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Speaking of Norman Rockwell style, here’s a sampling of some I had Bing make using that prompt:

On the topic of “Japanese brush painting, in the style of Yoji Shinkawa”, for some of them I asked for a specific item in a particular color, and the results were gorgeous. They weren’t CoH-related, so I didn’t post them, but here are a few: The above prompt with “medieval knight with a purple cape” + “squire wearing orange cloak carrying a bunch of swords like a golf caddy” + “goblin wearing a red cap welding large knife” + “gryphon with golden feathers and a human for scale” + “wizard wearing a pointy blue hat” …you get the idea. But I mean, check it out: I did hundreds of these! That’s why I haven’t been writing down my prompts. XD

I’ve just become lazy. 😛 I’ve been doing so many iterations that I haven’t been writing them down. These are easy, though. The top two are “Japanese brush painting, in the style of Yoji Shinkawa, (fill in character description here)”. The bottom one is “oil painting, Norman Rockwell style, (character description)”. Unlike Krea or DeviantArt’s Dream Up, Bing AI still works after you’ve used up your 15 credits. But I’ve never had to wait more than a minute when out of credits, so I just keep iterating while doing other things. Tuesday I did them in between Penelope Yin TF missions for Tanker Tuesday, last night it was while we watched TV, tonight it was between Halo matches. Tonight I kept trying to get it to make me a picture of a wingless Chinese dragon fighting a flying European type of dragon, but no matter what prompts I gave it the dang thing kept responding with the same incorrect image. So I burned through my 15 credits and then just keep trying prompt variations.

I've found that with all of these AI programs sometimes the order in which you phrase things has an effect, but I'm not entirely sure what the difference is. It's very much a black box. For instance, I did a bunch of anthropomorphic characters and I wanted them all to have a variation of the game's paw print inside a circle as their common feature. If I put that first, I got paw prints all over the picture, but if I put it last then 9 out of 10 times it added them where I wanted. Sometimes it surprised me, like when it put the paw print on a dog's collar and on a polar bear's belt. After many iterations and squeezing my brain for thesaurus words, I found that "emblem" was the best word to describe what I was looking for. "They have a chest emblem that is a stylized paw print inside a circle." But it took me dozens of attempts to get to that solution. I didn't keep the ones that were far misses, but I kept a few examples. I asked for an anthropomorphic wolf wearing green tights with the paw print. This was the result. Why it rendered a female with long hair I have no idea, probably because the furry community does this, but it was getting close to what I wanted. Same with the caracal, except this time I used the word "emblem". So close! So then I tried moving that specific ask -- "a chest emblem that is a stylized paw print inside a circle" -- to different places in the prompt. Once I put it in last place I got consistent placement with my "wolf wearing green". Except it kept giving me lady wolves with hair. (I also removed the "wearing brown boots" ask because it looked dumb.) So I specifically asked for a male wolf, and that did the trick. After that I simply swapped out different animals and colors. Instead of "wolf" and "green" I did "chimpanzee" and "yellow", or "lion" and "maroon", etc. This was dozens of attempts over a couple weeks, and it was frustrating... until I broke through with the right word placement. Then it was just a matter of plugging in different animals to see what I could get. The program absolutely refuses to make a bull, again probably because of swingers, but substituting buffalo and bison worked. Then I started messing around with camera angles and I decided to try to do a version of the classic Justice League cover where they're all looking up at the viewer. And that's how I ended up with a massive desktop wallpaper-sized version of a bunch of animal characters. I rendered them individually, then took them into a free program called paint.net and pasted them together. It was a lot of work, and i actually forgot to include a couple. Again, check out the bear, panda and Akita on the left side. The program can sometimes surprise you. (Click the pic to see the full size.)

That second one is terrific. A unique blend of items.

It is a bit strange how it sees things. In the Back Alley Brawler one it said he had his arms crossed. No idea how it came to that conclusion.

As Player2 says, you can specify things in the prompt box under Settings. I added “Korean woman in her 20s wearing a traditional Korean outfit” to the prompt for the enhanced version of Mirror Spirit:

Major Mighty and Mighty Lad, 1950 Phantom Fox

Mighty Man Bright Tiger and Bamboom

Boom-Boom the Panda v. Socky the Robot Dread Vilda and the Vampires of Grimmoor

The face is quite good. The legs and arms not quite as good. So do,you have to make skeletons for these or can you just import them over the existing game sprites?

What were you planning on adding to the game before shut-down?

Neat! Although here in New Hampshire we did get a surprise snowstorm (with bonus power outage) a couple weeks ago, so I’m kinda hoping a “sauna is coming”. XD

What it did with the skin pattern is cool.