Another week, another challenge. It’s my turn to come up with the theme for this week.

Theme

This week’s theme is masks. I would love to see what kinds of cool, beautiful, or just plain weird masks you can come up with.

Rules

  1. Follow the community’s rules above all else

  2. One comment and image per user

  3. Embed image directly in the post (no external link)

  4. Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun)

  5. At the end of the week each post will be scored according to the following grid

    Prize Points
    Most upvoted +3 points
    Second most upvoted +1 point
    Theme is clear +1 point
    OP’s favorite (me, this week) +1 point
    Most original +1 point
    Last entry (to compensate for less time to vote) +1 point
    Prompt and workflow included +1 point

  6. Posts that are ex aequo will both get the points

  7. Winner gets to pick next theme! Good luck everyone and have fun!

Past entries

  1. Dieselpunk
  2. Goosebump Book
  3. Deep Space Wonders
  4. Fairy Tales
  5. A New Sport
  6. Monsters are Back to School
  7. War and Peace
  8. Distant lands
  9. Unreal Cartoons
  10. Sustainable Ecumenopolis

Above image made in Midjourney with the prompt:
a woman wearing a mask made from scrimshaw, intricate designs, tendrils, pagan

Good luck and have fun !

  • ThelsimOPMEnglish
    3•8 months ago

    That’s awesome work! You’re getting better and better at this :)
    It’s too bad the embedding doesn’t seem to work so well, maybe someone else has a solution for this?

    • @[email protected]
      English
      4•8 months ago

      I´ve tried to implement Loras in the Workflow and a face detailer to strengthen the lora effect. the Results are quite interesting (low quality comes from the webm format):

      Gwen Tennyson Lora

      Link To “High Res” GIF

      Trump

      Link To “High Res” GIF

      Buscemi

      The workflow is embedded in this picture ( The image is pre Face Detailer)

      • ThelsimOPMEnglish
        1•8 months ago

        Wow, that looks quite consistent! It’s so weird to see Trump happy… and in shape…

        You might want to put the webm files behind spoilers, they take up a lot of space in the feed if you just want to scroll through. At least they do in my browser (Firefox).

    • @[email protected]
      English
      2•8 months ago

      Its all a bit trial and error right now. this animation took about 20 Minutes on my machine. I would love to do some more tests with different models and embeddings or even loras but unfortunately my time for this is somewhat limited.

      I love to do the contests to test new things out :-)

      Visions for the future: If you could get a stable output for the background and the actors (maybe Loras?) you could “play out” your own scenes and transform them via stable diffusion to something great. thinking of epic fight scenes, or even short anmation films.

      This whole stable diffusion thing is extremly interesting and in my opinion a game changer like the introduction of the mobile phone.

      • ThelsimOPMEnglish
        2•8 months ago

        I’m glad you’re enjoying the contests, your contributions are always welcome :)
        Though you might want to consider making a post of your own, your work deserves a lot more exposure than just as a comment.

        The idea of making your own consistent scenes sounds quite impressive, it’s a bit out of my league though. Like you, I have limited time to invest in this hobby, I’ll stick to my images :)