Got Milk? (AP) (AI)

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In 1984, the National Dairy Board launched “Milk: It Does A Body Good,” a campaign designed to promote dairy milk as the key to strong bones, healthy joints, and an attractive body. In the commercials, young boys and girls chat up their crushes while drinking milk and slowly transforming into fit and beautiful adults.

(from https://sentientmedia.org/milk-ad-history/)

Here is a continuation of that theme, with a girl dutifully drinking her milk at breakfast.
https://www.imagebam.com/view/GAG8NK

Despite using AI, this turned into quite a project. I've taken a ridiculous amount of time and generated a ridiculous number of images to test what effect every word in the prompt has. I had to define an art style I liked, figure out how to lay out the characters, how to specify details of one version without affecting the others, identify the characteristics that would make them appear to be different ages while remaining the same person, and line it up in a before-during-and-after sequence that follows a logical flow of time. But... I feel like I'm getting better results than my last foray.

One of the hardest parts is getting the clothes to burst off. It does makes sense, since a tiny proportion of clothes bursting images exist compared to the huge number of 'clothes on' and even the number of 'clothes off' images out there on the internet for the AI to train on.

My process is to save the generated images that have a kernel of 'good' art (almost a thousand). Then whittle it down to the ones that have one or two flaws, that I'm able and willing to fix in Photoshop. The most common flaws have been:

• Changing the color/pattern of the character's hair or clothes
• Changing the style of clothes, like short pants to long pants
• Clothing in illogical places, like a shirt on the ground when she's still wearing a shirt.
• Extra text - labels, onomatopoeias, etc. I went with "Got Milk" instead of "Milk: It Does a Body Good" because the AI is less likely to screw up the text of a shorter slogan.

You can try to lock down every little detail in the prompt. But the longer your prompt gets, the greater the risk that the AI ignores some details. Plus I wanted to explore a creative variety, instead of the exact same details every time.

This is the first batch I finished, but I have more saved which I intend to finish and share in time.