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Aug 21, 2021 • 7 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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VQGAN+CLIP: "Moominvalley by Tove Jansson" (+trending on ArtStation)
+"rendered in Maya", +"Line art"
+"Tom of Finland" (the ultimate Finnish LGBTQ collaboration?) I really love the trees in the background.
That one had a fun instability, shifting from low saturation line art to fabulous jungle. Likely a slow drift along the image manifold to the high dimensional colourful image subspace from the constrained initial state.
+"Simon Stålenhag", "+M.C. Escher" (Again, the ultra-Scandinavianness of @simonstalenhag meshes well with Tove Jansson - note the background detail.)
+Anders Zorn, +Carl Larsson (Yes, the background lakes and birch tree continue. And Mrs Fillyjonk is perfectly at home in Carl Larsson's house.)
+John Bauer. Here I got disappointed, it just went for watercolours rather than any moody deep forests. Still, definite troll feeling.

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