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Visual development for worldbuilding
This isn't just about making pretty pictures from your world. Visuals are vital to all kinds of storytelling. I had an LLM produce a list of things to look for when studying images with a focus on worldbuilding then, as we always should, verified it using what I know about visual storytelling from experience. Here’s how we apply it! Pick some images you like for inspiring your world. There are plenty of free, public domain or copyright-free sources: Textures: Poly Haven, CG Bookcase,...
READ POSTWorldbuilding Fundamentals: It all unfolds from this
Weclome to part two of the 4 part worldbuilding series! Last week, I laid the groundwork. Today, we make the ground work. This is one where the enormous cloud models help a lot. I tried to get it condensed down and use self-reprompting--directing the LLM to summarize at the end of each response--to keep details in the context window, but local models have their limits. Of the two models I tried, lightweight phi4 from Microsoft did the best with its 14B parameters. ChatGPT’s 4o blew it out of...
READ POSTBeyond Prompts: AI-assisted Worldbuilding for Epic Storytelling
Beyond Prompts: AI-assisted Worldbuilding for Epic Storytelling Welcome to the inaugural issue of the My Machine and Me newsletter, where we explore the art and science of AI-assisted creation. In this series, I’ll share insights, techniques, and examples from my journey of worldbuilding with the help of generative AI. Today, we’ll dive into how creating rich fictional universes leads to better AI-generated imagery than simple prompting. The Worldbuilding Advantage “If you wish to make an...
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