Prompter Mag 🐴 Tiny Animals

The smallest Midjourney animals you've never seen

Weeks ago there was a super cute wave of tiny animals going around social media, my favorites were tiny zebras and bears perfectly nested inside a 12-finger hand cocoon. Some were great some were not, some looked super real and some looked like realistic dolls. So I set out to make the perfect mini animals the world has ever seen…

And I think we did it… oh yes, we freakin did it.

Because You Just Can’t Resist
A Tiny Little Hippo

Let’s try something new this week, it will shorter (or should we say tinier) than usual, but maybe this will be a good way to introduce some of the stuff I do that never gets to see the light these days.

Early Mistakes

Let’s first look at some of my early “mistakes” making these tiny little animals, and keep in mind I wanted to make these in V6 or V6.1 to get the most realistic animals possible and I have been trying to sharpen my short-prompt skills, these new models are great at understanding very short and straightforward prompts.

Ok, so the prompt for the image above is:

close up photo of a hand holding a tiny miniature full grown lion

And although I don’t hate it (how could you), there are so many things that are not right here: 1) Good attempt at wiry hair like a real lion, but this is obviously a doll 2) the way his paws hug the thumb is legit enough but it’s still way too big and not really communicating the cuteness level we need 3) the whiskers are totally off 4) the background is too busy 5) what is that weird flower stem thing on the top right, nobody knows.

Above is another example of these issues, not realistic, looks like a doll, still way too big. This was the prompt used:

holding a tiny t rex

Maybe I went too simple on that one, but you really should try everything, start simple and build from there, or start big and edit the crap out of it, your choice.

So, after these two simple prompt experiments I had a few important findings about the key tokens used:

• “close up photo” gives me studio photography vibes with things like weird flower stalks or studio backgrounds

• “hand” or “holding” makes the animal too big, and focuses too much on the hand itself

• “tiny” or “miniature” is strongly tied to figurines and little dolls called miniatures and we need real not realistic

That was apparently all my brilliantly genius millennial mind needed in order to craft…

🥳 The Perfect Tiny Animal Prompt: