CONFIC AI ART CON 2023
Confic Art
We recently held an AI art contest where entrants made their best adaptations of containment fiction & liminal fiction works. These are the entries. The winner was determined by popular vote, and aside from it being first, the rest are in no particular order. There is a variety of skill (model selection, prompting, upscaling, inpainting, embedding, & etcetera tweaking/detailing/doctoring) on display here, but as the winner shows, all it might take is a good knowledge of confic source material, plus an effective pairing with a focused image.
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Enjoy!
1ST PLACE - JAMEBONTREESON
SCP-001 "When Day Breaks" (S. D. Locke's Proposal) by S D Locke
Entry by JameBonTreeson
Prompt & Details
AI generated by Mid Journey
Prompt: red sun
EDITOR'S CHOICE - HARKPRIME
SCP-096 "The Shy Guy" written by Dr Dan
Entry by HarkPrime
Prompt & Details
Stable Diffusion
Initial prompt : (samdoesart:1.2) dreamlikeart hairless pale skinny naked man, (horror), danger, masterpiece, intense shadows, illustration, thick outlines, highres, (Yoji Shinkawa:1.1), (kuvshinov:0.9), <kuvshinov>
Neg prompt : (ugly:1.5), (duplicate:1.3), (morbid:1.2), (mutilated:1.2), (mutation), [out of frame], (extra fingers:1.2), (more than two arms), (more than two legs), (missing arms), (missing legs), (poorly drawn hands:1.3), (poorly drawn face:1.3), (deformed:1.2), blurry, (bad anatomy), (bad proportions), (disfigured:1.3), extra limbs, (malformed limbs), mutated hands, (fused fingers), (makeup)
Model: daa6d37da2 (DreamLikeSamKuvshinov)
VAE: vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned
Sampler: Euler a
Seed: 550655066
CFG scale: 7
Image is heavily inpainted and edited with Gimp.
SCP-107 "The Turtle Shell" by RichardJ28
Entry by DevilaN
Prompt & Details
Engine: Stable Diffusion
Prompt: a branch of tomatoes with the structure of (((ice cream balls))), very detailed structure, calm ambient, bokeh, stunning details, photorealistic, high resolution, award winning setup, (scoops of ice cream on a tomato branch)
Steps: 30, Sampler: Euler a, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 1712909829, Size: 768x768, Model hash: 91d4d460e5, Model: 2.x_realisticVisionV13_v13VAEIncluded-0807-0869-1215
Then upscaled 2x with foolhardy remacri.
SCP-003 "Biological Motherboard" by Xian, rewritten by thedeadlymoose.
Entry by Lack of Lepers
Prompt & Details
Stable Diffusion v1.5
Prompt: "A ((motherboard circuit)) (on a stone tablet), runes, composed of ((chitin, hair, and nails)) of unknown biology, xenomorphic, surrealism, macabre, eldritch, dystopian, bioluminiscent, dark, concept art, photorealistic, cgsociety, fully lit."
RPC-929 "CSD-6868 in Wonderland" by Jokz
Entry by G Mann
Prompt & Details
MidJourney.
Prompt: German World War 1 Soldier holding a scythe and wearing gasmask and dressed in black uniform standing next to a young girl with white dress, brown hair, and a white cloche hat. Monarch butterfly has landed on the girl's hat. The background is yellow wheetfield and blue sky.
SCP-4666 "The Yule Man" written by Hercules Rockefeller
Entry by HarkPrime
Prompt & Details
Stable Diffusion
Initial prompt: (samdoesart:1.2) dreamlikeart point of view (from bed), old dark bedroom, window, (horror), darkness, masterpiece, intense shadows, illustration, thick outlines, highres, (Yoji Shinkawa:1.1), (kuvshinov:0.9), <kuvshinov>
Neg prompt: (ugly:1.5), (duplicate:1.3), (morbid:1.2), (mutilated:1.2), (mutation), [out of frame], (extra fingers:1.2), (more than two arms), (more than two legs), (missing arms), (missing legs), (poorly drawn hands:1.3), (poorly drawn face:1.3), (deformed:1.2), blurry, (bad anatomy), (bad proportions), (disfigured:1.3), extra limbs, (malformed limbs), mutated hands, (fused fingers), (makeup)
Model: daa6d37da2 (DreamLikeSamKuvshinov)
VAE: vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned
Sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras
Seed: 1290799008
CFG scale: 10
DarkPrime: "The Yule Man - at the 7th night"
(inpainted mainly with prompt: ||[...] dreamlikeart monster looking through the window, snow, forest, (horror) [...]||)
HarkPrime: "you are welcome [for the nightmare fuel]"
SCP-999 "The Tickle Monster" written by ProfSnider
Entry by DevilaN
Prompt & Details
Stable Diffusion
Prompt: funko pop blobby squid jelly figurine, made of transparent orange plastic, product studio shot, on a white background, diffused lighting, centered
Steps: 20, Sampler: Euler a, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 1743414997, Size: 512x512, Model hash: 92970aa785, Model: 1.x_dreamlikePhotoreal20_dreamlikePhotoreal20
DevilaN: "Plastic figurine of SCP-999 is looking forward to cuddling."
SCP-5000 "Why?" written by Tanhony
Entry by Lack of Lepers
Prompt & Details
Stable Diffusion v1.5
Prompt: ((16-bit pixel art)) of a man in a mechanical suit (((holding a briefcase in his hand))), (HD), sci fi gadgets helmet mask, intricate detail, (LEDs on armor), intricate abstract, mid length, kodak ultra max 800, 85 mm, symmetrical composition, stunning photo, masterpiece, centered composition, cinematic lighting, (in the corner of a science fiction containment chamber as a background).
Negative prompt: blender, cropped, lowres, poorly drawn face, out of frame, poorly drawn hands, blurry, bad art, blurred, text, watermark, disfigured, deformed, closed eye
Steps: 20, Sampler: Euler a, CFG scale: 10, Seed: 2353210147, Size: 704x1024, Model hash: 1e35e6bf, Denoising strength: 0.7, Clip skip: 2, ENSD: 31337, First pass size: 0x0
SCP-3005 "A Light That Died" by Silberescher
Entry by Salt Blossom
Prompt & Details
Engine: Stable Diffusion
Model: Vectorartz
prompt: masterpiece, highres, demonic, pink ethereal eldritch light shining within science facility containment chamber, metal box in chamber, eldritch, sci-fi, horror
SCP-3560 "All Robots Go to Limbo" written by Jacob Conwell
Entry by HarkPrime
Prompt & Details
Stable Diffusion
Initial prompt: (samdoesart:1.2) dreamlikeart soldiers with armors and rifles in a (dark) forest, (horror), darkness, masterpiece, intense shadows, illustration, thick outlines, highres, (Yoji Shinkawa:1.1), (kuvshinov:0.9), <kuvshinov>
Neg prompt: (ugly:1.5), (duplicate:1.3), (morbid:1.2), (mutilated:1.2), (mutation), [out of frame], (extra fingers:1.2), (more than two arms), (more than two legs), (missing arms), (missing legs), (poorly drawn hands:1.3), (poorly drawn face:1.3), (deformed:1.2), blurry, (bad anatomy), (bad proportions), (disfigured:1.3), extra limbs, (malformed limbs), mutated hands, (fused fingers), (makeup)
Model: daa6d37da2 (DreamLikeSamKuvshinov)
VAE: vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned
Sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras
Seed: 1290799008 (3rd image in the batch)
CFG scale: 7/10
Upscaling: Foolhardy Ramacri (x4, linear, denoising str: 0.5, tiles width: 512px, mask blur: 8px, padding: 32px) (same neg prompt, prompt: [...] dreamlikeart a (dark) forest, (horror), darkness [...])
Inpainted downscaled and upscaled versions, and merged two upscaled versions
"Crimson Fields" by knafflad
Entry by JameBonTreeson
Prompt & Details
Mid Journey
Prompt: a dark and repressive field of tall red grass with brambles and tangles of weeds in darkness.
SCP-3000 "Anatashesha" by A Random Day, djkaktus, & joreth
Entry by Lack of Lepers
Prompt & Details
DreamStudio (Stable Diffusion 1.5)
Prompt: Art of giant infinite underwater sea serpent moray eel head with fangs and glowing eyes, towering above a deep sea diver, low light, wide angle lens, fantasy, horror, intricate, bleak, Greg Rutkowski, muted colors, low visibility, lowres, centered in frame.
Steps: 35
Upscaled
SCP-049 "The Plague Doctor" by Gabriel Jade, rewritten by Gabriel Jade & djkaktus
Entry by DevilaN
Prompt & Details
Stable Diffusion
Prompt: plague doctor closeup portrait, intricate, torn clothes, robe, (arms at the sides), (black leather bag), medieval times, year 1600, alchemy, crow white mask with long beak, medieval city, elegant, grey mist, beautiful, highly detailed, dark dramatic lighting, sharp focus
Negative prompt: out of frame, duplicate, watermark, signature, text, crossed arms
Steps: 30, Sampler: Euler a, CFG scale: 7.5, Seed: 719905135, Size: 704x896, Model hash: 92970aa785, Model: 1.x_dreamlikePhotoreal20_dreamlikePhotoreal20
DevilaN: "SCP-049 is such adorable object!"
RPC-996 "…And they never came back down." by Applegate
Entry by JameBonTreeson
Prompt & Details
Mid Journey
Prompt: The red fire tower within the forest
SCP-002 "The Living Room" by Unknown Author
Entry by Lack of Lepers
Prompt & Details
Stable Diffusion v1.5
Lack of Lepers: "prompt was the description from the file"
"Entity 140" by SnomWriting
Entry by JameBonTreeson
Prompt & Details
DreamStudio (Stable Diffusion v1.5)
Prompt: a young pale woman with a long blond hair and light blue eyes wearing white dress and sapphire pendant sitting in the large library.
RPC-099 "Random Occurrences and Case MARZANNA" by KaiserXI, Von Pincier, Fortunae.
Entry by Lack of Lepers
Prompt & Details
Engine: DreamStudio
Prompt: A massive underground giant worm beast seen from the lunar surface, debris field, ejecta, explosion, astrophotography.
dimensions: 512 x 512
steps: 30
sampler: (automatic)
seed: 1197638814
cfgScale: 8
model: Stable Diffusion v1.5
CLIP enabled: true
Black & white filter added.
SCP-054 "Water Nymph" by Unknown Author, rewritten by SimpleCadence
Entry by DevilaN
Prompt & Details
Prompt: <hypernet:waterElemental_10:1>, water elemental (nude) transparent woman made of water, marble fountain, white room", "all_prompts": [" <hypernet:waterElemental_10:1>, water elemental (nude) transparent woman made of water, marble fountain, white room"], "negative_prompt": "", "all_negative_prompts": [""], "seed": 1411296753, "all_seeds": [1411296753], "subseed": 1104400298, "all_subseeds": [1104400298], "subseed_strength": 0, "width": 768, "height": 768, "sampler_name": "DPM++ SDE", "cfg_scale": 7, "steps": 15, "batch_size": 1, "restore_faces": false, "face_restoration_model": null, "sd_model_hash": "91d4d460e5", "seed_resize_from_w": 0, "seed_resize_from_h": 0, "denoising_strength": null, "extra_generation_params": {"ControlNet Enabled": true, "ControlNet Module": "openpose", "ControlNet Model": "control_openpose-fp16 [9ca67cc5]", "ControlNet Weight": 1}, "index_of_first_image": 0, "infotexts": ["<hypernet:waterElemental_10:1>, water elemental (nude) transparent woman made of water, marble fountain, white room\nSteps: 15, Sampler: DPM++ SDE, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 1411296753, Size: 768x768, Model hash: 91d4d460e5, Model: 2.x_realisticVisionV13_v13VAEIncluded-0807-0869-1215, ControlNet Enabled: True, ControlNet Module: openpose, ControlNet Model: control_openpose-fp16 [9ca67cc5], ControlNet Weight: 1"], "styles": [], "job_timestamp": "20230221092732", "clip_skip": 1, "is_using_inpainting_conditioning": false}a
SCP-7003 “Three White Horses” by TheyCallMeTim
Entry by Lack of Lepers
Prompt & Details
Produced via Lexica.art (Stable Diffusion)
Model: Lexica Aperture v2
Dimensions: 3072 × 2048 (upscaled)
Prompt: masterpiece wide shot painting of three white horses running in an apocalyptic desert, god rays behind, lens flare, mud towns, mirage, warm tones, sand, dust, dry, unbearable heat, surrealism, art deco, brush strokes, rain clouds in the distance, impending rain
Negative prompt: deformities, multiple heads, lowres, extra heads, extra hands, text, watermark, logo, humans, people, extra legs, saddles, frame
"Time Travel Tesla" by ThePaperMask
Entry by JameBonTreeson
Prompt & Details
DreamStudio (Stable Diffusion v1.5)
Prompt: Tesla traveling through time
SCP-049 "The Plague Doctor" by Gabriel Jade, rewritten by Gabriel Jade & djkaktus
Entry by JameBonTreeson
Prompt & Details
Prodia (AI Art and Music)
Prompt: Plague Doctor in the empty office room
SCP-173 "The Sculpture" by Moto42
Entry by Lack of Lepers
Prompt & Details
Engine: DreamStudio
Prompt: A 4k 2d matte painting of a vaguely humanoid abstract sculpture constructed from concrete and rebar with traces of green and maroon Krylon brand spray paint, ominous, eerie, creepy, horror, spotlight, backlight, DeviantArt, backdrop of a containment chamber, reddish brown substance on the floor, Utamaro, Ron Walotsky, Wayne Barlowe.
dimensions: 512 x 640
steps: 31
sampler: Euler
seed: 3200560740
cfgScale: 6
model: Stable Diffusion v2.1
CLIP enabled: false
RPC-990 "Mother of the New Flesh" by Sinaticus, Prototype_Toaster, ieatcrepes
Entry by Lack of Lepers
Prompt & Details
Prompt: Dark souls concept art of a tall ((bloated pale humanoid female)) composed of partial human beings, in a concrete cell, insanely detailed and intricate, extra limbs, multiple faces, distorted anatomy, fleshy, scabs, arachnid hairs, pimples, pus, insects, mold, deformities, horror, disgusting, biomorphic, dark surrealism, spooky, (in the style of Stephen Gammell, Andre Kohn, Antonio Mor, Tim Burton).
Negative prompt: blender, cropped, lowres, out of frame, blurry, bad art, blurred, text, watermark, cropped.
Steps: 25, Sampler: Euler, CFG scale: 9, Seed: 3629957796, Size: 704x960, Model hash: aafb8b56, Denoising strength: 0.7, Clip skip: 2, ENSD: 31337, First pass size: 0x0
SCP-001 “The Scarlet King” (Tufto’s Proposal) by Tufto
Entry by Lack of Lepers
Prompt & Details
Engine: DreamStudio
Prompt: An ethereal illustration of a massive crimson eldritch entity wearing a golden crown, scarlet, chains, sceptre, sacred geometry, ritual, alter, massive scale, wide lens, in the style of Wayne Barlowe and Scott Listfield, cosmic horror, centered in an elaborate ornate golden picture frame.
dimensions: 512 x 640
steps: 42
sampler: auto
seed: 617121982
cfgScale: 10
model: Stable Diffusion v1.5
CLIP enabled: true
SCP-7900 "A Place to Drown In" by Its a Bad Idea
Entry by Lack of Lepers
Prompt & Details
Engine: DreamStudio
Prompt: A vast monastery tympanum above the entrance to a cathedral depicting drowning of fifty individuals. Inside, murals and stained glass patterns, whales, grey, deep aqua, eye, fin, humanoid grey whale creature, ritual, centered, 4K, whale skull.
dimensions: 704 x 704
steps: 30
sampler: automatic
seed: 2623493158
cfgScale: 12
model: Stable Diffusion v1.5
CLIP enabled: true
SCP-999 "The Tickle Monster" written by ProfSnider
Entry by Lack of Lepers
Prompt & Details
Engine: DreamStudio (Stable Diffusion 2.1)
Sampler: Heun
Prompt: A prison photo 3d render of a very cute yellow jelly blob slime monster, isometric, dreamworks style, tilt shift, smiling, centered, against a concrete backdrop.
See the contest hub.
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