The protagonist of the Noita game, known as “Mina” (which essentially just means ‘you’ in Finnish), or “The Noita” (witch) is a deliberately ambiguous figure wearing covering purple robes. So I felt I needed to do a theoretical unmasked version in Stable Diffusion. This “Mina” is female, with hair in traditional Scandinavian braids.
So Action PC sports games let you insert custom logos. When making a draft league in the newest edition of Action PC Football, I felt “why not fire up the Evil Abominable Intelligence Art Machine”? And I loved the results. Logos were made for all teams in this American Football league. Some were tongue in cheek references to existing teams, some were original, some were multiple iterations that I’ll gladly show here, and so on.
Yep, the pseudo-“Jets” have a knight standing in front of a fighter jet. This is the first “Roundel Logo”, which I ended up with a lot of. Maybe it was the prompts, maybe it was the model, but oh well.
This was the logo I had the most fun making. I wanted something with the “Don’t Tread on Me” Gadsden snake style, a tricorn hat, and something weird. The prompt was done in the style of eccentric artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and I’m glad with how it turned out.
Not very surprising. Don’t really have much to say about this.
A maroon bulldog. This looks the most like an actual team logo. Probably the most fun “realistic” logo I had.
Based on the USFL team and an ancient execution technique, the “Brazen Bulls” have, well, a brass bull and a shield on their logo.
The narrative of the Soviet-Romanian War in All Union focused largely on the northern front, where advanced mechanized units burned through the Romanian countryside in a rapid (but not bloodless) stomp. However, by far the hardest going was the southern front, a push across the Danube with Soviet and (majority) mobilized Bulgarian troops.
Shown here are several of the Romanian defenders in fortifications prior to the battle. Most of the troops in the fortified positions were mobilized Patriotic Guards , almost all from areas ineligible for the (itself stretched and mobilized) regular army: Women and men both too young and too old for “regular” service.
There was very little standardization for these desperation formations in terms of either equipment or uniforms. The blue uniforms designed for the Patriotic Guards can be seen in these [pseudo] photos and drawings of them in the fortifications prior to the war, but so can plain and camouflage uniforms.
All pictures made in Stable Diffusion.
Note: Stable Diffusion, at least the models I use most, is currently not very good at doing exact military equipment pieces well. Hands are pure genius in comparison. Hence why I don’t have them actually holding weapons. You can justify it by saying that the Securitate was afraid of mutinies or wasting ammo. -C
To celebrate the beginning of Pride Month, here’s Erika from Pokemon, made in Stable Diffusion. The implications of which way she goes are nothing but a massive coincidence (I don’t think mid-1990s Japanese developers were even aware of the implications, and don’t know how solidified the rainbow symbol was). But still: All-female gym, and she gives the Rainbow badge.
I’ll just say that I haven’t been the only one to make that headcanon connection. Happy Pride Month!
Delighted to say that I’ve managed to wrangle Stable Diffusion enough to make some AI pseudo-photographs of Cholpon Murad-Kyzy, the heroine of All Union. Though not exactly matching my mind (what can be?) they’re still pretty close.
One of the most beautiful things about AI art generators is that it’s given me the change to take characters that I could see in my mind and bring them to life. With this in mind, I was especially delighted to create one of the main characters in The Sure Bet King. Behold Ly Rachany, CEO of Parilor, and lover of bunkers and security systems.
This weird Stable Diffusion picture was fun to make.
Basically, the prompt was something like “Currier and Ives style illustration of a woman in improvised metal armor”, followed by a lot of posing and inpainting. The result is this lady with a Union Civil War hat, a metal face shield, and an anachronistic weapon.
Some Stable Diffusion pseudo-photographs of the Undertale main humans. Chara is the black and white one with the single stripe, Frisk the color one with the two stripes. (The black and white one is partially because I made it in inspiration from a fanfic where Chara fell in 1926, so I chose one that fit the time period.)
One of the things I like about AI art is the ability to translate my words and mental images into pictures. This is a recent Stable Diffusion “portrait” of Amin Hayatov, president of the Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics in All Union’s present. The original picture had facial hair and something in his pocket that was inpainted out, and the Sovereign Union flag lapel pin was added in externally and then smoothed out through mild AI runs.
Had too much fun making this “recon aircraft photo” of wrecked armored vehicles in a field in Stable Diffusion. I actually found it was easier to just make the field and then inpaint in the wrecks. And if it’s a high altitude, somewhat blurry photo, that makes the imprecision regarding tanks and the like less important.
A common sight in September 1998 and after. Soviet air supremacy led to fields full of destroyed and abandoned Romanian vehicles throughout the country.
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