Emma dancing in Brinn’s villa - an AI art experiment

 

So, I’m now very happy with the way I can stabilise the look of a character through multiple pictures. This means I can create character models for reference purposes and Google Gemini will always stick to those models and not make any random changes. 

 

I thought I’d post up a series of pictures that I did as an experiment to test that the model in the pictures remains stable.

 

This is Emma, as she was back in the early days of living in Brinn’s halls (before the events detailed in Shadows of Gor), when she might be ordered to dance for the pleasure of two of Brinn’s warriors, with an anklet of slave bells jingling as she moves. It’s how I imagine Pleasure Silk to look on the body of a kajira – diaphanous and very floaty – almost begging to be torn away by eager male hands. Once again I’m very impressed by the expressions I could get on some of the pictures. See what you think as Emma dances. 

Adventures in AI on Christmas Day

 

So, I’ve been playing around a bit, trying to figure out how I could get Google Gemini to maintain the same look of a character throughout a series of pictures, because up until now Gemini keeps changing the way a character looks, and that's really frustrating. It does seem there is a way and this is my first attempt. I’ll preface this by saying I’m not very good with computers. I don’t have Chloe’s programming skills, so this is me probably doing everything the hard way.

 

As an experiment I took the first picture I had randomly generated as “Emma’ (the one at the top of this post) and, because I was quite happy with it as a ‘look’ (her hair is cut short at the beginning of chapter one), I used it as a ‘model’ for any picture with “Emma” in it.

 

Basically, in each subsequent picture prompt, I uploaded the original picture and defined that Gemini should stick with the same appearance, which it seems to have done. Note, I haven’t tried to stabilise any other characters in the picture – it’s really just an experiment to see if I could do it first with just “Emma”. But if I could, then in theory I can do the same with multiple characters. These then are the pictures I generated that way, and I think this time around the appearance of “Emma” has been stabilised, which suggests I can do that going forwards for any character I’m happy with. See what you think.

Emma dances for you all in the foothills of the Sardar mountains

 

(The following occurs after the events soon to be recounted in Gods of Gor)

 

“Hold still, Emma!” she was fidgeting like a wild thing as I draped, arranged, and secured the silks and gauze decoratively about her body. She would be dancing soon for the pleasure of my Master and his guests and I feared she was going to be distracted.

 

“Who is she?” Emma kept trying to get a glimpse of the blonde barbarian who lay beside our Master’s feet as he discussed politics with the other men. The girl was semi-nude, except for decorative bangles and a long piece of silk that fell between her thighs, as she licked and kissed his ankles and from time to time was fed a grape or two by hand.

 

“She’s just a new slave. Her name is Anthea.”

 

“Why is she with Brinn? I should be with Brinn?”

 

Other slaves regarded us with disapproval. Emma has a tendency to speak our master’s name, something no other girl would dare do, including myself, and they didn’t like it. Somehow Emma seemed to get away with it. My Master didn’t seem to notice or care.

Emma models new hair and new slave garments under Chloe's supervision

Greetings again, kind masters, and gentle free women. It’s Chloe again, Taharian slave girl, First Girl of Brinn of the Sardar, and Trainer in Chief of the very best slave coffles in northern Gor!

 

At the risk of getting into spoilers, I wanted to just say that the Master and I are back from our hair raising adventures in the jungles east of Schendi, along with a small coffle of slaves, and you’ll read all about them soon in the serialised book, Gods of Gor, which follows on from Ubara of Gor! Yes, I know you’ve been waiting a long time for that epic story, but a certain blonde barbarian has been taking her time getting it all down in writing. I’ll be doing the pictures, but I need to see the writing first. 

 

The biggest spoiler of course is that we didn’t die! 

 

Yes, we’re still alive at the end of it!

 

What a surprise! 😉

 

I mean, it was dangerous and all. Of course it was. We discovered a decaying, lost city in the deepest jungle with two warring Taluna tribes fighting through the ruins, and all sorts of exciting things happen, including meeting Emma’s father again, and there’s her sister kidnapped from Earth and trained as a slaver in Schendi, which is the reason we sailed down the river in the first place, because she’d gone missing, and we had to find her, but my Master has told me not to spoil the story for you, so I wont.

Chloe introduces the new slave girl, Kelsee (formerly Miss Chelsea Savannah Frick)

 

Well, kind masters and gentle mistresses, it’s been a while, but we do have some new girls to show off to you. Cassie is being dressed in one of the side rooms as we speak, and will be stepping out shortly, but in the meantime I thought I’d introduce you to the lovely Kelsee. Now Kelsee is rather new to her slavery, and…

 

“This is a mistake! I’m not a slave! What are you doing! This is a slave display! I told you I’m not a slave!”

 

Ah, here she comes now. Accompanied by one of the master’s guardsmen. I do apologise for her outburst, kind masters and gentle mistresses. We don’t ordinarily suffer from tantrums like this.

 

“I said I’m not a slave! I’m not! Ohhhh!”

 

Well, hello Kelsee, so glad you can join us on the slave platform. Be careful, you almost fell when you were pushed up the steps by that guradsman. 

Chloe’s book cover project

 

As well as labouring on the Secrets of Gor chapters, Chloe has begun reworking covers for all the Gor novels published on this website. Since she began illustrating my stories many years ago, her software has become more sophisticated in leaps and bounds, to the point where she decided it was high time to revisit and replace her old covers and create ones for books that didn’t previously have covers (often because they were books she didn’t illustrate). It also offers a chance to use the famous title lettering that appeared on the classic 1970s/1980s UK editions. If you have any of the UK Gor books from the mid to late seventies, you’ll recognise the font immediately. When she’s finished, the covers will form a new bibliography of all our work on the top header section. Every book will have a cover illustration and supporting text details, listed in chronological order, but with side references for the order they were written in, also.

Snow Maiden ChloeK wishes you a merry Christmas

ChloeK, my intrepid co-creator, currently resides in the snow covered tundra that is Canada, and I often speculate how her days must be, as she rides around the white landscape in brass carved sledges pulled by armoured polar bears, or gazing out at the Northern Lights from her Winterfell-like home as she works diligently on art for the various stories I write.

Character concept art: Geralt of the Sardar

Some more recent character concept art from the hard working ChloeK, in her arctic fortress deep in the ice floes of Canada, where armoured bears from Svalbard no doubt travel to on holiday. :)