The old face is below the young face. This saves me from having to go through the process of creating eyes for the old Beira. Plus some details rendered quite strangely in the old one. If you look at the collection I linked, sheās got some weird cotton balls float in a circle in front of her. What is that supposed to be? I had to fix her hair (with a clone tool) since I wanted to show off the receding hairline but a cotton ball was in the way. lol
Iām using Pixlr/e for this. Iām not sure if they have a warp tool. Maybe liquify would do the job?
I never had plump lips to start with. I donāt even want to imagine what theyāll turn into laterā¦
Every face has been run through that face blender: the distorted ones are just the program trying to read masks, and the more realistic ones is those distorted ones blended with a similar face, to just fix the issues.
Confirmed, Liquify tool has a push option. It does the job. But Iām going to have to redo it from scratch because unfortunately, Pixlr doesnāt store layers properly when you try to access the same project the next day. Very glitchy. Sigh. But it shouldnāt take too long. I know what Iām going for this time. I just need to push around the lips and then cut out a bit of the face to blend the two looks and it will be done.
The biggest reason why I have to redo it though is because I need the full size images.
I was researching ideas for how to position the title when I have such a busy image and I found an amazing blog. Maybe I should post a whole thread about it because this really opened my eyes at the design process.
In any case, the Rule of Thirds and the Fibonacci sequence led me to this design (which will require the squarely sized original image, which Iāve got - just need to do the Pixlr work on it again). The title doesnāt disturb the image and the image doesnāt make the title invisible. Both have their space. This is awesome.
GIMP is free. The GIMP fiel allows you to access everything youāve done to different layers as long as you havenāt merged them, and what you see on the screen is what it becomes as jpg file.
Well, it distorts the AI artifacts that are in a badly āreadā face, so it looks more real, and could even be confused for an art piece of āreal peopleā in the one that looks more human.
I read a good article recently that discussed how thereās an organization that advocates to implement rules to the machine learning. Copyrighted works were used to train the algorithms and no one ever bothered with getting the artistās permission.
Theyāre advocating for creating a space for the artists to opt in or out of being used for the algorithms and to also give them the ability to choose which images to use.
AI art is definitely a very shaky ethical ground. As a fellow creative, I do think about that often. Itās not only the problem of copying the work of others but also biases that are being imprinted into the algorithms.
Iām feeling a bit pessimistic about us ever being able to control machine learning process since itās not one organization but many and there are no industry standards in place at all. Itās a brand new industry after all and everyone is in a race to create the best AI generator on the market. Itās going to be while before things settle down and in the meantime ethics are being trampled.
Hereās a site where artists can check if their works were used to train the algorithms. Type in the name of your favorite artist and weep.
I have less issue with it being trained off of legit work because if this was a real problem then we could never study someone elseās work, at all. Itās different when itās wholesale fully copying the work because a human aināt allowed to do that, either.
Iāve been working on a new character Iāve added to the story, Amphora, the girl thatās trapped in Church of PoO basement. Iāve tried to create her before but it wasnāt working out.
Yet again, Iāve used up all my Nightcafe credits trying to create Amphora. Fantasy races are so freaking difficult to generate, but I actually like one of the results. Not at all how I imagined her (sheās supposed to have dark skin with purple dragon scales at her temples and black eyes) but I like her overall vibe. The attitude screams Amphora to me. Iāll probably try to create her again later once I gather up more credits. But for now, this girl will do.
I find it easier to write a character once I can visualize their overall vibe. Itās pretty interesting how the portrait doesnāt have to look exactly like her to contain the same vibe and still be helpful.
I donāt find them horribly difficult, as long as Iām starting with something. I find them harder to make on a very realistic level. The top of every chapter for To Make a Kinder Childrenās Tale has a style I made for that book, and about a 3rd of them are elves of some sort, starting with a model. They are done to be brush strokes and heavy-lined for that reason.
I had to fix her hair (with a clone tool) since I wanted to show off the receding hairline but a cotton ball was in the way. lol
