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frith posting in

Creation_of_Mare_via_Nanobanana_by_Meta_Void

Source: https://tantabus.ai/images/64762 "Creation of mare".

Pastiche machine generator: Nanobanana. Prompter: Meta_Void.

The shock and dismay on the faces of the ponies peeking out of the clouds makes the image.

Since "AI", like amateur photography, is here to stay, and I welcome any eye-catching image, here we are, machine pastiche on Ponyville_Trot, even though the images are made by mindless machines spitting out statistically chosen connect-the-dots autocomplete hallucinations. A human with an idea, patience and a vocabulary is dropping the bombs into these virtual junkyards, and that's where skill comes in at the user level.

So now there's a Machine Pastiche Image tag, distinct from machine generated video, music, audio and text as it may occur. I'm not calling it AI, there's no more intelligence in these programs than there is in a bicycle. This is the 2nd auto-pastiche image here, to my surprise, this hookah smoking Twilight Sparkle is also auto-pastiche. Said so on DeviantArt, I just didn't know what "YiffyMix" was, so it didn't register.

What's missing is MLP photography. Not the Ponies Around the World photography, that's nice but the ponies aren't the focus of those pictures, it's where they are. MLP photography would be set-ups, like Kimono's Townhouse or better. Kinda rare. You can push a button on a camera or cellphone but photography is hard! Who knew?

frith posting in

ponyville_trot

Coming soon: machine generated pony images, AKA cooking with free-falling robots. The cake is a lie, but sometimes it looks good.

gs_silva posting in

webcomics

I recently joined DW and I've been mirroring my webcomic here on my blog, hoping I'll get a little more interest without putting too much effort in. Reviving this community would be great. Anyone still around and interested?

frith posting in

ponyville_trot

Source: http://mysticalpha.deviantart.com/art/Cater-Belle-680314491

frith posting in

ponyville_trot

Source: http://powdan.deviantart.com/art/Cuteness-Trick-641530081

This wide-eyed expectant look is what seems to me to be the base line for the SFM pony models. It looks like squeezing anything else out of the puppets is quite hard, although argodaemon manages it.

frith posting in

ponyville_trot

Source: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/20229266/

Tree Hugger by RoseTheUnicorn, 10 of clubs.

frith posting in

ponyville_trot

Source? Xitter. That's not a gallery. Also, no title, so I gave it one.

Imalou has at least two galleries, her DeviantArt gallery in which you will find over 1,000 works, many exceptional, and a much smaller gallery on Artstation, probably limited so potential employers can get an idea on an artist's skill quickly. Despite the design limitations and who knows what technical aspects stifling the A New Generation movie, Imalou can really shine, and it shows in these galleries. Imalou could totally pull off a calendar of her work.

mific posting in

drawesome

It's a busy month with seasonal projects and challenges. The seasonal card exchange is underway, and we're extending the fanartist rec challenge across this month as well.

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Art Rec Challenge: Rec a Fanartist

Pick a fanartist you like and tell us why you enjoy their works - and link us to a few examples, and to their main site or sites.

Any fandom, but only fanartists please, not professional artists (it's okay if they're fanartists who do commissions or have a buy-me-a-coffee, though, as that's fairly common these days.) They can be from any era - from early Star Trek vintage to artists posting currently.

Tell us about just one artist per post, please - you can make more than one post if you want to rec two or three artists!

A round-up post for this recs challenge will be done at the end of December. Happy reccing!

stepnix posting in

frillsofjustice

Cardcaptor Sakura raising sim about to be available in English for the first time!

Watch on YouTube

I've been bemoaning how little information is available on this, so it's REALLY exciting to see it get this kind of attention.

goss posting in

drawesome

Drawesome Monthly Check-In Post

It's the last day of November, and we'd love to have you check in and chat with us. How have things been with you this past month?

Did you sign up for or take part in any fandom activities in November, or have you been working on any personal art projects? Are you currently trying to meet a deadline? Feel free to share upcoming art challenges that have got you excited, any frustrations you've been experiencing, possible goals for the next month, and so on.

frith posting in

ponyville_trot

Source: https://www.deviantart.com/rvsd/art/A-cloud-after-the-rain-1145491262

Another RSVD work. Is it digital acrylic or oil? Regardless, this RVSD painted portrait is different from most of their variations on a snapshot theme. It's interesting, nice despite the Hello Kitty ears which are a wee bit too close together.

denise posting in

dw_news

Hello, friends! It's about to be December again, and you know what that means: the fact I am posting this actually before December 1 means

karzilla reminded me about the existence of linear time again. Wait, no -- well, yes, but also -- okay, look, let me back up and start again: it's almost December, and that means it's time for our annual December holiday points bonus.

The standard explanation: For the entire month of December, all orders made in the Shop of points and paid time, either for you or as a gift for a friend, will have 10% of your completed cart total sent to you in points when you finish the transaction. For instance, if you buy an order of 12 months of paid time for $35 (350 points), you'll get 35 points when the order is complete, to use on a future purchase.

( The fine print and much more behind this cut! )

Thank you, in short, for being the best possible users any social media site could possibly ever hope for. I'm probably in danger of crossing the Sappiness Line if I haven't already, but you all make everything worth it.

On behalf of Mark, Jen, Robby, and our team of awesome volunteers, and to each and every one of you, whether you've been with us on this wild ride since the beginning or just signed up last week, I'm wishing you all a very happy set of end-of-year holidays, whichever ones you celebrate, and hoping for all of you that your 2026 is full of kindness, determination, empathy, and a hell of a lot more luck than we've all had lately. Let's go.

frith posting in

ponyville_trot

Source: https://www.deviantart.com/mysticalpha/art/Apple-Bloom-763790812

That mysticalpha.com watermark is for a commissions website. I didn't see this Apple Bloom there but there was a lot of pony artwork. If you change the settings to allow NSFW you will find that many of artworks have "anatomically correct" versions, plus gender bending versions and various mildly erotic takes. I've read that erotica pays the bills, but unless Mysticalpha is cranking out 14 drawings a week or 2 a day, it's not paying a living wage.

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What are you working on? What have you finished? What do you need encouragement on?

Are there any cool events or challenges happening that you want to hype?

What do you just want to talk about?

What have you been watching or reading?

Chores and other not-fun things count!

Remember to encourage other commenters and we have a discord where we can do work-alongs and chat, linked in the sticky.

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