We got in touch with Trevor to ask him more about this project. We got curious about how he came up with the idea to transform people's beloved characters into kiddos. The man replied that he was reading the first "Lord of the Rings" book and thought, 'Wow, it would be really neat to turn these iconic characters into cute babies.' "At the same time, I had just subscribed to Midjourney and started my first set of characters. 'Little Fellowship' turned out to be an apt name. After the positive response to 'Lord of the Rings', I decided to try popular characters from 'Harry Potter' and 'Star Wars'!"
Trevor told us a bit about himself: "I’m married and an English teacher from America living in South Korea. I love my wife and my students more than anything. I wake up happy to go to work every day. The kids are elementary and middle school-aged. I take a lot of creative pride in English/Korean riddles I have made for my children. They really enjoy them. My riddles have been featured on the famous 'Hey Riddle Riddle' podcast."
We asked Trevor how he reacted to the results generated by the AI. He replied that he didn’t actually anticipate the AI to function as well as it did. "Baby Legolas was one of the first characters I created. When the image I generated popped up, I immediately knew I had to finish the project. I was in awe. It was way too cute. I showed my friends and family before posting and even got some input from my buddy Josh to help me make a few tough decisions. I had two really great pictures for Gimli. I consulted Josh and he suggested the image that ended up in the final set.
After posting all three sets of characters, I got a lot of attention from the Midjourney community. There were countless reactions, comments and friend requests. Even more, a really handsome online journalist named Hidreley asked me to share my work! Can you believe it?"
We asked Trevor to elaborate a bit more about the process of image generating on Midjourney. He explained that AI generation works by entering a word prompt and asking the computer to generate an image based on what you have typed in. "I have used long, drawn-out prompts before. However, these image prompts were fairly simple. In general. I just wrote 'baby (character name).' Sometimes I’d try to get specific expression modifiers like 'anger' for Anakin Skywalker or 'crying' for Sheev Palpatine."
"Rey Skywalker took one attempt or 'roll' and about 60 seconds to generate. That was incredibly lucky. Other characters, like Count Dooku, never made the cut. I rolled hundreds of times and couldn’t quite get the results I wanted. In total? I think the process thus far took a couple of thousand rolls over the course of a week or two."
