The following images were made using my custom build of Disco Diffusion, photo-manipulation, photobashing and sketching through Gimp and Inkscape, and post editing/composition in darktable.
So after all these megastructures, I had my fill of architectural and environmental designs. I started sketching again, in Inkscape, instead of using Blender, as I feel like I havent used Blender in weeks and my workflow has gotten rather slow because of that. I need to get back on it.
Anyways, as I was saying, sketching monsters and creatures in Inkscape between my work meetings, I ended up with a bunch of bad looking (a kid would do better trust me) designs. Just what I needed to feed my hungry custom trained Stable Diffusion model, MonsterDiffusion. And this is what it looked like after the first pass in it.
Obviously, the definition is very low, and I had to upscale it and edit it a bit to get a smoother image, but it's more than enough for the next step. I cut it into 7 pieces, quarters + center top, center bottom, and center center. Fed all of these as initial images to Disco Diffusion, and let the machine work its magic for a while (an hour per slice, with the settings I use).
Once all the images were done, I edited some of the slices in Gimp and darktable, to add it more details or more surface for the AI to work on, before throwing them back into the Disco Diffusion madness. I did a bit of back and forth like that, until I had results that pleased me.
Then I assembled all these slices together using Gimp, did a bit of photobashing and editing, some time into darktable for final composition, upscaled with Topaz, and done!
