Dynamo-Joe

Kara Skye is far more on point here than in the earlier attempt I made.

My Fair World Asian Undersea Kingdom Princess Umi No Hayabusa. You may have seen her some time back in the "best costumes" thread. Now letting Krea take a crack at her. For the most part I'm REALLY liking this! (Just don't focus too closely on her hands. Krea sometimes does VERY strange things with hands. I think part of it might be the "Mitten Hands" of the default COH creator giving Krea trouble) (BTW - if you're wondering about this "Fair World" reference - ever read the late great Aaron Allston's Doc Sidhe duology? Yeah - imagine she's from THERE - and is merely from a part of that world that Aaron didn't cover in great detail - the far east. ) EDIT: One more to throw in the mix:

Oh... my... god... You are so right. There NEEDS TO BE A MODEL of this! Maybe somehow translate it into various pieces that can be 3D printed separately and make the statue that way? Or is it even possible to print the entire thing in one go? Then you have to figure out how to PAINT the thing... That would be an amazing project if it could be done!

Remember my Space Pirate from earlier? Captain Azure Dupree? Well I had a version of her over in Champions Online. Krea actually brings the CO version more in-line with the COH version and gets rid of the more "cartoony" aspects of the art! (And yes - she has a cybernetic right arm. So does the COH version, though it's less obvious in the main costume. She also has one near fully cybernetic leg and the other is augmented heavily to keep up with the other and to balance her properly. She nearly died in the attack on her ship that caused her to go Pirate. She's about 40% Cyborg.)

So - back to Cyberman 8. I decided to let Krea work on a larger "portrait" style and see what happens. Which at first glance didn't seem to really DO very much - until I looked more closely at the face. I LIKE what Krea did with the face! His eyes were in fact always supposed to be colorless in the irises. It was supposed to be one of the tiny little bits of "Uncanny valley" that set C8 apart in his default form. But at the same time - this face is in some ways kinda warm, Despite the lack of color. Well done! At this point I decided to let Krea do some 'Interpretive" work out of curiosity. So I changed settings to "re-interpretative" and ramped the "resemblance back from about 40% down to 30%. Hmm... O... kay. It put color BACK in the eyes, but made his face MORE artificial looking. I don't know why the AI wants to make the EYEBROWS RED of all things. And I don't know why the background color is bleeding into the left chest area. But it's interesting. Let's ramp the resemblance down to 20% More of the same - the face is both MORE and LESS artificial looking and the eyes are glowing blue now. But WHAT THE HECK is going on with the V ornament on the helmet in the back there!? Let's try it at 10% resemblance... Okay - more weirdness with the helmet - the face is DEFINITELY a plastic mask now. And that bleed-through on the left chest is still ongoing. I do like what it's been doing with the arms being more obviously mechanical looking on all iterations including this one. Well... Let's go ALL the way - Resemblance factor... ZERO PERCENTAGE. Krea... All I can say is... WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT??? 😱

Okay - so close-ups work. Full body... hit or miss. The SWEET SPOT seems to be zoomed in to a 3/4 shot. Now... how CONSISTANT can Krea be given a single character with multiple variations? Let's find out. Here's Sirene Sieben (Siren 7) a female android with a human "ghost" inside rather than a machine AI like Cyberman 8. Yes - there's some backstory there - but it's fairly straightforward. She's number 7 and he's number 8. (WHO IS NUMBER ONE? You are, Number Six!) Ahem... sorry. Referential nerd humor aside there. 😏 Sirene's Base costume Same costume as above, but with tactical visor in place. (And it actually rendered it PROPERLY! Nice!) Sirene herself would fully admit that the goggles and scarf are COMPLETELY accessories and affectations. Reconfigured as a Vanguard operative. This is something Sirene wears in Pocket D. Inspired by the style seen in Tron: Legacy.

I did a Krea enhancement of my Space Pirate Azure Dupree. And I FINALLY got it to acknowledge the cyber-eye! The first version (not shown here) looked like the Terminator "open wound" showing metal underneath flesh.. Ick. But This one - not bad. I'm okay with this. Still... Krea really... REALLY... Likes wrinkles. And when it gets a costume that already HAS them. Wow. I've noticed though - that Krea does MUCH better with close up portraits than full body action. With that in mind, I tried the following. And... WOW... NIce!

And here's something completely different. This is from the game Elite Dangerous. And this is Commander Logan Darklighter. This is actually based off a relatively small pic that pops up on a display when you're checking the menu for gear, ship upgrades, suit and weapon upgrades and the like. But Krea did a LOT - and the detail really does look like it came out of the Elite Dangerous game - just with ALL the graphics sliders to MAXIMUM!!

Dynamo Banshee - ready for action!

Ronin Barbatos (with a few unauthorized upgrades courtesy of the NPC Icon character generator) enhanced by Krea.

I was satisfied with this Krea enhancement of my bounty hunter character Hunter Rose - except that it doesn't seem to know what to do with eye coverings. I tried several times with various text mods to have "right cyber-eye" "Cyber-replacement right eye" and various iterations. Nope. Can't do it. Everything ELSE is great though!

Interesting what it does with the Cel Shading mods - including the outlining!

The incredible amount and style of detail the AI added to the helmet visor is quite impressive! Beautiful!

Holy... I did NOT expect Sister Argenta to wind up looking THAT GOOD!!! WOW!!! 😍

Ah yes - now THAT'S the detail I was looking for!

I tried to enhance Kara Skye here and was initially unsatisfied. Something about the face the system seemed to get wrong. Made her look cross-eyed and just... Wrong somehow. I guess it was triggering an "uncanny valley" response in me. So I went over to the side and opened up the "advanced options" and started messing around. And I bumped some sliders back and forth and got something rather unexpected. The face and body was MUCH closer to being spot on. But the details in how it all was rendered... Well! Looks more like an OIL PAINTING that you'd hang up! Not precisely what I was going for - but I'll take it! As Bob Ross might've put it - a happy little accident! 😆

I suppose the advantage for enhancement of a Mecha based character is that most of the work has already been done FOR the AI interpreter already in the form of sharper more defined angles and such. EDIT: Interesting how it re-interpreted the head design as more of an integrated smooth look overall rather than the rather distinct pieces making it up in the game.

Original Screenshot of Cyberman 8 And - how Krea interprets it. I might not have put quite so much segmentation into the metal - particularly the helmet - but the fact that Krea properly "GOT" that a "metal" look was what the intent was is impressive. Also - I'm not sure - but I don't think the shoulder details quite match. But still - the overall effect is about 98% spot on! I'm happy with it!

The absolute ROASTING in the comments section is hilarious and incredibly ON POINT! -------------------- "Close your eyes, What do you see?" "I see todays sponsor: Raid Shadow Legends" -------------------- "Close your eyes" Alien: "I can't" -------------------- Youngling: "I see fire" Master: "Wrong universe" -------------------- MASTER "Close your eyes, what do you see?" YOUNGLING: "THE MESSAGE!!!!!" -------------------- “Close your eyes. Your eyes can deceive you… tell me, what comes into your mind?” “A perfect ESG score, Master” -------------------- "Close your eyes, What do you see?" " Harvey Weinstein" -------------------- "What do you see?" "Disney stocks going down and down and down" -------------------- "Close your eyes, what do you see?" "The Cult of Personality" -------------------- Jedi Master: Close your eyes. Youngling: ...I don't wanna, Hollywood has a bad track record with younglings... (oof...) --------------------

Now this... this is EVIL. Also nerdy - but EVIL!!!

Ah yes - one of the all-time classics of Mecha Anime! And almost unbelievably - it's by "Kill 'em All" Tomino - the main driving creator behind Gundam for most of it's existence! This was basically Tomino "chilling out" and relaxing with a COMEDY series that spoofs all the major tropes of the Robot Genre as it had become at that time. Or - In other words - somebody slipped Tomino the GOOD STUFF and he got extremely high and mellow and produced this cross between a Giant Robot show and a Monty Python movie! TOTALLY off-character for him when you see all the rest of his work!