RZ.

I'm currently working (at a snails pace) on a medieval magical fantasy series. As I'm more of a visual thinker, it's really helpful for me to have actual images of my characters to reference when I'm trying to write. Unfortunately, I have all the artistic talent of a drunk racoon with no limbs, so up until now I've been at a loss. However, I recently stumbled across a rather remarkable AI bot that produces images using human prompt words. I have to say, some of the stuff it's produced for me is incredible (well, by limited standards anyway. Perhaps the more artistically inclined amongst you will be able to see the faults). I thought I'd share some of the stuff it has produced for one of my characters (Lyra). For context, she is meant to be a very powerful fire mage, but the story follows her life from being an orphaned child through to adulthood. There's a few of her as an adult, adolescent and child. Unfortunately, stupid me forgot to prompt the AI to give her medieval clothing for the last image, which is especially annoying because it's probably my favorite otherwise.

Also, as decent as the faces look in this images, it actually wasn't very good at producing them. For every one good face it produced it probably made about 6-7 really bad ones lol.

A man walks into a bar.

Ouch.

20 hours ago, deaaath said:

Interesting! I planned on doing more research on English teams, glad to see this!

I've been to quite a few away games in my time so far. Liverpool, Manchester City, and a couple of days out in Wembley were probably the most prestigous. I've visited some brilliant smaller clubs though, notably Accrington Stanley and Altrincham for an FA Cup tie (which we lost 1-0 in the pooring rain lol).

Also, MK Dons have the nicest stadium. The only one I've ever been to that had cushioned seats!

22 hours ago, viruxx said:

Kinda coming at it from a synthwave angle, but... Retro Zebra, perhaps? Or Retro Zombie?

Full disclaimer: I'm not great at naming things.

I do like Zebras, so perhaps this is not such a bad idea.

21 hours ago, Ohayotaku said:

Retro actually seems to match your preference for older anime pretty well.

As for Z … Zeitgeist?  

zeit·geist /ˈtsītˌɡīst,ˈzītˌɡīst/ -noun- the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time; the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era.

But given the Deadpool 2 inference … maybe not

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Very intellectual! That would make me appear far more sophisticated than I truly am, which is right up my street

22 hours ago, MediaConsumesMe said:

I've looked up online he directed Tokyo Godfathers, Millennium Actress, Paprika and Good morning. Perfect Blue looks to be his first film he was director on, he also did direct three episodes of the original JoJo run. 

The more you know. 

Ah yes, I had heard he directed Paprika before. Another show to add to the ever growing and probably uncompletable list

6 minutes ago, MediaConsumesMe said:

Yeah it defiantly one of those trippy, psychological shows. It was directed by Satoshi Kon and it defiantly has his style. I might be wrong, but I think it the only TV series he ever directed.

I have Perfect Blue on DVD to watch next too, but I can't say I'm familiar with Satoshi Kon's work outside these two projects.

I'm a season ticket holder at Barnsley FC (that's an English "soccer" team for the Americans) and have been since I was about 15.

I also occasionally watched Snooker

Either Chuck or good old Star Trek DS9. However, having recently watched L.O.L. Arcane on Netflix they may have a new rival.

Between the age of 11-14 I used to go on a chatroom on an old flash game website called SFG. I had a lot of friends on there, and it was a good place to socialize for somebody who was extremely socially awkward at school. I used to go by RZ on there because the letter combination looked qutie cool on the chat, plus I was top of the hours online ranking a lot so new members would instantly recognize me online. I continue to use it primarily because I can't think of anything better and it's relatively unique.

Also, it doesn't stand for anything, but I'm open to suggestions. I always liked Radical Zebra.

Overall I'm alright with my life. I used to be highly dissatisfied with it, especially in regards to relationships (or lack there of). Then I went through an abusive relationship and came out of it with a different perspective - that things aren't always as good as you think they're going to be. For the moment I have a job I enjoy, hobbies I enjoy, good friends and family, and money to eat. I have few complaints, long may it continue.

How I got into anime was pretty weird. Somebody made a meme of the Queen riding in a car during a royal ceremony wearing a green dress. They'd used the dress as greenscreen and inserted the Evangelion opening over the top of it. Looked in the comments and found the name of the show and watched it... the rest is history,

Strangely, NGE wasn't the first anime I ever watched. I found the eclipse scene from the third Berserk film on YouTube whilst trying to find dark animations for a music video. I also watched one of the Hokuto no Ken movies and another called Children Who Chase Lost Voices on YT one day when I was recovering from a night out at university lol

7 hours ago, MediaConsumesMe said:

Won't be disappointed, Paranoia Agent is good stuff

I'm four episodes in and I'm liking it so far. A bit trippy in places so having to wind back to get a second viewing lol

Recently completed MSG: Iron-Blooded Orphans and the third season of Kaguya-sama: Love is War.

Now starting on Paranoia Agent (3 years after I bought the DVDs...)

Amber in the centre where she belongs

On 6/13/2022 at 11:35 PM, Hällregn said:

@RZ. Fish fingers and cucumber sounds like something I'd try and probably like.

Now I'm curious.

Fish finger, cucumber and lettuce sandwhiches are where it's at

And I don't know why I don't like them, they just freak me out.

I really want to visit Laos. They have some awesome architecture.

Oh, and Angkor Wat in Thailand. An extrodinary ancient city of the Khmer Empire that is kept from falling apart by the sheer volume of water comprising its surrounding moat.

Action - Speed Grapher, Canaan, Shingeki no Bahamut, Hamatora, El Cazador de la Bruja

Fantasy - Kiba, Last Exile.

Historical/Fantasy - Moribito, Otogizoshi.

Romance - Air

Sci-Fi - Kurau Phantom Memory.

Elfen Lied. Weirdly, I actually thought it was alright whilst I was watching it. It was in hindsight that I realized that it was as shallow as it was gory. Maybe the original material is a little better, I'm not sure.

A popular choice might be Code Geass or Evangelion as stated above.

Vandread is a little less known but a decent mech anime.

Shirou from Log Horizon seems to be pretty OP, especially at the start.

I'm on episode 5 of Arcane and god damn does this show just get better by the episode.

Starting the new season of Kagura-sama Love is War, one of the few shows I actually watch whilst airing.

1 hour ago, Animedragon said:

Haibane Renmei is a good series, I've lost count of how many time I've watched it since the DVDs were released. But it still leaves me with unanswered questions though.

I think that you need to rotate the pictures before you upload them.

It's my plan to finish Texhnolyze and Haiibane Renmei + rewatch Lain by the summer. I've been procrastinating on them for too long.

I did rotate it beforehand but still uploaded in portrait for some reason