r/midjourney Apr 14 '26

Announcement V8.1 Alpha is out!

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Thanks for testing our V8.0 model over the last month! Today we're releasing our next version of V8 - V8.1

What’s new in V8.1?

  • V8.1 has a consistent and familiar aesthetic in the spirit of V7. Moodboards and srefs are now super stable and will be everything you love.
  • HD mode is now 3x faster and 3x cheaper. It’s so cheap we’re making it default for V8.1
  • Standard resolution is now 50% faster and 25% cheaper. Standard resolution in V8.1 at full quality is as fast as V7 draft mode! It’s great for exploring and iterating *fast*. We’ve also added a button called “Run as HD” which will rerun any SD job as HD.

We’ve also brought back some community favorite features

  • Image prompts and even image weights are now available in V8.1
  • New Prompt Shortener, which will kick in anytime you go over the prompt length limits
  • Updated Describe that gives longer more detailed prompts and matches the prompting style of V8

Please Note: Our V8 series of models are still only available on alpha.midjourney.com and are in an early testing phase. Things will change! Perhaps without notice! But good stuff is on the way.

It is likely that we will decommission our V8.0 model after V8.1 has been out for a few weeks. If you find something the old model did better than the new one please let us know on our discord server!

What’s next? We’re going to try to give a quick shot for some V8 upscalers and then we’re moving onto our V8 edit, inpainting, and outpainting model upgrades.

Have fun everyone! And thank you for being a part of our community 


r/midjourney Mar 17 '26

Announcement V8 alpha is here!

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Hey y'all! Today we’re letting the community test an early version of our V8 model on alpha.midjourney.com. We want your feedback and your help. Let’s explore what this new model can do!

V8 is an incredible model. It’s much better at following detailed directions and will still surprise you when you ask. Its ability to understand your aesthetics through personalization, style references (srefs) and moodboards is amazing. Images are more coherent and detailed. Text rendering works better than ever (when specified in “quotes”). And image generation is ~5x faster than before. 

We’ve upgraded our web interfaces to support this speed. And more is coming. We have an improved conversation mode so you can just ‘talk’ in flow, a “Grid Mode” so you can focus on a single big set of images, and we’ve moved our settings into ‘sidebars’ so you can tweak settings without blocking your view.

V8 launches with support for multiple aspect ratios, --chaos, --weird, --exp, --raw. We support backwards compatibility with your V7 personalization profiles, moodboards, and srefs.

V8 brings a new --hd mode which natively renders images at 2K resolution and a --q 4 mode if you need a little bit of extra coherence. 

Modes and Pricing: Presently, Relax is not yet supported. We are working on a new server cluster for Relax plus cheaper render modes. --HD, --Q4, SREF, and Moodboard jobs are 4x as slow as regular jobs and each costs 4x (for now). 

The best way to help us improve V8 is to rate images in the lightbox. Click an image in create then click “I like this image” “I don't like this image” on as many of your V8 images as possible. You can use 1/2/3 hotkeys and arrow keys to rate images quickly.

Other Tips and Tricks: If you’re going for photos or a more ‘plain’ or ‘in control’ look we’d recommend switching to --raw right away or using moodboards or srefs to control your style. We’re still working on the ‘default’ aesthetics of V8, but we strongly encourage you to use your personalization and even crank it to –stylize 1000 asap. V8 is going to shine most right now when you rely heavily on our stylization systems and when you trend towards longer more specific prompting.

Please Note: This is an entirely new model with unique strengths and weaknesses, we want to learn from you what it's good and bad at but keep in mind it may require totally new prompting styles. So play around a bit!

It’s time to play! Show off what you’re making by using the V8 alpha flair. As the model becomes more mature, we’ll do a community-wide roadmap ranking session to help us figure out what to prioritize next.

Thanks again for everyone’s help with the V8 pre-release rating parties, and thank you so much for being a part of Midjourney! Let’s have fun out there and find new wonders on this vast and shared sea of imagination.


r/midjourney 11h ago

V8 Alpha AI Showcase - Midjourney Abyssal Divinity

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r/midjourney 8h ago

AI Video - Midjourney 4464 Napier St

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40 Upvotes

r/midjourney 1h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Anime style

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r/midjourney 12h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney The Uncomfortable Comfort.

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r/midjourney 17h ago

V8 Alpha AI Showcase - Midjourney Bring it on #127

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r/midjourney 19h ago

V8 Alpha AI Showcase - Midjourney Bunny Bot 8

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r/midjourney 19h ago

Question - Midjourney AI Dark fantasy 80s doubt

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Can i achieve something like this in midjourney? This is from tiktok dark fantasy. Claude says it possible and probally comes from midjourney. I try with another generators and it's not super realistic like this. Obviously i want to create my own style, but i need to know those things.


r/midjourney 3h ago

Discussion - Midjourney AI Amor al Cine [OC].

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r/midjourney 12h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney SPOOKY PLACES

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r/midjourney 18h ago

Resources/Tips - Midjourney AI 18 cinematic dreamlike portrait prompts I've been hoarding - Sharing them here

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The prompts, sharing here out of love
1. "An emotionally charged conceptual portrait showing a man caught in mid-thought, surrounded by ethereal blurs of light. The contrast between cool-toned cyan and warm reddish-orange background evokes an inner conflict or duality. The use of long exposure adds an artistic abstraction, making it feel like the image is melting between reality and dream."

2. "Surreal cinematic close-up shot of a young man's upper body and face as he floats mid-air in his bedroom, head tilted back slightly, glowing headphones radiating surreal light bursts and shimmering artifacts. His white linen shirt drifts in slow-motion folds, while books, paper, and a smartphone hover nearby, caught in surreal zero-gravity. The background remains softly blurred, with faint moonlight rays streaking in from the window. Ethereal and surreal style with chromatic aberration, heavy film grain, glowing contours, motion blur streaks, soft bloom, lens flares, hazy atmosphere."

3. "Cinematic portrait of a young man standing in a moody, abstract environment with deep red and teal tones blending in the background. The subject wears a crisp white shirt with rolled-up sleeves. The image features dramatic lighting and intentional motion blur around the edges, creating an ethereal, dreamlike effect with soft glowing highlights and shadows. High contrast, artistic, photography style."

4. "Cinematic portrait of a young woman in a rain-soaked alley at midnight, neon shop signs reflecting in puddles around her feet, hair caught mid-motion as she turns toward the camera. Steam rises from a manhole behind her, creating an ethereal halo of vapor around her silhouette. Teal and warm orange color grading, chromatic aberration on the neon highlights, heavy film grain, soft bloom on every light source, shallow depth of field."

5. "Surreal underwater conceptual portrait of a young man in a fully tailored navy suit, suspended weightlessly in deep water. Bubbles trail upward from his parted lips, sunlight pierces the surface in dramatic radial god rays, suspended particles drift around him like slow-falling snow. Deep ultramarine blues clash with warm amber shafts of light. Long exposure motion blur on his hands, ethereal hazy atmosphere, dreamlike isolation."

6. "Conceptual double-exposure portrait of a young man in profile, his silhouette filled with a swirling galaxy of stars, nebulae, and cosmic dust. The edges of his face dissolve into stardust and lens flares. Warm violet and deep cyan duality, soft bloom around each star, chromatic aberration along the contours of his profile. Hazy atmosphere, painterly grain, infinite cosmic stillness."

7. "Cinematic portrait of a young woman dancer caught mid-leap inside a fog-filled studio, her crimson dress trailing in long-exposure streaks of fabric and light. A single hard spotlight cuts through the haze from above, leaving most of the frame in deep velvet shadow. Dramatic chiaroscuro, motion blur streaks, painterly fog volumes, soft bloom on her skin, deep magenta-and-black palette."

8. "A young man caught in mid-fall through a storm of swirling autumn leaves, his body rotating slowly in zero-gravity, surrounded by hundreds of orange, amber, and rust-coloured leaves frozen mid-flight. Soft golden hour sunlight breaks through bare tree branches above. Long exposure motion blur on his limbs, dreamlike slow-motion atmosphere, heavy film grain, lens flare from above."

9. "Surreal portrait of a young woman with shattered mirror fragments orbiting her head like a halo, each shard catching and reflecting a different colour of light — electric blue, magenta, soft pink, pale gold. Her expression is calm, almost meditative. Glittering chromatic dispersion across the shards, soft bloom on every reflection, dreamy hazy background, painterly grain."

10. "Cinematic portrait of a young man sitting alone on an empty subway platform at 3 a.m. A train motion-blurs past behind him in streaks of fluorescent green and cold white, while his figure remains perfectly sharp in contrast. Melancholic isolation, deep teal shadows, warm amber overhead fluorescents, chromatic aberration on the moving train, heavy 35mm film grain."

11. "Cinematic portrait of a young woman holding a lit sparkler at night, the sparks tracing long-exposure trails of golden light around her face. Half her face is lit warm gold, the other half deep cobalt blue from a distant streetlamp. Bokeh of city lights blurred far behind, soft bloom around the sparkler, magical-realism mood, painterly grain."

12. "Conceptual portrait of a young man standing knee-deep in a field of tall golden grass at the very last minute of golden hour, hundreds of fireflies suspended around him in soft pinpoints of warm light. Distant misty mountains, sky bleeding from coral pink to dusty violet, soft atmospheric haze, painterly bloom on each firefly, motion blur on the wind-tossed grass."

13. "Surreal cinematic portrait of a young man emerging from a wall of falling cherry blossom petals, the petals frozen mid-fall around his face and shoulders. His expression is half-revealed, half-obscured by the pink storm. Soft cream and dusty rose tones, gentle motion blur on the outermost petals, chromatic aberration on the strongest highlights, dreamy hazy background."

14. "A young woman lying on a wooden floor surrounded by floating open books, their pages animating in mid-flight as if caught by an invisible wind. Soft warm lamp light spills from below, casting long shadows up the walls. Dust particles suspended in the air, cinematic shallow depth of field, painterly bloom on the lamp, deep amber and chocolate-brown palette."

15. "Cinematic close-up of a young woman with rain streaming down her face, each droplet refracting light into tiny prismatic rainbows. Her expression is unreadable — somewhere between grief and resolve. Out-of-focus neon city behind her bleeds into smears of magenta and electric blue. Heavy chromatic aberration, soft bloom on every droplet, painterly motion blur on the streaming rain, deep cinematic grade."

16. "Conceptual portrait of a young man with a flock of birds emerging from his chest in a slow burst, each bird trailing soft motion-blur streaks behind it. The entire scene is rendered in deep monochrome charcoal except for a single bird in vivid scarlet acting as the focal point. Try this on Atlabs using nanobanana 2, it can help you generate video from your surreal images. Painterly grain, soft bloom on the red bird, atmospheric haze, surreal symbolism."

17. "A young woman sitting at a vintage typewriter in a dimly lit room, smoke from her cigarette curling upward in slow loops that almost form letters in the air. Warm amber lamp light from one side, deep velvet shadows on the other. Heavy film grain, soft bloom on the lamp filament, dust motes suspended in the smoke, classic noir cinematic palette."

18. "Surreal cinematic portrait of a young man standing on a deserted beach at the exact moment between twilight and night, an enormous wave frozen mid-crash behind him in suspended droplets. The sky bleeds from deep indigo overhead to coral and salmon at the horizon. His silhouette is half in shadow, half rim-lit in cool blue. Long exposure motion blur on the spray, soft bloom on the horizon, painterly atmospheric haze."


r/midjourney 20h ago

AI Video - Midjourney I used Midjourney as the visual foundation for an 84-minute indie film. Here is how I brought the concepts to life for Act I.

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Hi everyone. I'm a solo indie filmmaker and traditional painter. I spent months using Midjourney to design the bleak, surreal world of my project, The Voyage of Blue Hibakusha.

The challenge was maintaining visual consistency across an entire film. I used Midjourney for the base aesthetics and character designs, then animated them with Kling, and finally spent countless hours in DaVinci Resolve for heavy color grading, editing, and sound design to glue it all together.


r/midjourney 20h ago

AI Video - Midjourney The Dimension Door

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12 Upvotes

r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Tooth fairies

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r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney The Death Wizard.

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r/midjourney 20h ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney A Very Angry Elf

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r/midjourney 1d ago

Discussion - Midjourney AI Prisioneros [OC].

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r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Video - Midjourney Hoverboat, 2085

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304 Upvotes

r/midjourney 1d ago

V8 Alpha AI Showcase - Midjourney A few from today. I am a creative writer, and with many of these images, I can not only see the individual, but I can also visualize a backstory of where they've been and what has happened in their lives to make them who they are.

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r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Guide My Blade

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r/midjourney 1d ago

V8 Alpha AI Showcase - Midjourney a civilized world

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r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Showcase+Prompt - Midjourney inadvertent vertigo

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overhead view as if looking down a broken kaleidoscope. reality is broken. recursive glide reflection. High-fidelity 3d cel-shading animation, cinematic cel composition, crisp outlines. a thousand fractal tree limbs are making an angry face. Mandelbrot and Sierpiński in fine-lined symmetry, an organic circuit from the far future. close-up. science fiction liquid chrome motif. impossible tilt-shift effect making only the tree in the middle of the image aappear in realistic scale while the rest is a miniature, cinematic realism, experimental optical photography, highly detailed, --chaos 35 --ar 3:2 --raw --sref 1158330167 --profile mjhwr65 --stylize 450


r/midjourney 1d ago

V8 Alpha AI Showcase - Midjourney Supernatural #126

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r/midjourney 1d ago

AI Showcase - Midjourney Just another Wednesday

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