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Title: Grace’s Blue Dress Adventure

Chapter 1: “The Portal in the Petunias” Grace poked her head through the dense leaves, her blue dress snagging slightly on a stubborn branch. She squinted at the shimmering oval nestled between the petunias and the old oak tree, disbelief etched across her features. “Is that what I think it is?” she whispered to herself, stepping closer. The air around the portal seemed to buzz with energy, making the hairs on her arms stand on…

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Paws & Crowns

A story by Grace. Chapter 1: The Enchanted Escape In the realm of Rainbow Kingdom, where vibrant colors danced in harmony and magical creatures frolicked beneath the shimmering sun, there lived a young princess named Grace. With her ethereal beauty, Princess Grace was a unique being, for she was born half-human and half-cat. Little cat ears adorned her head, peeking out from her dark blonde tresses, while her chocolate brown eyes held a hint of…

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Stable Diffusion Animation for Characters with ControlNet

Since we’ve seen how to make a consistent character, we can now try animating them. I said this was an area I wanted to delve into in my follow up to the consistent character post. I had a lot of fun animating stable diffusion characters, as you can see below in these stable diffusion animations. Results The Flow I made a script that would work with ControlNet. This script does several things. First it takes…

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Automating Inline Image Creation with GPT4 and Stable Diffusion

Using multiple types of generative AI together can be complicated. This is especially true if you want images inline with text. The text generation and image generation needs to be synced, and what is described in the text might not make for great images. Wading through all of that text to figure out what the prompt should be is time consuming. Here I’ll go through a method of making GPT give us the image it…

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Aurora’s Snow Globe Kingdom, Written and Illustrated by AI

This is illustrated fairy tale story for young kids was written and illustrated by Alex Inglewood,with help from Chat GPT and Stable Diffusion via the runpod.io API. Estimated reading time: 5-10 minutes For Ages 4+ This story is generated using Chat GPT 3.5-turbo and Stable Diffusion via the runpod.io API. It is using an early version of a choose your own adventure game that I’m developing. The images are automatically generated to go with the…

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Consistent Characters with ControlNet Auto1111: Follow Up

Theming is ‘The woman in the red dress’ for this one. Maybe that reference dates me. We got a lot of comments and interest for the previous post on characters with controlnet in Automatic1111 web ui running on runpod.io. So here is a follow up to the comments and questions. Extra Long One comment asked if we could make an image that was just extra long with all the poses we wanted included. We gave…

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Ultimate Guide to Upscale Images with AI in Stable Diffusion

You don’t need to be an AI image generating wizard to want to upscale images. You may simply want to enlarge an image to make a high quality print or you have older digital photos that were taken at lower resolution and wish to increase their size for modern use. For those who do generate images with AI, many models work best at lower sizes such as 512×512 or 768×768. Or perhaps your hardware struggles…

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Unity Integration for Stable Diffusion & ChatGPT for AI Image + Speech Generation

There are other tools out there that allow the integration of Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT, and Text to Speech (TTS) into Unity, but this guide is intended to make integrating them all very simple. The below script doesn’t have the best coding practices, but it is an easy place to start with Unity AI integrations. Start By Getting All the Service Keys You of course will have to get your own keys from each service: Get…

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Story Generation using GPT4 vs. GPT3.5-turbo (ChatGPT)

GPT4 for stories is a vast improvement. The coherency of 3 wasn’t all that good, and 3.5-turbo (also known as ChatGPT) still left something to be desired. The upgrade for GPT4 over ChatGPT (3.5-turbo) is a larger upgrade than the DaVinci 2 to 3 change for GPT3. Some of the issues with 3 and 3.5-turbo that are better in GPT4 An Example with GPT4 vs. GPT3.5-turbo (ChatGPT) Prompt: Write a long chapter in the following…

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Consistent AI Character Generation With Different Poses in Stable Diffusion

One of the largest drawback to image generating AIs is that it is hard to get a consistent character. In this article I’ll explain how I have used a set of tools to overcome that impediment and make an AI character generator. Getting a set of six views of the same character Below is a set of images I generated using Stable Diffusion 1.5, Char Turner V2, and Control Net with Open Pose. These images…

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