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How To Turn 2D Midjourney Images Into 3D Scenes And Story Worlds
Three-step guide to three-dimensional imagery

With Midjourney becoming insanely good at creating visually compelling story worlds, the question becomes how we can further utilize these images for effective storytelling.
And they can not only be used as writing tools for brainstorming, pre-visualization and pitching… they can also be transformed into three-dimensional experiences, opening up entirely new possibilities
In this little 3-step guide we will look at
- what a depth map is,
- how to create depth maps from your 2D images and
- how to combine depth maps & 2D images to create a 3D story worlds
Since images say more than words: what we are going to do is to go from a Midjourney generated image like this:

… to moving in a 3D scene like this:

Step 1: Generate images
I guess most of my readers are already familiar with this part. :)
If not, here are a couple of articles that will get you going on your AI image generation journey:






For this tutorial I will use an image generated with a simple prompt like this
/imagine prompt: landscape on mars --style raw --v…