I’ve been playing with one of those AI picture generators; stabilityai.
I was trying to think of ideas that are a play on words, or scenarios that you wouldn’t imagine a character to do – similar ideas to what Jim’ll Paint It would do.
I had this Wizard of Oz idea where the Lion is Simba, Tin Man is Iron Man, and the Scarecrow could be Scarecrow from Batman. The AI seems to like Iron Man, and has created some horrific concept of Simba in an Iron Man suit, but I don’t know what is going on with the rest. The ground looks quite sandy, so has the yellow idea but no bricks.What have you never seen Iron Man do? ride a horse. May as well be competing in a horse race. I like how in the last one, he has somehow caused an explosion and his horse is no where to be seen. I thought I’d try one with Batman. I was thinking how he seems to work at night and has all this tech. Then I decided I wanted to see him just working on the software. The AI decided to draw some kind of comic.When working, Batman is sometimes like a detective. I wanted to see him team up with another detective. The first image is brilliant. The third is funny because Sherlock has turned up with a Batman cowl.Every so often, people remember that Mario is a plumber. You see him pretty much do everything but plumbing!I chose another game character and came up with a simplistic play on his name. It’s strange how the AI has taken Crash’s design and environment colour scheme; but then decided to make it really surreal.Another simple play on the name. Seems to love Daniel Craig.Indiana Jones and Tomb Raider are fairly similar. I wanted to see them together. The bottom two images are just Lara clones though. It’s interesting how it has chosen similar outfits which makes the top 2 images look like a real crossover.I did have a brief thought about how Link from Legend of Zelda gets attacked by a horde of Cuccos (chicken-like birds) if he attacks them. I thought I had more chance of generating someting good if I used normal chickens, and decided that Kentucky Fried Chicken’s Colonel Sanders should lead them.A good play on the Lord Of The Rings character’s surname has generated these amazing images. I love this one.You can see the pain and torment the actor is going through.Film director solving a Rubix cube, or maybe even making themHalo’s Master Chief participating in a cookery competitionThe Pokémon Pikachu living up to his name
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