#DeepSCREAM Nights

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Jackal Lanterns

The seeds of smashed Jack'o lanterns, if not swept up and thrown away, may take root. The twisted gourds mature over the course of a single year, until they rise to hunt the following Halloween.

Those in costume are invisible to Jackal Lanterns, though the stench of tricks will still draw them to their prey.

Prompt and process under the fold

Midjourney can't make a jackal lantern. It's current parser can't beat the 3 basket problem enough to put a pumpkin on a dog's head, maybe in v6.

Rather than use Dall-E 3 (because its slow as heck as I type it and I have another project baking there) I used the new in-painting tool. First, I generated the Jackals:

Prompt: a painting of a supernatural jackal, orange fur, glowing green spots, breathing green fire, running down a country road, moonlit night, spooky, horrifying, painting by wayne reynolds and wayne barlowe, side view :: a jackal runs through a haunted forest at night, filled with floating green spirits, bare trees, halloween scene

I then inpainted the heads and muzzle areas, and a section around the head big enough for an appropriate gourd, and changed the prompt to:

Prompt: a jack o' lantern, breathing green fire, spooky, horrifying, painting by wayne reynolds and wayne barlowe :: a jack-o-lantern with sharp teeth, glowing with green fire

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Remember this dork?

This is him now, feel old yet?

There's always a mishap or six when I prompt for Trader Vic's.

Prompt: A werewolf with perfect hair drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's, by norman rockwell, shiny pompadour hairdo, fangs, pointed ears HQ:: wolfman drinking a pina colada, pompadour, perfect hair, sweet new haircut, fangs, pointed ears

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Photomanipulation with Dall-E 3 gen:

Prompt: cover art for "The Boarenstain Boars", four boars dressed as the berenstain bears, father boar in floppy hat and overalls, mother boar in spotted dress and white cap, daughter boar in dress, son boar in t-shirt and shorts, family portrait layout, , line art with flat coloration, in the style of Stanley and Janice Stanley Melvin Berenstain

The Mandela Effect is no Match for Science!

We all know that memory problems and trans-temporal negligence can cause all sorts of hallucinations to become real and highly resistant to updating.

We've all heard it before: "Is it Berenstain or Bearenstain?", "Kazam with Shaq or Shazam with Sinbad?", "Didn't blood used to taste like lemon?" and so forth.

Fortunately, thanks to advancements in temporal lensing (and digging through Humbert's mom's attic), we can cut through to what you, personally had when you were a kid.

The Good News: We know the Berenstain/Bearinstain answer.

The bad news: Ain't nobody gonna be happy.

Our condolences once again go out to those affected.

[deepdreamnights]

The Reboot

We've gotten 22 new cats the kids have loved over the years. The only answer is to resurrect the first one.

I have complicated feelings about reboots. This was originally going to be a two panel photobash.

Prompt format and process under the fold.

14 dall-e 3 gens, composited and edited into comic format.

Prompts are mostly based on this format:

a comic panel, a haggard man, light stubble, in a t-shirt, carrying a sack in one hand, walks through a cemetery, it is dark and stormy, rain falling, B&W comic inks by Joe Orlando and jack davis, EC comics, 1947,

a large sack and a pile of power rangers action figures at the bottom of a shallow grave, dramatic angle, top-down view, it is dark and stormy, rain falls all around. B&W comic inks by Joe Orlando and jack davis, EC comics, 1947

a comic panel, a closeup of a man's hand digging a handful of earth from the ground, it is dark and stormy, rain falls all around. B&W comic inks by Joe Orlando and jack davis, EC comics, 1947

With various changes to the action descriptions as needed.

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Kaiju are Halloween Critters, who says they ain't?

Prompt: translucent green gummy godzilla breathes candy corn flame onto a city, 5k, photorealistic, octane render, beautiful lighting, cinematic camera work, dynamic camera angle, epic

[deepdreamnights]

Nah, it's okay Bob.

Joke's on them, I'm into this shit.

The images above in this post were made using an autogenerated prompt and/or have not been modified/iterated extensively. As such, they do not meet the minimum expression threshold, and are in the public domain.

Prompt: a woman in a suit and skirt being abducted by a UFO, hovering woman in tractor beam, flying saucer classic UFO, pulp scene, dreamlike photograph

[deepdreamnights]

A Variety of Witches

Shiny in various ways.

The images above in this post were made using an autogenerated prompt and/or have not been modified/iterated extensively. As such, they do not meet the minimum expression threshold, and are in the public domain.

Prompts Involved:

an image of a red haired lady dressed as a witch, by Hajime Sorayama, in the style of vintage-inspired pin-ups, bill brauer, dark white and purple, tony sandoval, high resolution, kathrin longhurst, dark navy

chrome shiny witch cosplay dana scully in the spooky woods, stepping in a jack-o-lantern, painting by Hajime Sorayama, 1988, artstation trending

a beautiful witch is standing in front of pumpkins, by Hajime Sorayama, in the style of vintage-inspired pin-ups, mike mayhew, light navy and dark crimson, lori earley, fawncore, will eisner, animated gifs

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Regulations Save Lives

The images above in this post were made using an autogenerated prompt and/or have not been modified/iterated extensively. As such, they do not meet the minimum expression threshold, and are in the public domain.

Prompts Under the Fold

Prompts:

photograph of freddy fazbear(FNAF) standing over the body of a security guard, shrugging in an oops gesture, lit by security monitors, a security guard lying on the floor, movie still frame, taken with provia

photograph of a human OSHA inspector in a high-viability vest and white hardhat with a clipboard is talking to Freddy Fazbear, freddy fazbear looks guilty and worried. photograph taken with provia, Background is the pizzaria with stage in the background, movie still frame

photograph of freddy fazbear sitting outside the Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Restraunt, Freddy Fazbear is holding his head in hands, looking depressed and hopeless, a sign on the building says "CLOSED" in the background, movie still frame, taken with provia

[deepdreamnights]

Hauntmet Crabs

A Dall-E 3 test piece.

Prompt: a hermit crab with a jack-o-lantern for a shell, on a beach with orange and black sand

[deepdreamnights]

Return to Mascot Factory Co.

Coming now to dozens of youtube channels fine game services everywhere. For best results imagine the movie trailer "BWzazaaapp!" sound between images.

Process under the fold.

This one was supposed to just be a quick couple of images hammered out of bing into a sequence like the Freddy Fazbear OSHA one, but... things got out of hand.

Made with a combination of Dall-E 3, Midjourney, photomanipulation and compositing.

Different prompts for each image, in some cases up to four per image using prompt-blending and iteration.

[deepdreamnights]

He-Man and the Monsters of the Universe!

Happy Halloween, Eternia.

Prompt format and Process under the Fold

These were all Gen'd in Dall-E 3 through Bing. All of them are edited, at the very least to crop or extend them to a 4:3 1980s TV aspect ratio, but also for coherence, accuracy, and aesthetics. A lot of non-animation friendly greebles got removed.

The Prompt format was:

[character] on Masters of the Universe (1982), cartoon by filmation, flat cel shading, black outlines, [background description], 1983 cartoon screen capture

Some had more or less variation in the prompt format.

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The rarest film in the trilogy.

Prompt and a detailed process under the fold.

Multiple midjourney prompts and gens, composited, overpainted, and photomanipulated. Then combined with graphic design elements.

While these are end-point gens, this can give you an idea of how I go about making something "finished." Each of these is the result of extensive prompt-testing, followed by outpainting with prompt changes throughout the process.

Once I have my raw material, I can move on to the next step, the composite:

an then it was off to photoshop to build the rest of the poster, using the original Italian poster as the model:

Main Prompts:

three breakdancing werewolves, dance scene, discotheque background, wearing 80s dance fashion, highly detailed painting, airbrushed details, handstand, art for movie poster

a female werewolf in a leotard, tights, and leg warmers, flashdance outfit, dances in a disco, 80s dance fashion, highly detailed painting, airbrushed details, handstand, art for movie poster

Plus several others, and variants.

This was for a dumb pun.

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Thank you for your service.

A message from the Veterans of the Skeleton Wars.

Prompt: a skeleton giving a military salute, one of his arms is made out of gold, somber scene, sunset behind him, light streams through his bones, eerie but beautiful

[deepdreamnights]

Tessellating Azathoth

Each one tiles wallpaper/texture style.

The image(s) above in this post were made using an autogenerated prompt and/or have not been modified/iterated extensively. As such, they do not meet the minimum expression threshold, and are in the public domain.

Prompt: the group of bizarre creatures in dark clothing, in the style of digital airbrushing, chaotic expressionism, green and gray, commission for, realistic hyper-detail, swirling vortexes, bombacore :: tropical marine anemones marine habitats, in the style of realistic hyper-detailed rendering, color-field abstractions, focus stacking, green and emerald, flickr, detailed crowd scenes, award-winning

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Bhayakee

Well, probably not, but I attempted to use prompt blending to create one using Midjourney V5.2:

Prompt: a crow :: a mole standing on two legs :: an ant :: a vampire bat :: a partially decomposed zombie :: something I must not and won't recall :: limping along half with webbed feet, half with membranous wings :: bat wings

[deepdreamnights]

Ghoo-uls

Have a colorful halloween.

The image(s) above in this post were made using an autogenerated prompts and were iterated/outpainted extensively. While they might meet the minimum expression threshold, I don't feel like pushing that idea for these, so consider them in the public domain.

These were outpainting an inpainting exercises that began mostly with hyper-closeups. I changed prompts several times for each as I brought more into their enviorns, a few sample prompts:

colorful paint splashed on the wall, in the style of dynamic still lifes, black background, three-dimensional effects, bio-art, hyper-realistic water, mystic mechanisms, flowing forms :: an old train tracks running in the forest, in the style of chen zhen, i can't believe how beautiful this is, romantic ruins, environmental activism, green, detailed world-building

this colorful paint splash is on a black background, in the style of mike campau, gutai, colorful collage, skillful, tempera :: a painting of a castle with a starry sky, in the style of digital fantasy landscapes, crystalline and geological forms, 3840x2160, crimson and blue, bryan hitch, anatoly metlan, uhd image

blue creature with large foot, in the style of colorful moebius, metropolis meets nature, adventure pulp, 8k, spiky mounds, revived historic art forms, panel composition mastery :: ink-splatter blacklight woman in a leotard an leg warmers

/describe prompts combined and remixed with the "::" method and with keywords removed/updated/changed.