#tutotrial

[reallycreative]

Tis the Season to Design: Creating Christmas Tees with Canva

[deepdreamnights]

How I summoned the Demons

Bringing the Lesser Key of Solomon, Hieronymus Bosch, and a handful of oddballs into video:

Now, since every AI tutorial is someone's first, this was not a simple "type in what you want and get a video out." situation. The push-button-finished project is a myth. Today we're working with Vidu, Midjourney, and photoshop, among a handful of others.

I started with a Suno song that I generated, using parody lyrics I wrote for Carol of the Bells. I wanted to do a project involving a demon Christmas, but not Christmas demons (so no Krampus, Grýla, Yule Lads, Yule Cat, Mariah Carey, or undead pickle boys)

So Barbatos and Yan-Gant-Y-Tan from the Dictionnaire Infernal (which I manually remastered back in 2019) will be our examples.

Midjourney added overpainting through their "edit" feature about a month ago. It's highly limited, has much stricter censorship controls than the standard generator, and you can't iterate the images in the normal way, but it is useful for extending image edges or getting a very specific character design from one style to another.

Starting with Barbatos, I used the "retexture" option, with the following prompt:

photograph for casting, a demon with green skin and a gray beard and hair, he is dressed as a 15th century noble huntsman, in vibrant silken clothes (black, violet, yellow), he carries a long musket, two golden trumpets fly near his head, he is standing on a snowy hillock, a Christmas village in the far distance

The illustrations by Louis Le Breton were not in color, and the text is light on description, giving me room to play with the concepts while still keeping them (hopefully) recognizable.

I liked the idea of Barbatos as a green figure with a gray beard, and one of the results hit very close to what I wanted, but some photoshopping of the gloves was needed.

For an image post I would edit the final version a lot more, but he wasn't going to show up except from the waist up, so giving him proper old timey stockings wasn't high on my priorities list. That, and Vidu's object reference feature is rather broad and doesn't require the polish a finalized image does.

Yan-Gant-Y-Tan, on the other hand, was a more elaborate combo because I had a direct idea for what he'd look like. The demon is a french will-o-wisp spirit (a 'John with the Fire'), with a hand of candle-fingers hand-of-glory style that it uses to lure enemies in. A literal "Candle Jack."

So immediately I wanted something that was made of yellowish candle wax made semi-translucent by heat.

I wound up not having to put him in longjohns like I feared I would, and out of a large stack of results, three had aspects I specifically liked. The heads did not, however, turn out remotely correct, so I clipped out a closeup, and did that separately.

Then came the photoshop compositing and editing, including manually adding candle flames.

Resulting in this handsome devil.

The resulting images served as "actors" that I could drop into Vidu. A lot of video AI systems have a "starting/ending frame" feature (Vidu included), and when you want more control over the shot that's often the way to go (along with longer, more script-format prompts).

But Vidu's object reference makes things a lot easier. Things are still "soft" in a lot of ways. Fine details will change, asymmetry can give it problems, but it lets you use a single character image, or a model sheet, without the exact pose or location starting the shot.

So having Barbatos shop for gifts and then take those gifts to an apartment can be done with the same "actor image."

Other shots, like the Bosch ear-knife, required a starting frame. The robot has no idea how to handle something this weird.

I started by retexturing the ear-knife from the original painting several times, then I composited that together, did color changes, and removed the background, placed another generated background under it, then used that as the starting frame.

Even then the ear monster mostly stayed still because every time it moved it became an unholy(er) abomination.

Which while somewhat cool didn't fit the vibe of the project.

Speaking of Jankenstein's Monster

The stuff that gave me the most problems were most of the bosch-creatures, Buer, and King Charles Ba'al. The sled-riding blob demon and funnelbird were exceptions for Bosch, being generally cooperative, but everything else was a lot of trial and error.

And Ba'al? Vidu didn't know what to do with Ba'al.

To be fair, neither did Midjourney (or Louis Le Breton, for that matter)

Demonology Ba'al is very clearly built from a bunch of creepy things with no real understanding or concern about how they'd mesh together (making him the most biblically angelic demon in the batch, IMHO). In the end I wound up photobashing him together with some AI touchups.

I wound up using a start-frame for Hailuo for him, because Hailuo will default to minimal movement it doesn't understand what's going on.

Anyhoo, here's some Christmas Demons for you to enjoy:

Carol of the Hells (Scary Wicked Deadly Evil Christmas) The DeepDreamNights Robot Band Feat. The Trans-Stygian Orchestra

Even the unfathomable legions of the damned love Christmas, and like any musical act with a general disdain for mankind, the DeepDreamNights Robot Band was way overdue a Christmas Song.

So summon up these Christmas spirits and see how many demons, devils and evil spirits can you identify?

[tianaberrie]

how i create sims without cc | como crear un sim sin cc

un tutotrial donde te enseño como crear un sim sin contenido personalizado.

· ver video tutorial

sim download on my gallery | id: tianaberrie

[crochetmusings]

How to Crochet a Single Crochet (SC) in A Magic Ring

Step by step tutotrial to crochet a Single Crochet in a Magic Ring. The SC in a magic ring is essential for starting projects like amigurumi, hats, and anything circular.

This easy-to-follow guide is perfect for beginners and a great refresher for experienced crocheters.

Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T8mJcAQnP4

Website: Avolotl.com

#crochet #crochetpatterns #freepatterns #freecrochetpatterns #amigurumi #magicring #singlecrochet

[coderiderr]

1, 20, 22 for the end of the year game :)

1 - Song of the year?

Okay well tbh ive been listenng to lovely things sooo much since it came out its so good. fnaf fan songs continue to slay

20 - What’s something you learned this year?

OO hmmmmm.. this one is hard im like blanking on everything haha. i have learned a lot of programming trivia about security breach. and the 4 different ways monty is programmed in each appearance he has in game. first one is programmed to go the speed you are so he doesnt actually catch you in the running tutotrial, second one is just plain old programming, third one has everything stripped of it because hes SUPPOSED to just stand on thsi spotlight but if you deload the atrium you can make him fall and spawn another in then if you get caught he just runs from wherever he is and can even find you in freddy, and he doesnt lose interest. the fourth one, in his boss fight, is actually programmed to just occasionally make a complete 180 from you so you can actually like, do the mechanics of the boss fight LMFAO.

22 - Favorite place you visited this year?

Paris was very cool!!! i enjoyed it a lot, and i got to go to the fucking Louvre, which was awesome omg. i did get lost at one point and 100% sure i found a haunted room lmfao but otherwise cool experience. (me saying Universal is a copout bc its a themepark and i love themeparks but ive also been there before so.)

[onlineartifactinternetintro]

Goodwill Community Foundation Tutorials

GCF has provided tutotrials on the basics of the Internet and browsing the Web, as well as a handful of extras.

There's also a set of tutorials that provides tips and tricks of the Internet, search engines, and how to be more tech savvy.

[quarkmaster]

DongbiaoLu-Tutorial-Middle-Ages-90%Realism

DongbiaoLu-Tutorial-Middle-Ages [4hours]

This Pack Contains:

Original Speed Process(100%)MP4

Chinese audio

www.facebook.com/LuDongbiao

www.artstation.com/artist/ludongbiao

weibo.com/ludongbiao

dongbiao lu

[fairestmusesismoving]

@thexforgottenxones and @fairestmusesofthemall are a happily ever after waiting for you! This rping couple host two multimuses featuring rare Once Upon a Time characters and... Snow White and Prince Charming! Come join us and write your own story! Accepting of all fandoms and OCs! Accessible for disabled rpers! Simple layouts! Happy to respond to any questions! Promo by @fairestmusesofthemall PSD by https://www.deviantart.com/enhancers

[lockhvrts]

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[classyartcooking]

(New) Very Easy😷DIY Face Mask Sewing Tutorial - Make Fabric Cloth Face M...

[ask-krapette]

Big monster fursuit handpaws tutorial available on my tiktok!

It took some time to get this prototype right. It's not done yet, but it's still good to wear

Link to the tutotrial:

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMNNB2wNY/?k=1

[aku-jumbi]

just want to say you’re art is incredible!!! You’re so underrated on tumblr but I’m really glad you get more appreciation on ig! Do you have any advice for someone who wants to achieve a more “painterly look” like your art? All your works are so phenomenal I’m just really unsure of where to start or if I’ll ever be near that level! -💘

Thank you for the praise. It always feels a bit weird since I don't think I am doing something very special (in fact I am very lazy).

Ah well, and it's quite ok for me to not get so much attention (on IG actually my followers drop with each new pic I post, so I guess it's rather naturally declining currently, getting to the same "non-fame-state" like here haha ^^)

I was asked in the past about the painterly style and my answer is: Try to look closely at real oil paintings/also digital paintings which don't consist of outlines (there are more than estimated actually), look very closely at what kind of colours you see actually. When you are very curious, save a certain pic and check out with your colour picker what's the colour. With a certain background and smart usage of same colour range even super greyish tones look like pink or red. One get's easily "fooled" (also me) by that.

You will also need a digital brush which blends two colours into a third (for example: you have a red base, paint it over slightly with a blueish tone and get a violet-grey which is useful for indicating shadow).

Thats the colour part... another is the sculpting part, getting a certain shape (in my case a certain glance, and I am not always lucky to make the best). There is a lot of trying out, is the mouth to big, the eyes too wide apart and so on and on... it's not easy to paint it correclty at the first shot. Your eyes might get used at some point what looks OK or natural. Also try to use other artists pictures as a loose reference of what looks fine, how you can sculpt an eye or a nose and at some point you will be able to paint it the way you want it to be... but it can be a hard and long process to finally achieve something that doesn't look off.

Before I continue to write a novel: I do have a yt channel, also some tutorials available there, just when you are very curious. They might not be the best but I try to explain very practically and easily how to paint the way I do, there are also some real time painting tutorials, so you are able to see how the process works irl (two words: boringly slowly xD but it can encourage you, you wil learn I don't just snip with my finger and a painting is done but it takes time, thinking and trying out and it's ok when you need time ^^ haha)

or just type in yt: "Aku_jumbi tutorial" (because I have more useless speedpaints than tutotrials lol)

[poongs]

Gif PSD Tutotrial

Start with Curves - Auto, Levels - Auto, Bright & Contrast  - Auto..This gives  a base psd..

[ess-mac-blog]

Landscape study #3

I’m currently following Aaron Limonick’s composition sketching workshop on Gnomon workshop. I’d consider this quite advanced for me as I’m still prone to dipping into copying shapes and formations too precisely, but the knowledge is still worth listening to and following.

Not really one to stick with tutotrials entirely (unless it’s 3D related I suppose), but I’m hoping to come back to this and finish volume II of this work

Until next time!