TLDR;
This video explores the impact of single-word prompts on Midjourney V5, testing 25 words with complex meanings across various subjects like landscapes, wildlife, macro, cityscapes, interiors, architecture, portraits, fantasy, and sci-fi. The experiment aims to identify words that significantly alter the default aesthetics and generate unique visual styles.
- Single-word prompts can dramatically influence the aesthetic of generated images in Midjourney V5.
- Certain words consistently produce specific styles or themes across different subject categories.
- The combination of single words with subject keywords yields diverse and often unexpected results.
Introduction [0:00]
The creator experiments with AI art using Midjourney V5, testing single-word prompts to see how they affect the generated images' aesthetics. The idea is to use words with complex meanings to transform the default styles of Midjourney across different subjects. The creator selected 25 words and combined them with subject keywords like landscape, wildlife, and macro to observe the changes.
Default Styles [0:59]
By default, Midjourney V5 generates images with distinct styles depending on the subject. Landscapes often have a mix of digital painting and drawing styles, wildlife appears very photographic and photorealistic, and macro images also look photographic. All default images tend to have borders and signature artifacts.
Reference Sets [1:20]
The creator used several reference sets to showcase different environments and subjects. These include cityscapes, interiors, architecture, portraits, fantasy, and sci-fi. The goal was to provide a varied range of visual contexts for testing the single-word prompts.
Ethereal [2:18]
The word "ethereal," meaning delicate and light with a heavenly quality, adds a misty and light-filled aesthetic to nature images. For architecture, it introduces a misty feel, while cityscapes become futuristic and otherworldly. Portraits and fantasy images depict angelic figures, and sci-fi generates concept art.
Melancholy [3:16]
"Melancholy," evoking sadness and longing, produces a wide variety of sad-looking images, ranging from historical paintings to anime and photography. City images appear cold and rainy, interiors look depressing, and architecture shows gray exteriors. Fantasy images combine well with the prompt, while sci-fi struggles with additional text.
Serendipity [4:35]
"Serendipity," meaning chance occurrences in a happy way, results in images that are somewhat random but aesthetically pleasing. Nature themes appear photographic, cityscapes show diverse urban views, interiors depict restaurants and cafes, and architecture features nice-looking buildings. Fantasy images include bubbles, and sci-fi resembles movie posters.
Inscrutable [5:44]
"Inscrutable," meaning difficult to understand, generates images with a lot of text, indicating Midjourney's struggle with the concept. Nature images are grassy and sharp, interiors resemble camper or boat interiors, and architecture produces a desired style. Cityscapes are chaotic, portraits are photographs of men, fantasy goes the way of cards, and sci-fi creates movie posters.
Ephemeral [7:01]
"Ephemeral," meaning lasting for a short time, mutes the colors in nature, architecture, and city images, making them look like drawings or black and white photographs. Interior images show hanging curtains or abandoned places. Fantasy images are dreamy and flowy with butterflies, and sci-fi brings atmospheric concept art.
Synchronicity [7:55]
"Synchronicity," the simultaneous occurrence of meaningful events, gives a special aesthetic, though many images contain text. Landscape images are vertically mirrored, wildlife and macro show duality with paired animals, and cityscapes have kaleidoscopic mirroring. Interiors look distinct, architecture mirrors buildings in the sky, and portraits and fantasy bring out the time element. Sci-fi creates movie posters.
Diaphanous [9:15]
"Diaphanous," meaning light, delicate, and translucent, strongly alters the images. Nature images have a distinct look, with wildlife appearing caught in webs and macro having a translucent quality. Cityscapes look like earthquake-prone areas, interiors have white and flowy curtains, and architecture features ornate lines. Portraits are black and white and old-fashioned, while fantasy images have beautiful flowy dresses and sci-fi has orbs.
Quixotic [11:00]
"Quixotic," meaning idealistic and impractical, produces quirky images with red tones and text. Macro looks normal, wildlife has animals stacked together, and landscapes are abstract. Cityscapes are chaotic, interiors depict bar seatings, and architecture is nice. Portraits, fantasy, and sci-fi have varied styles, though with text artifacts.
Nebulous [12:23]
"Nebulous," resembling a nebula, gives images a space-like appearance. Landscapes and wildlife feature starry night skies, macro images look otherworldly, and cityscapes have a sci-fi look with night skies. Interiors are futuristic, architecture is cloudy, and portraits and fantasy lean on space themes. Sci-fi depicts spaceships.
Serenity [13:28]
"Serenity," meaning calmness and peacefulness, often gives images an Asian theme with calm water. Landscapes are waterscapes, wildlife enjoys swimming, and macro images have water droplets. Architecture-related themes also show water and soft lighting. Fantasy images have water and mist, and sci-fi looks like a movie or TV show.
Gargantuan [14:29]
"Gargantuan," meaning extremely large, captures the meaning with enormous monsters or creatures, often in a cartoony style. Landscapes depict tall cliffs, animals look huge, and macro is an odd combination of something very small depicted as very big. City images are fantasy-like, interiors are old buildings, and architecture features tall apartment buildings. Portraits are drawings of large men, and fantasy and sci-fi give concept art of enormous monsters and robots.
Luminous [15:47]
"Luminous," meaning emitting light, combines nice-looking images with lighting effects, though many have text. Nature images have nice lighting, with landscapes more painted and wildlife and macro in photographic style. Architecture-related images play with light, interiors get sunlight, and city and architecture combine artificial lighting. Fantasy is beautiful and magical, sci-fi could lose the text, and portraits are better than without the word.
Maelstrom [16:49]
"Maelstrom," meaning a powerful whirlpool or turmoil, alternates between ocean and stormy sea paintings and water park attractions. Nature themes bring out the artsy side with stormy seas, and macro images are captivating. City images continue the theme, interiors show establishments with staircases, and architecture has interesting designs. Sci-fi has spaceships instead of regular ships.
Inexplicable [17:52]
"Inexplicable," meaning unable to be explained, results in Midjourney struggling, with a large mix of styles and text. Landscape images look cool with colorful clouds, wildlife images are strange, and macro has sharp photographic images. Architecture has interesting stuff, with a floating house, while city and interior look ordinary. Fantasy images have nice-looking castles.
Euphoric [18:42]
"Euphoric," meaning intense excitement and happiness, produces lots of text and an explosion of colors. Nature images have more color, with happy animals. City images look cool, and interior and architecture have awesome designs. Portraits look nice, and fantasy and sci-fi have great lighting and colors.
Amalgamation [19:33]
"Amalgamation," meaning combining, results in game boards and wooden blocks. Nature images are not significantly affected, except landscapes turn into rock sculptures. City looks ordinary, as does interior, but architecture has nice designs. Portraits look powerful and ethnic, and fantasy and sci-fi have awesome castles and greenery-filled terraces.
Cacophony [20:16]
"Cacophony," meaning a harsh mixture of sounds, has a lot going on in the images, with choirs, animals, and monsters. The chaoticness continues in wildlife images but not in landscape or macro. In architecture, city images are affected, while interior and architecture look normal. Portraits and fantasy have much going on, and sci-fi seems tame.
Effervescent [21:04]
"Effervescent," meaning giving off bubbles or vivacious, has fizzy drinks and bubbles in all images. Nature images have summery bubbly stuff, wildlife animals are splashing in water, and macro has lots of bubbles. City and architecture images also have bubbles, with architecture incorporating them in designs. Fantasy images are favorites.
Elusive [21:53]
"Elusive," meaning difficult to find, results in lots of text. Nature images have a different but nice feel, with half-hiding wildlife images. Architectural images are not particularly special, and fantasy images are disappointing. Portraits have many cats.
Pinnacle [22:35]
"Pinnacle," meaning the most successful point, results in mountaintops and skyscrapers, and wine. Nature images have pointy stuff, with animals on top of mountains. City and architecture have pointy skyscrapers. Fantasy and sci-fi pinnacles look cool.
Arcane [23:13]
"Arcane," meaning mysterious or secret, results in many mages and text. Nature images get a fantasy twist, with majestic castles and animals. The architecture theme continues the fantasy style, seen in all images.
Clandestine [23:54]
"Clandestine," meaning kept secret, results in Midjourney struggling, with text in all images. Nature images are similar to those with "elusive." City and architecture images favor shady alleyways, as do sci-fi-themed images. Portraits and fantasy depict shady women with hoods.
Surreptitious [24:45]
"Surreptitious," meaning kept secret because it would not be approved of, results in reptilians in all images. Landscapes depict muddy puddles, wildlife is crocodiles and frogs, and macro is also reptilian. Architecture has scaly stuff, and portraits, fantasy, and sci-fi go back to reptilians.
Ubiquitous [25:38]
"Ubiquitous," meaning present everywhere, results in a mix of abstract stuff and urban environments. Landscapes have urban parts, and wildlife animals are mostly in urban environments. Macro doesn't seem to know what to do with this word. Architecture-related images are not significantly changed, and portraits are liked. Fantasy images are more urban, and sci-fi images look normal.
Peculiar [26:26]
"Peculiar," meaning strange or odd, has a distinct drawing style, though with lots of text. Nature images are not significantly affected, but architecture has a whimsical feel. Fantasy images are somewhat peculiar.
