Edit: I admit there isn't really a joke here besides the original "let's mess with the viewers by skipping all the steps in-between" and perhaps a bit of "but AI can actually skip all the steps", and it's funnier in my own mind. In part, it's about making a reference to an old meme in a way nobody foresaw.
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Take this for example (don't need to listen to the guy talk), the pencil fully draws in details as it goes along, leaving the entire page empty, until the pencil gets to it.
Then this non-AI example is just so much different.
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To get a real point across I had in my mind, if I knew how to animate the meme, I would have the generated owl outline be drawn in one stroke "without lifting the pen", so you'll see it zig-zag perfectly in place without guidance.
Interesting LoRA, but I feel that the AI draws “too well” to pass it off as PC-98. In PC-98 art, the face, especially the chin and jawline, is rounded. Imagine mochi or perhaps dango, something like that. The heads are “flattened circles.”
Another interesting thing is that ZUN never draws the nose very close to one eye; he draws it at a different height and always in the middle.
Interesting LoRA, but I feel that the AI draws “too well” to pass it off as PC-98. In PC-98 art, the face, especially the chin and jawline, is rounded. Imagine mochi or perhaps dango, something like that. The heads are “flattened circles.”
Another interesting thing is that ZUN never draws the nose very close to one eye; he draws it at a different height and always in the middle.
100% agree. Some images come closer than others but it's never 100% there, be it the character or the background. That's just the consequence of how checkpoints/AI are trained I guess. Still fun to see what it can come up with though.
100% agree. Some images come closer than others but it's never 100% there, be it the character or the background. That's just the consequence of how checkpoints/AI are trained I guess. Still fun to see what it can come up with though.
Personally I think it not being a perfect replica of his style is part is part of the appeal, there's no shortage of PC-98 parody artwork out there (AI-generated or not) so seeing one that's PC-98 inspired while still kind of being it's own thing is cool. It reminds me of keiki8296 and koxapfi4jyljb0d with how their styles are clearly inspired by Moe Harukawa while still being visually distinct from hers.
