakingly craft comics.
Ideogram, looks good and free too, amazing. Thanks again.
I clicked on this video and then was listening to it in the background while working. Heard your voice and thought, wait. MetalJesus rocks has a second channel. I listened for another minute or so and thought, he sure does. I brought the video up to double check, but no, you are not MetalJesus. Your voice is sound exactly the same. Check it out if you haven't heard that already.
how did you keep your characters consistent looking, i keep getting different looking characters....
Hey Tim, I went straight over to subscribe because I really value your work. Thank you. Unfortunately I have a great sob story about the cancer and why I can't afford the big one- but I'm sure even my little bit will help. Strangely it didn't let me use Paypal - perhaps because I'm from Australia. Keep up the good work!
I’m so sorry to hear this! And don’t stress AT ALL. Also; so sorry for the late reply! For some reason you ended up in the spam folder! Ugh! But I’m glad I found it!
Here's my problem: the layout of a graphic novel is just as important as the content of each panel. You are showing us panels with cut off content. Instead, it should be a very hyper-stylized text-to-image service where you describe the story, the panel you need, an aspect ratio, and possibly some dialog for the super-lazy. Then we can take that content and do it right in Indesign. INSTEAD, this thing is trying to pump out four images at a time, clogging up the servers and attempting to do all the work at once instead of asking simple obvious questions like "Is this a two-page splash?" or "Is this part of a nine-panel page?" This, as created, is neither useful for web comics (wrong format) nor print comics (no structure).
I mean, yes and no. The thing with this is that it’s trying to make a comic page, but it has no instruction to create a narrative between the panels. So you end up with panels that look (stylistically) like they should match, but actually don’t.
But, if you generate 4 pages of them, you’ll find that you can cherry pick various panels to create a narrative. It might not be the one you originally intended, but that’s sort of the fun of it.
It’s why I bought up the Marvel Method. I’m sure Stan had to think on his feet for a few of those issues.
(Then again, Kirby and Ditko were so good, he probably didn’t have to do too much extra work!)
And there's always a winery or somewhere dude give it a break okay just as still experimental stuff did you think the wright brothers would have gotten anywhere if they were so chickenshit and wearing girl panties they took a chance in a dare
Great
American 1950 looks a lot like old aupwrman comics which i leally love
I think that particular model nailed the look! Totally agree!
can you try bring an old comic book to AI motion or video? that would be cool seeing the old comic books into video
You currently can! The results might be a bit wonky, though. There are a few videos on the channel where I go over those tools. Check out a recent one on a free video generator called Haiper! It was just a few videos back!
send me the link?@@TheoreticallyMedia
You're Awsome, Ive subscribed and liked... I like what I hear and see ...I'll be joining the journey n watching closely ❤
Welcome aboard!
Holy shit, I'm speechless. Been working for years on my first long form comic and this is truly disheartening.
Nah, man. You still have your comic. Nothing takes away from that. Nothing. Take it from a guy who has published 2 comics!
@@TheoreticallyMedia What the?!
@@giri.goyo_yt which part?
The difference is you've grown as an artist and a person while making that comic... AI teaches you nothing, it's as bad for your soul as Twitter is.
@@TheoreticallyMedia That you published 2 comics! Where are these comics?
This looks amazing, as a author of a graphic novel myself this could be an interesting tool to use that could be used to brainstorming new ideas.
I think this is a perfect use case!
I'm using it to pretty much pre-viz my novel. So characters looking the same thruout doesn't matter as much as perspectives, segments of the monster's spidery legs -- all sorts of great mood-setting stuff.
@@TheoreticallyMedia
The comic generator is a cool idea but the consistency is a real problem when you're looking at 4 panels on one page and the characters look different on each panel. One person may be wearing a blue suit on one panel, and a white suit on the next. For me the best solution is to pair stable diffusion with loras to individually generate each panel, and using inpainting to redo any inconsistencies.
Remember how shitty almost all AI art looked 12 months ago? Just wait.
@@robertdouble559 yeah. just 2 more weeks.
You have no idea how difficult it is to create a good comic page.
these examples are just random pictured put in frames. not a comic page.
@@robertdouble559they're literally describing how it's going to improve lol.
Ideogram is great but the biggest drawback is as for now you can't use images commercially as say in the terms of Service :(
I mean, I’m always the guy who ignores ToS. I tend to think it’s a CYA on their end, more than prevention on your end.
There isn’t really a quantitative method to tell if an image is AI generated. You can eyeball it, sure- but without seeing the source file, you’ll never really know. And then ultimately, there’s no way to tell which model you used as well.
Will we see it in a Coke or Nike ad? Nope. But, for your own personal projects? I say whatever, go for it. If you ever create an empire that’s as big as Coke or Nike? Well, that’ll be a worthy problem to have!
@@TheoreticallyMedia Sure, AI does have its benefits, but it's clearly trained on other people's art, their style, and frankly, copyrighted work. So by all means, "go for it" but also mark somewhere that it's AI art and not your organic originally drawn/painted art. There has to be some ethical guidelines for this unprecidented flood of art AI platforms. The Renessaince masters are turning in their graves! Now, if people want to pass AI art as "their own" that's between them and their conscience, and how you stated "you'll never really know" if an image is AI generated. To those that sneak this into manifested reality, the good thing (from dedicated artist's perpectives') is that, sure, we will never really know, but also the AI art creators passing these "works" as their "art" will know one thing for sure- and that's that they can't draw and need someone else to do the work for them so they can just slap their name on it. Except, the "someone" is a program, most likely written by someone of the same caliber of short comings in one area. Draw your own stuff, people, or at least label that it's AI, like a decent human collaborating creator would do in the indicia or credits of any comic book.
@@TheoreticallyMedia EDUT: btw, it's nothing personal against you, because I truly enjoy your chennel, and have learned a lot. Mostly things others are doing, but you have a friendlym, straightforward way of explaining that gets to the point and is easy to follow.
That aside, it's just a matter of time before there'll be more AI/fake art than real art. Most proper artists using Ai are blind to what's coming, and are just contributing to their own demise, just as much as the coders of these art AIs are contributing to AI out-competing artists. Prompt writing is an art, some might say. But prompt writers are not artists, and your whole "you'll never really know, and F it go for it" approach to this, is part of the same mentality every person saying some AI-generated image is their own "artwork," Also, "for your own personal projects" is a moot point if people are not disclosing they used AI; ipso facto, not made by you.
@@TheoreticallyMedia It's hardly CYA, it's that legally the generated work cannot be copyrighted. The AI creating it can never hold a copyright to transfer to whoever prompts it.
Anyone trying to use it commercially is open to having their work stolen. Just like all these AIs are stealing from actual artists.
Oh yeah, this style is 'Moebius'-like. I wonder how that happened?
But yeah, people talk about AI as if it's not just outright theft.
I happen to make content for comic book and related topics so this could come in handy.
I’m thinking of even turning that into an actual service.
Thanks for sharing :)
If you so mainstream stuff; it seems to know the names of the major characters, Batman/Flash etc…obscure X-men? Probably not!
wow this once again was amazing, good find with the ideogram and comic factory. you're like the AI Indiana Jones lol.
Ha! I’ll try not to pull a Crystal Skull at any point!
lol, i really appreciate your channel and hard work. once again from your honest subscriber. @@TheoreticallyMedia
The logos sound Klingon LOL "TREPAKK!"
I don’t know if you ever heard this story, but it’s pretty great. So, this American businessman (nerdy Star Trek guy) is in Japan. Decides to go see the countryside, but quickly gets lost. He doesn’t speak Japanese, and can’t figure out the train system.
Then he sees a kid wearing a tee-shirt that says “I do speak Klingon” in Klingon!
Our American Businessman, also speaks Klingon! So the two have a conversation in freaking Klingon about how to get back to the city!
So amazing.
can u please tell how am i going to save it and make more pages from it
I needed information like this because AI in this space is somewhat new. I also subscribed to your channel as my first step in supporting you. Your type of work can bring more people into this industry who were reluctant due to limited budgets and staffing.
Excellent to hear! There’s a lot of content on the channel about the various platforms, and it can get a little overwhelming, so please feel free to reach out on the Discord if you have questions!
The hard part seems to be getting the exact same character/ship replicated in different poses and situations.
Yeah, my current trick with all of these tools is to use very basic character designs: “a woman with red hair in a black dress” or that sort of thing.
That will usually get you a relatively consistent character that you can modify with face swap tools, or Photoshop.
That said; I think we’re only a few months away from seeing consistent characters in all these models.
Also the most important part.
@@ronamick3352 Indeed. I think we're only a few months away from that being a standard feature with all of these image generators though.
@@TheoreticallyMedia If only there were an option to select characters, settings, objects, and design details on materials as defaults for a consistent narrative, not just the style. And a way to save those settings to carry over into later projects.
I don’t want artists and writers to be put out of business, and I don’t want the value of human art that people worked hard to be thought as nothing
I agree, and they don’t have to. Keep supporting the artists you love and support bookstores.
Just because there’s a new thing doesn’t mean the old one is going away.
I had tried to hire people they had attitudes did things wrong this is what they get
@@nftshiller8485 I’m sorry you went through that but that’s no reason to what hell on everyone. If an Italian guy bullies you are you going to wish bad on me too?
@@TheBookRant i have tried to work with a lot of different people online and the prices were just going higher and higher some were too good to work on my projects this is an awakening this does not put you out of business you work is still needed but for simple things people can use ai not wish bad anything on you
@@nftshiller8485 people aren’t going to use ai for simple. They use it for the whole dang thing. Theres just no point when used in that way.
What a lovely video and thank you for bringing Comic Factory to my attention! It's a great idea and I managed to get some lovely 1950's style panels out of it...
I'm on my iPad and discovered that if I long-pressed on each of the panels, I could drag them up one-at-a-time to another tab to be able to download the full-sized image. Each image is 1024 pixels on the longest side and sometimes contains much more 'image' than appears in each of the comic frames.
I also could drag each panel directly into the Photos App on my iPad with the same result - full size images! I haven't tried it on my PC so not sure if it works on a desktop, but it's great on an iPad!
This might help you avoid the 'cutting and pasting' that you mentioned in your excellent video and use the full-sized images directly in your comics.
Cheers!
Oh, no joke! That’s awesome to learn! Hmmm, maybe it’s time to pick up an iPad, since my kids killed my last one.
Just need to find a spot to hide it…
Big comic book fan breathlessly promoting AI that wants to put comic book artists out of business, while complaining that a computer algorithm is hurting his revenue. Am I missing something?
Haha, that's a solid take. Look, I don't think AI is going to put comic book artists out of business...in the US, the direct market and comic book publishers are doing that job on their own. If anything, I think this just allows artists to accomplish more, and not grind themselves into the ground to produce one page-- or gives someone who has always dreamed of doing a comic, a shot at making one without having to break the bank hiring an artist, inker, colorist, letterer, and then foot the bill for printing.
They're tools. Artists can use them to make amazing stuff, non-artists can play with them to make...honestly, stuff that will probably be sub-par and no one will want to read anyhow.
As a colorist, I don't agree with this. The industry is only interested in making money, especially big companies. This is a huge blow to honest artists. soon there will be more "Ai Art" than real ones. and the algorithm will make it very difficult for people to find the REAL ARTIST and their art. Even though independent artists have great works to share...
@@susysannIf an artist can not be more creative than a computer, then perhaps art is not the right career for them to begin with.
Yeah, 1 has absolutely nothing to do with the other🙄
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No. Because the final decision rests with audiences. If you think audiences are all highly discerning, 'cost is of no importance' types, then please let me know where these people are.
amazing how far technology has come, what used to take years of experience can now be done by pressing a button. awesome! guess it sucks for those who learned a skill thats now obselete, lool.
This is so cool.
Congratulations 🎉
Amorican has a steampunk vibe to it
Agreed! Minus the super sepia tones!
I have had a good play with Comic Factory and have mainly used it as an image generator. Character consistency is the biggest issue, but as a single image generator it's good. I put together a comic book and video of the comic book for a music video (czcams.com/video/dpjtO17okKo/video.html) which I'm happy with. It did require a bit of editing and fixing up and I did all the layouts and text myself. Despite all the current limitations, some of the images are excellent.
Excelent review. The APP still have bugs and it is not possible to repeat the character.
I do think that’s coming to all these various platforms in a few months. Someone is going to crack that open and then they’ll all follow!
It’d be great if comic factory the hands/fingers can drawn out the hands. They are either nothing,?- scribble or warped out nubs. I wonder why that is?
wow, finally comic book with other styles!
I had seen one that was limited to manga style.
Thanks a lot for the tips!
The manga style is for sure the most popular, as it obviously has the most widespread reach in terms of global reading…but, I agree: I’m really happy this features a lot of the European style that often get overlooked!
If you learn to draw....
The comic book generator is so interesting. It's a shame you can't lock Midjourney to a character / style set so you can generate imagery with specific characters and outfits etc. I'd love to make a comic out of my feature screenplay just to sell it in.
MJ has indicated that they plan to included "Storytelling" features at some point-- so I think they're working on just that! Fingers crossed!
Oh crap that might be me out a job hahahaha @@TheoreticallyMedia
MJ has a new inpainting feature too, so maybe with enough prompting we can get more of the same character (I know I did panels in the past, but it did lose the plot fast without an easy way to fix small things).
@@MYFAVORITES5 I think that’s a pretty ideal use of the Inpainting feature, and one that I do want to dig into at some point!
I almost like this platform because it’s uncontrolled. It almost feels like working with a stubborn artist that you have to work around!
Haha@@TheoreticallyMedia You said fingers!
Can I upload figures I invent myself? And use them as a basic figure?
There’s actually a better tool for that! Going to be covering that one in about a week! Stay tuned!
I think this is cool for the hobbyist who wants to make a comic but isn’t a great artist. The human element is still needed for it to work.
Agreed. I think it’s a good stepping stone if you think you might be getting the comic bug. And I think it’s a fun thing to play with if you actually know what you’re doing. As it stands: I think you can produce a cool mini comic with it, but nothing like a 800 page graphic novel.
…but I guess that’s for right now. We’ll see in a few months where we are!
AI. NEEDS TO BE GONE NOT ROLL OVER AND MAKE SPACE FOR THE DEVIL...
What does the prompt look like for a page like that?
Is it doing consistent characters?
It CAN, if provided with LORAs, which the base model does not have. That said; it is open source, so perhaps someone will pick up the mantle and run with it?
Wow
I can't get it to keep the same car on the screen in each image. So you get a blue car which is then a red different car.
New to the channel. This is very cool. Thanks for sharing. 😊
Welcome aboard!
After ai comic generation can we get copyright and publish in webcomic, bilibili.. Etc?
So, to be honest: in my super non legal opinion, sure.
It’s part of a larger rant I’m brewing, there’s obviously a big fight brewing about copyright etc, but ultimately it doesn’t matter to you and I. Legal teams are going to duke it out, and I’m sure it’ll make its way to the highest courts. But-
A) This is just US law. Japan and other countries have already decided that Ai art is completely fine.
B) this is a legal issue. You’re a creator. Don’t let paperwork stand in the way of you making stuff. Think of early hip hop/rap. I mean, the EARLY stuff: those artists didn’t care that they were looping copyrighted records. They were just creating. Do that.
Or…maybe become an old school rapper? I don’t know, how’s your flow?
You just cannot complain if someone else generates the same thing.
@@mf-- that is 100% true. Although I think the likelihood is fairly low. Unless you were say, doing a Batman comic, which would be fanfiction anyhow.
I suppose if you had a bland idea like “Harry Potter, but they’re Cats” someone could “copy” you, but I also tend to think that idea wouldn’t gain much traction.
Quality storytelling will hold an audience, nothing more.
Does it let you create custom characters?
Not yet-- but Julian has indicated that someone can take the code and train a LORA, and then: Yes-- you would have that!
My fear of AI is not what it can do now but in a few years. Once they figure out a way of connecting narrative, anatomy, light, mood etc... every single human archetype, premise or story will be made available on demand.
True. But in a few years all of that can be applied far beyond art. Honestly, as the guy that makes these videos, I keep saying: we need to have serious discussions about UBI. Or some sort of society safety net.
@@TheoreticallyMedia A UBI isn't going to give anyone a sense of meaning and purpose in their redundant lives.
@@Pneumanon Correct. That's not what its supposed to do. Meaning and Purpose is up to the individual.
@@TheoreticallyMedia The individual doesn't exist in isolation. After family, career is the most common place that people find a sense of meaning and purpose in their lives. By being productive in their work, through career progression and through the status that income provides, people derive a huge amount of their sense of intrinsic value. Without avenues to experience a sense of meaning in their lives- in ways that are meaningful to them- people become psychologically sick.
If AI replaces human labor on a broad enough scale to justify discussion about a UBI, then vast numbers of people will be deprived of one of the key methods by which people experience meaning. We will be living in a society much more sick than it already is.
The idea of a UBI is often given as a hand-wave solution to the ramifications of AI, but that's usually all it is- an idea. Not a particularly well thought-out one as far as I have seen.
I think there needs to be a “100% Made by Humans” label (like “Made in America” and so on) that can be applied to art that is created without use of AI. That way those of us who want to support human artists can do so. I’m very suspicious of AI and don’t particularly like it, but we’re not going to get this genie back in the bottle.
why are those hilarious writings are really look a like my 4yr old trying to creatively goofy. really not a joke!
The text balloons? Yeah- I mean, it’s bad even from an AI perspective. That said, I think it’s an easy fix to either letter over them in Photoshop, or just wipe them out.
To fully answer your question though: AI image generators don’t “read” they just view letters as pictures, so they garble it up pretty badly. They’d probably do better with hieroglyphics!
nice
It’s a fun little tool that I think has a lot of potential! Thanks for the comment!!
Cool this useful small comic make and make new way comic i try it good but nead some work
Great video and thanks so much for sharing! Holy crap this is amazing
Does anyone know, If it is free for commercial use? Thanks and greetings from Hamburg Germany.
If I had do that with a AI and then use that to make a 3D movie with that would be great for me
Check out the latest video on the channel to see what that might look like! Literally the best AI 3d animated style film I’ve seen to date!
nice video will check Comic Factory right away!
It's so good! Even when it isn't hitting exactly what you want it to, the results are still stunning!
I really like the segment about the AI comic book. I’m m currently doing a video comic book series and trying to get the right images sometimes is like trying to get a cat to fetch a ball after throwing it.
For super specific stuff like that, you might want to try generating in SD or Midjourney. Try generating a page in Comic Factory for a style reference, and then use that as an image reference in one of the more dedicated Ai image generators! Best of both worlds there!
@@TheoreticallyMedia good idea. Thanks
... What about drawing ?
@@rpzseries-2256 The challenge is using AI for the images. It’s easy to draw or have an illustrator. Using AI, which can be unpredictable sometimes makes it so you have to change the story based on images, sometimes. This also happened with Kirby and Marvel. Not comparing
I went to the comic factory site, it says you can use it once before registering....When I tried to sign up, it said "hugging face refuses to connect"....Ummmm okay.
I've been wanting to do this with the intent of selling a fully realized comic book online. Is that possible?
It’s possible. There might be some argument over copyright etc if you disclose that it is AI generated, but the truth is: that fight is ongoing and besides that, many counties have already OK’d data training…sooo.
That said: what you’ll quickly find is that making it (which is still going to be challenging) isn’t the hard part. Getting people to read it, and/or buy it? That’s the tough part.
@@TheoreticallyMedia Good to know! Thanks. I think if the subject matter (story, characters, etc) grabs people's attention enough it might work, depends what it's about I guess, that's the fun part to work with. Let's see what happens!
What is that natural finish guitar?
Ha, so that is a 1980s Peavey Horizon 2. Made in the US, swamp ash (heavy!) I love it-- 24 fret super strat, with a weird system on the tone control: Kick the tone up to 10 and it is a single coil, bring it down to 7 and it's a humbucker. Oh, and it has a out of phase switch too.
Just a weird and awesome guitar I got lucky with on Facebook Marketplace!
Cool, maybe we can hear you play ot some time too.
@@zakblackhawk204 funny enough, you hear it all the time! All the background music in my video is written/recorded/performed by me!
Boy I can't wait until AI is making all of our art and music and poetry and writing all our books. All this while we lug rocks from one pile to another for the corporate overlords that own the AI.
Never knew about that Lee bait and switch move there. Did Stan ever hang with Walt? Cuz… At any rate, when Stable D first came out in collab I was all over that and created a strange, abstract paneled comic. This just makes me want to transfer those prompts over to Comic Factory! Damn you, Tim! And I was just partitioning myself so well between the myriad other models! ;)
Haha! Sorry! I know how it feels! There’s a point I think- it’s almost like guitars for me. You can buy all the guitars, amps, recording software, pedals etc. But at some point you have to say: “this is what I’m working with” and just do it,
Tougher with AI tools, since they come out so quickly and there is SO much cool stuff they do!
On the Stan front? Yeah, it’s a difficult situation to square. On the one hand, he screwed over a lot of artists, but on the other, by making himself the “voice” of Marvel in the early days- he might have been responsible for its success.
There’s two sides to everything, of course, and Stan can easily be portrayed as the villain (I’ve met many that consider him such), but honestly at the time, comics were a disposable trash medium that didn’t make a lot of money. None of those guys could have ever predicted that their work was going to be worth billions 50 years later!
@@TheoreticallyMedia All that is true. You're a fair guy and see all sides. Yes. The greats like James Brown, Paul McCartney and Prince all had similar strategies. Ultimately they were the hardest working, auteur types so they had to get their visions out the quickest and best way possible.
On the equipment front, when it's free it's even MORE tempting!
@@giri.goyo_yt yup! Put up or shut up time! Except that time is everyday!
thank you a lot! I needed exactly that! 🤩
Comic books are gonna have no weight after this
I'm gonna be completely real here-- and this is coming from a pretty big fan of the medium, but honesty: Do they even have any weight now?
They don’t because It’s not real people that love it doing it. The A.I will just flood the marked with more of the same, plus take away the joy of the art.
@@theapexfighter8741 but AI comics haven’t even hit the marketplace yet, and most comic stores, and comic sales in general are way down. At least in the US market. Basically, the Superhero films really choked out the direct market, and the price point ($4 a book) means that only hardcore fans are still buying them.