A while back I used Dall-E to generate images for my characters from The Allison Lee Chronicles. It was an interesting and somewhat fun experiment. For the author, I think it has potential as a way to help visualize a character. I have considered using it in this manner, but I haven't yet. I don't know that I will, because I usually have pretty good picture of the characters in my head.
I had been going back and forth about writing another post about generating AI images. I had landed on probably not doing one, but then WIX, which I use for this website, added functionality for AI generated images. I couldn't help experimenting.
AI Generated Character Images
Here is Dr. Radcliffe, a dragon masquerading as a university professor, from The Allison Lee Chronicles. One thing I noticed is that every time I included professor in the prompt, an image of a man with a beard was produced. I guess having a beard implies knowledge or wisdom..? LOL.
For a post I did about a short story that was recently published, I wanted an image of a downtrodden wizard. I had to specify young in the prompt. Otherwise, the wizards were uniformly old with long gray beards—think Gandolf.
Same Characters, new AI images
For fun, I decided to use the WIX AI image generator to produce images of Dalia, Haji, and Allison. I had used Dall-E to make images of the same characters a few months back.
Dalia
Overall, I like this image of Dalia. I don't think it's better than the image I produced before, but it was easier to get the AI to create. I used tough teenage girl with pink hair for the prompt. I had to go through many prompt iterations with Dall-E to produce something.
Haji
Haji was a little bit tougher to generate using WIX than Dalia. I like this image pretty well, but I'm not sure what that stain on the wall is supposed to be…hmmmm. Adding "with a laptop" to the prompt immediately improved the results. Overall, I think this is a good rendition of Haji, a friendly dude often on his laptop updating the school newspaper.
Allison
I think this is a decent rendition of Allison, even if it doesn't ring quite 100% true for me. Getting the green hair and bob haircut was fairly easy and including snarky added a bit of attitude that is part and parcel of Allison's personality.
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