The Generating of Rats
Using MidJourney to generate monsters’ images for
use in books. Prompts and post processing.
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Hi
everyone,
A while ago, I decided to try using AI art generators
to create monsters for my RealRPG series In the System.
To
illustrate it, I’d like to show you how I came up with the images of rats -
especially because considerable parts of books 4 and 5 are set in the Dungeon
which is their natural habitat. I used MidJourney’s $60 subscription plan which
guarantees certain usage rights, including commercial use.
My books have this concept of Evolution similar to
that of Pokémons - but unlike theirs, it doesn’t occur instantly. My rats have
to live and hunt in order to accumulate experience until they can evolve into
new stronger animals. For that reason, I had to come up with low-level rock
rats (F-rank), rat wolves (E-rank), rat kings and queens (D-rank) and finally,
the Rat Emperor or Empress (C-rank). So I basically needed 4 images in total,
which sounded like an easy task (spoiler: I ended up with 7). Especially seeing
as I’d already dabbled in generating three different types of monkeys, and
everything had gone quite smoothly then. This time, however, I must have
underestimated the challenge I was facing.
