{"id":22230,"date":"2023-11-25T18:11:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T18:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=22230"},"modified":"2023-11-25T19:21:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T19:21:04","slug":"grottos-vampire-demo-and-ai-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2023\/11\/25\/grottos-vampire-demo-and-ai-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Grotto’s Vampire demo and AI test"},"content":{"rendered":"

A quick demo of the Grotto’s Vampire for Michael 3<\/a> Poser figure from Renderosity, which I had in this year’s ‘Black Friday sale’. Rendered in the Poser software, with some ‘secret sauce’ for the final rendering.<\/p>\n

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Install and load:<\/p>\n

1. Install both .ZIP files to the Runtime, as usual.<\/p>\n

2. Figures | DAZ People | and load Michael 3 to the Poser stage. Select BODY rather than Hip. No special M4 morph packs are required.<\/p>\n

3. Figures | Grotto’s Vampire | add wings and tail to M3.<\/p>\n

4. Pose | G VAMPIRE MORPH-MATL | and load GROTTO VAMPIRE ALL. This loads the morphs. There are 60 custom morphs with dials.<\/p>\n

5. Pose | G VAMPIRE MORPH-MATL | and load GROTTO VAMPIRE. This loads the default textures.<\/p>\n

6. Pose | G VAMPIRE POSES has a range of preset poses for the figure. See also: Expressions | G VAMPIRE EXPRESSIONS and Hands | G VAMPIRE HANDS<\/p>\n

7. Save the base vampire figure to the Library, choosing “Whole Group” when prompted. Now you won’t have to set up the figure again in future.<\/p>\n

Here are a few demo render in Real-time Comic Book. Less successful at taking line-art than Mr. Happy, a figure from the same maker. But still well worth having, packed with morphs, and it can take M3 poses and expressions. Possibly also additional M3 head and body morphs.<\/p>\n

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OK. Now a little experiment. Render to a basic real-time Comic Book + Smooth Shaded render. Make it a 768px square .PNG from Poser…<\/p>\n

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I then tried “rendering” it with AI. Specifically with InvokeAI and the epicRealism v5 photoreal model. I dropped the .PNG into a ControlNet (‘Canny’ edge trace) and after a few goes and some tinkering with the text-prompt I had this in about six seconds…<\/p>\n

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The final prompt was…<\/p>\n

Positive: A vampire at night, kneeling on a building in Gotham, stormy night, red eyes, dead shiny meat skin, fangs, wings, high detail, dramatic lighting, film-noir lighting<\/p>\n

Negative: Batman, female.<\/em><\/p>\n

Is it Poser, is it AI? It’s both. Just another way of rendering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A quick demo of the Grotto’s Vampire for Michael 3 Poser figure from Renderosity, which I had in this year’s ‘Black Friday sale’. Rendered in the Poser software, with some ‘secret sauce’ for the final rendering. Install and load: 1. Install both .ZIP files to the Runtime, as usual. 2. Figures | DAZ People | […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companion-software","category-poser","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22230"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22242,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22230\/revisions\/22242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}