Oh hey, a newbie just caught the AI image bug

[cerberus]

Eh, decided to hell with realism for a moment

And why not, always good fun.

[Sekani]

Been busy with life and other things over the past month, so haven't really done much new, but I'm putting up some other things that haven't been posted here up on DeviantArt. Newer creations, once I get around to them, will go up there as well.

https://www.deviantart.com/sekani2

[lewt_00]

Most of you are all familiar with Perchance, which I just stumbled across last weekend and spent way too much time goofing around with. Indeed, it's very nice to simply time "woman sinking in quicksand" into a text box and get a dozen images of varying levels of interest spat back out into your web browser in less than a minute, but attempting to mold that output into something more relevant to an individual's particular preferences can be challenging, frustrating, and rewarding.

I found it was easy to customize your model(s), the quicksand type and texture, the scenery, and to some extent the camera angle. Much harder were the pose and sinking depth. Poses I kinda gave up on; if I clicked the button enough times eventually I'd get something close to what I was looking for; "beach quicksand" in particular tended to have models far more interested in sunbathing then sinking.

Sinking depth on the other hand I had to really play with. After a TON of trial and error, "standing up" with "legs" in the negative column actually gave the best results for knee- or thigh-deep. Switching "standing up" with "submerged chest" got me to torso depth. "Submerged face" was pretty good for shoulder depth (though I had to add "underwater" in the negative field), and "submerged nose" would occasionally get neck deep. It helped a lot to remove anything that wouldn't be visible in the final shot, because the AI actually tries to draw everything you mention. No point mentioning that the model is wearing jeans if you're not going to see them! Anything below neck deep seems borderline impossible, but not for a lack of trying!

Still, as amusing as it is to generate a seemingly infinite number of pictures of twins (or triplets) doing their best imitation of a Pete Boggs drawing, you quickly reach a point where you feel like you've seen in all before, and you're just clicking the generate button like a slot machine waiting for the visual jackpot to hit: a one-off masterpiece that you can't seem to recreate no matter how many prompts you try. Then you're excited all over again.

Anyway, the images in this post were all created with this generator with the photorealistic style filter.

These first two are really just an example of what I was creating for my own personal enjoyment; I have plenty like this and won't bore you with the rest.
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The particular generator I used was not great with facial expressions; most attempts at getting anything along the lines of "scared" or "panicked" ended up with the model being cross-eyed and/or with some kind of birth defect. Still, a few managed to surprise me.
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I am discovering Perchance among the many generators. However, it doesn't seem to allow for a picture upload as a model for generation.

Am I overlooking something?

[Sekani]

I am discovering Perchance among the many generators. However, it doesn't seem to allow for a picture upload as a model for generation.

Am I overlooking something?

To the best of my knowledge that's not an option with Perchance.