“Pox not at all like be asked shut up. Is not even make sense to say! Pox look up, but nothing there at all to make shut, and when Pox try ask what they want shut, eyes get all bugglybulgey and then they flop their arms all looseygoosey like they just need to drop something heavy but not actually because they weren’t carrying anything, and Pox ask them what they trying to drop when arms already empty and then they just make a drooly hissy sound and that sounds funny like they’re a wet cat or something and Pox can’t help but laugh at that idea!”
I had a bit of a logjam with Gemini this week; it would successfully describe images to me, but when I asked to have it show me the image, it.. just kept describing the image. Even when I pointed out that I saw no images at all, I kept getting the same null and void. And then I ran out of image credits for the day, so not only was it refusing to show me images, but somewhere in its circuitry, it believed that I was seeing all these wondrous images and I had plumbed the well on its generosity for the day. Stretch this experience across multiple days, and that was basically why my output slowed to a crawl.
Did get some nice outcomes though, and I wanted to show off a few, now that Alastrina is mostly done.
This one still needs some work, because Pox has an extra pair of arms and is a lot bigger than she should be. Still, look at the minotaur getting absolutely clobbered?
So I started allowing a little cartoonishness slip into the images. Pox is still consistent, but the expression on that cow being absolutely terrified about the yeeting that is about to happen to both it and the cart it was pulling is priceless. This is for one of Pox’ ultimate moves, where she throws ever larger vehicles at opponents if you let her build up her indulgences enough.
This one I am incredibly proud of. I had requested a few of the items, most notably the actual stiletto heels, because Pox was foraging around in a junkyard to find interesting jagged bits of metal to play with and festoon herself in, to get a thorns buff for that combat. I told it to go ahead and make her cartoonish, and the transformation is really noteworthy – she seems a lot more fluid and fun looking this way, versus the kinda nightmarish fairy the realistic(?) render had been representing her as.
Really love the joyous expression, and her eyes are uncanny – which fits her imagery perfectly. If you saw these eyes glowing at you in a dark alley and heard the tee-heeing, you would know you were absolutely cooked.
The thing that delighted me the most is the gear chicken, though. Look at that thing:
Who made this gear chicken? I can absolutely believe that a short attention span fairy would have spent time, during a battle, finding gear and making a chicken out of them. But really, some artist somewhere made a gear chicken, and an AI saw it, heard my prompt about Pox playing in a junkyard, and came up with the idea to insert gear chicken into the image. And.. it is perfect. Seriously, I couldn’t have conceived of gear chicken being so important to the image, but having seen it, I cannot unsee it. This image, nay, this entire project, depends on gear chicken.
What does gear chicken think of this? And does it lay eggs? I have so many questions.
I may take a look at some of the older images of Pox and reimagine them with a more cartoonish look for her. Assuming of course that Gemini isn’t broken for the rest of the weekend. Until then, I have gear chicken to keep my warm.
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