#2756

Ah yes, the “dead mom” haircut.

Explained soon…. that is very ominous. Outside a statment of your mom is dead to us I fail to see ways it can be explained soon, other than her getting killed. Which I don’t think you would do.

I think the reason why she isn’t here maybe due to the fact that her dad explained that Kate’s mom still saw her as a monster even after she had to flee, something her dad couldn’t bear with, more about that in this page of the comic https://www.yoshsaga.com/comic/searching-for-a-lost-daughter/

The mother thing has a far more recent mention thing, as she’s a crazy woman actually doing illegal stuff in her hatred of Chimeras. Kate has been in contact with Jane and knows of her, but this is the first time they have met in person. She was invited though.

Oh! I see, on what page of the story is that mentioned about Kate’s mom? Just curious to know since I missed that

Here it is – https://www.yoshsaga.com/comic/2561/ Pages around it are talking about it all too but this is the one that actually shows her mother.

(Warning – Rant about AI ahead Read at own peril)
Also it’s unfortunate it was some time ago when I first got a chance to play around with backgrounds made using AI img2img, where i would draw a background and then “enhance it” with AI. Most of the time creating garbage – and being disappointed that I wasted time with it or used it in the comics. So then for a while I stopped and someone showed me a new one that claimed different stuff and it wasn’t using stolen art etc etc – and it did produce better results but – to get what i wanted I was basically drawing and detailing backgrounds already and it was just modifying it a bit and throwing clutter and noise in it. So I stopped bothering with that too and just went back to painting and using my cheap background tricks- like comic artists have been doing since before digital art existed… Hey even today most comics don’t even do backgrounds 75% of the time. Now i have a good collection of gradient techniques for simple rooms and a bunch of textures, brushes, and materials I can use to throw together background, and I am better as painting in general. I do wish i could learn how to do rapid modeling for 3D but i was never good at modelling in 3D. I could do sculpty modeling fairly well (That’s a type of puddy like clay stuff) but in 3D i was much better at texture and material work back in the day. I’m way out of practice with it now though. Still, I would love to use some 3D assets for background stuff and creating perspective changes. Funny enough- perspective shifts and things like that that I think make things more dynamic- AI is terrible at them. Because they average out so much information you end up with Generic 80% of the time, terrible 19% of the time, and 1% of the time you end up with something that might look kinda interesting- and then you realize that its more like a reverse image search than it is actually making art, and if you have the exact same model, seed, program, prompt and settings- it will generate the exact same image. It’s not really creating, in a sense, it’s always already been created by this program, but if you did all the exact same things to me- asked me to make the exact same image for you as a commission- Well unless i legit copy and paste the image and say “here ya go-” I can’t do that. I can’t recreate the exact same image on a different day, in a different place, no matter how much my tools and settings and compensation are identical. My settings- don’t work like a computer. If you think that makes me better, thanks for the compliment! If you think it makes me worse- im sorry 🙁

Large Language Models (a subset of AI) are snapshots of accessible culture, the “stolen art” is mostly in the public domain. It isn’t really creative (unless you count their made up “hallucinations) in the way that deep neural nets can be when they make pattern matching ona level neither humans nor other methods do.

But some means to make them so are researched. For example, by assigning different LMMs different roles they can creatively work as a group. For example assigning various expert roles, an integrator and one criticising the result seems to work. For backgrounds in art, perhaps a flat color expert, a shading expert, a consistency expert and a critique? The critique can be prompted to “be creative”.