The following images were made using my custom build of Disco Diffusion, photo-manipulation and digital drawing through Gimp and Inkscape, and post editing/composition in darktable.
This started with the EXACT SAME IMAGES as the Mega Dwarven Fortress project. It all came from an organic slug-snail-creature that's also a food-truck selling parts from itself! Except this one took another interesting shape, in the first few results achieved by @death.milk.designs ....
Some kind of city or architecture, in a very Dark Crystal way. So I ran it through my DD model to see what could happen to it, and this is what I got.
No more Dark Crystal, but some stonework details that reminded me of our first project. Hence my decision to take it in a complete different direction. @death.milk.designs took that image and gave it another spin through MJ with a surprise twist, and the result is what I started shaping up later on!
Now the idea came flowing in me, SNOWGLOBE YEAH, for sure, or an alien helmet as well, but mostly SNOWGLOBE! And I wanted to keep it into the fantastic and mythology realm as well, so I chopped the quarters and ran it in 4 parts inside DD for a first render.
I have the details I wanted, the snow, the wood work, but its not enough, its not... "disco diffusion" enough. So I cut this into quarters, and each quarter into quarters again, and ran it 16 times, individually, through my model again! (around an hour per slice...). Then stitched it back up together in Gimp and composed in darktable... et voilà!
Tiny details everywhere! Small huts, snow mounds, dead trees, boats, barrels, wood carvings... the more you zoom in, the more you discover things! And that wood texture, how lovely! Very satisfied with the final product!
