Admin 2024-03-18 21:56:180 ♡
Surody posted a trailer:
https://twitter.com/SurodyTG/status/1769848390970392981

Also here if you don't have a twitter account:
https://mega.nz/file/xFhV2KLA#hxjLtDkrcZjDL2XCYmoZadSE9F_7tf92awQsnQslI3c


You can see a brief clip of my entry at 0:30, nicely timed to the music.
Admin 2024-03-17 18:41:230 ♡
When I attempt to view your profile on patreon, it says "This page has been removed.", and I don't see you in my list of patrons if I search for your email. Can you verify that your patreon account still exists?
Admin 2024-03-12 23:32:232 ♡
An animated version of https://satinminions.com/VR-19-Press.html
Admin 2024-03-07 21:22:272 ♡
Everything is being kept under wraps until winners are announced. The judges have until the 15th to review, then some kind of live stream will be scheduled to show everything.
Admin 2024-02-27 19:52:315 ♡
Some deleted scenes from the "Offering" animation. 25 seconds is both longer and shorter than you think, and there's just not enough time for this intro. Plus it's supposed to look like he's being dragged in by an unseen force, but it looks more like he's sliding into home plate - so it would need a bit of rework.
Admin 2024-02-27 19:50:106 ♡
I've completed the coloring and shading for whole animation, just a bit of refinement left to do.
Admin 2024-02-14 16:32:528 ♡
Color test for the big animation. Monochrome palette so it works with just a flat color for the body and one layer of shading, then if I have time I can go back add the detail colors, rim light, glow effects, colored lines, etc.
Admin 2024-02-10 23:58:398 ♡
Fellow TG artist Surody is conducting an animation contest and this is a work-in-progress of my entry. The contest ends March 8th, so this'll be my main project until then.
Admin 2024-02-10 17:49:121 ♡
Me too, but the current models can't really do that. If you try, it often has problems where the iris is malformed or missing entirely. Even with these staring-into-the-distance shots, I had to manually retouch the eyes on most of them.
Admin 2024-01-26 08:20:220 ♡
Well you see, one of the first CPC's was developed by an international body where most of the member nations' languages used noun-adjective ordering instead of adject-noun. The full name was translated but the acronym stuck to the original ordering. Like how today we have the "international system" of units but we call them "SI units".
Admin 2024-01-26 08:05:010 ♡
I'm not sure I want to go full booru style tags on everything, but I'll add this one for you.
Admin 2024-01-26 08:01:220 ♡
I tried it and got some good AI remixes of her face out of this, but the AI really does not understand penises.
Admin 2024-01-26 07:59:131 ♡
Yeah, it's a lipstick mark. It's a whole tag on rule34.xxx - usually pretty gross, but I saw a subtle one that inspired me to add one here.
Admin 2024-01-26 07:46:300 ♡
Correct
Admin 2023-12-03 22:08:176 ♡
ENF = Embarrassed nude female

One idea I had is to add some different drool patterns to get more mileage out of the basic loop and build it into a larger sequence. Something like the "Sparring with Violet" short.
Admin 2023-11-22 12:41:113 ♡
Yes and given her concern for professional image, a little public girly time seems like more than a private sexual encounter.
Admin 2023-11-22 12:07:000 ♡
>She just gives in then suddenly?
This is the point where you decide to ask questions? Not when she's getting railed so many times she loses count?
Admin 2023-10-07 11:32:051 ♡
I mean yes. https://satinminions.com/schedule.php
Admin 2023-10-05 16:35:171 ♡
No.
Admin 2023-09-26 23:53:120 ♡
https://satinminions.com/schedule.php
Admin 2023-09-20 04:42:410 ♡
I've updated it to use the new animation script that has a better preloader.
Admin 2023-08-30 03:31:560 ♡
It is AI nonsense vaguely based on the nestle pure life logo.
Admin 2023-08-24 17:43:540 ♡
Perhaps nature of this kind of spell is well known, it was just getting hit with it that was the surprise.

Or perhaps she researched her condition before they set off for home.
Admin 2023-08-23 06:03:373 ♡
^^^
Admin 2023-08-18 16:31:111 ♡
That's just what the AI turned out. Getting the offset buttoned jacket is challenging without training a hypernetwork.
Admin 2023-08-16 06:35:091 ♡
She needs to learn the limits of her body through physical exertion.
Admin 2023-08-11 14:43:222 ♡
The conflicted expression was intentional, yes. In addition to the long term worries you mentioned, she also has the immediate concern of being the center of attention while in such a state.
Admin 2023-08-04 16:36:222 ♡
This wasn't supposed to appear in the notification email. Parent animation is queued up for monday.
Admin 2023-07-12 23:29:002 ♡
More soon, but not that much more. It's a straight-to-the-point sort of comic.
Admin 2023-07-04 14:40:083 ♡
For sure, the AI faces all have the eyes looking at something because that's what's in the training set. But for a 'surprise from behind' expression, you want the eyes staring straight forward not focused on anything. Also the teeth clenched "eee" mouth shape is more startled, where the "o" mouth is more surprised, but it just can't do the more emotive facial expressions.

The biggest production potential I can see right now is using it for backgrounds. It's able to match my colors and lighting pretty well with a lot more detail. And even in top tier anime like studio Ghibli, they're using painted over photographs for backgrounds a lot, so it's not that unusual.

The character renders are just an novelty. I like seeing my characters in different styles that I'd never be able to manage.
Admin 2023-07-01 16:29:231 ♡
Yep
Admin 2023-06-25 04:17:120 ♡
Well, I wouldn't say *always*, but we've got a couple of months at least.
Admin 2023-06-24 15:53:031 ♡
Facial expressions are a weak point of the AI models I've tried. They can do angry, happy, crying, and neutral pretty reliably but a sideways glance or looking down in embarrassment or a conflicted expression are difficult to wring out of it.

Control net can probably help but it's fiddly.
Admin 2023-06-05 20:22:595 ♡
This is the next page, it's just numbered wrong. Do not attempt to look for page 10.
Admin 2023-05-05 23:56:280 ♡
Not at this time
Admin 2023-04-14 16:52:141 ♡
Got it
Admin 2023-03-10 14:03:381 ♡
This one used the leaked NovelAI model. For the more anime looking ones, I used AnythingV3. For the more realistic looking ones, I used a 50/50 blend of AnythingV3 and F222.
Admin 2023-03-05 23:15:331 ♡
If we want to get literary, it's a physical representation of her sexual desire, which in this scene has been embarrassingly exposed by her soon-to-be lover. She makes a surface level attempt to conceal it but exposes herself in the process, priming her for contact with her man. Indeed, she is distracted away from her simulacrum by the real thing moments later. He is not so easily covered up. He has seen her desire. She knows that he knows. They are inevitable.

Whether that counts as magical is up to you ;)
Admin 2023-02-28 05:20:590 ♡
I'd say this would be canon to the main storyline, fitting in somewhere in the time skips towards the end of Vol.4 and beginning of Vol.5.

https://satinminions.com/Lighter-Chains-V5-04.html
Here Alison refers to "last time" so they get into some prior shenanigans.
Admin 2023-02-27 20:19:001 ♡
This is based off the earliest sketch of Alison, before the full lore was established. In the inspiration page https://satinminions.com/Comic-Page-Light-Chains.html it's implied she complies immediately rather than the slow burn from the full story.

Also, AI has a lot of difficulty with her chunky collar because it's an uncommon accessory compared to a choker. In the Disney-esque one https://satinminions.com/SD-16881.html it turned into a weird ribbon thing and I just gave up.
Admin 2023-02-26 21:34:343 ♡
-itten by a smart person. This painting has lots of detail? Must be a good artist. But now AI is here that can generate surface level bullshit on demand. An offhand comment can become an essay, a doodle can become a painting. For some people, their entire way of judging things is being disrupted. Now the content and specificity of a work needs to be understood, and that is much more difficult.

I am not above this frustration myself. AI is used to crap flood plausible looking content onto all platforms now. I find myself quickly checking images for the tell-tale signs of AI, listening for verbal ticks in youtube shorts, just to quickly determine if I should ignore them. But it ain't going away. In the future there is going to be more AI in the world, not less. It's better to understand it than be taken by surprise.
Admin 2023-02-26 21:33:504 ♡
This turned into a minor blog post, don't mind me:

Stable diffusion works best on single character scenes in standard poses. Pinups basically. It's also pretty good at backgrounds.

The issue is that it doesn't reliably understand relative conditional statements or adjectives. So if you prompt it "a blue ball on top of a red box", it will give you that... sometimes - but you'll also get random combinations of red, blue, ball and box. It gets worse the more adjectives and conditionals you add in.

In the case of multiple characters it's almost impossible to apply the conditionals correctly. If you say "a woman with tan skin and red hair putting bunny ears on a kneeling woman with short blonde hair wearing a red leather bustier", you're gonna get red hair on both of them a because that's a common thing and you have the "red" token in there twice. It's also going to screw up normal features twice as much because there are more things in the scene. Even getting a single character that looks good often requires rolling the dice dozens of times because random bits will be screwed up.

I have done some multiple character scenes by inpainting each part individually, but the problem is you end up with a slightly different style and lighting on each part. Plus it's very time consuming. The patchwork look is a problem even on single character composite images, it's easy to accidentally stray into something that looks like a collage or that un-tooned homer simpson meme. The recent gold dress pinup kind of strays into that territory.

Dall-E is better at comprehension but it's proprietry and too large of a model to run on consumer hardware at this time. I'm generally not interested in AI models that I can't run locally and I'm especially disinterested in corporate mandated artificial brain damage. Even if you're not trying to make edgy stuff, unfiltered models are just better because they have a more complete understanding of the world. Even stable diffusion has fallen into the "trust and safety" trap and it looks like future developments will have to be underground.

The control net extension, which I used to make the latest Alison pic, is a major improvement, but it still doesn't solve multiple characters or animations. I think the possibility is there. I could see something being added like a segmentation map where each segment could be given different prompts. Temporal stability has been shown to be possible in things like nvidia's styleGAN, and some newer text-to-video models. At some point you will be able to go from a sketch animation to a perfect render. The capability in the AI model is there, it just needs to be activated appropriately. Similar to how chat-gpt is an activation layer on top of gpt-3.

I've done a lot of AI tinkering instead of drawing lately, and some people don't like it - but I hope everyone can appreciate that this an existential crisis in art. Lots of people are in "anger" and "denial" stages of grief. I've had some truly bizarre discussions on other forums where I try to demonstrate SD's ability to generate backgrounds and they will start picking apart some 3 pixel high blob of a bush in the distance because it's not an exact technical drawing. Like, have you ever seen a painting by a person? Bob Ross? The guy just smooshed his brush on the canvas and it looks great. A bunch of people were upset that netflix made an anime short using AI for the backgrounds - but tons of anime have been using crappily filtered stock photographs and 3D models for backgrounds for decades, AI could only improve this situation. Even big budget titles frequently use painted over photographs because even among artists, very few people can generate an accurate scene entirely from their mind.

A big problem is that a lot of people are walking around without any comprehension of what they're looking at or reading or listening to. They just make value judgements based on surface level traits that, in the past, have reliably served as proxies for quality. There's a bunch of big words here? Must be wr
Admin 2023-02-19 20:37:070 ♡
The only other image of this character is https://satinminions.com/page-orcs-01b.html so I'm not sure it's worth making a character tag.
Admin 2023-02-19 18:03:260 ♡
I think that's just a fortunate coincidence.
Admin 2023-02-10 08:08:168 ♡
She has a pleasure response from contact with semen.
Admin 2023-02-10 08:07:103 ♡
The AI she talks to is part of her body, to help with the new user experience. But it also has network functionality so you never know.
Admin 2023-02-03 13:29:502 ♡
Writing all that makes it seem like some huge process. It's way easier than drawing something. But a breakdown of the drawing process is like:

Draw some lines. Color 'em in.

The main bottleneck for AI is the time it takes to generate images. If my computer was infinitely fast, it would only take minutes. As it is now I usually queue up a batch to run when I'm afk, which isn't often.
Admin 2023-02-03 13:22:434 ♡
The first step is to dial in the prompt and settings. I test different models and denoising strengths to see what looks good. Sometimes it has trouble understanding a pose until you give it the right prompt. In this case it understood it fairly well, but specifying hands_on_hips, short_sleeves, and pencil_skirt helped.

Once it starts looking good, I generate a bunch of images with the those settings. Then I piece together the good ones in photoshop and do a little retouching. It's rare for one image to have good everything so I'll take the face from one, the body from another, etc. The hands are usually messed up and have to have parts redrawn.

Then I export the composite image and upscale it 3x. Then I'll do AI inpainting on key parts to high-res-ify them. In this case, her face, her boobs, and her waist. I tried her skirt a couple times but I ended up keeping the original.

The main thing for this one is that I knew it would work since I had already done the prompt testing part at low resolution on my old video card. In general a simple pinup pose like this is easy since there is lots of training data for it. I have yet to get good results on unusual angles like this https://satinminions.com/Suction-Dildo-Shower-04.html or first person shots.

It is possible to just run an image through and get pretty good results. But if you want a high res output where you struggle to find flaws, more work is required. Here is the raw output for this image: https://satinminions.com/SD-15675-Raw.html
Admin 2023-02-02 18:26:090 ♡
Typo fixed. TX and RX are "transmit" and "receive" indicating some kind of wireless communication.
Admin 2023-02-01 20:33:483 ♡
This is an AI remix of the morale officer. The image it is based on is linked as the "Parent" image below the main image.
 
 
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