Making a Splinterlands Comic Book with AI

I'm excited to share my first sharable draft of "The Rift - Part One", a Comic Book I'm putting together about Oshuur and her band of exiles as they take on a Chaos Legion Stronghold! There's still lots of work to do before this is completely done, but you can see the first 13 scenes below. I'd love to get feedback from you guys on the style, the story, any bugs you can spot...basically everything. There are scene numbers on the top right of each frame so you can refer to those to give specific feedback. Disclaimer: I'm not an expert on comic books, but I wanted to take on this project as a challenge and to see how far I could take the AI image-generation tools. I've shared a bit more information on my process below the last scene at the bottom.

The story and characters, of course, are based on the @splinterlands lore and characters such as Oshuur, Atuat, Grum, and others. All of these belong strictly to the Splinterlands Company and I am making this purely as a fan of the game and its lore. The first few frames of this story closely follow Oshuur's official lore, but it then adapts into an original story.

Enjoy!

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Process

The process involved in making this were as follows:

(1) Images were created, as usual, using Midjourney. I first generated some of the main characters for the story (Oshuur, Atuat, Fellblade, Grum) and got a few reference images to use for each one to get visual consistency, and then created the scenes required for the story. The visual style I applied was inspired by Todd McFarlane, a well-known comic book artist known for Spiderman and several other iconic superhero franchises.

I generated over a thousand images in order to get the ones that you see in the result above. It takes a lot of trial and error, but with the right patience and tweaks I think it's possible to get a polished and visually consistent result.

(2) To stitch together the images into a comic book style I tried many different tools but eventually settled on Figma, which has the best grid management of any tool I've found. It makes it very easy to align things properly and get a very clean look. And what's even better is that it's free to use (at least for my purpose & setup).