Midjourney - Back to basics • 17 • Niji
Examining the Anime influence in a special version of Midjourney
From the last Lesson,you may have noted that Niji•Journey (later known as Niji 4) was introduced shortly after Midjourney V4 launched. It was a collaborative project between Midjourney and Spellbrush, that would generate custom anime illustrations. Since then, Midjourney has released Niji 5 and Niji 6. An entire book could be dedicated to the collective Niji models, but in this lesson I will give you a solid base of understanding and use of Niji 6.
The Niji model is “tuned to produce anime and illustrative styles with vastly more knowledge of anime, anime styles, and anime aesthetics. It's excellent at dynamic and action shots and character-focused compositions.” - https://docs.midjourney.com/docs/model-versions
In prompting for Niji, as mentioned before, rather than using a --version parameter (--v 6) you will declare the desired Niji model (--niji 6, --niji 5 or --niji 4) as a parameter. You can also ‘set the default’ in alpha or on Discord (under settings) to a preferred Niji model.
Keywords
Anime has a lot of keywords that added to your prompting can provide more on-point renders in niji•journey bot. Remember, the Niji model was trained and tuned to produce anime, anime styles and anime aesthetics. Knowing just a few of the terms (keywords) relevant to this art style will produce your best results. This is not an exhaustive list, but are enough variety to keep you busy exploring Anime with Midjourney’s Niji model.
Retro-Anime Style
Some keywords can help you create a period piece with time frames. Throw it back in time with some Retro:
1970s Anime • 1980s Anime • 1990s Anime • retrostyle • Retro Anime • Retro Fashion • Retro Anime Screencap • vintage • classic • cell shaded • VHS quality • grainy • still frame
Portrait of a mermaid swimming under the water, retro anime, retrostyle, 1980s Anime --ar 3:4 --niji 6
Futuristic / Sci-Fi Anime
Chromatic aberration • Holographic • Iridescent Opaque • Thin Film RGB • Neon RGB • Headphones • Transparent Vinyl Clothing • Transparent PVC • Reflective clothing • Futuristic clothing • Futuristic Fashion • Pixiv • Futuristic Style
Reference Futuristic / Sci-Fi Anime
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Gurren Lagann
Serial Experiments Lain
The Promised Neverland
Steins;Gate
Orange
Dr. Stone
Psycho-Pass
Paprika
Space Dandy
Princess in a futuristic style, Future Tokoyo City with flying cars, chromatic aberration, holographic signs --ar 3:4 --niji 6
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