Ciao Matteo, molte grazie per questo video, ma ti volevo chiedere, come faccio a fare queue prompt da un determinato punto della pipeline senza dover generare tutto da capo?
Hello Matteo، Your good tutorials changed my perspective on this art, thank you Please do detailed tutorial on controlnets and frame interpolation Thank you in advance
Oh what a humble man... Matt3o you are a true hero for us! Meanwhile, "XpucT" reminds us every time how cool he is, making the best models on the planet :)
Really nice tutorials ! Learned a lot about stepping it up in comfy. I got a basic workflow running but didnt know how to move forward from there. Not only do know stuff to add now, I can tweak the existing one for better reults. I'm am new to this whole stuff and your in depth explenation of vaes, samplers etc. really helped. I hope you find the time to continue these tutorials
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Hi, as a quite old (63) German artist, coming from the influence of surrealism and (since the 1990s) fractals, I am allways looking for randomly (aleatoric principle) created artwork, I became a big fan of AI-artwork. For me, I like o play around with the comfy UI possibilities. I just wanna thank You and all the other developers for offer me these new tools. And of course, like every new technology, ther are good and bad implementations of using it. It mostly depends on the ethical intention of the user. That' all I like to say for today, especially my english is not so good. Love and greetings from Lower Saxony...
This video should have included some commentary on the ethics of training on artists' work. Personally, it is not a great concern for me. A company like Adobe has huge amounts of influence and leverage to obtain training data legally from millions of artworks that are sold to them for pennies on Adobe Stock, just because of convenience. Their models may eventually become so smart from this training data and other methods that they may be able to replicate styles even after completely bypassing training on any data from the respective style. In the worst scenario, they will do this after open-source options have been already buried alive by the attacks from corporate astroturfs and misguided individuals. And then we will then be stuck with magical closed boxes that make billions at our expense. With absolutely no leverage to challenge that their data was legally obtained. I cannot say for sure if training on public data without consent is wrong, but open-source software does not have the luxury of having countless people beg to offer their data, and it seems democratized AI will die before it is really born if we don't rethink our conceptions of authorship and copyright from scratch.
Amazing video. I put off watching it because the "Is AI art?" topic usually devolves into a misunderstanding of how AI works from traditional artists and disrespect or disregard of the vast history and importance traditional artists have contributed to culture from the AI users. I appreciate seeing an argument being made that has respect for both sides with an understanding of each perspective. This is an insightful video, thank you for making it.
Thanks Matteo for your videos and thoughts. Those of us who have been around for a few decades recognise the repeated pattern of condemning new tools as they are perceived as threats to artistic integrity. As you point out Photography is an obvious one. I lived through the introduction of personal computers and the condemnation from artists the moment people started using them to produce images. Now of course a vast number of artists use computers exclusively to produce their art. AI or the algorithms behind AI are of course more nuanced and complex but I agree are still a 'human made tool' that can be used to create artistic expressions. It nearly always comes back to who is behind the tool and what is their intent. Already I see creative people making wonderful images that stand out from the templated button pushers. The fusion of traditional, digital and AI tools is definitely one way forward. Just looking at art history I have little doubt a new expression of art will be born where the use of AI is central and eventually accepted by the majority. It might just take a few decades...🙂
Thanks for comments. I took a similar path as you. I was a fine arts major but worked in IT as a career for 30 years because it came natural to me. I still draw and paint and visual artists that make their living this way are right to be concerned. But I also think people who know and enjoy art will always appreciate and want the hand of the artist. Also, AI cannot sculpt yet 😂. Michelangelo felt sculpting was superior to drawing and painting. Just another point of view. Thanks for your great work. I hope you keep going helping us tinkerers.
Imagine all AI companies merging their LLMs and Generative art models, we are affraid that AI will outgrow us but as long as these companies keep competing with eachother training their own models with 70 billion and 400 billion and what not parameters, think of what a merge between Llama3 and OpenAI would cause, that merger would blow EVERY other existing model out of the sky and AGI would probably arrive a lot faster than expected, but as long as they keep competing AI will save no one and the energy consumption will grow as is
Photoshop itself is not art, but a tool, which can be used to create art. Following the same logic, AI image software could also be seen as a tool being used by an artist. However, it is true that AI art is just not the same. It's much more "composition", than it is drawing/painting. For this reason, I agree with people that say AI generated images should not be protected by copyright. My final point is that Art is in the eye of the beholder. If someone manages to sell a print of "art" they generated with AI, to me there's no question what was sold was art, not a service (i.e. image generation and printing service). But then again, is there truly gonna be a market for art that doesn't have an "original", and that is not protected by copyright? It's going to be a lot more like someone supporting the artist, than someone engaging in Art Collection or Art Speculation.
Your are doing a great job with ip adapter. And your videos are top notch ! If it's complicated sometimes, it's just how it is ... comfyui is just hard to master in a short period of time.
Certainly, incorporating AI into the art-making process is akin to using traditional tools like pencils, brushes, and digital software. Just as artists throughout history have utilized various materials to express their creativity, AI serves as a modern tool for artists to explore and innovate. This fusion of technology and artistry gives rise to a new movement, AI-ISM, where the outcome is not just a mere product but a manifestation of human ingenuity amplified by artificial intelligence.
I can't even figure out how he managed to do that search and find to get the node for instant id. Every tutorial just assumes that starting from basic that you know all of the features and tools. Heck I wish there was an easy way from default to add these extensions and nodes from inside comfyUI itself.
Hi Mateo 👋 About changing the Hair. Using Unsampler with Controlnet would change the colour with keeping the same hair exactly , when writing in a prompt another colour. Right? instead of masking or inpainting
I totally agree with you. Always cool to see someone else with an art/design background have a take on this. When I first started with photography, I was often told that it was not art as well and many people still seem to think that it consists of just pointing a camera and pressing a button. One of the reasons that I enjoy ComfyUI so much is because I can use it in my own art workflow (also because I am not impressed with Firefly). I remember first discovering the idea of photo-bashing or matte painting in Photoshop magazine years ago, and how blown away I was by the examples. I hope that as AI matures (and the ideas around it), we will start seeing it the same way.
Hi Matt3o. Videos like this one are pure gold. I have found it really difficult to find fundamental information about SD and ComfyUI - fundamental and at the same time easy to understand and follow. Without a deep understanding of the whole process, generating images is a random play of luck instead of a creative process where the user controls the final result. Thank you for your work. I hope to see more videos like this from you.
It's a real Manifesto Matteo. You're a wize man... Thanks for this video and all of you are doing for the community: Your work is fundamental on every aspects !
Really great tutorial. Better than any others I've seen. I've been using ComfyUI for a while and SD longer but after watching this I have a much better understanding of the process than I did. And your production skills are so much better than most others: You move at just the right speed and your visual presentation of the screen is top-notch. (I recently watched a vid that, between the cursor jumping around and the screen moving back and forth and in and out, started to make me sea sick.) I was referred here from Reddit to help me see a particular technique and now I know I'll be watching much more of your videos. Excellent work. Thanks.
I share a quite similar background with you, I have a Bachelor degree in photography and I'm a self taught designer, as well as coder. I find it fascinating how AI allows me to connect art and tech in a really novel way. I also share the same feeling that AI is a tool, that can be misused, but can also be used to create wonderful pieces. I'd even go further and say that creating good tools (like the ones you create) is also a form of art, just like we value a good paintbrush made of good materials and we pay more for it.
"Is AI art?" AI-generated images/pictures/art is definitely art! Even though it uses other people's styles, that doesn’t mean it isn’t valid. Throughout history, many artists have been inspired by others. Movements like Impressionism and Cubism built on existing styles. AI, trained on vast datasets, continues this tradition, creating unique combinations and interpretations. Plus, art is about creativity and expression, and AI-generated pieces can evoke emotions and provoke thought just like human-made art. Think of AI as a new tool or medium, like the camera or computer. If an artist uses AI to create something meaningful, it’s art. It's all about the intent and the creative process. So yes, AI art is real art, thats my opinion.
I have a desktop image by William Turner - Norham Castle, Sunrise (Château de Norham, lever de soleil) . It's a picture he drew after he was photographed with a camera. As shown in the film, he thought it was the end of painting and bequeathed all the paintings to England free of charge. Then came cameras computers computers tablets and 3D graphics. I'm a former 3d artist, gave up sculpting and texturing rigging and rendering as soon as I learnt about the possibilities of automac 1111. I also like to draw on a tablet and I'm into photography, but it was logical to give it all up to learn Python and now I've been practising ComfyUI every day for half a year. I'm trying to master the tools to express my emotions feelings and vision with AI. Of course I think about contrasts lighting and colour in my work and in general I use 3D base and CN on top of that. In conclusion I will add. Sort the works on CivitAi for all time by the number of reactions. Pay attention to the top works, which are no worse than Salvador Dali. They have all the hormones that are artistically required for the joy of the soul and the eye. And my mum also likes the top generations. She doesn't even know what a generative AI image is and she doesn't care how it is made, she likes it in fact. Another more important question is whether a person created a masterpiece by accident or by talent and skill.
I think you are wrong on this one. What is art? Art is what conveys feelings. What is Art is decided by the audience, not by the artist. If you see a scene of a homeless guy with his cart under the rain, you feel something, yet there is no director behind it. So, can generative AI produce art? Of course, it's all in the audience reaction, in how an image clicks with the watcher. Now, the real question is, is the guy who simply types prompt an artist? No, the artist is the AI, the guy typing prompt can call himself an art director, which is the one ask the artist what to do, and makes a selections on what the artist produce.
I agree with a lot of what you have said. To me ai is meant to be used as a tool and those of us who learn it's intricacies will be propelled forward. Of course there will be those who will abuse it in undesirable ways, but that can also be said about most anything we already have. In time tech will catch up so we can much easier filter out and find all the ai generated stuff so people don't get fooled when it's used in an exploitative manner (politics etc). Right now it's still the wild wild west in terms of control/regulation/law so of course many ppl will get fooled but i think that in itself is something we have to go through to develop a safer future with a i. It's too much a useful tool to put back in the box, and so much more can be done with it in many industries.
We really need these additional tools. Language is fine for AI dialogue generation, but it is too scarce for images. In reality, it is difficult for us to use language to carefully annotate a picture, and then apply this annotation method to AI painting. It is difficult or impossible to achieve the picture you imagine simply through prompt words. You can only use Lora or ControlNet to tell AI the desired picture effect through picture to picture. That means you must have pictures first to generate the imagination in your mind. It is a very painful logic. Will there be something beyond prompt words in the future?Connect my brain to controlnet!
Very interesting and thoughtful. As a professional painter and illustrator AI has been a fascinating journey for nearly a year. I still don't know what my feelings are. Maybe one indicator is that I would never sign a Comfy generation. I don't feel that I made them. Perhaps all images are somewhere in the code and we are explorers seeking them, rather than artists creating them. My painter friends see it as a threat, but no one will want an AI image framed on the wall, sure commercial artists are going to feel a great deal of pain, but people will still want hand created items in their homes. I do wonder what worth the tsunami of images has, no-one gives most of them more than the briefest glance. Is their value in the brief moment of pleasure the creator feels? Maybe, there seems to be more interest in workflows than the end result. When I post videos I only get comments about how they were made and almost never about the images themselves.
Yeah, so far it feels a lot like building sand castles, being proud of them for a little while and then have them washed away by the waves the next day. I'm usually more proud of my workflows than of the images they produce. But as soon as I find a real professional usecase for all of this, maybe that feeling will change.
I did not expect this man, I completely agree. that was refreshing & I'm glad you didn't give the snake oil tech-bro answer i came to expect from AI channels
