1st Place: u/arglide

2nd Place TIE: u/Norenia and u/Eltrion

This was a very difficult contest to judge because all the submissions had good things going for them in different areas. Norenia and Eltrion's pieces had strong kinetic posing, and arglide's piece used the chocobo and the blocking to set up a starting beat to an action scene. In my opinion everybody had an argument, but a winner must be called, so I went with the piece that was most intriguing to me. Congrats everyone!

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

1. Upload and link images using catbox.moe in the comments on this post
2. *Limit 1 entry per person, but you can replace your entry until submissions close if you want to revise.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. No overt erotic imagery, such as cameltoe etc. I reserve the right to use the Miller test.
6. 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!