Mini AI Tutorial: Learn how to turn anyone into a kid using Midjourney
There is something extremely interesting that happens when we see certain people as kids. It's like all of a sudden everyone is likeable. So I tried with US Presidents.
💬 [President] [age], [Type of shot], [Shot detials], studio photography, volumetric lighting, [clothing], [facial expression], [trait], realistic, [Focal Length], expressive, iconic, 4k --ar 2:3We are using Midjourney for this, it’s an generative AI tool that let’s you create AI generated images from simple text inputs.
With the above prompt you can turn anyone into a kid, you basically just have to enter the person that you want to see turned into a kid at the beginning of the prompt. But for this little mini-tutorial we’ll focus on the presidents.
💬 Bill Clinton as a kid, portrait, close-up shot, studio photography, volumetric lighting, wearing a suit, smiling, mischievous, realistic, 50mm, expressive, iconic, 4k --ar 2:3Here we are trying to take Bill Clinton and turn him into a kid. We could start to specify the colors of his outfit and background to if we’d like. But to keep things simple, we are just going to let the AI decide that for us.
You can re-roll the prompt inside Midjourney by pressing the 🔁 button to generate new versions until you are satisfied. Let’s try again but with Barack Obama. We can see that the AI will give us 4 different versions (and if we want more we continue to re-roll). We can then upscale the ones we really think are looking close to the real deal.
💬 Barack Obama as a kid, portrait, close-up shot, studio photography, volumetric lighting, wearing a suit, smiling, mischievous, realistic, 50mm, expressive, iconic, 4k --ar 2:3If you have not seen it, I got 8 Presidents up on this Twitter thread
In the case of public figures, especially presidents, it feels like the AI is doing an incredible good job at taking known traits, and keeping them while at the same time trying to figure out how the person might have looked like as a kid, or exaggerating kids traits. Let’s upscale the 1st photo.
Full body studio shots
The second part to these photos of the presidents as kids, is to create full body shots. For that we need to alter the prompt slightly. And the AI had a harder time with these images and it required more re-rolls to get a good enough output. Below you can see what changed in the prompt to get the full body and slightly different focal length.
💬 Barack Obama as a kid, full body shot, studio photography, volumetric lighting, wearing a suite, smiling, mischievous, realistic, 35mm, expressive, iconic, 4k --ar 2:3
These where harder to get right, the AI had a hard time understanding that we wanted a kid, and sometimes it just slapped the head onto a kids body, making it look more like a little person.
Billionaires - Bonus part
You can manipulate the base prompt and basically turn any know figure into at kid. I had a lot of fun making these. So here are just an example of taking the prompt and slightly adjusting it to make some billionaires. Keep in mind I also change what they are wearing. So Zuckerberg is wearing “a blue hoodie” and Musk “a black t-shirt”.
💬 Larry Page as a kid, portrait, close-up shot, studio photography, volumetric lighting, wearing a black t-shirt, smiling, mischievous, realistic, 50mm, expressive, iconic, 4k --ar 2:3Thank you for still reading. Thats a wrap, I think with this you should be able to make your own. I’m looking forward to see what you create, if you post something online just make sure you ping me.
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Wow, Bezos never had hair??!
😂 I totally noticed that and was going to comment on it. I’m so curious as to why. Is there a deeper, design-level flaw that can’t quite grasp time?