About that pink tank

Magnum Thrax and the Future Fossil has a pink tank in which Thrax and his foxy team zoom about. 

Early on, I tried to render it in Midjourney, along with a lot of other fantastical Magnum Thrax stuff. Some turned out better than others.

Dinosaurs? They turned out like bloody, twisted squiggly goop, like something that had been hit by a molecular rearrangement gun, leaving only a vague blob behind. I quickly abandoned that avenue. 

Fast forward 3 months and... Midjourney can do many things so much better. 

These were done within a month of Midjourney being released to the public. First up is the original, unedited version of the tank:

It's sketchy. Impressionistic. Very concept art. It has a nice, almost artsy edge, like someone took a palette knife to a bunch of photographs. Does the vehicle really have structure? Or is it more an impression of structure? 

And here's the edited update. I collaged in a tank commander from another rendering, gave the vehicle a barrel, hatch and antennae. 

Voila! Much more recognizable, at least to me, and significantly closer to what I wanted. 

Now? 

Midjourney's remaster button creates much more defined imagery, but at the same time, loses some of the... artsy, impressionistic flare that is so evident in the above pictures. 

I have mixed feelings about it. But I am not worried: their engineers are working on it. Iteration after iteration, it will gradually improve. A month, a year, ten years, a hundred years: where will AI renderers be then?