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Más Ideogram 4. Mi novela que se puede comprar en la editorial Almuzara (link)

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Back in the saddle

After a long hiatus for the completion of the visuals of my Visual Novel (here) I am back to writing.

I had several ideas but I have settled for what I think will be an easy task: writing a screenplay for "The Cats of Istanbul".

The Cats of Istanbul is a false film associated with AI imagen that appeared in the /tv/ 4chan board. A 1970s anime that had several sequels each more preposterous: the Cats of Istanbul in Russia, the Cats of Istanbul in America, the Cats of Istanbul travelling through time...

Even if my idea comes for the specific challenge of "What would have been that film about?" After having the premise, I've had the idea simmering for a while and I think that it is quite promising, to the point of leaving the meme aspects of the original idea aside. So without further ado:

This was made with Ideogram 4. It is quite good when you don't run into the censorship.

(By the way, even if I like AI generated images, I still plan to write the screenplay myself, I am not in a hurry.)

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The Life and Death of Louis FF de Bastin by jm-bueno

A visual novel about a young painter with AI generated images.

My visual novel is complete.

I will write about the process and impressions soon.

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With Ideogram I'm not trying anything remotely NSFW and still getting this. If only it had the decency of being quick about it, but wasting generation time in this bs is infuriating.

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Chroma forever?

I realised that Chroma has been my goto model for more than a year, and after a string of new model releases, I just don't find it to be replaceable.

With all of its limitations compared to more modern models, it achieves stylization better than none and that is what matters most to me.

Believe me, I looked and tried to make my own loras for stylization elsewhere

Z-Image, Flux 2 have been a disappointment in that regard. They have their uses but I can't accomplish what I like. It's not only style, but these new models converge too much regardless of seed.

Maybe if I liked Anime I would have received Anima with open arms, but after briefly testing I didn't see the point for investing in a new model.

ChatGPT (in its own words the native Image capabilities of ChatGPT 5.x) offers even more capabilities regarding complexity and editing, but censorship and it gives a mostly safe and bland style. Getting it to edit an image while mostly respecting the style is the best thing it offers for me.

And what does the future hold?

Yesterday I decided to give Ideogram a go. Same prompt with Ideogram and ChatGPT

Disregarding the issue of composition with Ideogram (the image was turned to the side instead of using a panorama orientation as I intended), it's as accurate as the ChatGPT image, but instead of being a regular local model with better or worse NSFW capabilities it comes censored in the weighs.

Is this what the future holds?

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The week went by very fast.

The visual novel implementation with Renpy is progressing fast: seven scenes to go.

I received the physical cards of my latest magic custom set, and I have decided to finish my Noire Fantasy Hollywood set, I have 50% of the cards already.

As customary the first Friday of the month I look to Imagen of previous years.

2025

I was already using the first ChatGPT model alongside Chroma. ChatGPT's previous imagen model had issues with colors and texture.

I was using Chroma and I am still using Chroma today. Will 2027 be different? I'll write my thoughts in the next post.

2024

SDXL

And SD3M

I was creating more complex scenes, but it was a flawed model.

2023

SD 1.5

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A mix. Busy week.

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Finished projects and ideas for new projects.

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Almost done with asset generation for the Visual Novel and I decided to try Stable Audio 3 now that I have more time in my hand; at the very last minute but another model contributed to this work.

The quality is not great, but a) It's a free local model b) Suno has lost a bit of its soul I think (it's more consistent but diverse results hit differently). For incidental music you don't need lyrics and a singer so this works, and it can also create sound effects.

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LTX 2.3 with base key image by Chroma and close-ups and angles with ChatGPT2. Using the director node.

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Todos los parques para Chroma son Central Park hasta que pones que es una ciudad europea.

Ya estoy terminando los assets de la novela visual The Life and Death of Louis FF de Bastin.

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The Struggle for Reyno custom set. After I review erratas this is going to the printers. This set has several relevant things:

I am using AI to create the missing frames for types of cards that need those. As I am using alternative frames rather than the standard Magic frame, these sets of frames aren't complete.

The setting is inspired by the Iberian Reconquista with a layer of gnosticism and William Blake's myths on top

New Mechanics: Stance is an experiment with position on the board matters and Emanations are every predefined token.

Of course it has AI art: I am still using chroma with artist loras but what chroma does wrong I have successfully used AI editing in several instances.

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Un poco de música hecha con Suno esta semana después de perderme la semana anterior. Las letras están sacadas de canciones y poesías de mi primera novela "Las Peripecias de Una Joven Elfa Esclava."

Me preguntaba por aquel entonces al escribirlas cómo sonarían estas canciones.

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Struggle for Reyno (my Reconquista inspired custom set) has now over 100 cards. I am going for 140. I also bought the cards for a 6 deck tribal Warchest. Warchest is a custom Battle Box format where decks are 40 cards. And the composition of the deck is 8 different cards 3 copies of each plus lands. Then there is a 6 card wishboard, that you can take cards from by putting a card from your hand on it and paying 3 mana during a match. The idea of the wishboard, as opposed to a sideboard, is to go for best of 1 while allowing some reinforcement against decks that your deck would be bad against.

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It's hard to resist being naughty with Wan 2.2