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Best attempt at Trakanon. Can't get it to do the really long necks of EQ dragons.

Lambourne said:

Best attempt at Trakanon. Can't get it to do the really long necks of EQ dragons.

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Looks pretty faithful still. You have to be really detailed about the appearance if you want it to look more like a specific EQ design.

Here's an example of a prompt I just used for some quick attempts at Trakanon :

High brown stone cliffs. A canyon. Dark night sky. A massive dragon. Dark sickly green scales, with dark stripes. Very long sinuous neck. Long tail. Four clawed paws. Long muzzle, many pointy teeth. Dark eyes. Two curved twisted black horns. Huge spread tattered decayed wings. Poison fumes.



You can see it chose to ignore some details (it doesn't look striped like Trakanon, the muzzle isn't very long) but the neck looks a bit longer than if you simply prompt for a dragon.

Here's another with the same prompt but I changed it to say "shredded" instead of "tattered" wings, and I asked it to breathe a "noxious green gas cloud" instead of just "Poison fumes."



This last one had the "Trakanon head" just right, in my opinion, but the rest isn't decayed enough for what I envisioned. And it has wyvern wings. Shame.



I hope this helps you a bit getting your very own Trakanon just right to print for your bedside table.

Runnen said:

Looks pretty faithful still. You have to be really detailed about the appearance if you want it to look more like a specific EQ design.

Here's an example of a prompt I just used for some quick attempts at Trakanon :

High brown stone cliffs. A canyon. Dark night sky. A massive dragon. Dark sickly green scales, with dark stripes. Very long sinuous neck. Long tail. Four clawed paws. Long muzzle, many pointy teeth. Dark eyes. Two curved twisted black horns. Huge spread tattered decayed wings. Poison fumes.



You can see it chose to ignore some details (it doesn't look striped like Trakanon, the muzzle isn't very long) but the neck looks a bit longer than if you simply prompt for a dragon.

Here's another with the same prompt but I changed it to say "shredded" instead of "tattered" wings, and I asked it to breathe a "noxious green gas cloud" instead of just "Poison fumes."



This last one had the "Trakanon head" just right, in my opinion, but the rest isn't decayed enough for what I envisioned. And it has wyvern wings. Shame.



I hope this helps you a bit getting your very own Trakanon just right to print for your bedside table.

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I found that using 'dracolich" rather than dragon got me a lot closer with the tattered looking wings. The issue was mostly in trying to get it to match the style, either end up with the wrong number of legs, too many spikes/horns and generally not matching the slender and gangly style of EQ.



These look fine on their own but are not really like Trak.

Pasteton said:

tolapumj just hangin out with trac and protector (curious how dall-e will handle frogloks)

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Here's Tolapumj just hanging and chilling.

The limited number of characters doesn't allow for very different detailed characters or objects in the same prompt sadly, so I have to do Trakanon, Sebilite Protector and Tolapumj separately.







Lambourne

Good idea on dracolich, you're getting there for sure. To be fair, early EQ dragons, and Trakanon in particular, looked like shit, even discounting the antiquated graphics. He has a flat lizard body, a neck that looks like a snake, and its teeth make no sense, it couldn't even close its mouth, looks more like it tried to swallow a giant toothbrush and gave up halfway through.But it's the goddamn nostalgia that makes us want to get it just right, even if it makes for one fugly dragon.

Another tip, I've found prompting "european dragon" helps stem the tidal wave of chinese / asian dragons.

Here's some Butcherblock Mountains shots.

A krag chick fighting a goblin of Clan Runnyeye, not far from Kaladim (I have a feeling this picture will end up horribly taken out of context in the Politics thread)



A strange discovery, in a small valley out of the way of most adventurers

jeydax said:

Bruh. BRUH!

These are SO fucking good. The aviaks, frogloks, everything... just amazing. D'vinn and the iksar monks are just chefs kiss.

I've had a shitty work week and seeing this thread afterwards has made me smile. Appreciate you.

Could you make one for the Tribunal or the ancient guardians in Plane of Valor?

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Thanks a lot for your positive feedback, very happy if it makes people happy. Or happier at least.

The Tribunal and the Seventh Hammer



The Seventh Hammer, appearing upon the completion of the six trials of the Plane of Justice.



An ancient guardian in the Halls of Honor

That's a protector of marr in HoH I think. Looks spot on though!

They added high resolution upscaling to midjourney. I can't really get this to attach in it's full glory since the forum software seems to scale things down and it's 4mb for one image. Simulated oil on canvas painting.





Detail from the full image

jeydax said:

That's a protector of marr in HoH I think. Looks spot on though!

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GIS gave me this result for "ancient guardian plane of valor"...



But maybe it's not the one that was requested, I never farmed much in PoV/HoH.

Glad you like it either way, I'll try and make some more shots of planes I've not done yet. And I'm not quite satisfied with the ancient guardian design, it's surprisingly difficult to make the AI understand you want a hollowed suit of armor, I had to get clever. I'll work on it some more at some point.

These are what I was thinking of in Plane of Valor, but I forgot about the hollowed armor dudes in HoH. Looks better than what I had in my head anyways.


Edit: It looks pretty friggin close to a protector of marr.

jeydax said:

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These are what I was thinking of in Plane of Valor, but I forgot about the hollowed armor dudes in HoH. Looks better than what I had in my head anyways.

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Say no more fam.

God damn it. Back to '00 every time I look at this thread. Better times for sure.

Awesome pictures. Keep them coming!

elidib said:

Skyfire Mountains:

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Love how these images make literally zero sense if you try to look at them more than 2 seconds.

Tholan said:

Love how these images make literally zero sense if you try to look at them more than 2 seconds.

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Lol, I dunno. That's a pretty faithful re-creation of how my brain remembers skyfire, including the dragons in the lava and clipping through geometry everywhere.

These are amazing, I thought of a few ideas that might give funny results.

A gnome rogue dragging several bodies to a pile of corpses that are being resurrected, surrounded by people sitting Indian style.

A robed man carrying so many coins he can barely move, being kicked by snakes.

Someone being attacked inside a small house by a griffon crashing through the window or roof.

elidib said:

Zlandicar in Dragon Necroplis?

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Zlandikar is one of the most reviled dragons on Norrath, hated and hunted by the Claws of Veeshan for the crime of slaying young whelp Frakadar, son of Harla Dar, and worse yet, feasting on its corpse. He fled to the ancient caverns of the Dragon Necropolis in the frigid Western Wastes and has been lurking in its dark corners ever since. He gorges on the carcasses fresh and old of the dead dragons that litter this sacred boneyard. His already formidable necromantic powers grew exponentially, letting him transcend death itself and twisting his body into an undead abomination. His brother Klandicar guards the entrance to the necropolis, sworn to never let his evil brother escape these dark caverns.



Since we're in the Dragon Necropolis, a picture of a small camp of ratmen of the Paebala tribe. Once ordinary rats, the Paebala evolved through the magical emanations of the dragon corpses over the millenia. Forming a small community, the Paebala live in the narrow crevices deep in the Dragon Necropolis. The necromantic energies coming off Zlandicar corrupted some of the ratmen, the plague spreading like wildfire until a new evil faction called the Chetari emerged.

Neb, leader of the Paebala, and a few ratmen tribesmen.

yimmien

For Johnny McNewb, the day a griffin attacked him through the roof of an East Commonlands shop was the scariest day of his life. But for Shopkeeper Parthar, it was tuesday.

yimmien