Galleries of original digital artwork. Unless otherwise noted the figures depicted are not recorded images of human beings. The use of the word "video" in the descriptions is a euphemism; they are actually ITV, image-to-video renderings. I encourage you to leave a comment about the content that I post on the Blog. Your feedback can be any critique or question, except for sexually explicit comments about the subjects of the images. Thank you in advance for your participation.
I created this collection because I wasn't completely satisfied with the images in the two preceding galleries. At least one of you has stated that he prefers the photorealistic renderings, but I find that in this case the renderings where I used prompts like: "render as oil on canvas in the style of Edward Hopper", or "Norman Rockwell" or "Vermeer" produced an image that is more pleasing to my eye. One of the specific problems was the relationship between the boy and the teacher in any specific images. In some the proportion of the two subjects was off, the boy was too small, they appeared to be from two different images forced together, the teacher appearing to be look past the boy that he should have been interested in.
ReplyDeleteTwo other details: I cropped off the top of the image of the first image of the boy in bondage on the basketball court because, in an otherwise wonderful image, he was just barely touching the strings of the net. The cropping creates the illusion he is completely encumbered, sadly the top of the instructor's head is cut off. Secondly, when I want to render a boy who would have brown skin, I prompt for "a Navajo boy". If you look carefully at the images set outdoors where there's only dirt on the ground, those are where I used that prompt. I didn't like that result. In the final outdoor scene, I prompted for an "Iroquois boy", (Iroquois are in the Northeastern US), and now there's grass on the ground!
ReplyDeleteBTW, my original concept was that all of the boys would be bound. In the classrooms I envisioned ropes that dropped from the ceiling. In the outdoor scenes, the boys wrists would have tied to the chainlink fences, but OpenArt did not cooperate and either ignored the prompts or produced horrendous images!
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