Greetings, artists from all worlds and all realities!
It's time to unveil a project in 3 parts I worked on in collaboration with @death.milk.designs, that took quite a bit of time to make!
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.
You can check out more of my art here!
It all started with an idea...
We wanted to make an organic looking food truck, kind of like a mechanical snail that's selling from inside his "body". Needless to say, the first part of the work was the funniest one, with results being VASTLY weird and incoherent.
For comparison, this one was generated with MJ v3 and the next one with a custom model of Stable Diffusion.
The whole process suddenly took a different turn, where my collaborator decided to direct his creation more toward a city-like thing, as seen in the following picture:
And I thought "HEY this would make an AWESOME city indeed, but I'm tired to make futuristic-city-metropolis using Disco Diffusion as everybody else, let's surprise him with something different!"
So I ran that image in quarters (4 slices of 1.8 of the total size) through Disco Diffusion to create something different, and stitched it in Gimp.
Here we had it, the direction I was aiming for! A mega mountain fortress with teeny tiny details all around!
But it lacked a few things, so some editing and photo bashing work had to be done. I painted the sky blue, added some green and trees to the mountain ridge, some colours to the caverns, and some photobashed statues a bit all over the place.
Then, I sliced it into quarters; and sliced each quarters into quarters again!! 16 images to be ran through DD at custom settings, it took around 2 days to render, and a whole to slice it all back together afterwards, but I'm very satisfied with the final result!
Look at the details! Scroll in! My eyes get lost in all these little archways and caverns and corridors and sculptures!