It appears my last AI project, Suffocated Investment, cleansed me of my recent drive toward text-based AI art and reminded me of the value of the human equation. As thankful and fortunate as I feel for having finally realized my desire to create a pure AI-generated, multi-panel comic with such a high level of consistency across every image, it was a real struggle getting Gemini to cooperate with my prompts for each one, and I have no interest in ever repeating that part of my experience. I was also starting to miss enjoying a wider audience.
That said, I'm returning to Daz for the first step in my workflow whenever possible, and rebuilding my content library. To that end, I recently stumbled on a tutorial for customizing specular highlights for skin and had a bit of fun with Leisa 8. The hair is the Classic Bob Hair for G3F and G8F. Since 3D hair has always generally sucked - and that product is no exception, even with PhilW's Hair Lustre Shaders for Iray - I enhanced it with AI. The rest of the image is pure Iray.
That said, I'm returning to Daz for the first step in my workflow whenever possible, and rebuilding my content library. To that end, I recently stumbled on a tutorial for customizing specular highlights for skin and had a bit of fun with Leisa 8. The hair is the Classic Bob Hair for G3F and G8F. Since 3D hair has always generally sucked - and that product is no exception, even with PhilW's Hair Lustre Shaders for Iray - I enhanced it with AI. The rest of the image is pure Iray.