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Time for More Graphic Novels

 Hello. C J here. Okay, hear me out. I’ve gotten good at using AI art to make things. I need it for concept art or I will spend the next two to three years planning and drawing the Quantum Starter Set. The Quantum Starter Set will be out probably in a few months and on time because of AI art. I’m writing the code for these myself and I’m finally willing to start publishing them. Here’s the one for today’s image.

male white blue stripes wolf white blue suit jacket modern docks walking off a steam ship crowds

Notice no capitols, no punctuation. It’s me telling the algorithm at Perchance what assets I want it to piece together into an image. It’s keywords mostly for nouns or colours. In other words, computer speak. I don’t get why people hate art generation so much. I’m a trained painter and this is faster than making every image out of acrylic. I then draw the final versions myself by hand. Why is one better than the other? Both take planning and an eye for detail.

Moving on. Now. Forever. Perchance can do nice things, like today’s image. I’m done concept art entirely for the Starter Set and once the Starter Set is done, along with Uprising Core, I’ll have a ton of free time and energy. Time to take what I’ve built and tell stories. I’m wondering something. Can I use art generation software to tell a story? Like a really nice story? I have tons of ideas and I think I’ll stick to my stengths and do either a travel based fantasy epic or a nice character driven romance. I’m not good at doing both in the same product. They’ll be free PDFs when they’re done, probably in installments. I’ll explain the code I use more later, maybe as PDF.

C J Mcpherson


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