Go home, Yallie, you're drunk
AI Yallie
It's easy for creatives to feel resistance when AI comes up, but here at y'all, we're excited about all the new opportunities AI offers. So when this very website needed a hero image (or ten), we took Creative Director Mike Foster's beautiful illustrations of our mascot, Yallie, and ran them through a few cycles of the img2img
AI tumble dryer to produce the fun goodness below.
![blue yallie with no mouth, an exta eye and long fingers](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/8xfe0kf4/yall-v3-production/ad6a92675bada9c8f4b68b97f8eae1668b33e72f-1024x640.png?fit=max&auto=format)
![Pink Yallie split into two creatures, one holding a beaker, one that looks like an ice cream scoop pointing back at the the other Yallie](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/8xfe0kf4/yall-v3-production/04352c9367a0b0037ce73aa9b5b332dbc6df85d8-1024x640.png?fit=max&auto=format)
![Yellow Yallie as a lab scientist](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/8xfe0kf4/yall-v3-production/7b6de131720b73d6a8740533b0923a0ad9bd9d32-1024x640.png?fit=max&auto=format)
![Green moustachioed Yallie, just the top of his head showing](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/8xfe0kf4/yall-v3-production/53353b2ff0dce6ee25030333351d4803983f0819-1024x640.png?fit=max&auto=format)
How does this work?
First, you give it an image to start from:![original blue Yallie illustration with eyes looking to the right](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/8xfe0kf4/yall-v3-production/38031185c00d9b6173d4b408a21088dfae533fe5-480x480.png?fit=max&auto=format)
We wanted to turn Yallie into a scientist in a lab performing an experiment, while keeping the style fun, flat, and modern. These images were all generated using this prompt: colourful flat scientist creature with googly eyes performing an experiment, 2d, playful, airbnb, gradient, aesthetic
![AI generated blue Yallie, he has a third eye, glasses, a smile and what looks like some moving hand gestures](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/8xfe0kf4/yall-v3-production/6a14e79501016065c9275342082b67f8c5a23d58-1024x640.png?fit=max&auto=format)
Part of the fun is seeing what additional details the AI may add. For instance, we're not sure what's going on with the colorful dots and strange outlines that emerged from Yellow Yallie (but we're lovin' it):
![original yellow Yallie illustration, eyes looking to the left](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/8xfe0kf4/yall-v3-production/14a662968d641ba99cf42805a44515a634b3a2f6-480x480.png?fit=max&auto=format)
![Yellow Yallie, still looking left but there are additional colored bubble textures and some lines suggesting hands](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/8xfe0kf4/yall-v3-production/53880e56fef2cb0cc65d2e34bc81bd35a3120b26-1024x640.png?fit=max&auto=format)
Pink Yallie's peace sign becomes their... drunk buddy?
![Original pink Yallie, he's looking right and flashing a peace sign](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/8xfe0kf4/yall-v3-production/6c7026ba4c400ff64d52308ec68da88aead4dc91-480x480.png?fit=max&auto=format)
![AI generated pink Yallie has turned into two creatures with what looks like a vehicle between them. The creature on the right has smaller eyes, a snake-like head and a smiling mouth with three teeth](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/8xfe0kf4/yall-v3-production/60596a5f96d88070e2909857aee029d3bcabc61e-1024x640.png?fit=max&auto=format)
As silly as these are, we're excited about what they represent for the future of digital art, and the opportunities this truly new medium presents.