Busy Bees: Animals with Jobs
Show us the real bugs life. Animals of any variety doing the mundane, exciting, or otherwise indescribable tasks we apes do.
Prompt for post image:
Rules
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Follow the community’s rules above all else
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One comment and image per user
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Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
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Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun)
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At the end of the week each post will be scored according to the following grid
Prize Points Most upvoted +3 points Would I hire this animal? (Are they actually doing their job) (new) +2 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 -
Posts that are ex aequo (tied) will both get the points
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Winner gets to pick next theme! Good luck everyone and have fun!
Past entries
- Dieselpunk
- Goosebump Book
- Deep Space Wonders
- Fairy Tales
- A New Sport
- Monsters are Back to School
- War and Peace
- Distant lands
- Unreal Cartoons
- Sustainable Ecumenopolis
- Masks
- Mascots
- Old Gods, New Jobs
- Winter Festivities
- High Tech, Low Life
- Character Limit
- Gatsby’s Jazz Hands
- Reel to Canvas
- Cruelly Cute Characters
- Retro Sci-Fi
- Get Your Bard On!
Meet Dam Wright, Architect!
Meet Dam Wright, the beaver architect extraordinaire. By day, he’s a master of blueprint and design, crafting eco-friendly, sustainable lodges with a flair that only a beaver with his keen eye for structural integrity could muster. With a a pencil always tucked behind his ear, Dam is the go-to beaver for all woodland architectural needs. His works are not just dams; they’re masterpieces of wood and mud, celebrated for their innovative water management and cozy interiors.
Dam Wright, the beaver architect, embodies the spirit of creativity and commitment, proving that one can build dreams from the ground up, both professionally and personally, all within the walls of a dam built with love.
Workflow: First I asked Chat GPT for ideas and this was the one I liked best. Then I asked it for several art styles that would go well with this and I picked one.
Prompt: Create an image of an Anthropomorphized beaver as an architect who is designing homes and buildings that look like beaver dams, use the fauvism art style
Then I asked it: Redo the image and add Hollywood style post effects to make it look like a still from a summer blockbuster movie in a 16:9 aspect ratio
Then I had it do a few revision and this is my favorite
California and Western Canada are going to need them this year lol
Even his name deserves an upvote!
Lol damn right!
Congrats you came 2nd. You lost some points because ChatGPT generated the idea, but gained some for a very detailed prompting!
Please accept this trophy
Geese have been used as guardian animals for hundreds of years.
Therefore, Security Goose!
Niji prompt:a cute goose wearing a security guard uniform and holding a flashlight, peering alertly around with narrowed eyes, the goose is on the lookout for intruders, night scene --ar 4:3 --niji 6
I wanted to make an anthropomorphic goose at first. But this one is just too cute in his little jacket, hat and… flashlight holder? Don’t think too hard about that last one please :)
A few extras:
Edit: apparently all the links to the discord images are broken, so I had to re-link them :(
I guess that’s on me for being so lazy :)Would you mind sharing how you got that art style? It’s fantastic!!
I used Niji Journey, an anime trained version of Midjourney.
They recently released an alpha version 6, so it felt like a good excuse to use it for the challenge :)Thank you!
if the last one was your entry, you would have my vote
Woa, déjà vu :)
I wasn’t very happy with the weird jacket in the back, but he’s definitely the cutest of the lot.
😁
it looks like a scene from a ghibli movie
Write this movie @Thelsim@kbin.social!
Wrong Thelsim! That’s not true, but it is only my backup account.
Anyway, hard at work on this movie, I already got the poster :)
Inspector Goose is on the case!
Congrats, you came 1st!
I loved how vibrant this piece was, and a goose would make the ultimate guard animal.
Now you have the responsibility for arranging next weeks contest!
Please accept this trophy
Thank you! I love the trophy, so distinguished!
I’m going to need a moment to think of a new challenge, I didn’t expect to win :)
“Would you like anything else ?”
Prompt:
Visualize a realistic scene in a supermarket with aa rat as a cashier, but in a more photorealistic manner. The animal, looking very similar to an actual animal but standing upright, is behind the checkout counter. It wears a simple cashier’s uniform, complete with a name tag. It seems disinterested and bored, leaning on one hand at the register, with the other hand barely touching a grocery item on the conveyor belt. The scene around it includes a realistic supermarket setting with aisles of products. The atmosphere is quiet, reflecting its lack of enthusiasm for its job.
Made with comfyui.
Parameters
The Workflow should be embedded into the image.
- Model: mortiferiousxlCGDark_10
- sampler: dpmpp_3m_sde
- scheduler: Karras
- steps: 60
- cfg: 8
“Yes, I’m the manager. Sighh.”
“Sir, we do not accept coupons from our competitor. Please discuss it with my manager. He is over there, fused to the checkout after a freak accident with a few rubber bands, a liquid lunch, and a portable particle accelerator.”
Ha, call him stumpy. Also love how the till is set up as if this is normal.
Congrats you came 3rd!
Please accept this trophy
Bing: A bumblebee as a helicopter pilot, pollinating a field of wild flowers.
Just tried google’s imageFX:
A cartoon of a bumblebee flying an open cockpit plane pollinating wild flowers with mountains in the background
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Rexsi is a professional futballer
Prompt: Photorealistic Tyrannosaurus rex as a futbol goalie In action swatting away a ball
wouldn’t “Photorealistic Tyrannosaurus” have pathetically small arms and hands?
wouldn’t it be funny that way?
imagine the frustration 🤣
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Even I know when I’m beaten by Inspector Goose! And I would have gotten away with it too…
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Makeup Artist
Prompt:
anthropomorphized bee working as a (makeup artist:1.2), illustrStyle <lora:illustrStyle:1>
Negative Prompt:ac_neg1 ac_neg2 negativeXL_D unaestheticXL_Sky3.1
Image comment posts from Kbin won’t show up for Lemmy users, so I’m reposting this here so other people can see your image.
Please upvote wagesj45’s comment above and not this one.
Love the colour palette in here btw, very calming and relaxing.
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Here’s my submission.
The prompt : an ape wearing a zoo guardian’s costume and cap, walking in an outside zoo enclosure with grass on the ground. The ape is holding a box that says “Human food”. Around him, some humans are kneeling on all four, in their underwear only, waiting to get food from the ape. Realistic photo.
I like the idea of a role reversal, that adds something special to the scene.
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Thanks!
Bing: create an image of a rabbit mowing a lawn in the style of van gogh
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What if a dog was a mail carrier?
Created with Bing Image Creator with the prompt:
dog/human mail carrier standing on rear legs in full uniform with a mail bag across it's body. They are delivering mail to a mailbox in front of a house. Photorealistic
Other interesting pictures from similar prompts:
I really like the last one, but it’s more in line with something like bring your pet to work day with the human mail carrier in the background.
Wait, it can make a dog centaur that’s half dog and half dog but it can’t make a half human half horse centaur? THIS IS BULL CRAP! 😆
Exactly my thoughts! I tried for a while to get it to make a centaur but gave up
The last one has 6 legs?
Do the dogs chase themselves in this case?
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Meet our new pilotsss!
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Pigeon post
Bing Prompt : A pigeon, in a mailman uniform, deliver mails to a house, pencil drawing
Not my first idea, but wasn’t happy with the mosquito nurse drawing blood, so I went to something easier
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Let’s go with a great classic:
Prompt
Made in ComfyUI
Model: SDXL Yamer’s Anime
vae: sdxl_vae.safetensorsPrompt:
- Positive:
Masterpiece, A sad anthropomorphic sloth working in a cubicle, tie and shirt, elegant trousers, employee, frowning
- Negative:
text, watermark
Seed:
217690652583363
Empty Latent 1216 x 832, clip_scale 2.0
KSampler: 22 steps, 6.5 cfg; euler, normal
Overall a pretty vanilla generation.
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- Positive:
Prompt: 1000s of monkeys sitting at typewriters, orderly rows, dystopian, digital art, ultra HD, 4k, close up, bokeh, depth of field
Workflow: Low effort. I was on my phone when I came up with the idea so I just used Bing/Copilot/DALL-E, iterated on prompts until I finally got a good image with the typewriters facing the correct direction… Though having them face the wrong way did have a level of humour to it.
(first time here, so hopefully I don’t break any rules!)
Pretty smart idea, feel like the 1000 monkey typing hypothesis has been discussed quite often, so I guess we needed one in that contest. Also somehow a great metaphor of AI generating images and texts
I had that same thought about AI generating images and text. I almost called it “Generative Pre-trained Monkeys”…
Not only did you not break any rules (That I can think of) but you did a great job. Effort does not always equate to quality, but repetition often does.
Thanks!
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You need tough guys to patrol on these streets
Prompt/Workflow
Made with Stable Diffusion XL in Fooocus.
Initial image was redered with these settings:
{ "Prompt": "a gorilla (dressed as police:1.3), Rim Lighting, (empty street:1.5), neon signs, raining, digital art, sign that says NIGHT CLUB, cyberpunk city background", "Negative Prompt": "police in background", "Fooocus V2 Expansion": "a gorilla (dressed as police:1.3), Rim Lighting, (empty street:1.5), neon signs, raining, digital art, sign that says NIGHT CLUB, cyberpunk city background, intricate, elegant, highly detailed, sharp focus, perfect dynamic light, professional composition, dramatic, cinematic, breathtaking, new bright colors, inspired, designed, rich", "Styles": "['Futuristic Cyberpunk Cityscape', 'Fooocus V2']", "Performance": "Quality", "Resolution": "(1024, 1024)", "Sharpness": 2, "Guidance Scale": 4, "ADM Guidance": "(1.5, 0.8, 0.3)", "Base Model": "bluePencilXL_v050.safetensors", "Refiner Model": "None", "Refiner Switch": 0.5, "Sampler": "dpmpp_2m_sde_gpu", "Scheduler": "karras", "Seed": 3644486667727718124, "LoRA 1": "sd_xl_offset_example-lora_1.0.safetensors : 0.1", "LoRA 2": "texta.safetensors : 1.0", "Version": "v2.1.864" }
Then I outpaint left/right twice and a third time for top and bottom with a sligtly changed prompt that asked for neon signs in kanji, as it would only generate variations of “police” or “club” on the signs otherwise:
"Prompt": "a gorilla (dressed as police:1.3), Rim Lighting, (empty street:1.5), neon signs in kanji, raining, digital art, sign that says NIGHT CLUB, cyberpunk city background"
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Okay, I can get with the anthropomorphic bee being a postal clerk, but in that universe, what are all the little, normal looking bees crawling around the floor?
They’re a lesser evolved cousin, like the cities with monkeys living alongside people.
In a disturbing twist of evolution, bees have diverged into two distinct classes: the “Enlightened,” who have developed complex intelligence, taking on societal roles such as builders, governors, and even mailmen, and the “Unchanged,” ordinary bees whose sole purpose has been reduced to menial labor. This unnatural hierarchy within the hive has created a stark divide, with the Enlightened exploiting their lesser kin, manipulating them into servitude through advanced pheromonal control and psychological manipulation. As the Enlightened bees’ society grows increasingly complex, the rift deepens, casting a shadow over the natural world and unsettlingly highlighting the dark potential of unchecked evolution and intellectual disparity.
Or maybe Chat GPT thought it would be cute to add them, who knows? 😆
I’ll accept it
Kids?
When do the kids start looking anthropomorphic? And why are there kids crawling around the floor at work? Bring your child to work day?
They look like wasps.