▲ 2 r/aicomicmakers
My first AI comic book
Here’s a few pages from my first jab at a comic. This is based on a film I shot in 2008, being reimagined as a golden age comic book.
u/CliffhangerProdInc — 8 hours ago
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▲ 2 r/aiwars
So, I've worked on three full AI Comic Books and am now doing a fourth. I released one but haven't released the others yet. One of them I will, one I won't, and the third is up in the air.
Why am I doing them with AI tools instead of "just picking up a pencil"? Because I can't actually draw. I can visualize what the stories look like but I can't draw them.
Hire an artist you may say. I do that already for other things. I'm a micro budget filmmaker and I pay someone quite a lot to do my posters. He does good work but has missed deadlines and doesn't always give me exactly what I described to him. I'll still use him, but I'll temper my expectations.
AI? That gives me a certain level of control. I tell it about the image in my head. If it doesn't give me what I'm looking for, I can make it do it again. And again. And again. Until it matches what I'm thinking. I can't do that with a human artist nor could I reasonably afford to.
There's a practical thing here, too. I can tell AI the style I want and get that precise (or a fairly close approximation) style. If I tell an artist, do this comic book in the style of a Golden Age action comic, are they even going to know what that is to duplicate it? Possibly, but not guaranteed.
My first comic book was intended to be a Golden Age adaptation of a film I made in 2008. I couldn't do that film to look like it took place back in the 1940s, so the comic is my twist on that. I did that initially for my own amusement. I'm very curious what my films would look like had they been done in earlier decades (though realistically, they couldn't be done then even if I could hop in a time machine and go back to 1944 and make them). The actors from that film encouraged me to release the comic book. THEY liked it. I'm continuing that series.
The second one is a twisted sci-fi idea that I won't even write as a movie script. I can't do it for a number of reasons, including the fact that it involves a dystopian 1953. But as a comic for my own amusement, it's been fun to put together.
The current one is based off a TTRPG I used to play with a friend of mine who passed away 15 years ago. It, too, is being envisioned as a Golden Age book. The first issue has my masked vigilante hero punching out Nazis. Will I release it? Maybe.
I'm not trying to take jobs away. Like I said, I'll continue to use my guy to design my posters. But I am trying to breathe life into something that I couldn't otherwise do. And yes, AI is helping me do that.
u/CliffhangerProdInc — 7 days ago
▲ 11 r/DefendingAIArt
I used to play a TTRPG of Marvel SuperHeroes with a friend of mine who passed away in 2011. One of the "comics" we did was this one, with stories taking place in the 40s, 60s, and modern era. Fifteen years after his passing, I'm finally getting to see what one of the comics would look like.
Here's the thing: I can't draw to save my soul. But AI is allowing me to visualize something that's been tucked away in my brain for decades. If I could do this myself, I would. But I also don't think there's anything too wrong with what I'm doing here. Especially since I'm very much guiding the story. I'm telling the AI what to do and making it do it again and again until it gets it right. I'm having it generate character sheets so it can consistently create the characters on the page. And most importantly, I'm making it do what I want it to. And on my schedule.
Yes, I can (and do) hire human artists for certain things. But these comic books? I want absolute control over them and strangely, I pretty well get that with AI. Not all of them will be for public consumption. I'm working on one that is strictly for my entertainment.
So, come at me if you must but understand that I consider myself as much the creator of these comics as if I were to actually draw them myself. Which I can't.
u/CliffhangerProdInc — 7 days ago
▲ 1 r/generativeAI
I used to play a TTRPG of Marvel SuperHeroes with a friend of mine who passed away in 2011. One of the "comics" we did was this one, with stories taking place in the 40s, 60s, and modern era. Fifteen years after his passing, I'm finally getting to see what one of the comics would look like.
u/CliffhangerProdInc — 7 days ago