2022 - AI texture generation for traditional 3D
These videos are not AI generated, it’s traditional 3D render + AI generated textures.
AI is great but most of the times we still need the control of a traditional 3D scene. Good news? We can still make the most of both worlds.
Back in 2022, I was exploring new lookdev ideas for a breathing airway shot when Midjourney v2 was released.
The surreal dreamy abstraction of those early AI results captivated me, and made me wonder how these new shapes would look used as textures, resulting in these alien-like eye-catching surfaces, bringing great potential to science or sci-fi projects.
Nowadays, with higher-quality results and more control over the process, these AI techniques can bring fresh creative possibilities across any kind of creative industry.
Cavity was created in 2022 with early versions of Midjourney and Materialize to generate the maps. But nowadays, all those steps can be simplified through the usage of ComfyUI, a tool thats it’s definitely becoming essential in the implementation of AI in the creative industry.
I have put together a ComfyUI Textures Generator workflow that can generate up to 8k textures and you can find linked below.
Just need to open and install missing nodes. For this one I was using:
model: Juggernaut_XL (SDXL)
LoRA: xl_more_art-full
But feel free to test it with any other SDXL models and LoRAs.
