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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!

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.

AI Generated Art – Apollonia Nor

Captain Mayor Brooks

Continuing in showing the AI-generated images I’ve created of characters, here is Apollonia!

She’s in her purple phase.

Admittedly this one came out too perfect, almost model-like. But the angularity of her face and her tired eyes seem spot-on for someone who has been malnourished and living on the margins all her life. I told it that her eyes were violet, but the AI translated this into her hair and lips . . . I suppose she could take on this look, but she’s actually much more plain.

The AI put her outside in space, not me, I swear.

This image is probably closer in some ways. Apollonia is not beautiful, and her hair is very dark. She is very pale, but not . . . paper white as above.

It can be surprisingly hard to get decent images out of the program. I had a lot of them turn out in very disturbing forms, like this.

Another interesting, slightly less disturbing (but still inaccurate image) is this one:

As yet, I’ve had very little luck with characters who are different than normal humans, IE Urle with his cybernetics or alien characters. Or the Craton itself, for that matter! I’m going to have to find a good artist who can do spaceships for that . . .

I’ve been trying to create quite a number of images, to be honest

Episode 7 Delay

Captain Mayor Brooks

I had hoped to get Episode 7 out starting this Monday, but it will be delayed until next week! Last week has just been busy as hell for me, and while I’m making progress in editing, it is not quite ready for release.

I’ll be waiting until next Monday FOR TRADITION!

In the meantime, however, I’ve been playing around with an art generator program (that I also use for generating cover arts). This week I’ll be sharing some COHERENT images I’ve generated that give good ideas of what some characters look like!

First, let’s start with Brooks!

I generated several images of him that I thought came out fairly well. The uniform is simply the result of saying “dark blue uniform” and is not an accurate depiction of what Sapient Union officer uniforms look like (I have art of those in the works, though!). Nor does Brooks wear a tie.

This second image is similar to the first, but this time the AI decided to put a helmet on him! I suppose it’s meant to be a space helmet, and it is rather neat, I must admit.

Stay tuned for Wednesday, when I will show my results for Apollonia!