Sunday, December 31, 2023

My Top 10 AI Images of 2023 - - - - - - - - - - - #9 Cthulhu According to AI

In his famed novel, Call of Cthulhu, H. P. Lovecraft describes a statue of Cthulhu as:
"A monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind."
I prompted his exact wording into Leonardo.ai and generated several dozen images following that description. All of the images generally had similar aspects, but the level of difference was totally unexpected. Next, I entered more prompts, but this time provided much more details about character placement, size/proportions, and the background/environment setting. Which produced this:

This image above instantly became my favorite image of the group. Cthulhu's size in the far distance, the foggy air, and the mysterious shielded warrior, such fantastic visuals generated in one image. 

More prompted images of Cthulhu are seen below, seen in ranges from traditional to insectoid.