So, I'm not much of an artist. I don't have an eye for beauty or design, in that I can't tell how to move from an ugly design toward a beautiful one. My sense of beauty centers on the practical. If they are aestheticly pleasing it must be mostly attributed to accident
Ian Hubert is, if anything, the exact opposite. I've been an occasional contributor to the Dynamo project, but I often feel out of my depth when approaching new asset models that are lacking concept art. Ian's aesthetic is unparallelled, though often impractical. But what is his design style anyway? How could I tell?
By asking an AI of course. The below are the results of inquiring of the Midjourney AI about the most iconic screenshots I could find from his DYNAMO series.
1️⃣ an interior of a spaceship with a lot of switches, in the style of meticulous military scenes, dark crimson and yellow, contax tix, junglecore, detailed crowd scenes, captivating, emotional imagery, transfixing marine scenes
2️⃣ a view inside an empty space ship, in the style of meticulously crafted scenes, dark and chaotic, contax tix, detailed crowd scenes, meticulous military scenes, robotic motifs, 1980s
3️⃣ a screenshot of an inside of the ship, in the style of futuristic robots, todd mcfarlane, ernst haas, fragmented planes, dean cornwell, dark gray and crimson, fujifilm pro 800z
4️⃣ 2 roguelikes we love for the space setting we want to explore idd, in the style of vik muniz, cinematic compositions, john salminen, industrial machinery aesthetics, dark crimson and yellow, blink-and-you-miss-it detail
1️⃣ an empty shop with shelves full of books, in the style of psychedelic soundscapes, high-angle, high-angle, light leaks, iconic rock and roll imagery, schizocore, photo taken with provia
2️⃣ a lot of books are stacked in an empty room, in the style of album covers, cyberpunk imagery, lomography, tangled nests, glazed surfaces, toycore, vivid street scenes
3️⃣ large bookshelf with books on it, in the style of cyberpunk imagery, album covers, blown-off-roof perspective, lomography, lo-fi aesthetics, thriftcore, photo taken with provia
4️⃣ the ceiling is frosted, in the style of punk rock aesthetic, piles/stacks, beeple, books and portfolios, multiple exposure, retrowave, goerz hypergon 6.5mm f/8
1️⃣ a man is putting a watch together, in the style of pinhole cameras, patinated and oxidized, mamiya-sekor c 80mm f/1.9, raw materials, dark aquamarine and red, divinatory objects, talismans, and amulets, sketchfab
2️⃣ a man holding a watch and working on it on a table, in the style of pinhole cameras, metalwork jewelry, ernest zacharevic, paula scher, rangefinder lens, use of precious materials, dao trong le
3️⃣ a person is working a watch, in the style of pinhole cameras, raw materials, mamiya rb67, post-modern mixed media assemblages, dieselpunk, sketchfab, raw authenticity
4️⃣ man working on a watch, in the style of pinhole cameras, patinated and oxidized, tatiana suarez, contax t2, divinatory objects, talismans, and amulets, soviet lens, tondo
1️⃣ the interior of a futuristic spacecraft, in the style of action-packed scenes, dark silver and gold, experimental cinematography, derek gores, close up, impressive panoramas, ue5
2️⃣ 2 of the main spacecraft in the game, in the style of tokina at-x 11-16mm f/2.8 pro dx ii, trapped emotions depicted, silver and gold, dense compositions, close up, detailed environments, structured chaos
3️⃣ some things in a place with a lot of lights on, in the style of greeble, close-up intensity, dark gold and silver, low speed film, fragmented planes, meticulous detailing, close-up shots
4️⃣ a group of large metal objects and pipes are on the floor, in the style of toonami, fragmented planes, rolleiflex 2.8f, intricately mapped worlds, intense close-ups, dark gray and gold, alien worlds
1️⃣ a large indoor space that is full of shelves, rows, and books, in the style of light red and dark black, intel core, made of vines, high-angle, exacting precision, caffenol developing, bunnycore
2️⃣ a large building with open spaces, in the style of red threads, 32k uhd, installation creator, precisionist, made of vines, webcore, high-angle
3️⃣ an inside of an enormous library, in the style of red threads, cloudcore, farm security administration aesthetics, intel core, site-specific installation, photo taken with provia, made of vines
4️⃣ the interior of an empty, open library, in the style of precisionist lines, red and black, computer-aided manufacturing, made of vines, photo taken with provia, panoramic scale, piles/stacks
1️⃣ a city with big lighting and many people and buildings, in the style of 32k uhd, dark cyan and dark amber, east village art, anamorphic art, xmaspunk, xu bing, paul lehr
2️⃣ a city scene showing an explosion, in the style of 32k uhd, dark amber and cyan, webcam, chinapunk, #vfxfriday, glass sculptures, marvel comics
3️⃣ the setting of dark space has futuristic buildings with many glowing lights,, in the style of nyc explosion coverage, anamorphic art, bill sienkiewicz, goerz hypergon 6.5mm f/8, atey ghailan, chinese new year festivities, xbox 360 graphics
4️⃣ a futuristic city has many people in it, in the style of webcam photography, dark amber and azure, nyc explosion coverage, xmaspunk, movie still, glass sculpture, high-angle
1️⃣ a building in the middle of the night at a dark scene, in the style of futuristic contraptions, light amber and emerald, toonami, meticulously crafted scenes, carnivalcore, redshift, sam spratt
2️⃣ a modern building lit up like a neon sign in the water, in the style of toonami, fantastical contraptions, dark amber and emerald, matte painting, chiaroscuro sketches, precisionist lines, majismo
3️⃣ neon light illuminates a building at night, in the style of futuristic contraptions, dark amber and teal, toonami, transfixing marine scenes, piles/stacks, redshift, majestic ports
4️⃣ the light reflected in a water scene by night, in the style of cyberpunk dystopia, fantastical contraptions, dark amber and emerald, toonami, floating structures, death burger, giant money sculptures
1️⃣ an image of a city with buildings and an industrial setting, in the style of experimental cinematography, todd mcfarlane, soft atmospheric scenes, zeiss milvus 25mm f/1.4 ze., transfixing marine scenes, horizons, edogawa ranpo
2️⃣ a city with industrial buildings in the distance, in the style of experimental cinematography, todd mcfarlane, soft, dreamy scenes, jesús meneses del barco, hiroshige, movie still, transportcore
3️⃣ an industrial city with many buildings and high rises, in the style of experimental cinematography, transfixing marine scenes, traincore, impressive skies, movie still, hazy, die brücke
4️⃣ an image showing the futuristic city from the sky, in the style of experimental cinematography, slaughterpunk, gritty reportage, unreal landscapes, transfixing marine scenes, shige's visual aesthetic style, industrial horror
1️⃣ a plane in a skyline with lights surrounding it, in the style of sci-fi noir, precisionist lines and shapes, anamorphic lens, rough clusters, intricately mapped worlds, kieron gillen, monumental scale
2️⃣ how ufo-controlled fighters and bombers are going about their night mission, in the style of intricate cityscapes, experimental cinematography, celestialpunk, golden ratio, cinematic view, silver and orange, tightly composed scenes
3️⃣ robots and helicopters in the movie prop, in the style of intricately mapped worlds, kieron gillen, fragmented planes, unconventional use of space, majestic ports, hyperspace noir, silver and orange
4️⃣ yufia gauri - in space warp, in the style of matte painting, meticulous military scenes, celestialpunk, cinematic view, dark gray and amber, golden ratio, playstation 5 screenshot
1️⃣ a sci-fi city with people and a clock tower, in the style of industrial machinery aesthetics, junglecore, dark silver and gold, kinetic installations, action-packed scenes, junglecore, made of all of the above
2️⃣ a city scene showing a wide variety of vehicles and equipment, in the style of zack snyder, fantastical contraptions, light black and gold, cinematic lighting, lively tableaus, steelpunk, movie still
3️⃣ cyberpunk city 2 sakuras, in the style of cybersteampunk, detailed crowd scenes, light black and gold, movie still, fantastical contraptions, walter ernest webster, blink-and-you-miss-it detail
4️⃣ cybertron graphics by de m, in the style of detailed crowd scenes, industrial materiality, light black and gold, movie still, neo-victorian, junglecore, birds-eye-view
1️⃣ a city scene showing a building and some sort of light, in the style of steelpunk, futurist mechanical precision, animated gifs, photo taken with provia, dusty piles, environmental portraiture, piles/stacks
2️⃣ a closeup image of a town with a tall building, in the style of futuristic contraptions, atmospheric shots, firecore, photo taken with provia, rusty debris, mote kei, animated gifs
3️⃣ the modern industrial city has no cars on it, in the style of cinematic stills, fernand toussaint, celestialpunk, piles/stacks, city portraits, rim light, havencore
4️⃣ cyberpunk 2018 new world of warcraft 2 cyberpunk x24, in the style of brutalist architecture, time-lapse photography and film, philippe parreno, floating structures, peter wileman, close-up, piles/stacks
