JAN 2021 | SPECIAL ISSUE
PIXELZINE
OUR STYLE GUIDE BY THE PIXELMIND COMMUNITY
Welcome to Pixelmind Beta, Holders There's something important you must understand before taking advantage of the beta and its full potential. The beta has two distinct parts, with two different use-cases and for two different types of users, though you can try and benefit from both A) The "Create" tab. In the Create tab, you can participate in collections designed by Pixelmind's team and other artists. You can select a Series, and create a piece within the series. If you want to participate in the series, please I ask you to carefully read their descriptions, what the artist expects of you. For instance, in the Cities collection, the artist expects you to complete the sentence "Enjoy the city of ....*", so he (me) is expecting the Name of the City first, and then some attributes, for instance: "New York City, Central Park under a sandstorm". Pixelzine | 1
B) The Imaginarium. The Imaginarium is where you can input custom queries, source images, and even Advanced queries where you can select the AI model used, width and height, and many other options. The Imaginarium is for artists that want to have complete control of the outcome, as you have been doing with the Discord bot over the last weeks.
Why Collections? Now, the question you will have is "WHY THE HELL did the guys at Pixelmind thought about collections? We just want to create freely as we have been doing for the last months!". Well,
you
are
probably
someone
enthusiastic about creation, an early user that wants to deal with all the complex parameters and find the perfect query
for
your
project.
However,
Collections allow for a very specific feature which lies in the long-term vision of
the
team,
which
is:
Curated
Collections. Image generated from the Flyover Cities Series by Architect Pixelzine | 3
Right now, I understand you'll have little
At the same time, collections make your
interest in participating in collections
life easier. The Team has created
created by unknown artists like me (for
collections
instance), but what if one day the
Banners, for instance, that will offer
collection has been curated by Fidenza's
beautiful results for most of the users
Tyler Hobbs (hypothesis, not an actual
and case-scenarios. There are also Pixel
collaboration in the horizon that I know
Art Quest collections, with prizes for the
of). The team is sure you'll want to be a
best pieces, don't forget to participate
part of that collection and mint your
in those.
piece, and that the collection might
That's the how and why of Create
attract lots of new users to the platform. This is the reasoning behind Collections.
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