ANNOUNCEMENT
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Since Dom has stickied the post, submissions will be open until end of day Sunday, April the 20th.
Even if you don't submit, comment if you have an idea for the next prompt!
Welcome to AikiA I, an art contest on KiA2 using only AI images! AI capabilities have made it possible to translate ideas into art simply by directing a model. Contrary to complaints about AI slop, I think this could substantially widen the band of human creativity, as many more visions can be realized in much less time. This contest is an attempt to help make that happen.
- Prompt
This contest's prompt is an action scene with Tifa Lockhart. Any version (FF7 original, Advent Children, etc) and any art style (anime, realism, Ghibli, Disney, etc) works. *Any other character or setting can be included. Don't think you're limited to motion shots either. Poses that would happen on key beats are also part of the prompt, like this or this. (I don't think these are amazing shots by themselves, but you get the point.)
Comment below with your suggestions for future prompts!
- Rules
- Upload and link images using catbox.moe in the comments on this post
- *Limit 1 entry per person, but you can replace your entry until submissions close if you want to revise.
- 1300 pixels is the max of the longest side of the image. This is easy to game (i.e. generating HD and resizing), so it's on the honor system.
- All secondary techniques are allowed, such as LoRAs, inpainting, refinement passes, etc, EXCEPT ControlNet or reference images. This is so people won't just draw the art and color it with an AI, and also to encourage freshness. Also on the honor system.
- No overt erotic imagery, such as cameltoe etc. I reserve the right to use the Miller test.
- Submitters should provide their model, prompts, LoRAs, and other parameters upon request.
- Judging criteria
The judgment criteria is based on two factors: fidelity (technical quality of art) and expression (the depth, originality, and effectiveness of sentiment expressed).
I'll be the judge for this contest. Everyone's biased, including me, but let me know if you see a problem. I reserve the right to change anything if needed.
- Scheduling
Submissions will be open today and Friday or until u/DomitiusofMassilia stickies this thread, whichever comes last. So if Dom doesn't sticky until Sunday, submissions will be open until then.
- Winning
Contest winners *and their winning submissions will be recorded on future AikiA threads as a hall of fame. (Sorry, no prizes right now, not sure if Scored supports flairs etc. If we do get prizes up and running, they'll be retroactively given to winners)
That should be everything. Good luck everyone, hope you have fun!
- Future contests
Comment with ideas for the next prompts!
Submission
I really don't like that 1300 pixel edge limit. I'm usually generating at 1000 x 1600 these days (on my own PC at that); the higher I can go, the better the quality of faces and the like, which is already taking a hit the moment I do a standing full body shot. But whatever. Just because she's making herself look like an "escort" in Wall Market, you still shouldn't screw with her.
Thanks for the submission, looks cool. I don't think Dom is going to get to this anytime soon so if everyone else is cool with it, we could probably raise to 1600.
Consider for next time, if there is one. I'll stick with the current submission with the current rules.
This is my current submission. I think it has some good implied action to it.
I was also inspired to do the setup for video output. A video is not an image, but I was impressed with the tools working at all with relatively little extra installation effort and no tweaking of settings at all. It does less well with the chocobo image, though.
Some unexpected challenges: First, gloves undo some of the progress that's been made towards AI knowing how many fingers are on a hand. Second, models which know who Tifa Lockhart is have a tendency to break the "No overt erotic imagery" rule. Also, the chocobo LoRA struggled to make the chocobo reasonably large, and basically failed to generate acceptable images of Tifa riding it.
That's pretty sick considering no adjustment. Thanks for the submission, I like the abs
https://files.catbox.moe/cuwwzo.png
Sorry I'm late. Been swamped at work lately.
Seconding encouraging slightly larger image sizes, even though it's to my disadvantage, would encourage use of refinement passes, and make fidelity slightly trickier.
The theme is a little basic. I think additional requirements would have made this more interesting. AI is very good at solo portraits of girls, even if they are doing something.
Thanks for the submission! Yeah, it sounds like we should increase the max image size.
Limit to number of entries?
Oh, good point. Limit is 1 entry per person to keep it simple this time, but you can replace with revisions of that entry before submissions close.
Just to ask, is manual digital art on top of AI (or just manual digital art in general) allowed for this competition?
No, sorry, for the same reason that reference images aren't allowed