I thought Midjourney was better as well, until I saw some recent videos from Corridor Crew on Youtube. For those who don't know, this is a VFX studio in LA that tries to keep at the cutting-edge of video production techniques and posts content to their Youtube channel, and they have a massive number of followers and several viral videos.
They recently created a full 7-minute anime using Stable Diffusion with their own models and their existing video production gear, I'll post the links and let the results speak for themselves
the benefits of such fine grained control aren't a trick. it's why they were able to scrap together frames that don't jump all over the place (mostly).
the other benefit of such a broadly hacked upon model is that it grows in leaps and bounds.
All due respect to mid journey, but the stable diffusion hype is not just hype.
I agree, don't believe it's just hype, that level of control is useful, but for outright image quality and for most use cases, midjourney is better.
I still don't like the look of most of the Stable diffusion images, they just look slightly off/amateurish to me, where as midjourney produces images that make you go 'wow'
If you wanted to use these tools, midjourney would be my go too, with stable diffusion a backup for when some of the additional features were needed, perhaps inpanting on a midjourney image and using controlnet if needed but if you just want a pure image, midjourney is what you want.
They recently created a full 7-minute anime using Stable Diffusion with their own models and their existing video production gear, I'll post the links and let the results speak for themselves
The actual 7-minute anime piece produced using SD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVT3WUa-48Y
Behind the scenes: "Did we change anime forever?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9LX9HSQkWo "VFX reveal before and after" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljBSmQdL_Ow