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AI Image How-To — #37
Weapon fire! — secrets revealed!
Do you look at your amazing weapon images with a burning desire for them to share the sense of danger and excitement that courses through your veins as you write?
I am here to show you thrilling examples and, of course, a detailed breakdown of how you can take your weapon fire to the next level!
Before we dive in, both squirrel images are my absolute favorites in here. I love the absolute shock in the the image above and the crazed excitement in the image below!
If you’ve followed my work in the past, you know you can make animals take on human characteristics by using anthropomorphic in the prompt. And I love doing this!
I had a thought (many brain jumps unless I’m running on 3 hours of sleep — like I am now,) how would these little fellas react if it were the first time they fired a weapon? They would be shocked and excited, of course!
So begins the frenzy to shoot things up and watch them explode with all the wonder of a child.
If you left this prompt with shooting a rifle, you would have your standard weapon image. We want to make this 💥POP💥!
After you list the weapon of your choice, add with bright muzzle flash, then the background, any lighting, artist, and aspect ratio you wish to include, and any you wish to exclude.
My images lacked shooting at cans but they were perfect regardless!
Prompt for the image above:
anthropomorphic shocked and excited squirrel shooting a rifle with bright muzzle flash, shooting at cans, Pixar style, pixar fur
I was aiming for a queen, decked out in her jewels or glittering dress firing a gun but MJ had other ideas. Usually AI profiles the prompt very well…
I liked the image so much, I included it.
The woman and muzzle flash are a nice contrast to the dark alley.
The images took a little work to get the muzzle flash shooting straight from the barrel — not at an angle or back by the subject’s head. It wasn’t many generations though unlike some other how-to articles.
Prompt for the image above:
beautiful queen holding a gun with bright muzzle flash, a city alley, fantasy
For this image, I wanted a potential villain, or spy. To achieve this, I used a royal guard dressed in black and in the style of the three musketeers.
However, I wouldn’t say this is the palace dungeon. Although if you cross him, you may find yourself there!
Prompt for the image above:
royal guard dressed in black holding a gun with bright muzzle flash, palace dungeon, dystopian, in the style of the three musketeers
MJ did a great job generating military helicopters. (Not so much with the rotors!) This image took the most generations as there was often only two blades to the rotors and AI doesn’t know what missile fire looks like.
This is actually one of the early images with less pizazz but the best weapon fire placement and looking the most realistic.
Prompt for the image above:
military helicopter firing anti-tank missiles with bright muzzle flash, photorealistic, clear skies
This image gave me quite a bit of trouble generating a cyborg even though I tried basing the prompt on a previous image I made for Awakening. (A growing story in progress!)
I tried different wordings such as cyborg, robot, hybrid…with less than thrilling results. This was the most exciting image closest to a cyborg that MJ was willing to dish out.
I did not get the glowing eye (like I did for Awakening — bummer!) but MJ did follow the rest of the prompt pretty good.
He totally looks ready to kick some booty!
Prompt for the image above:
a muscular male [cyborg with military upgrades and one glowing+eye] and dark+short+spiked+hair firing a rocket launcher with bright muzzle flash, desert, clear skies, Canon EOS R5
