Cthulhu’s Dreams

This was one of my first videos that I think I was able to strike a balance on the look and feel I was going for with the prompts I used in Disco Diffusion.

I have always been a fan of the dark type of imagery and Cthulhu being one of the things I remember as a kid which scared the hell out of me.

This was a 500 Frame animation that I used Flow Frames to interpolate the 500 frames to 60fps with a 2x slow down. I felt after a few tests that this was the speed I was looking for in this video.

If anyone is interested I can do a tutorial on using Flow Frames.

As As for the look and feel, unfortunately I can’t find the original file with all my settings but I do remember the base prompt and some settings in DD that I usually start out with for this type of look.

Basic Settings

Base Prompt – “A Cosmic Entity Call of Cthulhu by Tyler Edlin trending on Artstation”
CLIP Guidance Scale – 35,000
Frame Scale – 35,000
Saturation Scale – 10,000 (I think this really lead to uniqueness of the colors)
3D Animation Mode Translate Z – 0:(6)

I wish I had all my original settings but i’ll do a better job of keeping them in safe places.

Also I think this was maybe my 100th animation test with DD so I was still getting my feet wet on tweaking the settings to my personal liking.

Prompts

I was really trying to capture what Cthulhu may dream about, so I spent a bit of time doing some research on various prompts that matched what I wanted my computer to dream up.