Creating A Consistent Story Character In Midjourney V4

Without having to use celebrity references

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What I love about Midjourney V4 is that there is still the possibility of randomness and chaos whilst being simply able to produce usable images on the initial upscale. There is no longer a need to use celebrity references to create consistency which saves a whole lot of hassle on copyright issues.

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Creating A Consistent Story Character In Midjourney V5 Raw

I call this character young piano man. Like all of my best ideas, he popped up whilst I was working on another project. As shown below I took my own profile photograph and created some papercut versions of it. MJ kindly added some curly hair on the top for me. I was trying out this elderly character in coffee shops when one of the images took a good 30 years off my age. Voila, Young Piano man was born.

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