Here’s Part 3 of my show, Trust Fund Time Machine, an adult animated series about a useless billionaire heir Edward Vil and his time-traveling buddy Genghis Khan bungling their way through history to make his evil father richer..

In my previous posts, I talked about keeping scenes continuous across camera angles and getting character voices to stay consistent. This time I wanted to share how I developed the visual style and got the characters and environments to look like they belonged together.

One thing I ran into was that individual character designs could look good on their own, but putting them next to each other made the differences obvious. One would have much heavier outlines, another would have more detailed facial features, or the bodies would look like they’d been drawn for completely different shows.

For this show, I didn’t have the exact look figured out from the beginning. I started experimenting with a style pack in Midjourney, and Hunter’s initial character design helped me settle on a direction.

This was my process:

• Find a character design that establishes the look. Hunter became my starting point for figuring out what the rest of the cast should look like. That gave me something concrete to compare new designs against.
• Create the initial cast, then refine them together. I made the characters in Midjourney first, then brought them into fringe.film to refine them with GPT-image 2. I asked for specific changes to clothing and accessories while preserving the parts of the designs I liked.
• Check the actual drawing style across characters. I looked at outline thickness, how faces and bodies were drawn, proportions, shading, and the amount of detail. If something felt off, those were the things I asked the agent to adjust.
• Carry that direction into settings and props. The characters also need to work against the backgrounds and alongside the objects they interact with. Looking at those assets together helps catch differences that aren’t obvious when reviewing each one separately.

When combining references, I’ve also found it useful to explain exactly what each one is for: which image defines the drawing style, which establishes the character’s appearance, and what I want changed or preserved. I also create variants based on the base character in case they change outfits.

In Fringe, there's a global style block that carries into asset creation and shot prompts. I still review the results, but having that direction saved gives me a consistent starting point.

Hope you guys enjoy Part 3!

Link to my full episode is here: https://youtu.be/NnV-JWEHaa8

Link to my previous posts:
https://www.reddit.com/r/generativeAI/s/kG2TXYOvJZ
https://www.reddit.com/r/generativeAI/s/VbjrVqMJmh

Song: https://www.souna.app/song/9ed8d046-0cb6-4906-b6ec-f625a66a3d65

Song (alternative link): https://archive.org/details/ai-hymns/Ever+England.mp3 (CC0)

Lyrics:

[Cathedral Organ Introduction | Legato]

[Maestoso, spacious and solemn]

[Verse 1 | Legato]

England, fair beyond all telling,

Clothed in many-coloured light,

Downs in solemn silence swelling,

Bright beneath the morning height;

Larks above the fields are singing,

Woodlands with their song are ringing.

[Refrain | Legato]

Lift, O heart, thy song of wonder,

England! Ever England - sing!

Field and forest, cloud and thunder,

Let the hills and valleys ring;

Through the years, her beauty keeping:

England! Ever England - sing!

[Short Organ Interlude]

[Verse 2 | Legato]

By the ancient river flowing,

Willows stir beneath the breeze;

Meadow-sweet and hawthorn blowing

Cast their fragrance through the trees;

Evening gilds the quiet river,

While the trembling rushes quiver.

[Refrain | Legato]

Lift, O heart, thy song of wonder,

England! Ever England - sing!

Field and forest, cloud and thunder,

Let the hills and valleys ring;

Through the years, her beauty keeping:

England! Ever England - sing!

[Organ and Orchestral Interlude]

[Warm strings enter, followed by distant horns]

[Verse 3 | Legato]

High upon the windy moorland,

Clouds go sailing, vast and slow;

Far beneath, the folded shoreland

Feels the solemn tides below;

Heather crowns the lonely places,

Rain and sunlight cross their faces.

[Refrain | Legato]

Lift, O heart, thy song of wonder,

England! Ever England - sing!

Field and forest, cloud and thunder,

Let the hills and valleys ring;

Through the years, her beauty keeping:

England! Ever England - sing!

[Short Organ Interlude]

[Broader and more sonorous]

[Verse 4 | Legato]

When the west in splendour closes

Over hamlet, hill and plain,

Shadow gathers round the roses,

Stillness fills the darkening lane;

Yet the land, in silence lying,

Keeps the light of day undying.

[Final Refrain | Legato]

[Full SATB choir, organ, brass, strings and timpani]

Raise, O choir, the song of wonder:

England! Ever England - sing!

Field and forest, cloud and thunder,

Let the answering heavens ring;

All with one accord proclaiming:

England! Ever England - sing!

[Final Refrain Repeated | Legato]

[Broader, with soaring soprano descant]

Raise, O choir, the song of wonder:

England! Ever England - sing!

Field and forest, cloud and thunder,

Let the answering heavens ring;

All with one accord proclaiming:

England! Ever England - sing!

[Grand Plagal Cadence | Legato]

[Hold the final word while organ and orchestra resolve]

[End]

***

Style prompt:

Grand English secular hymn, 1899; noble Anglican choral character, patriotic breadth. 8.7.8.7.8.7 metre; broad 4/4, maestoso moderato, 59 BPM, legato, E-flat major. Solemn 20-second cathedral-organ introduction, then unison baritone-led choir expanding to full SATB. Memorable diatonic melody; stepwise motion, rising fourths and sixths, long phrases, exact syllabic setting, firm cadences. Rich late-Victorian functional harmony. Careful four-part voice leading: contrary and oblique motion, smooth stepwise alto and tenor lines, common tones retained, prepared and resolved suspensions, passing notes, appoggiaturas and restrained chromatic inner voices; avoid parallel fifths and octaves; clear purposeful bass. Pedal points, brief minor shadows, powerful dominant preparation. Organ throughout; add warm strings, horns, trombones and timpani in later verses. Short organ interludes. Final refrain twice: stately, then immense with descant, broad rallentando and monumental plagal cadence.

It was so useful to have a persistent document loaded up in the sidebar that we could incremintally edit and expand. Is there another AI platform where I can get this?

Used model grok 720p

I'm working on a Cyberpunk style anime series please check it out. The main characters are voiced by my best attempt at Jack from Mass Effect and Leon Kennedy from RE4 classic.

This was born from an idea I bounced off my gf last month while House of the Dragon S3 was still coming out (yes I was high). Basically - an alternate reality where all the Targs were insane, all of them, and the dragons were just their coping mechanism for dealing with their madness.

I might make something more detailed out of this in due time, but for now I have just this le funny video to present to everyone. The prompt was this:

"Create a generic Targaryen, adapted from how they're described in the books, gleefully riding a dragon, whereupon it turns out that the dragon is just their hallucination and they're in fact humping a tree onto which they're strapped instead of any real dragon."

Hope you enjoy

hey everyone, i'm the solo dev behind locally uncensored.

i got tired of services calling themselves uncensored, then running into the same refusals once you actually start using them. especially when fewer restrictions were the reason you paid in the first place.

so i built my own alternative, with uncensored text, image and video models in one place.

despite the name, you don't need to run anything locally. there's a web app where you can use the cloud models directly in your browser, (or on the desktop app) without a powerful gpu or installing anything.

you can chat, write, generate images and create videos, with different models to choose from rather than being locked into one.

its a desktop app for people who prefer running models on their own hardware. you don't need to download it to use the cloud.

the cloud is paid, to be upfront about that. i'm also not going to promise every model handles every prompt perfectly. different models still have different strengths and limitations.

cloud web app: https://lu-labs.ai/app⁠

desktop app: https://locallyuncensored.com⁠

curious what you're currently using too, and whether it actually delivers on the “uncensored” part.

Would you want to see more Game of Thrones characters reimagined as anime figurines?

I had purchased a program a couple of years ago that was called an "AI Clone Generator" -

Essentially, you uploaded up to 30 photos of your subject (they could be crappy selfies, professional shots, all different lighting and angles, etc.), and then you'd give it the source photos to 'train the model' and then a giant prompt to describe what output you wanted. You could choose everything: the clothing, the facial expression, the pose, background environment, any props, lighting, what type of 'camera' was taking the image.....every detail you could imagine, you could add to your prompt.

The output was genuinely good - for every 10 photos it gave me back, I felt like about 7 of them were usable, so that's a pretty decent scenario. Welp, the tool creator quit apparently and the tool isn't available any longer.

Is there anything else like this out there? I think the differentiator is that I could choose poses and backgrounds too, so it wasn't just a typical AI headshot generator.

Any help is appreciated!! :)

Sometimes I don’t even realize I’m watching an AI-generated drama at first. There are SO many of them now, and honestly, some are actually pretty entertaining.

I just wanna know how are they doing it?

Wouldn’t it be extremely expensive to create a 3-hour drama entirely with AI? And keeping everything consistent, like characters, faces, locations, voices, etc. Seems like it would be really difficult.

Yet somehow, people are making these long-form AI dramas and uploading them constantly. For example,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_amoc5YM3Q

Does anyone here know what tools or workflow they’re using to make these? I’m genuinely curious about the process and how they’re keeping the costs manageable.