Dance / Run - Illustration
In the midst of swirling smoke, a young man in Adidas shorts leaps and dances on the street, radiating an infectious blend of happiness, joy, and boundless energy.
These photorealistic 3d illustrations were in fact my first iterations of this series. originally, they wore latex pants, but then eventually I switched them to loose-fit PVC shorts, until eventually decided to just go with running shorts.
Still using the same workflow — text prompt, ref only, shuffle. These were rendered at much lower settings. 3D illustrations usually don’t require such high steps to get details, and these were all rendered at 30 steps. The result is something that has the same creative direction but much simpler in terms of texture, which works well with the illustration style.
I was not going to post these originally, but I wanted to show that you can use this same workflow for all art styles, so here they are! I think that the simpler art style has its charm also. In contrast to the later iterations, I made these men smiling and I think that they feel more personable also.
Two sets of 17 images on Instagram. You can see everything on the same page on my site - link in bio.
These images all use fairly similar prompts but the image used for the control nets vary from image to image, which is why they accents are not always the same.
Tech: Text prompts with Midjourney (for Control Nets) + Text prompts with Stable Diffusion: 30 steps, DPM++ SDE Karras, CFG 7, 512x512, Virile Fusion v2, Denoising 0.5. CN0 Reference Only. CN1 Shuffle. ADetailer mediapipe_face_full. Hires 2x (1024x1024), 30 steps, 4x_NMKD-Siax_200k. Post: Topaz Gigapixel HQ 4x (4096x4096), Adobe Lightroom color correction.
