I’m not a casual user of AI. I use it to create realistic looking chimeras based on the characters in my books. I don’t do this as a whim. My publisher has companies attempting to turn my books into films. That’s a good thing. But the universe I created is unique. It’s not Star Tek. You can’t simply slap makeup on someone and call them an alien. Today, I’m going to share the steps I took to bring one example to life. If you’d rather just ogle pretty stuff you can CLICK HERE to meet my chimeras by name, or CLICK HERE to see them in action or, go completely nuts and CLICK HERE to see scenes from the apocalypse brought to life.

A little over 80% of the content contained on those links was created solely using Deep AI.

Oh, yeah, the reason I have a link dedicated to the apocalypse is my story starts with the death of every man, woman, and child on the planet. Another reason the whole make up thing won’t work.

Deep AI does many things well. Human recreations, backgrounds, machinery, spacecraft, and so on, are stellar with only some minor prompting. However, when I delved into the human/animal hybrids, I ran into issues. When I attempted to put multiple chimeras, covering a myriad of possible hybrids, in the same frame, things went to pot.

Fortunately, the support staff at Deep AI has a sense of humor and is incredibly capable. With their help and suggestions, piece by piece, things began coming together for me.

Now I am able to take the shiny things in my brain and ease them into life. For this example, I was trying to show a centaur and a succubus in a snow storm.

This is the first prompt I tried.

A full body fantasy concept art illustration of a female chimera. Her upper body is that of a human woman with alabaster skin and long flowing blue hair. She is wearing a parka. Replace human legs with the body of a horse, featuring intricate details and natural texture. She stands in a confident, neutral pose facing forward, with her full body visible from head to her hooves. There is also a female chimera with black human skin. She has powerful legs and hands and feet tipped with talons. She has magnificent bat wings, matching her skin color, and they span twelve feet. She is bald and wears a parka, snow pants, a knife belt and metalwork. They are in a forest in a snowstorm. Documentary-style photography with dramatic cinematic lighting and sharp focus on the central figure.

Using HD/Quality as my settings, I got this.

As pretty as that is, it is clearly not what I was looking for.

Using the same prompt, I tried using genius/cinematic. That got me closer.

Closer, true, but not where i needed to be.

I tried a few other options, none of which were successful, although some were hysterical. Then I used a chat bot to help me craft a better prompt. After a few rounds of back and forth, it worked.

A full-body hyper-realistic photograph of two female chimeras walking through a raging blizzard. To the left is a centaur chimera: her upper body is that of a human woman with alabaster skin and long flowing blue hair, bundled in a thick parka, wearing a crossbow on her back, seamlessly merging at the waist with the powerful body of a horse, detailed with natural texture and snow clinging to her fur. Beside her walks another female chimera with black human skin, clawed hands and feet tipped with talons, and vast black bat wings spanning twelve feet. She is bald and dressed in a parka, snow pants, and a knife belt with metalwork gear. Both figures push forward through swirling snow and harsh wind. The image is lit with dramatic cinematic lighting, ultra-sharp focus on the central centaur figure, with snow and atmosphere rendered in vivid photoreal detail.

Using HD/Quality got me close, but genius/cinematic took it all the way home.

TA DAA!

The nice thing about Deep AI is that you don’t just see the scene, you feel it. There isn’t an element out of place. Other apps get me close, but there is always something missing. The color pallet is simpler, the backgrounds are generic, or some irritant I can’t quite describe. With Deep AI, I get a photo-realistic view of the impossible.

The cool thing about AI, in general, is that you can experiment and tweak as you go to find what you’re looking for. You don’t have to take my word for it, you can try Deep AI for free when you click the link. For the record, I am not paid by Deep AI, but I am a Community Advocate. Kind of like a recognized cheerleader without pom poms.

GO TEAM GO!