Make An AI Comic with YOUR Characters using Comicai

one of the great things about AI art is that it breaks down barriers to creativity there's a ton of great tools popping up to empower creators like me including comic AI a new service that helps users transform their stories into a legit comic I'll take comic AI for a spin to show you how it works by creating a scene from one of my original Everly height scripts zoo of zero tolerance today on building dreams hey it's Bill Meeks here for building dreams where I help you use the latest AI technology to build dreams of your own just like I'm using them to build the first cartoon set in my Everly Heights Universe a sitcom called very special today my focus won't be on very special instead I'll be using comic AI the sponsor of today's video to recreate a scene from zoo of zero tolerance it's a short scene where the main characters have a phone conversation about the results of a contest along the way I'll test out comic ai's custom character tool various Styles and give you an honest assessment of comic AI at the end of the video okay let's get started with a quick overview of the tool and if you want to give me a little credit sign up for Comic ey at Comic ey. 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TV so they know I sent you their way we'll start with the character library before you start telling your story you'll need to create characters right well comic AI gives you two options training mode and generation mode training mode like a lot of popular AI applications like lenza let you upload 10 to 30 images of an original character to add them to the system they want you to upload 10 to 30 sample images in their tool here on a plain white background or at least a one color background but in the end I found that putting a plain background on the back didn't really affect the generation quality very much as for that character generation quality for me it was a bit uneven now the issue was and you'll see this one we get into creating your comic in just a minute we have various styles to pick from in the comic book generation you know anime Styles black and white anime Styles stuff like that the characters I trained in training mode work great with some models and not so great with other ones given that I've decided to abandon my Everly Heights house style uh for the character characters and I'm going to use generation mode to create Tina Infantino Ken sacko and Ken's mom whose name I can't remember right now now generation mode lets you prompt a character with a name and a description which works like any online airart generator you've used like mid Journey or Dolly to or whatever to see how this works take a look at me creating the character model for Tina Infantino one of the characters uh from zoo of zero tolerance I put in her name Tina Infantino then put in a rough description of what I wanted which is basically a 14-year-old girl in the 1990s with rainbow colored hair now I did have to tweak The Prompt a few times here but eventually I settled on something that at least to me looks kind of like my interpretation of my character Tina Infantino I did have to step through a few different prompts until I found one that I liked but luckily they only cost three Mana or so which is the currency you use on comic a I you can also wait to generate your character until you're in the comic book making side of comic Ai and it'll cue more to the style of the comic book you selected like you'll see here I selected a superhero comic book style and it generated Tina Infantino but it made her very very uh superh heroy even gave her a Superman shield on her chest but that's a great way to uh make a character in the style of the comic book you're going to be making eventually anyway otherwise you can use the tool from the main screen and just make a generic character that can adapt to the style you choose to use okay I'm going to make my other characters for this comic book and then we'll get started you can speed through this though you'll see here I'm putting unattractive and chubby since this is trained on anime characters you kind of have to do that kind of indicating to get a realistic body type okay uh now that I have all my characters let's make a comic okay get started here we're going to type a name for our comic my comic is called zoo of zero tolerance Creator is me Bill Meeks nice to meet you and then uh we're going to go ahead and choose a style here for the comic I'm going to go with monochrome which has sort of that uh very classic manga feel to the comic and then we click next and then the AI wants us to put in a story now since I already have my script here that I wrote as a TV pilot I'm just going to paste in the script of the scene I don't know if it's going to really understand what I'm doing here but we'll put the script for the scene in and see what it does for us so go ahead and click next and the AI will sort of process this and try and break it up into panels and Pages for you and then it's actually generated uh some sample characters for us I don't like them though so we're going to go ahead and go with the characters we created here kamiko Ken and Tina Infantino so we'll go ahead and select these guys confirm add so go ahead and click next and then you'll see here this is the main uh panel Builder display here and it created a ton of panels for us over here based on our script and then in each of the image descriptions it puts in a quote from our script unfortunately Ken worried on the phone interor Ken's house Ken's bedroom night is probably not going to do a whole lot so we're going to go ahead and get a little more descriptive here and I'll put something like uh Ken hides under the covers in his 1990s bedroom talking on an old 1990s analog phone okay let's go ahead and make sure we have the right Ken sacko cuz remember it generated one for me too and then for the price of three Mana we'll go ahead and click regenerate now again the generations are pretty low in terms of how much Mana you have to spend and I think they do that because they realize that you know with this kind of stuff it's better to you know make a bunch of options then eventually pick one that you like like you'll see here this one it's pretty okay except his arm is growing into his face which I really don't like so we'll just go ahead and roll and this is exactly what I would do in stable diffusion too I would just like generate four at a time and then roll if I don't like one this one's not bad he kind of looks like he's on the phone um you know what I'm going to do one more and the nice thing is is if we don't find a better one we can always click history here and go back to one of the other ones that we already got but let's see here that one's not bad either I'm going to roll again and you know what I'm just going to roll and make like 10 or 12 of these then then I'll pick the best one so we'll speed through that and there we go that's the perfect one so this will be for Ken's line of dialogue here and then we'll move on to panel two for Tina's first line of dialogue to change it up a little bit though I'm going to show you how the image variation mode works so luckily I already pulled down a couple of characters talking on the phone from the '90s so we'll go ahead and put in this picture of a random 9s girl chatting on the phone in a chair and then you can also adjust the weighting of this we'll go ahead and start with L for low and see what it generates for us now you see it didn't change the image very much when it was on low like it basically just sort of added her face and made it a little bit more blurry and an anime so let's go ahead and take it up to medium and see what that does for us a little bit more anime uh you know her legs don't look like they're uh photographs anymore which is good uh so let's go ahead and take this all the way up and see what happens if we change it completely there we go that looks very talking on the Phish so there we go okay so now we're eventually going to be um going back and forth between these characters right but we want to kind of change up their face a little bit so what I'm going to do here is I'm going to save this first image of Ken out as a reference and then we'll take the prompt from panel one bring it into panel three because he does get angry in this scene at one point so is angry as he talks on the phone on a 1990s phone extreme emotion because he's super angry about something Tina said we'll do this as a clo extreme closeup and then we'll use that image from the first panel as a reference for [Music] it okay there still isn't a phone in his hand here but it's close enough for jazz depending on how I uh how I how I frame it so we're going to go ahead and go with that one okay so I'm going to go through and finish making my my panels here my intention is to make it into like a six panel grid where it's like Ken says something Tina says something Ken says something Tina says something Ken says something Tina says something flip the page big blowup new scene stuff like that so I have kind of an idea in my head but first I have to make all the panels so bear with me while I get that done I will'll speed through it for your convenience [Music] okay so we have 16 panels it's time for text and layout go ahead and click uh next and you'll go on the text and layout screen here now you'll see here over on the right we have all of our panels now we need to get a page set up so we go ahead over here to templates and we'll try and find a good template I think I'm going to go with this 4x4 grid for uh at least the first couple pages so we'll go ahead and click that it go goes ahead and populates here now we can go in and drag our panels in so we'll go ahead and drag this one here this one here and if we want to we can go ahead and double click on this and we can go ahead and make it bigger or smaller in the frame so we can go ahead and get Tina to be roughly the same size as Ken is over there and then another shot of Ken we'll go ahead and zoom in a little tighter on him so we don't see that he doesn't have the same outfit on quite okay so there's our first four panels now we need to add some text to it right so we'll go ahead over here to uh we'll go ahead and add a speech bubble here uh we're going to be doing with Ken first so we're going to go ahead and flip it uh horizontally then vertically so we can bring it down here and we'll go ahead and input it here we can go ahead I think and make this font size a little smaller too maybe not quite that small but something like that and then over here like this my mom hun up on the convenience market guy good okay now we'll go ahead and speed through me adding this because it'll be the same process just a bajillion times uh so give me a second [Music] here and there I'm done I have a six-page comic book uh which is pretty cool I'll go ahead and flip through it here real quick for you and now that I have the comic all I have to do is save it now if I click download in the upper right I'll get a clean copy at a decent resolution that I can post anywhere I want as I please although if you want to print this or do any large format kind of stuff you're probably going to want to run it through an upscaler of some type because it does get a little grainy when you zoom in but there uh from zero to Comic in about uh 25 30 minutes it took me to do everything so not too bad now I have some context to give you an honest review of comic AI uh now as for the good it's easy to get a concept going uh this tool would be great for traditional artists and filmmakers to quickly develop their storyboards Additionally the tools to edit the comic including panel layout text balloons and special Graphics all work pretty good uh with a few exceptions sometimes I had to click out and click back into a speech bubble to get it to actually register that I was typing but not too bad uh confining all the settings in a settings box right by your speech bubble would probably help a lot in terms of making it more intuitive for the user now as for the bad um training my custom characters didn't work great especially with the specific styles that I had in mind now the characters I generated within comic AI itself worked a lot better for the most most part occasionally I'd have to drag in one of my original poses as a reference image but nine times out of 10 it came out looking exactly like the character I designed it would also be nice if the upscale of her final uh comic book art was provided or it gave us a print ready PDF but that's minor things that's something I can do using my own tools uh here at home I will note that I heard from comic ey which I mispronounced through most of this video and told me they'll be enhancing the file download options in the near future this should make it easier for any artist wanting to take their artwork into Photoshop or illustrator to clean it up like I always say AI isn't the end of the creative process so as for my final verdict on comic AI I'm not going to lie as somebody who is doing a lot of advanced work with stable diffusion the results were a little uneven which means you end up having to generate a bunch of images to find one that works for your story that can be said for other AI image generators but you are paying a small credit for every generation with this one but if you have an idea and you want to get it into Comic form quickly this tool will sure help you do that as with any creative tool you'll have to put work in but the results can definitely be worth it and if you want to give me a little credit sign up for Comic ey comic ey. Everly height again to Comic a for sponsoring video that's how you can use comic AI to transform your idea into a legit comic with a little bit of mostly fun and creative work in the browser and that does it for this episode see you next time and keep dreaming read the stories and join the team at Everly heights. TV follow us on Facebook Instagram and Twitter at Everly Heights watch us build Everly Heights in building Dreams by subscribing to to at billm La on YouTube get access to the custom stable diffusion models we're using to build Everly Heights as well as our morning meeting production diary by supporting us at [Music]

Channel: Bill Meeks

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Keywords: bill meeks, stable diffusion, comfyui, ai come book, make a comic book with ai, generative art, AI comics tool, stable diffusion tutorial, train a lora, building dreams, everly heights, zzt, zoo of zero tolerance, visual art ai, stable diffusion ai art

Id: Er3kPfHBgW0

Length: 16min 23sec (983 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 13 2023