Sunday, December 31, 2023

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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Saturday, December 30, 2023

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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Monday, December 25, 2023

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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Sunday, December 24, 2023

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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Saturday, December 23, 2023

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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Friday, December 22, 2023

Lovecraft Water Babies postage stamp collection

I present the United States Postal Service's LOVECRAFT WATER BABIES stamp collection. This series was created entirely within NightCafe Mysterious XL v4. Cleaned up and combined into an actual stamp book using Affinity Photo.

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Thursday, December 21, 2023

I'm Bobblehead Batman!

This image of Batman wearing his dayglow graffiti camouflage gear was created from a pile of various art splashes, Batman heads, and Batman bodies with Meta AI Image + NightCafe then pulled them all into Affinity Photo to Frankenstein them into the final product.

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I'M Bobblehead BATMAN!

Batman jumping out of an exploding fiery building

I pulled the title/credit panel from Detective Comics #1074 published by DC Comics that was drawn by Dustin Nguyen; extended the art a bit, and finally placed it inside a nice flame-bordered panel.

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