[ The snail toad ] [ Cosmic Creations ]

After this challenge I realized that nature in silence and out of sight transformed itself and generated a lot of testing before keeping viable species in its environment.*

Hello everyone today for the Alien art winter Cosmique Creation challenges I created this hybrid between a frog and a snail. It was not easy to succeed in generating with AI this achievement which required me 680 images to find the two which could be merged together.
I thought I would get through it more easily but as the image generator I have at home is first generation it doesn't produce photos with good quality which generates a lot of waste images and a lot of sorting. I therefore chose [Toad] as my first keyword.
I absolutely wanted a snail shell with a frog's head. I couldn't get my fingers with it. I also generate a font image to blend the two images together. The background image gave me a lot of trouble.
I especially didn't want to use and post an image generated by my AI without working on it afterwards. I like black and white, I used everything in a tone of gray. I have tried to spawn a cat snail but it was not conclusive either
I especially didn't want to use and post an image generated by my AI without working on it afterwards. I like black and white, I used everything in a tone of gray. I have tried to spawn a cat snail but it was not conclusive either. Another tried the toad cat which was also not a real success. My primary objective was to create a Hybrid.
I really enjoyed working on this difficult project that motivated me even more to finalize at least one image.

Excluding the process of creating my AI images which took me a morning to type them using AI, you will be able to follow the process of creating this hybrid creation. With my little software which doesn't have many tools for reworking photos but by using it it allows me to do better day by day. Maybe one day I'll use photoshop.

My image of a snail frog you can also see others at the end where I posted some sample images better than all the others but less interesting to make for my challenges

I found this background interesting with this mountain pointing towards the heavens illuminated by the sun

I cut out my snail toad to attach it to my background image. With broken glasses, in the fog, one night illuminated by a moon in the first quarter, I realized that it roughly resembled a turtle hahaha.
I also deleted a friend who was a stain on the whole

I changed everything to a tone of gray. I wanted to keep the background in color and the animal in tone of gray but it didn't make the image any more pretty

I then melted the shell in the mountain a little like eternal snow

And here is the product completing a hybridization seen by a human and an artificial neural network created by man
As promised, the following images are some result of imperfect hybridization