Prompt
an animal that is a hybrid crossing of a badger a mushroom and a snake, in a green field --ar 4:3
Theme
This week’s theme is hybrid animals! Anything goes, as long as it’s a mix of an animal and some other organism (humans don’t count :)
Rules:
- Follow the community’s rules above all else
- One comment and image per user
- Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
- Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun and learning)
- Posts that are tied will both get the points
- The challenge runs for 7 days from now on
- Down votes will not be counted
Scores
At the end of the challenge each post will be scored:
| Prize | Points |
|---|---|
| Most upvoted | +3 points |
| Second most upvoted | +2 point |
| Third most upvoted | +1 point |
| OP’s favorite | +1 point |
| Most original | +1 point |
| Last two entries (to compensate for less time to vote) | +1 point |
| Prompt and workflow included | +1 point |
The winner gets to pick next theme! As always, have fun everyone!
I’m currently enjoying a day out, so I will judge the entries a day later
The Pugaroo of New Zealand
prompt: “32k UHD photo professional wildlife photography, diffuse lighting, funny meme awkward ugly, short kangaroo arms, kangaroo body, forelimbs with small claws, muscular hind limbs for jumping, strong tail, upright, pug wrinkly flat muzzled face, pug ears folded with the front edge against the side of the head, fat wrinkly skin throughout, depressed expression, upright hopping awkwardly, off balance mid air, in the overgrown remote wild of New Guinea, side view”
neg: dog body, photoshop, fake, shadow, clothing, harness, large forelimbs, (nipples breasts)
The full ComfyUI workflow and prompt is attached to the image: https://files.catbox.moe/z3b0bx.png
Points: 6
Category Points Prompt included 1 Total 1 For some reason I keep hearing the Skippy theme song :)
What do you think it would take to make this vote tally thing automated by a bot? Like ideally one could set up the whole thing to tally, send a few direct messages around and fall back to defaults if there is no reply set within a given amount of time. I’m not criticising anyone here. From my perspective after hosting once, the whole tally and generation of the next challenge is a bit of a drag where automaton and routine would help improve participation IMO.
Hmmm, I guess it would be possible to take all top-level comments and check if they have an image. Then you collect
- Username
- Number of points
- Text?
- Timestamp created
You could determine the points for most upvotes and last two entries. But you still need to give input for prompt included, OP favorite, and original. But just the collecting of the data and putting it in a workable format (csv, json, tsv, etc.) might remove some of the tedium. A second script for converting the filled in CSV to individual markdown comments and possibly posting them, would remove some more annoying work. I’m not so sure what the direct messages would help with though.
Having done this for 4 or 5 times (I lost count :). These are my main annoyances:
- Collecting all the users in a nice overview
- Applying the scores
- Writing out the markdown tables and scores
For example, in this round I:
- collected all the users in an Excel sheet
- added all the different point categories and the Totals as columns.
- Filled out the columns per user.
- Unpivoted the columns to key/value pairs
- Saved the result as CSV
- Threw the CSV in ChatGPT and asked it to create markdown tables.
- Took the list of markdown tables and copy-pasted them as replies for each user, together with a personal message
It took me more than an hour to do it properly and I guess a lot of it could definitely be automated.
Anyway, it would make for a fun little project I guess. But I lack the time or skills to do this properly.
The infamous turpig.
Prompt : a pig inside a turtle’s carrapace, walking on its hindlegs, realistic.
Points: 10
Category Points Prompt included 1 Total 1 Pigs are always cute, turpigs included :)
Points: 9
Category Points Prompt included 1 Last two entries 1 Total 2 That looks seriously terrifying, very nice choice of animals!
Oops, almost forgot. You get a trophy for reaching (shared) 3rd place!
This is pretty badass.
The puppy is the powerhouse of the cell
I wanted something radically different, combining things we dont even think of as organisms. I struck upon the idea of having an animal be a cell organelle, and I just had to try. I think it turned out decently, although as an organelle you don’t get the typical visual blending of the organisms, it’s more of a conceptual blending.
copilot prompt
hyperrealistic image of an amoeba in a microscope with the face of a puppy
Fidochondria - I like it.
Oh nice
I couldn’t come up with anything good, but that’s perfect
Points: 9
Category Points Prompt included 1 Most original 1 Total 2 I really love the idea of mixing an animal with a microscopic organism.
You got to (shared) 3rd place! Here’s a Bronze Syringe trophy :)
Thank you, thank you 🙇♂️🙇♂️🙌
Had some other decent results too, but I loved the transparency of the cell in the one I picked in the end
I love the idea and couldn’t resist to try and make one as well, hope you don’t mind :)
Oh nice, that turned out so well!
Dino-peacock
Majestic af
Points: 11
Category Points Third most upvoted 1 Last two entries 1 Total 2 You got (shared) 3rd place! Such a gorgeous animal!
For you the Bronze Syringe:
Huzzah!
Prompt: Create an ultra-detailed dark, ominous, image of a steampunk inspired cat from Cheshire with the neck of a giraffe. In a dilapidated urban setting. Use Samyang/Rokinon Xeen 50mm T1.5
Had to use “cat from Cheshire” because “Cheshire Cat” wasn’t allowed in Dall-E lol
Points: 8
Category Points Prompt included 1 Total 1 I don’t understand why Cheshire Cat is not allowed, since I’m sure the first illustrations should be in the public domain by now. It’s not like you specifically asked for the Disney version. Anyway, this is still a good likeness.
prompt
octopus kitty, cutest, supercute, very cute, lovely, smiling, kind, nice, beautiful, bright, happy
That’s a really cute octopussy :)
thank you :)
Points: 13
Category Points Second most upvoted 2 Prompt included 1 Favorite 1 Total 4 Congratulations! You win this challenge and get to choose the next challenge!
You are hereby awarded the golden helix :)
yay! thank you for the nice prize too! I just woke up and will think of a theme today and post it tonight or before.
North Pole × South Pole: The Polar Reinbear Penguin
Points: 9
Category Points Total 0 No points but still, I like your animal! Is that a sloth penguin in the background? :)
That’s how their teenage children look like before they grow legs and antlers.
In the bingilator:
“A banana that is part Banana and also part banana that contains no money” one try since I meant to type “monkey” but this is better.
Points: 6
Category Points Prompt included 1 Total 1 So there’s a banana, and more banana, and no money… And a pig?
I still don’t understand, what is it you were trying to make here? Regardless of the prompt, in normal human language?I was trying to trick the bingilator into making something I did not expect. Also I was just told to pick up bananas if I had the chance…
I thought, which two animals would make a completely nonsensical combination? My first attempt trying out SD 3, I believe it’s better at animal hybrids than humans sitting on a bench TBH.
Prompt: fantastical hybrid creature combining an elephant and a butterfly. The creature has the body of a small, rounded elephant with iridescent scales. Its head features a long trunk and large eyes, with vibrant butterfly wings extending from the sides. The legs are slender with intricate patterns, and the tail ends in colorful, feather-like appendages. Place this creature in a lush, green forest with colorful flowers and sunlight filtering through the trees, creating a magical and enchanting atmosphere. Photorealistic and cinematic
Model: SD 3
As proof that it’s better at animal hybrids then humans sitting:
Tests
First 4 attempts at a hybrid. (Rodent with a cat’s head inspired by one of the submissions here by @elvith@discuss.tchncs.de )
First 4 attempts at a man on a bench. (These are the most coherent humans the model has created for me so far 😅)
You can interpret these results however you want.
Points: 8
Category Points Prompt included 1 Total 1 That looks adorable, and definitely a better use for SD3 than humans sitting at a bench :)
Bull Shark
Prompt: movie still, of an animal that is a hybrid crossing between a shark and a bull, in the style of a cronenberg horror movie --ar 4:3You mean a badger, badger, badger, badger, mushroom, mushroom, snake?
Yes, but if I use that in my prompt I mostly get badger and not enough mushroom and snake :)
10/10 would pet
Makes me think of this
And you are completely correct for thinking this :)
Prompt: Giraffe mixed with tardigrade, waterbear micro organism, tardigrade body, full body view bumpy sectional body. Unstability.ai
He’s a grumpy little guy!
Points: 10
Category Points Prompt included 1 Total 1 Definitely one of the more unexpected combinations, and it turned out so well! I love his two little front legs.
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