Beauty and Brains

Here's something a little different today, created as vector art within Affinity Designer, which I'm calling Beauty and Brains.

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Firestarter Habaneros

Where spicy gets fiery!  'Firestarter Habaneros' are from Umbrella Corporation's third-generation biofood labs creating the third hottest Scoville flavor score in the known world.  Meta AI Imagine prompts, composite open-source images, and hand edits within Affinity Photo.

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UFO Sandblasting the Arizona Desert

Image captured of a UFO probing the Arizona desert floor with modulating plasma beams during some late-night experimentation.   There are some surveillance cube-shaped drones flying a perimeter loop around the spacecraft during the operation.   Composited from a few Meta AI Imagine prompts (for inspiration), grabbed a bunch of skyline+desert+UFO image searches, and then combined it all with additional Fx work inside Affinity Photo.

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Batman (papercraft) Standing on My Kitchen Table

Batman papercraft creation that I have standing on my kitchen table, the figure is about 6 inches tall. Created during a Meta AI Imagine session along with using Affinity Photo to merge all the elements together, fix the missing cape the AI forgot, and render a final picture.

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Clayface (papercraft)

Clayface (Basil Karlo), one of Batman's original villains created from papercraft; nearly 7 inches tall.  Created during a Meta AI Imagine session along with some personal Affinity Photo playtime to finish the job.

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Hellfire Peppers

Where hellfire meets flavor! Experience Dante's inferno in every bite!  'Hellfire Peppers' are the latest Scoville-certified spices from the food labs of the Mansonto and Umbrella Corporations.  Meta AI Imagine prompts, composite open-source images, and hand edits within Affinity Photo.

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Beef. It's What's for Dinner

Beef. It's What's for Dinner. Interplanetary cattle rustlers at work during a midnight raid on farmer Joe's grazing pasture.

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Carnal Corn

'Carnal Corn' is fully grown from seed-to-cob within a single day at the bio-farms of the Umbrella & Mansonto Corporations. Nightcafe Crystal Clear XL and Meta AI Imagine prompts, composite open-source images, and some sign creations within Affinity Photo.

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Beefeater Tomatoes 2.0

More exciting bio-engineered foods brought to by the combined labs of the Umbrella & Mansonto Corporations.  Nightcafe Crystal Clear XL image prompts with Affinity Photo after-edits.

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Super-GMO Prickly Pears

The latest in bio-engineered food coming soon to your local grocery store.  Super-GMO Prickly Pears are the newest invention brought to you by a collaboration between the Umbrella & Mansonto Corporations.

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Huītzilōpōchtli watches as Tenochtitlan burns in 1520

The sun was setting on once-great Tenochtitlan, golden over the chaos and destruction he witnessed before Huītzilōpōchtli's eyes. Sun, war, and sacrificial sacrifice, the sun god witnessed in horror as his people’s capital city was razed.

The god watched from the top of the temple of Huītzilōpōchtli the destruction wrought by the Spanish conquistadors. The pyramids and temples that had once been so proud of themselves were no more, their intricate carvings and frescoes melted to burning trash. The streets – filled before with Aztec bazaars and procession parades – now lay empty and quiet except for a few screaming and wailing cries.

Huītzilōpōchtli bled at the sight of his people’s sacred city. He was a war and sacrifice-god, and his people had taken him to be unstoppable. But now, when the city burned, he saw nothing but misery and powerlessness.

The god thought about his father, Huanitzin, a former temple high priest. He thought of the innumerable sacrifices they’d made together, the blood of the innocent cascading like rivers to the gods. Despite the countless human sacrifices that had been offered to appease the gods, the city of Tenochtitlan still fell to the flames of the Spanish conquest in 1521, a devastating blow that would forever alter the course of Aztec history.

When the sun was setting, Huītzilōpōchtli's eyes glazed over the face of the Aztec emperor Moctezuma Xocoyotzin on the temple spire, gaze set on the smoldering city.  Moctezuma, who had once welcomed the Spanish as gods, now lay dead amidst the smoldering ruins of his city, a stark reminder of the devastating consequences of his misplaced trust.

[Workflow: I've taken six different Meta Imagine AI-generated source images from my various prompts, then worked on chopping and mixing various components into my final scene of the downfall of yet another Aztec city.]

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