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Four more LORAs

31 Saturday Aug 2024

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I spotted a few more new Lovecraftian-adjacent style-guidance plugins (LORAs), free for the free Stable Diffusion 1.5.

Transparent Specimen LORA, giving an x-ray creature effect. Perhaps especially useful for those making old 1920s x-ray plates, as part of a RPG game?

World of Green Mist LORA, looking very suitable for Innsmouth pictures, though you may want the Sponge tool in Photoshop to tone down the end results. It could be used with the also-new Creature in Myst LORA.

Starry night, for generating an Earth landscape with a starry night sky and moon.

More LORAs

22 Thursday Aug 2024

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Another pick of the recent free plugins for local/offline use with the free Stable Diffusion 1.5 AI image generator.

* Style of Milton Caniff LORA, able to do 1930s men’s suits and hairstyles in an illustration style. Of obvious relevance for anyone crafting 1930s Lovecraft-era artwork.

* VintageBW LORA for a vintage b&w photography look, and it could be combined with the also-new DarkLight – RimLight lighting LORA for noir rim lighting.

* DonM – Fossils LORA for generating fossils or polished stylised bas-reliefs.

* Mythicc Lands LORA, an unusual landscape generator that combines the landscape with a ‘geometric portal’ composition. Especially suitable for aiding attempts to emulate 1980s style sci-fi paperback cover-art, I’d suggest.

And an oldie, someone made an EMBEDDING (use like a LORA) for SD 1.5 which gave them a consistent Erich Zann face/head for a storytelling project. Still waiting for the consistent-character LORA for Lovecraft himself.

In the meanwhile, Centerflex model + the wasmoebius embedding has a fair idea of what Lovecraft looked like, though you may need to use negatives (Auden, Lincoln, Keaton) and stretch the resulting image up by 70 pixels to get the ‘long face’…

Three new LORAs

25 Thursday Jul 2024

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My pick of three recent free Lovecraft-adjacent ‘style plugins’ (LORAs), for use with the free AI image-generator Stable Diffusion 1.5…

Style of Edward Gorey LORA.

Neon Pop Haeckel LORA, Haeckel being an influence on Lovecraft. Though for laying out a “sane” non-religious view of the universe, rather than his deep-sea expedition imagery. Joshi calls him a… “central influence on [Lovecraft’s] metaphysical thought of the time”.

Pulpy Comics Style Inkifier LORA, for a neo-pulp modern comic-book style.

“On thin ice again…”

20 Saturday Jul 2024

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I find that Stable Diffusion 2.1 768 knows about Conan, if you use the right model. Pure prompt, no Img2Img or ControlNet.

Conan’s body slipped and crashed down the icy ravine, his simple ice-pick useless to slow his slide, until suddenly he was halted. One foot has stuck through an ice sheet, where the high sun had partly melted it. It was that faint warmth which brought a musty smell to his flaring nostrils. He was suddenly alert to something behind him…

“My latest shocker…”

10 Wednesday Jul 2024

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HPL would like to read you his latest tale…

Incidentally, August 2026 will be Cthulhu’s 100th birthday.

Generated with Stable Diffusion 1.5, plus a little Photoshop. Pure SD prompt, no LORAs or image-to-image.

Pseudo-mediaeval dialogue, translated

08 Monday Jul 2024

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An interesting finding, with thanks to the experts at Reddit. Wooden pseudo-mediaeval dialogue, of the type sometimes found in 1870s-1920s historical and fantasy literature, can easily be translated into modern English via large-language model AIs.

By pseudo-mediaeval I mean all those interminable over-uses of thee and thou, plus wherefore goest ye, what meaneth it, we twain, thou wert before me, unto yonder hillock, therewith he laughed, and so on.

William Morris, and many other users of clotted pseudo-mediaeval Victoriana, made readable… with AI assistance. Potentially, it would be possible to build a dedicated translator for entire novels. Which would also aid the production of human-read audiobooks, as these books would no longer be so daunting to either readers or listeners.

More LORAs of possible interest

27 Thursday Jun 2024

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Newly-spotted AI image generation plugins, of possible Lovecraftian interest. For use with Stable Diffusion 1.5 models running locally in InvokeAI, ComfyUI or similar.

Carcosa City.

Ivan Aivazovsky style, for atmospheric sea-scape images (just add monsters). Could be used with the new Cinematic Tools – Volumetric Lighting for backdrops needing more eerie depth-haze/fog.

A few creature plugins of note. Auraplanktons for slides of lit deep-sea specimens.

Swamp Mysteries generates ‘somewhat toony but still mysterious’ swamp monsters in swamps.

And today there’s Black Cat. Seemingly meant to be an eldritch mystery moggie so it looks a bit rough, more Lovecraft’s battered ‘Old Man’ cat than kute kitten. Still, all the more suitable for a desperate messenger from Ulthar, etc.

For steampunk and 1920s RPG makers, Style of patent drawing may interest.

Shakespeare vs. Cthulhu

19 Sunday May 2024

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Now crowd-funded and in development, Shakespeare vs. Cthulhu, a solo RPG based based on the well-reviewed 2016 book of stories. This new adaptation will offer an…

“interactive, branching narrative, solo-RPG gamebook”

And the author has created such choose-your-own-adventure / RPG books before, including for Dracula, Beowulf, and Alice. The new Shakespeare vs. Cthulhu sounds fun, and will also presumably work well.

Of course this sort of thing is going to be susceptible to AI in the near future — in terms of real-time generated AI voices / character-depth/back-story, on-the-fly music and ambience FX, and AI control of branching storylines. We’re likely to see these possibilities spawning new low-cost interactive AI audio-adventures, at least for an audience which can bring their own visual imagination to the party and doesn’t need to be spoon-fed with expensive visuals.

Until then, Shakespeare vs. Cthulhu is old-school paper and dice. Due in April 2025.

The Great Race

17 Friday May 2024

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This week on my regular ‘Picture Postals’, a change from the usual (though, in a way, following on from the recent ‘comic-strip’ themed post). I’ve used Photoshop to isolate Lovecraft’s own sketch drawing of The Great Race (“The Shadow out of Time”) from its surrounding notes and also from the blue lined paper on which it was drawn.

Original

Extracted and cleaned, as a 2196-pixel .PNG file. Still a bit mucky down at the base, but I reckon a mollusc is ‘gonna get gloopy’ down there.

Feel free to try to use this as a Controlnet guide input for an AI image generation. Though, good luck in writing the prompt description.

Another load of LORAs

09 Thursday May 2024

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More picks of recent Lovecraft related and (now also) R.E. Howard related LORAs, these being free plugin for models based off the free Stable Diffusion 1.5 AI image generator.

* Stygia, explicitly modelled on Conan’s world and darker than usual ‘mediaeval desert, with pyramids and crypts’ settings.

* Conan trained on old comics plus oil paintings and film-stills. Doesn’t look great, the faces being too anime. But might be worth a try with a different model more oriented to western comics? Beware of commercial use, for a lookalike barbarian named ‘Conan’. Since there are still active Conan trademark-trolls in the USA. Apparently they are underlings of the megacorp Tencent, and can claim a trademark in the name until 2028. So you might call him some adjacent name instead, like Xolan or Kohlan.

* Style of Andreas Achenbach, possibly of interest for sword & sorcery, fantasy-historical.

* UFO Alchemy, which looks like it could be de-UFO’d and made into more of a Lovecraftian ‘cosmic map’.

* Style of Norman Ackroyd, moody British 1970s aquatint, possibly useful for Innsmouth-type scenes to which you’d add text to make a ‘widescreen’ storybook. Apparently Norman Ackroyd was one of the core artists in the SD 1.5 initial training. His ‘look’ was…

* 1900 style photographs, likely to be useful for RPG pictures and the like.

* There was also a new LORA that attempted to emulate Weird Tales covers, but the samples looked so bad that I’m not linking it.

Latest LORAs

17 Wednesday Apr 2024

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A few more recent Lovecraft-adjacent new free LORA add-ons, for use with a local install of Stable Diffusion 1.5.

Meteor Shower v1.0. Artistic meteor showers. It can also do just one or two. The same maker also has the earlier similar Fireflies from last Halloween.

Meteor Shower

Fireflies

Dark Core Style. It “creates comic-book-like inked illustrations, dark, gloomy and simplistic with lots of sharp angles”.

And Death and Decay, looking very suitable for generating the basis of a heavy metal album cover. The same maker also has a new Celtic / Gaul Warrior today.

Don’t correlate the contents…

15 Monday Apr 2024

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Testing out an AI that claims to do reasonably good text generation. But… kinda. Heavy Photoshopping was needed.

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