Month September 2022

AI Generated Art – Rejects

Captain Mayor Brooks

Despite how good some of the art has turned out, there’s a lot of trial and error. I was mostly doing this when I was too tired in the evening to edit properly, and it turned out to be fun, even if most attempts were misses. Here’s some memorable ones (with a few others on Apollonia’s post).

Attempts at the Craton have never turned out well.

I have no idea why it’s just a yellow technicolor sphere.
This one is somewhat closer, though still not great. A least it looks like a ship! The general shape is right, though the Craton has very long and thin towers with lasers on them (navigation lasers for incinerating space debris or incoming enemy missiles), and trailing heat radiators. The front also has a large shield cone and there are visible surface areas that are still rock from the cratonic asteroid it was created from.

Attempts at Urle have gone one of two directions.

Excessively handsome face on a fully-robot body OR

Fully cyber robot-code-machine man.

None of these are quite what Urle looks like.

Attempts for Pirra have all been doomed to failure, but this one is interesting.

I rather like the general elements of the body. It looks inhuman and neat, though Dessei are much thinner than humans. However, the general coloration is quite good. The lack of head, though . . .
This one at least got a head, though it looks like some kind of alien goblin.
The AI went full avant garde.
It got too obsessed with feathers for awhile and really wanted to make Pirra human even though I did not include words implying that.
This is fairly close, though Pirra’s head is not this human-like. It’s almost perfectly round, to be honest, and she has no noticeable cheeks like this. Or ears. Or lips. Okay, this is nothing like her.

Finally I’ll throw out a couple more Apollonia rejects!

This one reminds me of a young singer/actress who worked for Disney, though her name escapes me.
This one is real nightmare fuel. And I have no idea why it started to create a second image on the left.

Okay, tomorrow will be the cover reveal for Episode 7! Stay tuned!

A Better Apollonia

Captain Mayor Brooks

Still playing around with that AI in my off-hours (working eleven hour days the last few days, so I have little energy, but still making progress on Episode 7’s release – it’s nearly there!).

I quite like this attempt at making Apollonia. While the eyes are a bit inhuman, the rest of the face is pretty decent. These AIs are pretty hit or miss and I think a few times it literally just muddled an image of certain actresses.

I also attempted to make Kiseleva, who was introduced last episode and will continue to play a role in the story this episode (as a supporting character).

The AI went the route of beauty again, but you know – I think that’s okay. Normally I try quite hard to avoid the whole “every woman is a supermodel” kind of trope that many writers fall into (especially in sci-fi). But sure, AI – you win this one, and Kiseleva would be considered beautiful. You’re still never going to see me describe her bust line – she will keep that information private.

AI Generated Art – Jaya Yaepanaya

Captain Mayor Brooks

Continuing with AI-generated art, here is Jaya!

This one came out excellent, really capturing the character well – as well as having a fantastic space background! This really has future “photo day background” vibes.

As per usual, I should add that the uniform is not accurate to the SU, just the best the AI could do with generating a blue space uniform. It really is impressive how good it does, though, even if we get odd things like a red tie turning blue and becoming buttons.

This image was a close runner-up:

Though it does not quite look . . . human.

Tomorrow, as a treat, I will show off some of the more horrifying results I got . . . including my attempts at Urle, the Craton, and Pirra! Trust me, they’re not great.