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Dozerfleet Studios and Dozerfleet Comics spent the months of October and November of 2022 compiling attempts to rebuild much of The Gerosha Chronicles using the AI art generator app Wonder, by Codeway Dijital.
The 2-hour video that resulted compares the results of the AI's efforts to re-create various Earth-G7 characters with their pre-existing renders in Spore, MakeHuman, The Sims 3, The Sims 4, GTA 5, Far Cry 5, Adobe Fuse / Mixamo, and other rendering software.
The results were actually pretty impressive, as the AI was able to get some characters pretty close to how they were supposed to look. The text-to-speech app Narrator's Voice TTS was also employed, to give voices to some characters.
For all the characters and story works in progress that feature, there were a few that didn't make the cut, due to lack of renders / time, or due to difficulty getting the AI to comprehend the characters. While Stephanie Barrin was easy, Seth Lambrelli wasn't. Pilltar only features his Sims art, given how difficult he was for the AI to grasp. Likewise, Strawberry only features as Sims art in the video.
No one from The Tragedy of Lord Zeras nor Feud of Three Worlds features in the Origins-related sections of the video. Only Inukpak features from Experiments and Offspring. Only John Domeck himself features from Of Angels and Icicles. Kicked Deer renders came out too late in production, to say nothing of Shrouded Entity or any others. Likewise, only Stan and Shalia made it into The Battle for Gerosha's section. Fantisk, Luddin, and any other supporting characters were absent. Apart from Pam Marcones herself, no one else relevant and new to Extirpon 2 features. Spoliat didn't get featured. Similarly, for the first Extirpon, only the man himself got renders. Nematode didn't get one in time. While it would have been nice to include them, Greg Travin and Detective Hallower from Cherinob 2 didn't make it to the final cut of the showcase.
In the Legends portion, no renders were exported for anything from the following works:
- The Gray Champion: Chillingworth's Revenge (even though Chillingworth and Mapacha are mentioned later in the video.)
- The Gray Champion: Shaken Dust (even though its events, as well as Brackett and Hibbins, are later referenced.)
- Extirpon 3
- Pilltar 3
- Navyrope
- Navyrope 2 (even though the Navyropes are mentioned later on.)
The Orient section skipped Mukade: Reinvention entirely, even though Charlotte is referenced later on in the Legacy and Sodality sections.
Likewise, the Legacy section merged parts of Ciem / Anarteq: Kahoopiliana with Ciem: Ash Cloud and Anarteq: Tropic Mercenary. It skipped Path of the Ming-Cho entirely.
Sodality was long and ambitious, so a great many characters never got their renders. Meerkat, for example, never got a proper AI render. Swappernetters ran into similar issues, though a lot of major characters still found a way in.
The following characters also got voice work from the Narrator's Voice app:
- Maurice the Ferryman
- Cherinob
- Krampus
- Luftmaedchen
- Black Rat
- Stung Hornet
- Plum Bixie
- Darshan Chawla
- Mahima Zecharia
- Jerry Emberton
- Jen Emberton
- Spike Monide
- Candi Flippo
Some characters, it struggled to make them unique, and not resemble others. Li'Ban, for example, in spite being Irish, wound up looking very similar to Cherinob, whose HMC is supposed to look Australian. Jerry Emberton and Belay also began to look very similar, in spite one being a Christian post-grunge rock band singer and the other being a literal demon once worshiped as a Canaanite god.
Krampus involved cheating the prompts to give him his proper Dozerfleet form, prompts along the lines of "scary vampire Santa with goat horns." Simply entering Krampus by name into the prompts led to the AI getting confused, and defaulting to depicting him with more traditional takes on his appearance, as it couldn't separate the original Austrian folklore from the idea of Adolphus Kraus.
Similarly, it cropped off Luftmaedchen's masked photo's top, refusing to show her head with her mask on, as it couldn't comprehend the plague mask that she typically wears.
The AI did do a few characters surprisingly well. Cropping the top of her head off notwithstanding, Wonder got the look of Plum Bixie right on the very first try. Her Inner Fox outfit was more of a struggle though.
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