Trike

Sometimes it just works. So random.

Trying The Phantom again and this time it kinda worked. Go figure. The pic with all the accoutrements is really interesting. i wonder what it was pulling from to get that? I never changed anything in the prompt, just kept re-entering it. Prompt: "Art Station style, oil painting style, 1930s pulp magazine, a pulp hero similar to The Phantom except his outfit is green and black, full cowl, blank eyes, green and black pinstripe leggings, black boots"

Kaiju attacks Steel Canyon! Simple prompt: "Art Station style, several heroes blasting a giant plant-like kaiju".

The second one looks like you could replicate it in game almost exactly. That’s clearly the Diablo top.

Night hunters. Another perfect rendition first time out that caused me to keep pushing the button to see more iterations. Ended up with a couple dozen, and amazingly only a couple had Batman or Nightwing clones. i don’t recall the exact prompt, but something like “night city, full moon [later crescent moon], low camera angle, male hero wearing blue and silver tights looking at the camera, standing next to him is a female hero wearing green and gold tights looking at the camera, both standing on building ledge”. Later added “robot owl” and “cyborg owl” which didn’t really add anything. i could show them all, but here’s a decent sample. i made a lot of ‘em. 😛

A nice soothing bath after the battle. This one took forever. It kept returning bizarre versions. The original pics had spot-on Captain Marvel suits, I guess because she’s the only superhero associated with a house cat. So I used various other color combos to avoid that. Prompt: ”late afternoon sun, a freestanding bathtub full of steaming water, green and silver superhero outfit folded neatly on a wooden stool, a golden sword leans against wall, a cat sleeps on the windowsill, a few potted plants nearby”

I tried to do a version of The Phantom too and the results were bizarre. Some were interesting, but worlds away from what I was going for. I don’t know why it has that blank spot. I get a ton of Superman, Batman, Iron Man and Spider-Man clones (see selfie post above), but no Phantom. I also ran into the “no” issue, and trying to modify an existing picture by trying variations of “remove” and “delete” weren’t being parsed. One time it removed a leg. Hilarious, but I was trying to delete a cape.

The Leonardo algorithm I linked to upthread for the Purple Fairy allows you to upload a picture or pictures as reference, then choose how closely you want it to mimic it. Sometimes it works fine but other times it feels random. I tried a couple modified pics the other day and it kept returning zoomed-in pictures where you could only see torsos. Ran out of free tokens trying to get it to work, but it might be something for you to try,

Many of these look like cool book covers. I’ve been going the opposite way, trying for minimalist backgrounds. What prompts did you use for these?

These are really complex. What sort of prompts are you using? Bing is uniformly hilarious in how it scrambles words. I’ve had some weird insertions in mine, too. Of these I particularly like “City of Heroees” - sounds like a town full of rescued folks. Briickstown!

Bing AI prompt: “a group of teenage superheroes taking a team selfie after defeating some villains, wide angle” For some reason a young Kenny Loggins showed up in one. Maybe they rescued him? Modified ask: “a group of teenage superheroes taking a team selfie after defeating some villains, wide angle, outdoors city street, debris and wreckage all around” Second mod: “cel shaded style, a group of teenage superheroes taking a team selfie after defeating some villains, wide angle, outdoors city street, debris and wreckage all around”

This guy, though... oof. With Kung Fu Panda and WoW's Pandaren, I had a hard time convincing the machine to give me something that was "not those". Boom-Boom the Panda was one of my more popular characters back on Live. He won several costume contests despite being incredibly simple. It makes sense that his son Bamboom would follow in dad's footsteps.

Yet another instance where AI got it right the first time. These are the only two images I generated for Steelstriker.

I have variations of every type of fox, but Desert Fox has never really come out to my satisfaction, mostly because I envision her as a Fennec. In this case, the AI is way better.

When I did the AI tango for Monster Trucker, I honestly forgot I'd given him horns. The curse of 600* alts. 😛 *611

It actually is. 😆

Meanwhile, Trike’s alts just on Excelsior go to lunch…

Can someone help me with this? “Too many alts”? Wha-? It sounds like gibberish. Is there a Google Translate setting I’m missing?

I don’t understand. What language is this?

Citizen Robot and Comrade Automaton locked in a Cold War conflict.

Last one today, I promise. Haardvark! I love Haardvark. This is one of those bios where I cracked myself up while writing it, and I love how the outfit came together. I described the character and every time it iterated, he was giving a thumb's up, which I didn't ask for. I assume the ones where there are two characters that one is either his "guy in the chair" or he's standing next to the empty armor. I can't choose which one I like best. Maybe the first one. But I do like the helmet in the last one.

Miss Slay. I've never been crazy about the name but I love the costume. In game it really pops. These are the only 3 images it generated, but i like each of them for different reasons, and saw no reason to go back for more.

Hercules Jr. This one took a lot of circling. First it gave me little kids, then super-muscled giants... and it never once got a cyclops right. Specifying that he was a "lean 20 year old" and describing his outfit seemed to do the trick, although it only rendered his breastplate one out of 4 times for some reason. The 3-footed roc was weird, but not as strange as the floating-head hydra. A little clean-up in post will fix those, but here are the images straight from the algorithm. No idea why it changed style for the pegasus; I didn't ask for that.

Freempunk! Obviously just a CoH-specific pun but I actually quite liked how he turned out. I inputted his description into Bing, simply noting his clothes and the beam rifle, trying to describe his facial hair. But when I got these images back 2 minutes later I quite literally sat there gobsmacked, just saying, "Oh wow," over and over. Absolutely amazing.

Frankenstein Mobster. From the get-go these were pretty good. I went with "atmospheric 1940s film noir gangsters" for the scene. Small tweaks like asking for his crew to be all human and for Frank to tower over them, plus give him a fedora, really nailed it down. At that point I just kept pushing that button because I loved every iteration. I want to see this movie. Check out the sign in the last image. It came up with that completely on its own.