Imagine Weekly – Issue 18 [October 2nd]

Author

Daniel Reiser
October 04, 2024

Welcome to Issue 18 of Imagine Weekly 👋

Hi again,

Midjourney is bustling with exciting projects and developments, as shared in their recent office hours. From enhancing user experience to refining team dynamics, the company is on a mission to push the boundaries of creativity and innovation.

And a quick tip just to begin this issue with as you might be on an Apple device:

Apple devices (especially mobile devices) automatically change double hyphens (--) to an em-dash (—). Great feature, huh? 🫠 However, I have great news: Midjourney accepts both!

I hope you enjoy this issue.

In this issue you’ll find:

  • 📖 TL;DR; Weekly Recap of the Office Hours (or the extended recap)

  • 🛠️ Tools to explore

  • 🎨 Some new srefs to tinker with

📅 Office Hours TL;DR; Recap 2024-10-02

🖌️ Midjourney is developing an external image editor and enhancing moderation systems.

👥 Team dynamics focus on minimal management and self-organizing teams.

🎨 Personalization features are prioritized for faster setup and increased adoption.

🧠 Model training includes 3D and video models, with a focus on V7 improvements.

📊 Survey data is being analyzed for upcoming demographic and psychometric features.

📂 Organizational enhancements include feature management debates and scaling challenges.

🌐 Future goals involve real-time simulations and broader creative processes.

📝 User feedback highlights requests for batch processing and improved documentation.

👨‍💻 Hiring focuses on front-end designers with React and Figma skills.

🐞 Technical challenges include V7 training bugs and architectural simplifications.

Midjourney is still mind-blowing. Can you tell this is not real?

Another useful tip for all the creatives out there, have you tried using Midjourney to generate moodboards with just one prompt?

🛠️ Tools

As Ai videos are still something evolving and the outputs of various tools differ a lot, here’s a quick comparison. Which do you like best?

An there’s again a new video model by Bytedance which looks amazing and seems like a perfect Midjourney companion. Fingers crossed midjourneys video model will be as good.

So lip sync has been added to Kling, and it looks quite good. It seems, at least in my opinion, that the issue now is not that the lips are not synced correctly, but that the voices most of the time don’t match the person. Let’s hope somebody will work on that next. 🤘

🎨 Inspiration, Prompts and Srefs

For today's issue, I've gathered some bold references for you to save and tinker with.

See you next week 👋🤖

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