In 2018 and 2020 I posted lists of randomly generated Halloween costumes and I thought it would be fun this year to see what Midjourney came up with for those prompts.
Most were variations on ” [person] dressed as a [randomly generated thing] , homemade costume, candid, casual photo, Halloween setting –c 15″. The –c is there to add a little off-kilter realism to prevent things from looking too neat.
Row 1: Mermaid Clown, Proud Boy Aerobics Instructor.
Row 2: Robot Corgi, Unicorn Doctor.
Row 3: Riot Grrl Flapper, Redneck Batman.
Row 4: Baby Death Metal Guitarist, Donut Bitten by Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
(What’s with me and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, you ask?)
Overall an excellent job for generating off-kilter Halloween costumes that are clearly handmade! Only glitch was the AI translating “Proud boy” as “(Gay) Pride boy” hence the rainbow crop top.
I was surprised by the AI’s creative choices, like the doughnut girl dressed in a pink fuzzy onesie that mimics the doughnut’s frosting and a building that looks like the White House behind her. (I had specified “college campus.”) Note that the Death Metal baby was supplied with an equally black stroller, and the dirty, hairy exposed chest on the redneck Batman.