Worldbuilding Fiction with AI Art

Have you considered worldbuilding fiction with AI art? If you’re a visually inspired person like me, I suggest you give it a go. Creating a visual representation of your characters and their world using AI art is very useful for your social media posts, of course, but the process of generating them also helps you to imagine them clearly and so refine them – in your mind if not in the art generator’s results. And an AI art generated character could even be the inspiration for a whole story, one that develops as part of the process of visual worldbuilding. That’s how the story of my AI generated short film ‘Rosara’s Wedding’ came about. Yes, it’s a romance! And look at the priest!

I started with a few characters, then decided I wanted to put them in a world with its own landscape and culture. I imagined a backdrop for the characters, then made images of their tribes, and the worldbuilding continued on from there. Then I realised that I had so much visual material, that I could turn it into more compehensive video than what I could put on social media, but what could the story be? Clearly my clans were gathering, so the question was, for what? That’s when I came up with the idea of a wedding.

Plot and worldbuilding fiction with AI art

But just a wedding by itself isn’t a story. There needs to be a plot. So what could the plot be? You’ll need to watch the video to see what I came up with, but what I found interesting was that as the story developed, it inspired more imagery in a kind of inspirational feedback loop between me and Midjourney’s AI art generator. The imagery deepened the story. Since I was making a video, I didn’t need to write descriptions, but if I was, the imagery would have been very helpful. The story is in the first-person narration.

You are invited to Rosara’s wedding. Take a few minutes to join the drummers, dance, have fun and maybe achieve union with the All. And, of course, see where worldbuilding fiction with AI can take you.

When you don’t get the images you want

AI art generation isn’t as easy as you might think, however, not when you want to get a specific character or scene that you have in your mind, so unless you’re inspired enough with the technology to get proficient with it, be prepared for getting everything except the character you’re looking for. But the point for worldbuilding fiction is not whether you get the character and settings you want out of an AI art generator, but that you refine them in your mind. Knowing what they aren’t is as helpful for an author as knowing what they are.

New YouTube channel

I now have a YouTube channel for my AI art videos. Please do like the video above and subscribe to Tahlia Dreaming on YouTube to help get my artwork to more people. I really appreciate your support of my hobby!