I'm a fan of the Viking tv shows and I remember Darkglass also had a few excellent warriors...

From one world to another, was it a dream or was it reality in another dimension...

Merle Haggard - Working Man Blues

The boss can be such a pain...  ;)

Morning all.  Nice posts again :)

Does anyone here know if the IGNORE function (that I only just found) works both ways?    As in, if someone has blocked me, they can't see my posts either?

gillbrooks posted at 5:32 AM Tue, 24 January 2023 - #4454538

Morning all.  Nice posts again :)

Does anyone here know if the IGNORE function (that I only just found) works both ways?    As in, if someone has blocked me, they can't see my posts either?

there is a user who used to troll the Carrara users I blocked a few years ago and I didn't see their posts or rather I didn't until Renderosity banned him

Way back I blocked someone and never saw a post from them until they changed their user name I just blocked that one too so yeah I think that's the way it works.

Way back I blocked someone and never saw a post from them until they changed their user name I just blocked that one too so yeah I think that's the way it works.

gillbrooks posted at 5:32 AM Tue, 24 January 2023 - #4454538

Morning all.  Nice posts again :)

Does anyone here know if the IGNORE function (that I only just found) works both ways?    As in, if someone has blocked me, they can't see my posts either?

I believe so, we all have probably been blocked, I was wondering if it was just me 🤣

there is a user who used to troll the Carrara users I blocked a few years ago and I didn't see their posts or rather I didn't until Renderosity banned him

having a different opinion or simply using ai seems to be the reason

I am actually still on the fence about ai and expressed that so I think it might simply be the latter considering opinions expressed in another forum here

some genesis 9 ai eyeballs

The Eyes have it

I seem to have a problem :(   Looked on the main channels and there's lots of new activity.  Just won't accept imagine, info, settings or anything.   Nothing on their status channel since early morning

This is all it will come up with from /i

Ooh, looks like we broke it !!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand now status is showing up as "Discord is undergoing an incident"

Ya don't say!!!!!!!!

Been trying to capture the fierceness of Katheryn Winnick as a Viking Shield Maiden in the series Vikings, not much luck

Tried Blend for a few Stills from the series, blend works OK but you end up cropping because for some reason the aspect ratio of the image is different?!?

got those done just before it went Boom I guess Mid-J no workie now...

some ai balls you can size to any character in Photoshop, layered image editor, gimp etc
or use to generate your own,

Now that they fixed Discord.... a skull carved from Lapis

And the gates of oblivion

Working again so I'll do a few of these fore arm Tats I was pondering on then call it quits for the night

I found something fun that everybody might want to mess around with. It's a free prompt generator which will probably help out when you're running low on ideas or inspiration. Here's the link:   

https://huggingface.co/spaces/Gustavosta/MagicPrompt-Stable-Diffusion

It says it's for Stable Diffusion but I'm sure with a few tweaks it'll work with Midjourney as well. All you have to do it type in a couple of words to start it off then hit the "Submit" button. Here are four prompts it gave me when I tried it out:

a scene of colorful anime village, wide angle, super highly detailed, professional digital painting, artstation, concept art, smooth, sharp focus, no blur, no dof, extreme illustration, unreal engine 5, photorealism, hd quality, 8 k resolution, cinema 4 d, 3 d, beautiful, cinematic, art by artgerm and greg rutkowski and alphonse mucha and loish and wlop

a scene of futuristic studious full - body humanoid robots with intricate glowing led eyes sit on large midcentury recliners facing off in an intense game of checkers. cinematic movie photograph, cinematic lighting, arri alexa, extremely detailed, smooth, very very clean, 8 k, octane render, maya render, unreal engine, trending on artstation, dslr

a scene of futuristic studious full - body humanoid robots with huge glowing led eyes sit on large midcentury recliners facing off in an intense game of checkers. cinematic movie photograph, cinematic lighting, arri alexa, extremely detailed, smooth, very very clean, 8 k, octane render, maya render, unreal engine, trending on artstation, dslr

a scene of chaos in space, octane render, artstation - zbrush, by james gurney concept art by tooth wu beeple

I tried "a dragon".  The last one gave the a prompt that included the-name-that-shall-not-be-mentioned hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.  Also who is Alphonse Mucha?  S'pose I'll have to go Google that :)

a dragon in the middle of new york, intricate, elegant, highly detailed, digital painting, artstation, concept art, smooth, sharp focus, illustration, art by artgerm, greg rutkowski, alphonse mucha

a dragon, 4 k, art station concept, highly detailed

a dragon, by alphons mucha

a dragon, fantasy, sharp focus, intricate, elegant, digital painting, artstation, matte, highly detailed, concept art, illustration, ambient lighting, art by ilya kuvshinov, artgerm, alphonse mucha, and greg rutkowski

Just noticed that he-who....is in the first prompt as well.

As for the other guy, probably better using "art nouveau" style instead

Deja vu all over again...Did a series a ways back I called Water Dancers did a different prompt and got these, very similar to the Water Dancers. Think Mid-J over time assumes too much about your personal style and uses it too much, seen it in other instances too.

Deja Vu

gillbrooks posted at 7:16 AM Wed, 25 January 2023 - #4454592

Just noticed that he-who....is in the first prompt as well.

As for the other guy, probably better using "art nouveau" style instead

I like the first one and the third one the best but the others are okay as well. Yeah, I know what you mean about the person "who shall not be named."   :o)  

Leonard:  Love the Water Dancers.  Super images.  Yes, I think all of them (ai) learn what each of us likes and inputs that unless we really vary it.  That's why I never keep something really bad as I don't want it to think I like that.  For instance those that keep badly deforned faces and limbs/etc keep getting those.  AI is being trained....maybe so are we.  lol

Kenmac posted at 11:23 AM Wed, 25 January 2023 - #4454602

gillbrooks posted at 7:16 AM Wed, 25 January 2023 - #4454592

Just noticed that he-who....is in the first prompt as well.

As for the other guy, probably better using "art nouveau" style instead

Have you tried any of the prompts Gill? Here are the ones that I mentioned that were generated for me. 

I like the first one and the third one the best but the others are okay as well. Yeah, I know what you mean about the person "who shall not be named."   :o)  

OK, but I prefer my idea of an art nouveau dragon AND I got all 4 dragons in mine :)

That was the only one I tried.  I ran "A watercolour painting of" and the results were so unconnected and disjointed, I didn't bother.  I think in this instance, I'll carry on using my own imagination rather than hugging face's :D

add Netsuke sculpture

wendyvainity posted at 1:33 PM Wed, 25 January 2023 - #4454609

add Netsuke sculpture

gillbrooks posted at 12:00 PM Wed, 25 January 2023 - #4454605

Kenmac posted at 11:23 AM Wed, 25 January 2023 - #4454602

gillbrooks posted at 7:16 AM Wed, 25 January 2023 - #4454592

Just noticed that he-who....is in the first prompt as well.

As for the other guy, probably better using "art nouveau" style instead

Have you tried any of the prompts Gill? Here are the ones that I mentioned that were generated for me. 

I like the first one and the third one the best but the others are okay as well. Yeah, I know what you mean about the person "who shall not be named."   :o)  

A dragon by alphonse whatsisname

OK, but I prefer my idea of an art nouveau dragon AND I got all 4 dragons in mine :)

That was the only one I tried.  I ran "A watercolour painting of" and the results were so unconnected and disjointed, I didn't bother.  I think in this instance, I'll carry on using my own imagination rather than hugging face's :D

Still playing with Tattoo ideas...Full Back

I can't imagine getting a tattoo like these.  Great tolerance for pain.  lol   I got a very small one a long time ago and it wasn't fun.   At any rate these are very nice. 

Anybody know how NOT to get certain actors to show up when you prompt characters? Because I keep getting The Cumber Buns at least 8 times out of 10 whenever I prompt for Sherlock Holmes. At first I thought it was because I wasn't using character's full name but it seems to make very little difference, he still shows up most of the time. One would think that entering his name as a negative prompt would eliminate him from the render pool. Alas, the results ranged from ugly to downright bizarre. 

Also, I keep telling SD no hats on Mr. Holmes. It still gives me hats. Weird ones. Usually on the pix I like best:

"victorian sherlock holmes by arthur conan doyle"

Will see what that gets. Have you also been able to put Watson & Holmes in the same render? Stable Diffusion does not seem to know how to not make two characters look identical or very closely related. But you're using MidJourney, right? Any better for multi-figure scenes?

Byrdie posted at 3:11 PM Thu, 26 January 2023 - #4454654

Will see what that gets. Have you also been able to put Watson & Holmes in the same render? Stable Diffusion does not seem to know how to not make two characters look identical or very closely related. But you're using MidJourney, right? Any better for multi-figure scenes?

"victorian sherlock holmes and dr. watson"

I can't imagine getting a tattoo like these.  Great tolerance for pain.  lol   I got a very small one a long time ago and it wasn't fun.   At any rate these are very nice. 

Or specify who you want as Sherlock...Robert Downey as Sherlock

Yeah, I thought some of Gill's looked a bit like him even though she didn't name him in her prompt. Too bad SD can't blend -- well at least the one I'm using doesn't seem to be able to. Would like to make a Sherlock that has features from a couple different actors. And it does not look as if I can upgrade unless I also buy a beefier graphics card. Which is waaaay outta the question for at least another year, if not longer. The app I'm using does have a newer version and I installed it only to find out it won't properly run on a measly 6gb GTX card. Have to turn off most of the features one actually needs just to keep it from crashing and even then it takes forever to get anything out of. Got a few hundred NightCafe credits, though, so maybe I'll play around there and see what gives.

I can't run any on my local mc.  But, I like that with Midge, I can leave some stuff "cooking" after I've shut down and it's all done next morning.  The only big ram I need is for upscales which I tend to do when I'm off doing other mundane stuff away from pc.  I gave up on Night Cafe.  Never got anything halfway decent.

Can you do image prompts?  Maybe find a pic of the kind of sherlock/watson you want and use that?

Yeah, I thought some of Gill's looked a bit like him even though she didn't name him in her prompt. Too bad SD can't blend -- well at least the one I'm using doesn't seem to be able to. Would like to make a Sherlock that has features from a couple different actors. And it does not look as if I can upgrade unless I also buy a beefier graphics card. Which is waaaay outta the question for at least another year, if not longer. The app I'm using does have a newer version and I installed it only to find out it won't properly run on a measly 6gb GTX card. Have to turn off most of the features one actually needs just to keep it from crashing and even then it takes forever to get anything out of. Got a few hundred NightCafe credits, though, so maybe I'll play around there and see what gives.

Hmm...well I don't know about SD, Mid-J is an online AI and it, as far as I know, uses online GPU rendering which would mean your Graphics Card isn, even part of the rendering process. I've monitored my GFX unit and it just sits there Idle during Mid-J rendering, I only have a 4gig AMD Radeon RX 570 GFX Card and have no problem.

Willys is a famous Brand of Automobile in America from the ubiquitous Military Jeep made famous in WWII to the favorite of Drag Racers of the 60s the 41 Willys Coupe, they also made a Pickup model called in the Military the 5/4 for 1 1/4 Ton Pickup.

Everyone is doing some fine work, enjoying all the  new stuff, thanks for the eye candy! 

Life stuff keeping me busy, some ups and some downs, you know how it goes.  At least I always have prompt ideas going in the back of my mind, lol...  ;)

A few quiet forest spots for Bakapo...  :)

Wombo

Len - I tried 'Water Spirit' and 'Water Nymph' in my water elemental search, with mixed results, but not 'Water Dancer'.  That added the extra touch I was looking for, thanks.  High five to Zo, scooby snack treats on the house tonight...  ;)

Once every century, or so, she rises up from the depths of the lake in search of new souls...

The Lake Spirit

Royal Deluxe - I'm A Wanted Man

Never know who or what you'll find...

Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown

Some Mid-j randon stuff...

And just like that a water dancer can become a creature from the depths...  ;)

Let's supe up that jeep and take 'er for a spin eh...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBy6QSjvhjM

Rat Patrol without the guns...

@Perry

that last one, the water dragon/serpent one, reminds me a little of your avatar except you forgot the shades ;)

Everyone is doing some fine work, enjoying all the  new stuff, thanks for the eye candy! 

Life stuff keeping me busy, some ups and some downs, you know how it goes.  At least I always have prompt ideas going in the back of my mind, lol...  ;)

FYI.  Not sure if that's my time or local time

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Rat Patrol was one of my fav series as a kid, 1/2 hour of Desert Warfare in North Africa gotta love it, that one and Combat with Vic Morrow.