For this week’s assignment, I decided to play with Runway.
- Describe the results of working with the tool, do they match your expectations?
the results were definitely stunning, but only after playing around with the words quiet a bit. I had a difficult time actually articulating what I wanted in words, and I found myself using Lexica as a tool to guide me through the process. Typically, I would search a key word on Lexica, browse through the images, click on the one that I found to my liking, and look at the prompt that that specific image has. Then, I would paste it onto runway and tweak the words so it fits to what I am looking for.
- Can you “break” the tool? In other words, use it in a way that it was intended for and what kinds of results do you get?
I’m not sure if this would count as me ‘breaking’ the tool, but I did have instances of runway not showing me the results because it was against the guidelines. This happened when I used the words ‘corpses laying on the ground.’ I think this is similar to there being a lot of nudity when someone types words like “anime girl.”
Another instance that I’ve been reading a lot about is ‘arts’ being stolen due to ai generative art. On twitter, I’ve read tweets from digital artists asking people to not use their art styles. Regardless of this plea, a lot of artists’ styles have been copied with AI art, which I think is an interesting and heated discussion that needs to be solved out.
- Can you find any pro tips in terms of prompt engineering? Can you change your prompt to make the generated results better?
As mentioned in the beginning, using Lexcia as a starting point was a great help. The following are some key words that I found to be helpful when I was trying Runway:
- highly detailed
- sharp point
- painted by (wanted artist)
- with colors like (colors that I want)
- dimly lit (or any kind of words to indicate the lighting)
- any atmospheric words like:
- ghostsly
- gothic
- empty
- scary
- victorian
- haunted
These words were obviously suited to my specific search. I was looking to have a inside picture of a haunted victorian doll-house.
The results are the following:
The prompt that I used is this:
“Large gothic victorian house hall with large chandeliers under the ceiling, broken victorian cups on the ground, huge speakers on the ground, and a throne in the middleon each side of the throne, horror movie, cyber-punk, psychidelic moonlight, artstation, detailed, colorful, futuristic, with pink color”
or some sort of a variation from this prompt.
I am still tweaking words so I can get the one picture that I like to use as a background for one of my performances.