My turn to get on the AI bandwagon...

[datsunaholic]

Sometimes AI is really weird. I was trying to create dragons locked in an epic battle (for submissions to a contest, Elemental Extravaganza, under the "fire" element).

Instead I got Dragon Bros. I mean, are they arm wrestling? And why is one of them wearing a uniform?




Probably mostly due to my using a Pony model (those are meant for anime/hentai imagery) as my attempts using more photorealistic turned out way different.


These 2 are the ones I actually submitted to the contest You get 10 submissions per contest, and being that there are 5 categories these are my "Fire" images. The other categories are Earth, Water, Air, and Elemental master (which is supposed to combine all 4 in one image). One is just a lone dragon, the other is actually a "happy accident" as it was supposed to be 2 dragons, but the monster 3rd dragon in the background was unexpected but added to the epicness, so I went with that.




Some of the other images that didn't make my cut.

[datsunaholic]

Behind the scenes:

It took a while to get the dang ducks to behave.


First they just swam around at random.








A little better?



They're mocking me. This is a battle group formation.






They lined up, but as a "Chorus Line". Come on guys, follow each other.





This is as good as I got.




The squirrels, OTOH, took to the dance floor like they were born to rave.

[Burning Petard]

The first pic shows a red and a blue dragon. Obvious politics. Yesterday I heard an interview with Seller, author of 'The Moment' about (among other things) race and politics in America. He said (among other things) that the media -- main or fringe, left or right, is covering the coming election as if it is a contest between Trump and Biden. It is not. There is a third party that gets little coverage but seems to him to be winning. The Couch. The movement to say don't vote, for many reasons.

snailgate.