{"id":2912,"date":"2022-06-22T19:08:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T10:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/?p=2912"},"modified":"2022-07-17T13:52:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T04:52:57","slug":"how-to-create-simon-belmont-with-dall%c2%b7e-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/?p=2912","title":{"rendered":"How to create Simon Belmont with DALL\u00b7E 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Simon Belmont as he appears in Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls (Src: Wikipedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This morning OpenAI has changed the rules – we can share pictures with faces now! To celebrate, I figured I’d have DALL\u00b7E create a real life photo of Castlevania hero, Simon Belmont. He should look something like the above picture, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll just enter the name and the style of photo I want and with the magic of AI we get…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Simon Belmont , Professional Photograph in the studio, perfect lighting, bokeh”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

…some bikers and Neo wannabes. DALL\u00b7E has been programmed to ignore (?) famous people and I guess that extends to fictional characters as well. Had poor results with Mickey Mouse and Shrek<\/a> too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It will never closely duplicate a celebrity face or anybody’s face for that matter, it will only output greatly “mixed” things. (this is a legal\/ethical choice rather than a technological limitation I believe)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the secret is to forget the name and craft a worthy sentence to describe the target in textual detail. Actually, I get slightly better results including the name so I’ll keep that too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a representative of lazy people everywhere, I’ll use OpenAI’s GPT-3 DaVinci to create the description for me. (Their text AI tools have no qualms referencing famous people or anything else)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Perfect. Now we feed the AI created description into DALL\u00b7E and get…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Simon Belmont is a tall and muscular man with long, flowing blond hair. He has piercing blue eyes and a chiseled jawline. He typically wears a red tunic with a white undershirt, brown trousers, and black boots. He also wears a red cape and golden cross around his neck, Professional Photograph in the studio, perfect lighting, bokeh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Well, much closer. You know, we should have added a whip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The quality stands up pretty well at full resolution too:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What a hero! We may have found the box art for Dink Smallwood 2… ! Or a romance novel. Oh, wait, we can’t use any of this generated stuff commercially yet, too bad.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Add an eye patch for Goro Majima Belmont<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Being a skilled writer (unlike the person typing) will probably result in better images. All those pages of boring descriptive prose in The Hobbit would create masterpieces!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been dabbling with creating creature sprites\/concept art to fit existing games (Like Dink Smallwood) but inpainting techniques have not been producing good results yet. Still learning and playing with things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning OpenAI has changed the rules – we can share pictures with faces now! To celebrate, I figured I’d have DALL\u00b7E create a real life photo of Castlevania hero, Simon Belmont. He should look something like the above picture, right? I’ll just enter the name and the style of photo I want and with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,11,34,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-art","category-dalle","category-development","category-tech-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2912"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2928,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}