Like in every post, I want to come up with some unique cute ideas. In this post, the focus is on cute little World War II Owl Squad (made up theme)—but yeh, soldier owls! Imagine something like World War Toons videogame but with cute little owls. That was the art direction–but more realistic than cartoony.
Cute and adorable humanoid owls wearing WW2 soldier clothing. Although the war theme is hard, the end results with the owls turned out to be somewhat cute–as I wanted it to be of course. I like actually the strong contrast between the cute, naive and innocent mixed with the opposite of the war theme.
To be honest, it looks like a great theme for a Pixar movie for adults or a cute WW2 video game (imagine a Call of Duty game with owl characters). Although in that alleged movie, you won’t need airplanes I guess, owls can fly.
OK, first for the Midjourney AI-generated art images of WW2 soldier owls and then for the explanation.
Now owls have really cute head poses when they move their head. I want that to be reflected in some of the AI-generated images (generated by the Midjourney AI Discord bot). For that, I needed to have “posing” otherwise I didn’t get that head poses for some reason.
Also, some of the soldier owls came with one leg and not hands. First, we need to understand that although humanoid was used, the owls have wings so this might be the reason why it appears that many didn’t have hands. I did see one with a wooden leg which I guess it’s because of the theme—understandable.
I just love how cute the WW2 owl soldier art turned out using Midjourney. I generated quite a lot because I wanted to capture those super-cute aww-inspiring pictures.
Many of the images actually looked better, or should I say–cute, when I used “Detailed upscale redo”. Remove the extra overwhelming detailed image and make it look more simple.
I also was careful not to oversaturate the image in Photoshop. I added sharpness to mitigate for the lack of sharpness when I didn’t go with extra details and higher resolution output (I am on ‘relaxed’ mode so I can’t do it). Some auto-level adjustments and that’s about it for the most part.
In some of the images I actually wanted to have extra detail and they look better. One of the images with the owl having a baby owl on the waist looked way better detailed. The little own actually wasn’t there at all with the upscale removed.
Pretty cool ah, hope you like it. More coming so visit soon. Cheers.