Here’s a Midjourney V7 style reference you should check out:
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This style is cinematic character illustration with expressive sketch linework.
It blends modern animation aesthetics (Pixar and anime influence) with editorial illustration and concept art sensibilities.
Big, expressive eyes, subtle facial acting, and slightly exaggerated proportions make every character feel alive.
@EHuanglu Even if Yo want to make a sensation, please kindly note evangelion is japan - not hollywood. N u know who else is cooked? You can be 10x more sensational - bollywood, chinawood, koreawood, japanwood, thaiwood, britwood. And xxxwood else.
@thedorbrothers not saying its not amazing (AI-wise), but exactly why $300 million dollars is so we save ourselves from keyboard warrior movies producing mindless bullshit that will litter the internet. Expensive is good, makes people careful and think about things. Not mindless cheap trash
Holy shit... everyone's been prompting LLMs wrong and it's costing them 66% of the model's creative potential.
Stanford + Northeastern dropped a paper that exposes why ChatGPT keeps giving you the same boring answer.
The fix is so simple it's embarrassing:
Did you know C.S. Lewis predicted the modern obsession with “being nice” would destroy the soul?
In The Abolition of Man, Lewis argues that when a society stops believing in objective virtue, it doesn’t become tolerant… it becomes manipulable.
He calls the result “men without chests.”
People with appetites and intellects, but no courage, no honor, no trained moral instincts. They can calculate everything and defend nothing.
Lewis saw that once we reject inherited moral law, we don’t become free. We become raw material… easily shaped by propaganda, pleasure, and fear.
Modern man prides himself on compassion while quietly surrendering every standard that once gave compassion meaning.
Lewis’s insight is brutal: a civilization that educates clever cowards will eventually be ruled by tyrants or technicians.
Because when nothing is worth dying for, everything becomes negotiable… including human dignity.
Elon Musk on his advice for young people:
"Try to be useful. Do things that are useful to your fellow human beings, to the world. It's very hard to be useful. Very hard."
Elon's core philosophy comes down to one question.
As he puts it:
"Are you contributing more than you consume? Can you try to have a positive net contribution to society? I think that's the thing to aim for. Not to try to be a leader for the sake of being a leader or whatever."
He continues:
"A lot of times the people you want as leaders are the people who don't want to be leaders. If you live a useful life, that is a good life, a life worth having lived."
On how to become useful:
"Read a lot of books. Just read. Try to ingest as much information as you can and try to develop a good general knowledge. Try to learn a little about a lot of things because you might not know what you're really interested in if you aren't doing peripheral exploration of the knowledge landscape."
His approach? Read broadly:
"As a kid, I read through the encyclopedia. That's pretty helpful. Things I didn't even know existed. Maybe read through the condensed version of the Encyclopedia Britannica. You can always skip subjects—read a few paragraphs and if you're not interested, just jump to the next one."
Then find the overlap:
"Try to find something where there's an overlap of your talents and what you're interested in. You want a good combination of things that you're inherently good at, but you also like doing."
On mindset:
"Make sure you don't have a zero-sum mindset. If you have a zero-sum mindset, then the only way to get ahead is by taking things from others. But the pie is not fixed. The economic pie has grown dramatically over time. Work on adding to the economic pie. Create more than you consume."
Contribution beats competition.
Glad everyone enjoyed my Zelda trailer.
Comments were either:
"this is straight ass"
"i am bricked up rn"
That's the internet.
If you want to learn how to make these, here's the full process in 80 seconds 💪🏼
@elonmusk Jesus lived a purposeful life within his 33 years of life. He gave everything He had for us, solving the biggest problem of humanity — a broken relationship with God. Humanity have tried to replace it with careers, goals etc. Nothing can replace a relationship with the true God
It is officially game OVER!
Wan Animate (fully open source) is definitely a SOTA model.
The fidelity of the image is like nothing I have seen so far.
The relight LoRA does a phenomenal job as well with enhancing environmental lighting & integration.
What’s missing?