#ai faces

I made them in Artbreeder! The site looks like it's updated since I last used it and now it's all confusing but before it changed I really enjoyed it, although it takes a while to get the hang of it.

It's certainly got its flaws - it's better at making skinny, pouty people than anything else, and I've struggled with getting long hair + masculine features, but it's a lot of fun to mess about in

I've been avoiding Stable-Diffusion UI for a while because every time I try to tame it, I spend hours and hours fiddling with prompts and settings with mixed results. Maybe it's my fault for having some specific visions in mind rather than using it for a brainstorming tool, but I had a fantasy in my mind that proved too alluring... the fantasy of a personal pun printer that could crank out silly jokes mere minutes after conception and faster than I could ever hope to draw them. I gave into temptation, and once again had to fight to produce this viable image:

For the 300th episode of "Movie Theater Time Machine" podcast, I suggested we review "300" cuz pun. I love bad puns. So, while watching the movie, I kept thinking how great it would be if I could have an AI spit out a realistic image of the Persian king Xerxes as a Persian cat. Funny, but maybe not enough to devote all the time needed to do it well. So, I once again attempted to tame SD, but the surreal odyssey I ended up on went about as well as I imagine attempting to train a rhino for battle would've gone.

INITIAL PROMPT-ONLY ATTEMPTS:

These were the better results. There were a few upsetting zombie-like ones. A recurring problem I encountered when using proportions that weren't a square was face stacking. What I wanted was for the AI to create a portrait from the waist up or something, but a lot of times it just stacked two cat faces on each other like a totem pole and called it a day. I mean, in "300", Xerxes was a total egomaniac, but maybe not "I'm gonna wear a crown of my own face" egomaniac.

I had to give up on going text-only for my prompt, so I went and grabbed a small image from the movie of Xerxes to use along w/ text prompts.