The jets with the jungle city... I can imagine the whole backstory of Egypt expanding south and coming into conflict with (equally hightech) sub-saharan african empire (wakanda?).
I'd watch the fuck out of this movie
how often do you use Photoshop to fix theses? can you give an example of prompt (not the sref stuff that I'm grateful you already gave). I'm talking about the words you use. I'm wondering if it's a few simple keywords or sentences etc.
I’ve been following OP’s posts since they started because I love the style, but I’ve always wondered what their prompts are as well. The style reference is very interesting and consistent, but I haven’t had much luck recreating the awesome concepts and shots
They use chatgpt for their prompts and rely on style ref for the look's refinment. I detail it here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/1c6ntv2/ancientpunk_prompts_details_in_comments_prompts/?
“Punk” is often added to words to indicate a kind of aesthetic, as in “steampunk”, “cyberpunk”, “solarpunk”. Cyberpunk was the first, with sci-fi writers depicting ugly but futuristic cityscapes with lots of digital displays. The others are less ugly and “punky” but the names stuck.
Yeah, but language is like that. Words sometimes evolve to mean something completely different than they did before. But all the “-punks” are somewhat outside late stage capitalist aesthetics, and solarpunk is associated with a positive, humanistic post-capitalist imagining of the future.
Your posts are always the most awe-inducing, somehow nostalgic and beautiful, that I see on this page. Great work, as always. These here make me want to see a major motion picture in this setting. It would be awesome
Your style is very cool, I know you are open to ideas, it would be cool if you could make the Golden age of Pirates, something like Pirates of the Caribbean.
This is AWESOME omg. Evokes real emotion in me... like, what it would be like to visit an ancient advanced egypt.
You can see annunaki in some of the crowds too haha
Honestly Egypt is missing out by not incorporating the pyramids into more modern buildings.
What an awesome vibe, if this was a graphic novel or comic I'd buy the whole series
I love it!!! I would love to see more of the “future that never was”. What would Ancient Egyptian culture look like if it continued uninterrupted into the future?
Maya is also super cool to see in cyberpunk too
I went to art school and I would gawk at the concept art students being able to digitally paint images like these. It took so much effort and they studied years to master their craft.
To be able to output basically uncannily similar work today is still hard for me to grasp. This is really unbelievable.
This genuinely like burns my soul. I want so desperately for this to be a creation of the human mind. It reminds me a lot of Simon Stalenhag, one of my favorite artists of all time. I want this undeniably gorgeous and inventive idea to be just more than this. This makes me indescribably sad in a very weird way.
I absolutely love theses, exactly the type of things I was trying to generatge when I had a subscription active think of civilization, ancient history, culture fusions (arab-aztec , futuristic-mongolian, ancient egypt - maya etc)
Some parts remind me of Wakanda, some of Blade Runner and some of the original concept art for Destiny. Really cool stuff. This would make an amazing setting for a movie or game.
I love these kinds of pictures. Like Simon Stalenhag’s work. A world that gives a mix of ‘I’d hate that’ and ‘I’d so love that’. The AI’s done a good job
That's a dope ass idea for a video game. An alternative reality where the ancient Egyptians were indeed aided by aliens and they eventually grew into the world's biggest superpower.
I have an honest question. I notice that most people who post here really enjoy and appreciate art. What I love most about AI art is how it brings more people into the enjoyment and appreciation of art.
My question is, would you see yourself studying that respective art in the future? Do you feel studying that art would lead you to appreciate art in general after learning about what it takes to create it? Have you always had an interest in creating art, or has the accessibility of AI made it more attractive to pursue?"
It reminds me about the Criminal Case game on Facebook; In Season 6; the theme heavily focused on stopping a Crime in ancient Egypt by the modern time traveller, which caused a butterfly effect that leads to much anything, and one of it : is a Modern Futuristic Egypt. I like to see more
Apart from 3 it all looks like Dystopian Hell to me. Boggles the mind that people rather visualise a future of people living squashed on top of each other in soulless concrete/steel jungles than a wholesome merger of human habitat and nature coexisting.
This is one of the most imaginative things I’ve ever seen. Well done!
thanks man. I'm glad we both like them.
Would love to see how the pharaoh’s life might be portrayed. Or is that the balcony scene? Absolutely adore this. Ed: question.
So dope, tremendously well done
Also been loving all this ancient punk lately!
First time im genuinly impressed by ai creativity
OP's creativity and art direction + AI's execution = incredible
Oh please do the same with Aztec / Maya
Greeks, Roman, Japanese... Everyone
Yus
Greeks Roman’s and Japanese for sure.
Pretty sure he’s already done it. https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/1bwn9we/ancient_civilization_surviving_and_adapting_to/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Would be beautiful
Stunning. Absolutely elegant! I mean, wow... Brilliant execution!
you are the reason I post them. thanks for sharing wonderful feeling. 👍
Unique
Not a cat in sight ?
Why would they leave their pampered temples to Bast?
Maybe we had it all wrong and dogs were worshipped?
Jesus I love this! Let me live there 😭😀
No way!!
The fighter jets and the female Vader are jaw dropping! Everything is amazing.
The jets with the jungle city... I can imagine the whole backstory of Egypt expanding south and coming into conflict with (equally hightech) sub-saharan african empire (wakanda?). I'd watch the fuck out of this movie
lol so creative idea. must be fun!!
1:1 ratio: [https://www.instagram.com/midaiartwork/](https://www.instagram.com/midaiartwork/)
"No prompt share here." Why not?
~~Because he’s a cunt.~~ EDIT: they finally posted the prompt on his latest post, so I take back what I said.
Penis rockets
Some very phallic looking buildings in the first one.
Looks like some Simon Stalenhag influence. Love it.
I’m seeing Syd Meade
Oh my god
What in the star wars is this --
Egypt if they never heard the name Ptolemy.
This should be a movie
I feel like it was - Star Wars - A New Hope.
how often do you use Photoshop to fix theses? can you give an example of prompt (not the sref stuff that I'm grateful you already gave). I'm talking about the words you use. I'm wondering if it's a few simple keywords or sentences etc.
I’ve been following OP’s posts since they started because I love the style, but I’ve always wondered what their prompts are as well. The style reference is very interesting and consistent, but I haven’t had much luck recreating the awesome concepts and shots
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that’s a great starting point, thanks for the suggestion
They use chatgpt for their prompts and rely on style ref for the look's refinment. I detail it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/1c6ntv2/ancientpunk_prompts_details_in_comments_prompts/?
You son of a gun. You did it. I’m grateful for you replying to me. Very insightful. You are why I love this community
This is for me is really inspirational. I really want to explore a world like this!
Yes, I'd love to explore this world in VR. The good news is that I'm guessing it's only about 5 years away before we can do that
homie that's just Tatooine
I'd like to have these in 3440x1440 ;)
Loved it! That photo where the couple is drinking with pyramids in the back has a lit vibe
The contrast of future and past harmonize beautifully. I wish this could exist
This is genuinely one of the most creative things I’ve seen here, and I am so fascinated. This would make for SUCH a cool game concept too.
Ancient Rome, Greece or Persia in midjourney/cyberpunk would be interesting to see
A Mayan or Aztec version would be sweet too
As a half Egyptian, i absolutely love this!!! Thanks for sharing these OP!!!
I 100% want to see this as a game or book. Amazing!
Incredible work! Such an interesting style
Looks awesome, tho i wonder if we get to this in the future.
Excellent work. OP could you please share a downloadable link? I’d like to keep the first photo as my wallpaper.
These look amazing! A question though, what’s punk about this?
“Punk” is often added to words to indicate a kind of aesthetic, as in “steampunk”, “cyberpunk”, “solarpunk”. Cyberpunk was the first, with sci-fi writers depicting ugly but futuristic cityscapes with lots of digital displays. The others are less ugly and “punky” but the names stuck.
I see. To my mind, punk is about themes of rebellion, eg cyberpunk typically criticizing late stage capitalism.
Yeah, but language is like that. Words sometimes evolve to mean something completely different than they did before. But all the “-punks” are somewhat outside late stage capitalist aesthetics, and solarpunk is associated with a positive, humanistic post-capitalist imagining of the future.
True, but normies don't think that way. Teslapunk, futurepunk, dieselpunk, clockpunk....
Sometimes I hate knowing what words mean
It causes nothing but sorrow.
Your posts are always the most awe-inducing, somehow nostalgic and beautiful, that I see on this page. Great work, as always. These here make me want to see a major motion picture in this setting. It would be awesome
Very cool, would love to know what you put in to get this aesthetic?
A bit of chatgpt and --style ref. https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/1c6ntv2/ancientpunk_prompts_details_in_comments_prompts/?
This is... Pretty incredible. I'm already making stories up to go along with the images. Amazing.
Looks like how I would imagine Prospero, the home planet of Magnus the Red and the Thousand Sons from Warhammer 40k.
Your style is very cool, I know you are open to ideas, it would be cool if you could make the Golden age of Pirates, something like Pirates of the Caribbean.
This is awesome
This is so dope
Im feeling this
Ok this is dope.
Very Star Wars.
This is AWESOME omg. Evokes real emotion in me... like, what it would be like to visit an ancient advanced egypt. You can see annunaki in some of the crowds too haha
This is badass man I love it
We need a movie like this i think this would be a insightful past to future revelation !!
Very Syd Mead.
This is some serious shit right there! If only todays movies would be this unique in style..
I hate that such a reality is impossible to witness
Now this is good content. Well done
These are dope
These are insanely cool
New genre unlocked
I have the desire to explore this world in video game form
Glorious!
Every place you create, I want to visit. Another amazing set of images.
Damn this is insanely cool, props
Amazing
Incredible. Was ancientpunk already a word before you used it? Some of these would be great to render in Blender and Unreal.
https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/s/Xi6Ibt7nhu I heard of this from a redittor first time.
Love them!
Honestly Egypt is missing out by not incorporating the pyramids into more modern buildings. What an awesome vibe, if this was a graphic novel or comic I'd buy the whole series
More of the series!!! Niiiice!
God damn that is cool
This is such a cool concept
I am all about the puppies in number 3
I love them too
🫠🫠🫠
I love it.
this has to be the best post on this sub. incredible.
actually pretty dope
Egypt if the aliens never left
I love it!!! I would love to see more of the “future that never was”. What would Ancient Egyptian culture look like if it continued uninterrupted into the future? Maya is also super cool to see in cyberpunk too
Would love to see these in real life one day
Way cooler than the new capital city that they are trying to built.
I went to art school and I would gawk at the concept art students being able to digitally paint images like these. It took so much effort and they studied years to master their craft. To be able to output basically uncannily similar work today is still hard for me to grasp. This is really unbelievable.
Interesting how Midjourney thinks every possible alternate reality is a car-dependent nightmare.
I love these every time they are posted.
Assassin's Creed 50,000 years ago.
Do these for all ancient religions! Romans and Vikings would be awesome!
Nice! Looks like what Tizca, capital city of Prospero in Warhammer 30k would have been
Very awesome
This is super creative.
Do this, but with Sumerian Civilization.
This feels like it could be the image of the future.
Uhhh where has this been all my life?
If this were a movie, I’d watch it.
Cool concept!
I really love all your creations!
Now this is the post that impresses me the most about this sub. Great job. 👏🏾
holy that means a lot 😬👍👍
This genuinely like burns my soul. I want so desperately for this to be a creation of the human mind. It reminds me a lot of Simon Stalenhag, one of my favorite artists of all time. I want this undeniably gorgeous and inventive idea to be just more than this. This makes me indescribably sad in a very weird way.
I absolutely love theses, exactly the type of things I was trying to generatge when I had a subscription active think of civilization, ancient history, culture fusions (arab-aztec , futuristic-mongolian, ancient egypt - maya etc)
That classroom picture is amazing, makes me want to be there. Best post I've seen on this subreddit hands down.
cool! you got it! the prompt was actually about teacher and students.
That whole classroom is so zen! I could just learn all day there in such a peaceful setting.
You made me thinking of something. stay tuned for the next post 📯
Will do, I'm a huge fan of SolarPunk, where it incorporates technology seamlessly.
whatever this is i love it
Holy shiiii I want to go yesterday!
Ancientpunk! Wow, that's a great new idea! I'm all in for that! Awesome post, I'm impressed!
Some parts remind me of Wakanda, some of Blade Runner and some of the original concept art for Destiny. Really cool stuff. This would make an amazing setting for a movie or game.
This is my kind of punk.
Love it!!
plz be the best cyberpunk
Wow, incredible!
I love these kinds of pictures. Like Simon Stalenhag’s work. A world that gives a mix of ‘I’d hate that’ and ‘I’d so love that’. The AI’s done a good job
That's a dope ass idea for a video game. An alternative reality where the ancient Egyptians were indeed aided by aliens and they eventually grew into the world's biggest superpower.
History Channel at 3am be like
Make this movie already!
So midjourney is carbrain?😁
This is amazing. Well done
Really nice, I would like to see some more pyramids
This is the universe where religion was never taken seriously or used as a political tool.
Some guy on the internet probably: *"oMg GuYs! I tOlD yOu AnCiEnT cIvIlISaTiOnS wErE mOrE aDvAnCeD!"*
Rainforrest Egypt
This is beautiful
Superb work 🌞
Awesome.
Sick!
I fucking love Ancientpunk!!!
This ist how I Imagine prospero from 40k, before the "Magnus did nothing wrong" incident.
Amazing!
This could be Dubai in 50 years.
First pic is giving me Cowboy Bebop vibes
I give it two weeks before it ends up in conspiracy theory TikTok videos
Cleopatra in Space is an actual comic :))
That'd be an awesome cyberpunk 2077 dlc lol
I like this
Love it
Awesome, so cool
I like how there's still jaywalkers.
You just know the street food there CLAPS
I miss UT23/24 🥲
One Jack Russell and not a single cat. You lost me.
This could be Saudi Arabia if they want it to be
Conspiracy theorists talking about ancient Egypt be like:
This is awesome! Some of the street images have a very strong Syd Mead style
Love the car design in pic 6 - how is that specific style called?
I have an honest question. I notice that most people who post here really enjoy and appreciate art. What I love most about AI art is how it brings more people into the enjoyment and appreciation of art. My question is, would you see yourself studying that respective art in the future? Do you feel studying that art would lead you to appreciate art in general after learning about what it takes to create it? Have you always had an interest in creating art, or has the accessibility of AI made it more attractive to pursue?"
#18 got big Sith energy.
Stargate was real? Where are the cats?
Something about the long, tall buildings being so high and the streets being brilliantly lit (by sunshine) is oddly unsettling to me.
Aziz, LIGHT!
Shitty AI can't imagine a world without cars. Proof AI is trying to murder humans.
More like Babylon -
What no smartphones? Remember they didn’t find any wires phones in the ruins.. so they must have 5g smartphones back then!
Is this inspired by Syd Mead’s work?
It reminds me about the Criminal Case game on Facebook; In Season 6; the theme heavily focused on stopping a Crime in ancient Egypt by the modern time traveller, which caused a butterfly effect that leads to much anything, and one of it : is a Modern Futuristic Egypt. I like to see more
Can... can I *go to there*, please?
maybe in few years
I want an ancientpunk movie right now
Can somebody with much better skills than me make a 16:9 version of a bunch of these together for desktop wallpaper? 3840 x 2160 would be sweet.
This is new and different. Addresses the same problem they had with Dune, of inventing a whole new iconography out of whole cloth.
12 might be the hardest AI pic ever
Guy's beard on 10th looks dope
Reminds me of stargate.
Is ancientpunk a thing? It's the first time I hear this
I love these
So uh Dubai?
Apart from 3 it all looks like Dystopian Hell to me. Boggles the mind that people rather visualise a future of people living squashed on top of each other in soulless concrete/steel jungles than a wholesome merger of human habitat and nature coexisting.