davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2024

[davidd]

As someone who works for a small-town, old-school newspaper where I write every word of every article, I have to indulge in my rants about AI-generated stuff.  Sometimes I think things I read ARE human-written because of the misused words and bad grammar.  AI wouldn't do that, would it?

  ... so I am sitting in the dark on the porch hoping I'm not getting mosquito-bit.

Do you write your own lurid attention-grabbing click-bait headlines, or does the editor/publisher do that?

Do you have a screened porch, or is it completely open air? Might be time to go at it with a stapler and some plastic mesh! 

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2 August - A Doll A Day 2024:

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ArtBot Version - Pirate Doll

I ran the same prompt I used at OpenArt.ai through the image generating app at tinybot.net/artbot and this was the result: definitely "doll-like" with even more realistically rendered joints than the OpenArt version, but ArtBot seems less familiar with the specific design features of Pullip dolls. With ArtBot I got "two for the price of one," it seems!

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Part of the difference in appearance could be the "image model" I selected. As I do not know much about image models, I selected one called "Edge of Realism" at random.

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The hands are not bad. There's a weird random sword thing happening, as in the OpenArt version.

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No complaints about the corset costumes or the boots!  

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Meanwhile, from the OpenArt site, how's about a doll riding a motorcycle?

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Doll Riding a Motorcycle in the Desert at Night

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This time I did not specify the type of doll other than "brunette doll action figure." The prompt included something about "riding a motorcycle through the desert at night" and "motorcycle boots."

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I thought the boots turned out nicely, and I quite like the "plastic-y toy-like look" of the motorcycle.

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I'm not sure what's going on with the twin moons, but they look cool.

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Funny thing: in my doll and action figure photos I try to hide or disguise the points of articulation, or blur them out in post-production editing, but in these AI images I'm looking at how authentically the doll joints are rendered. The ArtBot app did an impressive job rendering the joints: check out the action figure style shoulder joints on those pirate babes! The motorcycle rider has great "doll knees," kind of a hybrid between a Mattel Made-to-Move and a DiD action figure body in style.

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Anyway... I know it's kinda cheating to use AI images for my "doll a day" project pics... but it's my project so I can change the rules if I wanna. 

'Cept I don't really wanna, so I'll try to get back to "real" (color, contrast, and sharpness enhanced, cropped for visual impact) photos tomorrow. Unless the weather is still too hot and my torpor continues.