With the need to create a stylised Greenie, I opted to try training that recent Flux engine.

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Training was pretty easy, with a blog, and easy to use methodology there to be used. Which was great.
The resulting Derek images are... um..
Different.



The images seem to all have a very specific style, which .. I guess is to do with how I drew Greenie in the first place.
The style is kinda nice, but if I'm honest, it isn't what I was aiming for.



But it's a nice enough style, I suppose.
I mean, considering how bloomin' fast it can generate these, it's pretty damn impressive.
..
Having said that, if I try to setup the engine at home on the MacBook M2 8Gb, I mostly have to reduce the settings to naff-all, and then things still get all kinds of glitchy.
And it raises the Macbook's temperature up to about 70c (from an average of 32c)
And the system slows to a crawl.
Hmm..


An example created by my Mac!

It's not bad, once you add the upscaler to the thing.
Not sure what's up with the Unicorn's face, though.
...

Right, so, what else did I do, yesterday?

Well, I ripped the questions and answers from the Amstrad CPC version of Blockbusters, because.. Why not?!
(Copyright theft, maybe, Jay!?)

I spent HOURS digging through, trying my best to remove anything untoward. It was a very '80s list of questions and answers...
"What's the monetary currency of Italy?"
Um...
... OK..

So, I ripped a ton of questions out, and even sent a myriad of them to the AI Chatbots to help find anything that I didn't.
The results are quite nice.
...

___ board, ___ hole, ___ ring

You can look forward to typing your answers, once Advent's clicked off good and proper.
Mmmm!



A fun day of question and answers was had between Me and Mum as I flicked through the list multiple times. There's a lot deleted, though. I might have to see if I can find any more old sets of Q&As that I can *cough* make use of.. *cough*


Aaaargh!!!

Anyhoo. Busy day, lots of silliness, and yet I still need to decide on how best to draw Greenie in the engine.
He IS the teacher, after all.

You can Try Derek Here, but it does require you to set up Billing before you can, so .. Only bother if you're already part of the Replicate "thing".

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Notice how his feet aren't quite touching the ground properly.
This is one of many "oddities" when using Flux to draw Cartoon Derek.


"Cartoon @Derek wearing a Santa costume, standing in front of a Christmas Tree, in a lovely warm cabin, in front of a log fire." by ArtFlow.ai

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