Betty Art

by on March 20, 2023 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

I have friends on both sides of the AI Art debate. Is it theft or is it a new form of art? I don’t know where the final answer will come down, but I do believe AI is the future of art. We have unleashed the genie. I do not believe we will ever be able to banish it now that we have let it go. And I do not know that we should. As long as our technology advances, AIs of some kind will be the logical outcome. If we train them and use them to create good things, it is my hope that they will be good. It is one basis of my Jack of Harts universe. We created something good. So here is something good. Betty, started with basic text prompts by me, and imagined by the AI engines of NightCafe Studio.

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Betty Art

by on March 19, 2023 at 12:01 am
Posted In: Diaries

The new AI Art craze has transformed the artistic marketplace. Many talented artists have pulled everything they’ve created off deviantart and other online art platforms, while people with decent graphics cards are churning out dozens of AI-created art pieces a day. Whether we like it or not, I believe that AI Art is the future. I personally use prompts like long blonde hair, blue eyes, yellow sundress, and fit woman and see what it comes up with. Dezgo dot com is a site that will generate free, small renders for anyone, and if you want to pay they will make bigger and better renders. I have found the small images are excellent character references. Here is Betty entering the anime zone, created by the everything anime 4.0 engine at dezgo dot com.

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Betty Art

by on March 18, 2023 at 12:01 am
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I remember when 3D design was something only high-end computers and awesome artistic talent could make look good. We’ve already established that my artistic talent is lacking outside the written word, and I do believe I have mentioned that I’ve never been rich. I grew up knowing that Hot Wheels cars were expensive. I maintain, repair, and rebuild my own PCs because I could never afford to have someone else do it for me. But the years have changed things, and now programs like DAZ Studio and others have made it so that even monetarily challenged people with low end PCs can create art. I absolutely jumped all over that once the quality got good enough. This is the current version of Betty, courtesy of DAZ Studio and weaponized math.

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Betty Art

by on March 17, 2023 at 12:01 am
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I remember when the totality of our online gaming presence was a name. It was a major upgrade when we got to choose an image to be our avatar, though many gaming networks limited us to pictures they made available to us. Then games got into the action, and on the xbox network you could download profile images from the games you owned. And finally some of the gaming networks introduced fully 3D avatars you could design to look however you wanted. To look like you. When Xbox did that, I took full advantage of that to make a number of xbox accounts with the names of my characters, and to created their 3D models. Here is Betty’s Xbox avatar.

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Betty Art

by on March 16, 2023 at 12:01 am
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Back when I had a lot more money than I do now, when I had a 100 dollar a month health care plan that covered more of my actual expenses than the 700 dollar Obamacare plan I am saddled with now, I hired artists to draw up Jack and Betty. And others if I felt I could afford it. Even back then I had some spending limits. Karosu-Maker made them for me, though it was in a style that took him a long time to do. I thought the end result was worth it, though I could not afford to have him make more of my characters. Note that he does not safe for work pieces now, so take care if you search him out. This is the version of Betty that I prefer over all others, both in uniform and out of it.

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