Outer Worlds: Using - sref in Midjourney 6 to craft a story
AI Art continues its march across the creative world. You can generate awesome original images using prompts, opening up new art possibilities. Midjourney is the leading AI Art generator and an amazing tool.
Today, I will share one amazing way to use the latest parameter released by Midjourney: - sref random
What is the parameter - sref random?
You can use - sref random to randomly select a style from an abstract range that Midjourney knows how to generate.
Read that again. Now you can use styles that Midjourney knows how to generate. And be very good at it.
And that, my friends, is a good thing.
The style reference seed it applies adapts to everything you throw at it. It absorbs all the modifiers, all the things in your prompt, and integrates them into the overall aesthetic.
Let's see it in action.
Find a style you love
First things first. There are a lot of reference seeds. So you need to pick one you like. Here, we are going with the awesome sref 2318775853.
It may not seem much. But it's awesome.
I'm going to make a sci-fi story with this reference seed. Let's start with futuristic locations:
Prompt: A crowded landscape with an angular, geometric architectural structure made of concrete blocks that form sharp angles and strange shapes, tiny windows. Highly urbanized, roads and ramps, flying starships, with a slight mist in front. Rendered in Octane with an Unreal Engine concept art style in the style of cyberpunk. - v 6.0 - ar 16:9 - sref 2318775853
Let's try to find a protagonist of our story:
Prompt: A lady from outer space with red eyes wears a scarf, in the style of michal karcz, conceptual light sculptures, close-up, josan gonzalez, neoclassical sculptures, neon-infused digitalism, henry raeburn neon urban background, depth of field - ar 16:9 - stylize 1000 - v 6.0 - sref 2318775853
Let's test some spaceships:
Prompt: High contrast, A huge space ship is landing in the city amid a misty atmosphere, with people walking around in a cyberpunk style depicted in chiaroscuro in the scifi illustration's high-contrast dark art style as high resolution concept art. - ar 16:9 - stylize 1000 - v 6.0 - sref 2318775853
Now, some Mechs:
Prompt: 16k, Red Digital Cinema Camera, 2030s America. film still, a scene from a American VFX movie from the 2030s. Giant kaiju with a mechanical body in bay port, People running away, alien mountain in the distance - ar 16:9 - stylize 1000 - v 6.0 - sref 2318775853
There is a downside to this style: It enjoys contrasted silhouettes. They look awesome, but sometimes you just want details.
Prompt: WW2 style nuclear powered mech on the battlefield, meticulous military detail, explosions, combat, battlefield, chaos, octane 3d rendered smoke fog and filtered light, minimalist mecha design small realistic image - v 6.0 - ar 16:9 - sref 2318775853
Prompt: Frontal photograph of a young woman with blue eyes and long flowing Anime hair, wearing futuristic cyberpunk glasses with display info and black high-tech looking at the camera in front of neon signs on Tokyo streets. frontal lightning. Digital display panels. Light blue tones, Cybernetic details, mist, depth of field, morning light - v 6.0 - ar 16:9 - sref 2318775853