#albert sauros

[therobotmonster]

DinoFolk Character Tokens, Part 2 (pt 1 is here)

Another 10 Dinosaur-Folk tokens I made for the D&D game I’m playing in, to fill out the world that Albert Sauros, Noted Spiritualist, comes from. In this case a world of Victorian Dinosaurs. This set of character tokens was made with Midjourney v4.

In your game/head, they can be any fancy reptile-humanoids you like!  Use them for character portraits, game tokens, inspiration for a new PC (or OC) or tag yourself, as you like.

While these are all modified with cleanup and compositing, these are all free to use for anyone who wants to, thus I have not signed these pieces to make things easier.

Prompt format:

a <either dinosaur or specific species>-anthro <profession>, 18th century clothing (or other descriptor), character design, white background, fantasy character art, colored line art, in the style of 1st edition D&D, <artist/style references>

For style references I wound up mostly with a Tony Diterlizzi/Norman Rockwell mashup.

[deepdreamnights]

DinoFolk Character Tokens, Part 4 (pt 1, pt 2, pt 3)

the last 10 Dinosaur-Folk tokens I made for the D&D game I’m playing in, to fill out the world that Albert Sauros, Noted Spiritualist, comes from. In this case a world of Victorian Dinosaurs, this set being mostly maid staff and professors from the University. This set of character tokens was made with Midjourney v4.

In your game/head, they can be any fancy reptile-humanoids you like!  Use them for character portraits, game tokens, inspiration for a new PC (or OC) or tag yourself, as you like.

While  these are all modified with cleanup and compositing, these are all free  to use for anyone who wants to, thus I have not signed these pieces to  make things easier.

You can download all 40 here.

Prompt format:

a  <either dinosaur or specific species>-anthro <profession>,  18th century clothing (or other descriptor), character design, white  background, fantasy character art, colored line art, in the style of 1st  edition D&D, <artist/style references>

For style references I wound up mostly with a Tony Diterlizzi/Norman Rockwell mashup.

[dynoguard]

Cora's mug & cranial spikes turned out very neat. Some of those prior Midjourney renders turned out with rather deep fenestrae/eye sockets, but her muzzle seems a bit more fleshed out here.

The model has been improving, as has my prompting. The fact that the model is good enough to recognize some specific dinosaur species, with dracorex being one of them, is impressive.

Part of it was earlier models were very limited in the selection of dinosaur pictures, and "dinosaur" grabbed both concepts of reconstructed dinosaurs and of fossils. Between outdated shrink-warp reconstructions and actual bones being in the dataset, the quirks make more sense.

The AI ability to intepret requests is also improving. One aspect I'd noticed is that if I did historical dinosovians from recent history (IE, my lifetime), the results would tend to reflect the level of special effects you might expect for the time. They're really paper mache-looking if you prompt for the 60s/70s, get rubbery but still fake-y for 80s, and more Stan Winston-y if oyu requested 90s or onward. That doesn't happen as much. And the stuff the upcoming v4 model can do...

(one of my prompts for my D&D character Albert Sauros got picked as a demo-prompt for v4 and, yeah, that's some good dinoface, but you still get some shrinkwrap)

A lot of the passes for Cora did have very shrink-wrapped fenestrae and eye sockets, but that's where all the compositing and repainting comes in. The eye, jaw, mouth and horns were were where most of that attention went, to mold her close to being on-model.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 6.4

1256 – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae. 1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance. 1436 – Assassination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson 1471 – Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales. 1493 – Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation. 1626 – Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw. 1686 – The Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines. 1776 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III. 1799 – Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is invaded and Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris. 1814 – Emperor Napoleon arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile. 1814 – King Ferdinand VII abolishes the Spanish Constitution of 1812, returning Spain to absolutism. 1836 – Formation of Ancient Order of Hibernians 1859 – The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking Devon and Cornwall in England. 1869 – The Naval Battle of Hakodate is fought in Japan. 1871 – The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana. 1886 – Haymarket affair: In Chicago, United States, a homemade bomb is thrown at police officers trying to break up a labor rally, killing one officer. Ensuing gunfire leads to the deaths of a further seven officers and four civilians. 1904 – The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal. 1910 – The Royal Canadian Navy is created. 1912 – Italy occupies the Ottoman island of Rhodes. 1919 – May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan. 1926 – The United Kingdom general strike begins. 1927 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is incorporated. 1932 – In Atlanta, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion. 1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier USS Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before. 1945 – World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army. 1945 – World War II: The German surrender at Lüneburg Heath is signed, coming into effect the following day. It encompasses all Wehrmacht units in the Netherlands, Denmark and northwest Germany. 1946 – In San Francisco Bay, U.S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island Naval Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. Five people are killed in the riot. 1949 – The entire Torino football team (except for two players who did not take the trip: Sauro Tomà, due to an injury and Renato Gandolfi, because of coach request) is killed in a plane crash. 1953 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea. 1959 – The 1st Annual Grammy Awards are held. 1961 – American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South. 1961 – Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V open gondola to 113,740 feet (34.67 km). 1970 – Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the Cambodian Campaign of the United States and South Vietnam. 1972 – The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation". 1973 – The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet (442 m) as the world's tallest building. 1978 – The South African Defence Force attacks a SWAPO base at Cassinga in southern Angola, killing about 600 people. 1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 1982 – Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War. 1988 – The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire. 1989 – Iran–Contra affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges; the convictions are later overturned on appeal. 1990 – Latvia declares independence from the Soviet Union. 1994 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord, granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho. 1998 – A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty. 2000 – Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (an office separate from that of the Lord Mayor of London). 2002 – One hundred three people are killed and 51 are injured in a plane crash near Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano, Nigeria. 2007 – Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7-mile wide EF5 tornado. It was the first-ever tornado to be rated as such with the new Enhanced Fujita scale. 2014 – Three people are killed and 62 injured in a pair of bombings on buses in Nairobi, Kenya. 2019 – The inaugural all-female motorsport series, W Series, takes place at Hockenheimring. The race was won by Jamie Chadwick, who would go on to become the inaugural season's champion. 2023 – Eight people are killed and fourteen injured in a spree shooting in Mladenovac and Smederevo, Serbia. It is the second mass shooting in the country in two days.

[therobotmonster]

DinoFolk Character Tokens, Part 3 (pt 1, pt 2)

Another 10 Dinosaur-Folk tokens I made for the D&D game I’m playing in, to fill out the world that Albert Sauros, Noted Spiritualist, comes from. In this case a world of Victorian Dinosaurs, this set being mostly professors from the University. This set of character tokens was made with Midjourney v4.

In your game/head, they can be any fancy reptile-humanoids you like!  Use them for character portraits, game tokens, inspiration for a new PC (or OC) or tag yourself, as you like.

While  these are all modified with cleanup and compositing, these are all free  to use for anyone who wants to, thus I have not signed these pieces to  make things easier.

Prompt format:

a  <either dinosaur or specific species>-anthro <profession>,  18th century clothing (or other descriptor), character design, white  background, fantasy character art, colored line art, in the style of 1st  edition D&D, <artist/style references>

For style references I wound up mostly with a Tony Diterlizzi/Norman Rockwell mashup.

[therobotmonster]

DinoFolk Character Tokens, Part 1

My DM wanted some dinosaur people for members of Albert Sauros’s species, and so I pulled together 40 character tokens of soldiers, nobles, scholars and knights for the purpose using Midjourney v4.

While these are all modified with cleanup and compositing, these are all free to use for anyone who wants to, thus I have not signed these pieces to make things easier.

Prompt format:

a <either dinosaur or specific species>-anthro <profession>, 18th century clothing (or other descriptor), character design, white background, fantasy character art, colored line art, in the style of 1st edition D&D, <artist/style references>

For style references I wound up mostly with a Tony Diterlizzi/Norman Rockwell mashup.

[deepdreamnights]

Wet Plate Saurian Photographs

Prompt: wet plate photograph.of an allosaurus dressed as P.T. Brnum. tyrannosaurus-fursona. dinosaur-person. victorian tuxedo, in victorian parlor, heavyset, gentlemanly, ultra-realistic, many small details, maximalist, ILM, weta digital, walking with dinosaurs

[therobotmonster]

Trying to make Processor Albert Sauros in Dall-E 2

I’ve been trying to make everyone’s Victorian Dinosaur Spiritualist & D&D Warlock/Bard. I used a variety of prompts to get these, using a chunk of my meager Dalle credits to learn the system via Albert. 

While still a bit too trim, this animated Albert, modified to have more accurate colors, is probably my favorite. Which one is yours?

Prompts under the fold.

An allosaurus dressed as a victorian gentleman on Masters of the Universe (1983), cartoon animation by Filmation, blu-ray transfer, 5k

an Allosaurus dressed as a victorian gentleman surrounded by dinosaur ghosts, detailed digital painting, artstation trending, hearthstone card painting

a green Allosaurus dressed as a victorian gentleman, summoning pterodactyl ghosts, dramatic scene, spooky atmosphere, dynamic posing, swirling wind

A wet plate photograph of an allosaurus dressed as a victorian gentleman and spiritualist

[deepdreamnights]

Saurian Gentlemen, wet plate photographs

Mr. M. Eglodon (Banker), Sir Nippington-Rex of Scuteshire (General, retired), Hiram Beakly (Bootblack), and Dr. James Scalesby (physician), photographed between 1887-1889 by R. Knight & Associates. From the National Archives.

Midjourney AI Prompt:  portrait of a highly realistic victorian dinosaur-person, formal portrait, B&W wet plate photograph, ultrasharp detail, by James Gurney, walking with dinosaurs, scales, ILM, allosaurus, tyrannosaurus, carnotaurus, megalodon, national archives

[therobotmonster]

AI Anime Alberts

Or is it Anime AI Alberts?

Trying out Midjourney’s new “Nijijourney“ anime model (currently in beta). One of my first test subjects is Albert O. Sauros, my D&D character, working with variants of the prompt: 

a [allosaurus-person, humanoid dinosaur, anthropomorphic tyrannosaurus fursona] dressed as a Victorian Gentleman. Green skin, large head, black suit, purple vest, standing in a city street, in the style of TOEI animation, 1988 anime

You’ll note that I forgot to specify that Albert is chubby. My brain automatically makes most humanoid dinos kinda rotund, so buff Albert is not something I was prepared for, but the AI was, as you can see above, and below...

Dang Al, your Strength score is an 8! What’s with the gun show?

[deepdreamnights]

The Altar of Sekhulos

The melted fluting of the obscene edifice betrayed no seam or mortar. Rather, the stone was once a single slab, carved meticulously by clawed hands until its hidden terrors burst free. To behold its horrid perfection was to be gripped with the gnawing fear of what might have oozed forth had those claws slipped in their labors.

Midjourney AI Prompt: a throne room made of slabes of green stone lined with fossils, massive throne made of bones, under a DNA model made of femurs, sickly green flame torches and candles, villainous lair, creepy, spooky, macabre, ultra-sharp details, in the style of Tim Burton + jack kirby, + brian froud + kim jung gi, matte painting, animation background painting, post process, artstation tending

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 5.4

1256 – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae. 1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance. 1436 – Assassination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson 1471 – Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales. 1493 – Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation. 1626 – Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw. 1686 – The Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines. 1776 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III. 1799 – Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is invaded and Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris. 1814 – Emperor Napoleon arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile. 1814 – King Ferdinand VII abolishes the Spanish Constitution of 1812, returning Spain to absolutism. 1836 – Formation of Ancient Order of Hibernians 1859 – The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking Devon and Cornwall in England. 1869 – The Naval Battle of Hakodate is fought in Japan. 1871 – The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana. 1886 – Haymarket affair: In Chicago, United States, a homemade bomb is thrown at police officers trying to break up a labor rally, killing one officer. Ensuing gunfire leads to the deaths of a further seven officers and four civilians. 1904 – The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal. 1910 – The Royal Canadian Navy is created. 1912 – Italy occupies the Ottoman island of Rhodes. 1919 – May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan. 1926 – The United Kingdom general strike begins. 1927 – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is incorporated. 1932 – In Atlanta, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion. 1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier USS Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese forces had invaded Tulagi the day before. 1945 – World War II: Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is liberated by the British Army. 1945 – World War II: The German surrender at Lüneburg Heath is signed, coming into effect the following day. It encompasses all Wehrmacht units in the Netherlands, Denmark and northwest Germany. 1946 – In San Francisco Bay, U.S. Marines from the nearby Treasure Island Naval Base stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. Five people are killed in the riot. 1949 – The entire Torino football team (except for two players who did not take the trip: Sauro Tomà, due to an injury and Renato Gandolfi, because of coach request) is killed in a plane crash. 1953 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea. 1959 – The 1st Annual Grammy Awards are held. 1961 – American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South. 1961 – Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V open gondola to 113,740 feet (34.67 km). 1970 – Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the Cambodian Campaign of the United States and South Vietnam. 1972 – The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation". 1973 – The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet as the world's tallest building. 1978 – The South African Defence Force attacks a SWAPO base at Cassinga in southern Angola, killing about 600 people. 1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. 1982 – Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War. 1988 – The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of Space Shuttle fuel detonate during a fire. 1989 – Iran–Contra affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges; the convictions are later overturned on appeal. 1990 – Latvia declares independence from the Soviet Union. 1994 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord, granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho. 1998 – A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty. 2000 – Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (an office separate from that of the Lord Mayor of London). 2002 – 103 people are killed and 51 are injured in a plane crash near Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano, Nigeria. 2007 – Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7-mile wide EF5 tornado. It was the first-ever tornado to be rated as such with the new Enhanced Fujita scale. 2014 – Three people are killed and 62 injured in a pair of bombings on buses in Nairobi, Kenya. 2019 – The inaugural all-female motorsport series, W Series, takes place at Hockenheimring. The race was won by Jamie Chadwick, who would go on to become the inaugural season's champion.

[therobotmonster]

Professor Albert Sauros, noted spiritualist, has reached level 3 in Bard, and is now a Spirit Bard, which means he can summon tales of the dead through seance to empower others. Since standard Bardic Inspiration is tricky enough for the party to keep track of, I worked out these digital handouts so I can give them to other players when they need an effect.

If you too are running a reptile-themed spirit bard, feel free to adapt for your own use.

So here are six more of of my Victorian dinosaur-man’s ghost buddies. Unlike his regulars like Camembert and Sekhulos, these guys are busy and only show up when they want to.

[therobotmonster]

Albert Sauros, Noted Spiritualist, knows his audience. They don’t have patience for a full-length holy book. As soon as he finds a print shop, he’ll be passing these out to every egg-layer he finds.

IRL, this is composed from modified art from numerous public domain sources, mostly comics.

[therobotmonster]

Professor Albert Sauros Sculpt In Progress

In keeping with Albert being a Victorian Dinosaur Man, I gave him old school crocodilian scales  

[therobotmonster]

Esoteric Brotherhood of Ib Propaganda Poster “What will be your verdict?” 

Photomanipulation and composite of public domain illustrations with graphic design/typography.