Introduction

Ever saw contests where people are asked to draw an image of something. And you really want to be part of it, but you know you can't draw a straight line with the help of a ruler? That's basically me.

But worry not, technology finally gives us a hand! Fresh from the oven, deep learning AI algorithms that generate realistic looking images in seconds. Scary that the thing we thought for so long as human-exclusive* - art - turned into something that can be automatically generated. Sucks for all the people that are taking art comissions or make landscape images. When DALL-E 2 (and similar algorithms) get better, they may end up jobless.
*I know elephants and such can smear paint on canvas

This brings us to the event I thought for this Christmas. I want you to "draw" a space cat. Theme is Christmas. Presents, Christmas trees, Mariah Carey, sledges.... basically anything Christmas-related. The only catch is that you will "draw" with use of DALL-E (or any other AI of your choice). I don't want people to show off their amazing drawing skills. I want chance for people like me to shine this year :D Look at this year box event banner to see how it should look like.

Rules are as below:

  • open Nightcafe StableDiffusion or DeepAI generator and think of the best phrase that will give you good-looking result. You can use any website you like
    (It's more of a thinking-imagination than drawing-ability contest. In general, the more detailed the phrase, the better the image turns out)
  • it's a Christmas event, not Halloween. Which means some weird, scary or uncanny images will not be considered as a valid entry
  • people can submit as many images as they like, as long as they meet the point above. If you have few images to upload do it in one post. If you have a new batch of images and your original post is old - create a new one, so people don't miss your creation(s)
  • it's not a popularity contest, so there will be no voting. It is too often promoting people with many friends or with ungodly good drawing skills
  • I will choose the winner with the help of the random generator. People will be given a number based on their first qualifying image
  • if you want to join reply to OP post with attached image (imgur or other website that allows to generate direct link will work)
    How to attach image: You must have URL that ends with .jpg or .png, you can get it when you right-click image and pick "Open Image in New Tab"
    Code format: ![](https://i.imgur.com/2DZKELs.jpg)
  • do not join as reply to someone else. I may miss such replies by mistake. I will ok qualifying posts
  • event will end on 24th of December 5pm CET, it's the day when we give presents in Poland
  • I won't stream number generation. I think it would be too complicated, and only few people would be interested to see how I click a button. I will post a message at the end of the contest and contact with winner

Prize:

  • winner can choose any game, bundle or DLC up to £15 / €17 / $18
  • I can buy stuff from anywhere as long as it's not a grey market site, and I can make purchase there. Steam, GMG, HumbleBundle, IndieGala, Fanatical etc. are preferable
  • it doesn't need to be £14.99 game, it can be 3 bundles for £5 each for example

Things to consider:

  • my region is set to Europe / UK, so I should not have problem to gift through Steam. Winner can send me also link to offer from a shop and I will see if keys / bundle is not region locked for them
  • all general GAs rules apply. Which means the winner will need to activate the game(s) on their Steam account. If it's a bundle, then they must activate the majority of it. They can give away games they already own
  • Note: My BL still applies. I don't feel comfortable to give to some people. I will not discuss "why I am on BL" here. Nor point "sorry you're BL". People can still submit images they generate if they wish so, but they will not be assigned a number when I go through entries.
    Am I BL giveaway check

Some images I quickly generated and give verdict if I think it qualifies:

  • first is made with simple phrase and looks like Mass Effect husk. Doesn't qualify
  • second looks like voodo-cat sacrificing presents. Barely Qualifies, as it's not really space cat
  • third doesn't even look like a proper cat and is creepy. Doesn't qualify
  • for the last one, I mixed Space Cat and Mariah Carey. Doesn't qualify ;D
    (While top left image is really good and cute, it's not a Space Cat.. The other three are disturbing and out of theme.)

Let's see your creations! :D

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This is harder than I thought. After ~10 failures I'm finally getting something, though still not so christmas-y.

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2nd looks like nice comic strip. But yes, no christmas there :D

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Yeah, I liked the second one too. :)
Also, did some more. It's mesmerizing how one word can entirely change the whole setup.

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6th one is supposed to be Cat Santa Gabe Newell by the way. lol

Also, in the last one, how did the astronaut helmet turned into a hover bike, I have no idea. :)

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Interesting challenge, though AI fails a lot at faces and paws x.x

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Maybe try generator that makes only one image? You can see on my 4th image that this panel generator completely missed the theme.

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Maybe, it uses less credits if its 4 at a go

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I like the feeling in the fourth one. Though, is the cat catching on fire?

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I think the cat is catching bits of fire xD

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Time to bring some style to this thread. yeah I know they probably wont qualify..

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Cool pics.

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When you add beards and Die Hard is a Christmas move you get some cool stuff.

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They don't. But they are really nice :D 2nd is good enough it could be used as game avatar for character with a mount...

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I'll see what I can come up with later and make a new post. I do want them to be a little bit interesting though so the results might still be too odd :P

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I had way too much fun with this.

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Cat astronaut in front of Christmas tree is purrfect.
Also it's 2nd or 3rd time when I see AI putting only cat head into the tree :thinking:

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The 5th one has such a cute and innocent look on its face, love it :)

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These are my best renders, all I could manage before I ran out of credits.

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Last one is close but misses Christmas!

I tried to open generator in private tab and it reset credits. But there is also more than a week left if you don't want to play with cookies or private modes.

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Hmmm, good idea, I'll give it a shot. Thanks!

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I think that's best human / cat mix I saw in this thread so far.

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Cool stuff, but unsurprisingly not that easy to master, for sure gonna look more into this AI art thing now. Couldn't come up with anything amazing without diving into guides and wikis and I also quickly ran out of "credits" lol, but here's some of my pics I liked the most:
Forgot to add the one that turned out the best lol, edited.

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Did you add "chubby" or similar to your phrase? Most of those are taking most of the frame :joy:

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Yep, one time I even put in "fat". 😺

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Need bit more work on the "cat" part :D

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Got some nice results 😁

First 6 pictures prompt is: "its a cat its in space its Christmas, lazers, supernova, galaxy":
6th pic probably doesn't qualify but it deserves to be shared
Last 3 pictures prompt is: "its a cat with astronaut helmet its in space its Christmas, lazers, supernova, galaxy"

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You have cat and space in place. Now just force AI to add some Christmas to it :D

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🤣🤣🤣🤣
I really cant decide which one I like the most, maybe the 3rd one?
Not sure if I need to make a new post for these but here they go
Prompt was "astronaut cat, christmas, presents, milky way" used the stable diffusion website since i run out of credits on nightcafe

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Some unexpected results here...

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1st will qualify thanks to the black hole. Just like endless hole in cat stomach. Never enough food to fill it.

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Need more christmas :D

Also 1st look like it drinks beer..

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It's hot chocolate! I'll try again....

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AI art tools are progressing so rapidly. Certainly an interesting topic and nice idea for event. I used local installation in couple inpainting fixes. Included both the original and edited.

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What does "inpainting" mean? You mix two existing images?

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With inpainting, you can ask tool to paint only partial section of the image. In my example, I wanted new face for the cat so that are was inpainted.

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Then not something that can help people fix a detail or two online. Damn.

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Wow, it did great job with the cat's face. What did you use for this? I tried "evolving" only the face part for one of my cats on Nightcafe, but it didn't turn out well lol.

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<whispers loudly> KHILLLLL MEEEEEEEE

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I run Stable Diffusion locally so I have no experience on Nightcafe. I think some of the web sites also provide inpainting feature, though. I had great difficulties getting it work in the beginning but it is easier now. I set strength factor depending on how great changes are required. Larger changes, like creating completely new content, need higher strength. Also, in more complex cases, I might do multiple rounds of inpainting. Like in your example, the left one has lots of noise in the face but the right one already has clear features. I could then use the right image as a new base image for next round of inpainting which likely produces better results.

In the end, it still quite hit or miss approach for me. Still learning the ropes and random factor is a major contributor in the process. Cannot remember the prompt anymore but I had to make couple iterations to get that one. Hopefully in the future, I can be more in control and rely less on generating dozens of images in the hope of getting one good one.

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First three look like after seeing meaning of the number 42.

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The fourth one is one of my favourites of this thread ♥

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Unfortunately only 1 of my cats got santa'a hat on the head, but i guess i got some lovely space cats around so sharing them with you :)

I tried some evolving too, but those all ended worse :D

Added 4 more, opened website in incognito and got more tries :D

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Second to last can qualify though would be better with red hat :thinking:

I really like 3rd one, really nicely done. Too bad nothing Christmas about it.

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I liked 3rd one the most, but couldn't evolve with with anything Christmassy around ¯\(ツ)

And what i don't like much is that same input can make several very different images, first 4 are with completely same input :D

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That's AI for you. If it would generate similarly looking images, people would complain it just used few pre-made assets :D

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Just tried some other AIs, there are some interesting attempts and there are some that generate always the same image :D And plenty of those have problem with faces, so image looks really weird in the end :D

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Thanks for sharing the link! Was looking for some fun generator :3
(hopefully the links will work, otherwise gimme a few mins to fix them)

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1st is close, but looks like general hat. If you have phrase used to generate it try again :D

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Oh I though that since it had red pom pom at the top, it would count :D Seems like I used all 10 tries, welp I still had fun^^ Thanks for coming up with the idea of this fun event & good luck to other participants^^

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Credits reset after day or two, plus I linked to two other AI generators if you still want to try ;D

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Both don't look like a cat :thinking

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First one is creepy skeleto-alien-cat.
Second one...
I mean, these illustrations suggest that AI is just A, without I.
I'll try more :D

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my first try with input: space cat in a christmas setting

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It has an astronaut helmet, though things in the back don't look much like Christmas decoration to me. Bit like upside down ice creams :D

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Space enough?

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Yesss

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Well... I do not know why it's a cat 😺

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Me neither!

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Well, first the two successful-ish ones. (Prompt was "cat, christmas hat, christmas tree, space suit, planets, space helmet".)

Then the less successful one. XD (Hover over images for my attempts at jokes.)

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Love your creativity. At least you got a cat! Here's what I got at a similar attempt:

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First is like Cat Van Helsing :D

Also can't unseen the chicken now....

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Ok ok, more spacy christmas cat then,

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Wonder why AI gave this Christmas tree trunk in the form of cat tail. It looks neat, like play-doh. 2nd image of this kind here.

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In Dall·e you can specify "3D render" as promt to that play-doh look.

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I either get not enough christmas or not enough space. who would have thought typing words into a box could be so challenging?

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2nd one looks like witch cat :D Need more of the theme though.

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I like the last one :D

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Little derps. :3

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😅

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2nd looks a bit like a tiger :thinking. I really like decoration though.

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https://imgur.com/a/A7wrIA6 its my only option from many,so can u barely qualify me pls? ;D like ur second image

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Need more space :D You can come back and try again, credits resets after some time :D

Also now I see I would not qualify my cat even, people are able to fit both space and christmas into image. I need to try myself again today

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That is one happy space traveler!

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Did you use the tool from the OP post? As this one is one of the cleanest I saw so far. May make it easier for others to generate theirs creations :D

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Yep, went to NightCafe, used Dall-E 2, and got some uglier creations along with this one.

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Closed 6 months ago by MSKOTOR.