Cup Moth (Scopelodes pallivittata), male showing off his flashy abdomen ;), family Limacodidae, MCM Nature Discovery Villa, Fraser's Hill, Malaysia
photograph by David Fischer
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Bug of the Day
UPDATE: OMG you guys who are saying this looks like a chicken nugget or a loaf of bread are making me LOLIRL!!!!!! ❤️ 🐔 🍗 🍞🍞
Lovely little crowned slug moth (Isa textula) that showed up right on the table, away from the big lights. It must have known I have a thing for photographing insects on top of printed pages ;-).
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Helping Neuroslug help me
Admittedly it took me an embarrassing amount of time to figure out and start using inpainting, but now that I've had a taste of it my head is spinning with possibilities. And so I'm making this post to show the process and maybe encourage more artists to try their hand at generating stuff. It really can can be an amazing teammate when you know how to apply it.
For those who didn't see my first post on this, I've trained an AI on my artworks, because base Stable Diffusion doesn't understand what anthropomorphic insects are.
That out of the way, here we go:
I noticed that a primarily character focused LoRA often botches backgrounds (probably because few images of the dataset have them) so I went with generating a background separately and roughly blocking out a character over it in Procreate. Since it was a first experiment I got really generous with proper shading and even textures. Unsurprisingly, SD did it's job quite well without much struggle.
Basically masked out separate parts such as fluff, skirt, watering can, etc. and changed the prompt to focus on that specific object to add detail.
There were some bloopers too. She's projecting her inner spider.
Of course it ate the hands. Not inpainting those, it's the one thing I'll render correctly faster than the AI does. Some manual touchups to finish it off and voila:
The detail that would have taken me hours is done in 10-20 minutes of iterating through various generations. And nothing significant got lost in translation from the block out, much recommend.
But that was easy mode, my rough sketch could be passed off as finished on one of my lazier days, not hard to complete something like that. Lets' try rough rough.
I got way fewer chuckles out of this than I expected, it took only 4-5 iterations for the bot to offer me something close to the sketch.
>:C
It ate the belly. I demand the belly back.
Scribble it in...
Much better.
Can do that with any bit actually, very nice for iterating a character design.
Opal eyes maybe?
Lol
Okay, no, it's kind of unsettling. Back to red ones.
Now, let's give her thigh highs because why not?
It should be fancier. Give me a lace trim.
Now we're talking. Since we've started playing dress-up anyway, why not try a dress too. Please don't render my scribble like a trash bag. I know you want to.
Phew
I crave more details.
Cute. Perhaps I'll clean it up later.
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SHRIMP DRESS
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Recent sea slug critter
I’ve figured out that I can combine mothman base design not only with moths, but with other weird creatures of our planet
And my mind started blasting with ideas
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have you ever posted the hag moth? their larvae are the most curious looking caterpillars ive ever seen
Moth of The Day #155
Hag Moth
Phobetron pithecium
From the limacodidae family. They have a wingspan of 20-28 mm. They can be found in North America. Their larvae are known as Monkey Slug.
And some pictures of their larvae, because I can't not show them to you:
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More quick and dirty fluffies for the data set. Neuroslug will learn how an anthro butterfly laying down should look like, whether it wants to or not.
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god I fuckin love bugs somuch!!!! and spiders and isopods and bees and ants and dragonflies and damselflies and moths and bugs bugs bugs!!!!!!!! yippee! bugs make me so fukin happy and i want more bugs to add to my collection and i want more space to show more bugs becaus the more bugs the better!!
also god please add more bugs in the next update and also give them to me!!!!!!!!!! also make them spawn near my house so i can get them and add to the collection plzzzplsplsplspls
also yeah snails cool too i like snails and slug it looks nice and its smooth and slimy and cool i like it :3
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