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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

Okay, here's a theory. I think the colors of the collars have different meanings. Back in Dark Alter, the girl's collar seemed to amplify emotions of desire, and in combination with a number of enchanted orbs in the room, manifested into a masculine being. Looking at the color of her collar, I'd say it could be Magenta, which is supposed to be the color of Harmony and emotional balance. I think that the girl in that story was an enemy combatant with some sort of magical ability, who was forced in that room to subdue her desire to fight by manifesting her desires to submit creating balance.

In Alison's case, her collar being blue might represent trust and loyalty. Torrin is the first man she's ever been with, something that must've been difficult for her, considering her past. Even leading up to sex, she trusts him in their day-to-day and with the massage. Now that she trusts him enough to have sex, the collar is responding to him, which could mean it's promoting a loyalty in Alison towards Torrin.

Actually, looking over this entire chapter, color plays a HUGE part in the progression of the story. It starts with Pink which is tender and compassionate, to Turquoise with control and self-sufficiency to black with fear and mystery, to indigo with intuition, to pg. 15 where Alison is literally Pink in contrast to Torrin's Blue, to sexy time in pink (back to that unconditional love), to Alison through her collar being the one who's blue.

Admin-sama, do you have a color fetish or am I just bananas??!