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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
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
Yellow Yallie as a lab scientist
Green moustachioed Yallie, just the top of his head showing

How does this work?

First, you give it an image to start from:
original blue Yallie illustration with eyes looking to the right
Then, you give it a "prompt," which tells it how you'd like to transform the original image.

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

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
Yellow Yallie, still looking left but there are additional colored bubble textures and some lines suggesting hands

Pink Yallie's peace sign becomes their... drunk buddy?

Original pink Yallie, he's looking right and flashing a peace sign
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

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.

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Credits

  • Author / "Prompt Engineer": Michael Fanuzzi
  • Video: Moses Gunesch
  • Original Yallie Art: Mike Foster
  • Version: 1.0

Disciplines

  • #AI
  • #Video
  • #Yallie

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