Salamander, of the elemental variety
In terms of elemental forms it is a mistake to approach from a position of evolutionary taxonomy. As in all transitions from perpendicular realities, such creatures are born from and induce the mythological symbols that define their anatomy.
The concept manifests the symbol, the symbol communicates the concept, an oroboros of cause and effect that is no less existentially annoying for creating animals made of the idea of fire, which is so certain of itself it doesn't know that it shouldn't be able to burn your house down.
In practical terms, a salamander should be addressed in the same manner as a grease fire, by entrapping it in a fireproof metal vessel and blocking the oxygen flow. Without a source of oxygen, the creature will poof back to its native reality. Any major brand of charcoal briquette is adequate bait. Oily rags, old newspapers, and pre-1975 furniture will do in a pinch.
-Melinoë's Guide to Incursive Pests & Misidentified Phenomenon, 2005 edition.
Prompt and process under the fold.
Prompt: colorful smoke swirling off of a black background, in the style of fluid glass sculptures, light teal and orange, tangled forms, light red and blue, rendered in cinema4d, sculpture-based photography, distorted and elongated forms:: fullbody, a colorful smoke swirl with colorful lights on a dark background, in the style of fluid, glass-like sculptures, light cyan and orange, serge marshennikov, colorful layered forms, conrad shawcross, focus stacking, bold lines, bright colors:: a real Charmander, dinosaur with burning tail, salamander, dino-iguana, glowing flames, rocky terrain, sumatraism, lava tail, burning tail, background sharp earth, raptor, elegant pose, hawaii, outback, iguana, morning glow, stock photo, regal pose --ar 4:3 --s 50 --v 6.0
This prompt was made two autogenerated prompts I made from this image I made by blending smoke and glass textures with Midjourney's weird image prompting system:
The image also had image prompts, in this case, three different charmanders, two being experiments for a Harryhausen Pokemon "what if" pictorial set and one being a "real animal version" attempt:
And those are from multiple versions of MJ.
Eventually, resulting in this gen:
Which I composited with multiple other variants, rebuilt the claw and some other details, and then did color correction and processing.
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Prescription Medications as Pokemon via NijiJourney
I found a list of the 15 most advertised (in the US, obviously) prescription drugs of 2015 and turned them into pokemon via NiniJourney (the Midjourney anime/manga specific model) v6, and the following base prompt:
full color illustration of the pokemon (drug name here) , official art, bulbapedia, fullbody, white background, gen 6
Most were iterated multiple times, a few were given minor edits to erase extraneous nonsense parts or touch up the color saturation/tone. Tried to keep the plant-types and the "basically a lady" types to a few examples each, something the robot resisted.
Nothing to get anywhere near what I'd consider the minimal expression threshold, so public domain all around.
May post promising spares as a separate post. Might not, dunno.
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