Lovecraft in 3D + Stable Diffusion. Made by taking the Meshbox 3D Lovecraft poseable figure (purchase | free face expression presets) for the Poser software, improving the skin a bit by tinkering with materials, and then doing a quick simple render in Poser with a 50mm virtual camera (a 50mm lens is best for portraits).

Then I used this quickie render from Poser in a ControlNet (simple ‘canny’ and ‘depth’) for AI image generation. Which in InvokeAI 3.0 and Stable Diffusion 1.5 produced a photoreal mugshot…

Then slight Photoshopping to fix the hair (little duck-tail quiff: ‘AI say no’), desaturate the skin a little, and vignette. And… the proof-of-concept portrait was done. It’s a bit ‘waxworks figure from del Toro’s basement’ if you look at it for too long, but it’s reasonable for a first test without any work on the expression or pose.