It’s my turn to set the Community Challenge for this week…
Theme
This weeks theme is ‘Winter Festivities’
Celebrate the winter season by exploring a tapestry of global festivities through AI-generated art!
In this theme, we create captivating visuals that showcase the diverse array of winter celebrations around the world. From Hanukkah and Diwali to Christmas and New Year’s, let your art depict the beauty of cultural traditions. Whether it’s a traditional ceremony, a festive street parade, or a unique cultural event, channel the spirit of unity in diversity.
Share the joy of the season and extend warm wishes that resonate across cultures through your creatively inclusive depictions of winter festivities.
Rules
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Follow the community’s rules above all else
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One comment and image per user
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Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
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Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun)
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At the end of the week each post will be scored according to the following grid
Prize Points Most upvoted +3 points Second most upvoted +1 point Theme is clear +1 point OP’s favorite (me, this week) +1 point Most original +1 point Last entry (to compensate for less time to vote) +1 point Prompt and workflow included +1 point -
Posts that are ex aequo will both get the points
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Winner gets to pick next theme! Good luck everyone and have fun!
Past entries
- Dieselpunk
- Goosebump Book
- Deep Space Wonders
- Fairy Tales
- A New Sport
- Monsters are Back to School
- War and Peace
- Distant lands
- Unreal Cartoons
- Sustainable Ecumenopolis
- Masks
- Mascots
- Old Gods, New Jobs
I’m looking forward to seeing your creations. 😀
Yule: Pagan celebration of the winter solstice
Dall-E Prompt: A young woman secretly celebrates winter solctice festivities together with small forest animals: a squirrel, a marmot and a rabbit are sitting around a small spruce tree that is decorated with natural materials found in the woods: nuts, pears, mushrooms. It is a snowy fullmoon winter night, stars twinkle in the sky and snow is on the mossy ground. The image style is acrylic painting.
Theme is clear +1 Prompt included +1
TOTAL +2
A Christmas Vision
spoiler
Stable Diffusion
Prompt:
neonpunk style concept art long shot scenic professional photograph of cinematic film still ethereal fantasy concept art of (masterpiece:1.2), (best quality:1.2),RAW photo, 8k uhd, dslr, natural lighting, maximum fidelity, ultra high detail, ultra HD, Panavision Millennium DXL2 8k Photo (1 beautiful eye, ornate silver eyelashes, reflective metal, santa, christmas tree). shallow depth of field, vignette, highly detailed, high budget, bokeh, cinemascope, photo-realistic, raw photo, amateur photography, realism, maximum detail, cinematic bokeh, GhostlyStyle , bright, warm, colourful, christmas, santa's salve pens, SDS_Particle_Flow watce, snow, ice, cold, freezing, . magnificent, celestial, ethereal, painterly, epic, majestic, magical, fantasy art, cover art, dreamy . shallow depth of field, vignette, highly detailed, high budget Hollywood movie, bokeh, cinemascope, moody, epic, gorgeous, film grain, grainy, perfect viewpoint, highly detailed, wide-angle lens, hyper realistic, with dramatic sky, polarizing filter, natural lighting, vivid colors, everything in sharp focus, HDR, UHD, 64K . digital artwork, illustrative, painterly, matte painting, highly detailed . cyberpunk, vaporwave, neon, vibes, vibrant, stunningly beautiful, crisp, detailed, sleek, ultramodern, magenta highlights, dark purple shadows, high contrast, cinematic, ultra detailed, intricate, professional
Neg:
(worst quality:1.2), (low quality:1.2), (normal quality:1.4),(hair ornament), (cropped:1.4),badhandsv5-neg, badhandv4, NegfeetV2, bad_prompt_version2, By bad artist -neg, ng_deepnegative_v1_75t, bad_pictures, BadDream, UnrealisticDream, By bad artist anime -neg, badquality-neg, BadNegAnatomyV1-neg, bad-picture-chill-75v, lowres, lowres graffiti, monochrome, grayscale, sketches, bad anatomy, bad hands, twisted hands, extra fingers, fewer fingers, missing fingers, strange fingers, fused fingers, malformed limbs, redundant limbs, redundant fingers, error, ((extra nipples)), blurry, deformity, deformed hand, extra limbs, aged up, age spot, wrinkled skin, wire, skin spots, freckle, skin blemishes, stain on face, mole, dark mole, ugly, fat, acnes, nevus, nasolabial folds, text, extra digits, fewer digits, jpeg artifacts, signature, watermark, username, censored, photographic, realistic, realism, 35mm film, dslr, cropped, frame, text, deformed, glitch, noise, noisy, off-center, deformed, cross-eyed, closed eyes, bad anatomy, ugly, disfigured, sloppy, duplicate, mutated, black and white, anime, cartoon, graphic, text, painting, crayon, graphite, abstract, glitch, deformed, mutated, ugly, disfigured, photo, photorealistic, realism, ugly, painting, drawing, illustration, glitch, deformed, mutated, cross-eyed, ugly, disfigured
Params:
Steps: 50, Sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 2280256292, Face restoration: GFPGAN, Size: 768x512, Model hash: 4199bcdd14, Model: revAnimated_v122EOL, Denoising strength: 0.2, Clip skip: 2, ADetailer model: face_yolov8n.pt, ADetailer confidence: 0.3, ADetailer dilate erode: 4, ADetailer mask blur: 4, ADetailer denoising strength: 0.4, ADetailer inpaint only masked: True, ADetailer inpaint padding: 32, ADetailer model 2nd: Eyes.pt, ADetailer confidence 2nd: 0.3, ADetailer dilate erode 2nd: 4, ADetailer mask blur 2nd: 4, ADetailer denoising strength 2nd: 0.4, ADetailer inpaint only masked 2nd: True, ADetailer inpaint padding 2nd: 32, ADetailer version: 23.11.1, ControlNet 0: "Module: recolor_luminance, Model: control_v11p_sd15_inpaint [ebff9138], Weight: 1, Resize Mode: Crop and Resize, Low Vram: False, Threshold A: 1, Guidance Start: 0, Guidance End: 1, Pixel Perfect: False, Control Mode: Balanced, Save Detected Map: True", Hires prompt: "(masterpiece:1.2), (best quality:1.2),RAW photo, 8k uhd, dslr, natural lighting, maximum fidelity, ultra high detail, ultra HD, Panavision Millennium DXL2 8k Photo (1 beautiful eye, ornate silver eyelashes, reflective metal, santa, christmas tree). shallow depth of field, vignette, highly detailed, high budget, bokeh, cinemascope, photo-realistic, raw photo, amateur photography, realism, maximum detail, cinematic bokeh, GhostlyStyle , bright, warm, colourful, christmas, santa's salve pens, SDS_Particle_Flow watce, snow, ice, cold, freezing,", Hires upscale: 2, Hires steps: 12, Hires upscaler: 8x_NMKD-Superscale_150000_G, Lora hashes: "SDXLGhostStyle: 26aaca0abd6c, theTalosProject_v11: 55f90e8cf7e3, Loraeyes_V1: da8286d2ab99, add_detail: 7c6bad76eb54, detail_slider_v4: 8347b7ec221e, zoom_slider_v1: 22e65bb05fb3, SDS_Particle_Flow: 8859996b890a, watce-sdxl: 5ceb29ddb464", Version: v1.6.0-2-g4afaaf8aSecond most upvoted +1 Theme is clear +1 Prompt included +1
TOTAL +3
Lovecraftian Santa
DALL-E 3: santa with a lovecraft horror tone; underwater; flat 2d art style;
He knows what you’ve been thinking, he knows when you’re alone,
he knows if you’ve been bad or good, and he might just take your bones.Congratulations, you are the winner of this contest! 🥳 🙌 🎉 🍾 🥂 Now, it’s your turn to post a new theme! Have fun.
Thank you :-)
Most upvoted +3 Theme is clear: +1 Prompt included +1
TOTAL +4
Hot spiced drink of preference in front of warm fire, one of my favorites in the cold season [Midjourney]
steaming hot spiced lemon tea on wood table in front of lit fireplace, in the style of luminous reflections, uhd image, rtx on, lively tavern scenes. warm, cheerful, comfortable, serene, toasty --s 750Someone appreciates lighting in their prompts. I’m a big fan of adding ‘subsurface scattering’, ‘x colour highlights’/midtones/shadows, for precise lighting control, brown and tan are wonderful lighting colours.
Theme is clear +1 Prompt included +1
TOTAL +2
Going back to the pagan winter festival of Yule!
When people would decorate their dwellings with evergreens like holly, ivy, pine branches and mistletoe…and how the traditions of old have been absorbed into ‘modern’ day Christmas
Prompt-
3 pagan winter creatures, one made out of mistletoe, another made out of holly and ivy, and another made out of pine branches and pine needles, sat around a burning yule log, photo realistic style, ratio 16.9
(I did ask for 3 creatures and ended up with an extra one)
I’m a big fan of natural majiks and druidic mysticism.
Theme is clear +1 OP’s favorie +1 Prompt included +1
TOTAL +3
Santa Clause - The Master Ninja. You better watch out…
Prompt: “A ninja dressed in red with a big white beard sneaking out of a fireplace with a large sack at night. He is carrying a katana. There is a christmas tree in the room. A small child looks afraid and is peaking out from behind the tree. Photorealistic detailed textures”
I love it!
Theme is clear +1 Prompt included +1 Most original +1
TOTAL +3
Happy New Year!
Prompt:photograph of happy little kids holding sparklers at night during new year's eve, in a suburb with fireworks exploding in the background, panoramic view, 18mm, Disposable Camera --ar 4:3 --s 75A memory of when I was little, we’d go out and light sparklers together before the “real” fireworks were set off at midnight. It felt so special to be out in the dark and getting to hold those sparklers.
Oh come on! (Excitement expressed as false exasperation)
I really thought this was a real picture taken by a cheap camera somewhere in the late 90s.
The clothes are right, the slightly out of focus kid on the right is spot on, the … Everything is there!
I see that you have disposable camera in the prompt, the generator sure nailed that look.
I was quite surprised with how well it came out myself! Though I had to retry a few times to get the sparkler in their hand :)
Choosing a camera type in Midjourney can really make a difference if you want to go for realistic photos. Here’s a few of my runner-ups (behind a spoiler to keep the thread a bit clean):runner-ups
Amazing! There must be millions of pictures in this style that have beens scanned over the years and ended up getting scooped up for training data. Any one of these could be mistaken for a real photo.
Theme is clear +1 Prompt included +1
TOTAL +2
The prompt was “Xmas dinner, Norman Rockwell painting style. The dinner is enjoyed by sentient Xmas ornaments, they are eating presents.” And on the first try I got this happy accident:
Yikes, can’t unsee the dog child hybrid in the lower left
The best part is that no where in my prompt did I type dog or anything dog like. That’s all the Bingers baby.
I’m wondering what the hell is being served for dinner…are they going to be eating roast dog???
A Christmas everyone will definitely remember lol
Looks like a platypus.
As is tradition.
Is this what’s known as “family” dinner?
Theme is clear +1 Prompt included +1
TOTAL +2
80s kids waiting for santa on christmas eve. illustrated vintage, soft focus [Bing Images]
This looks like part of a larger illustrated christmas story book … I want to read that book.
Theme is clear +1 Prompt included +1
TOTAL +2
I was watching Muppet Christmas when I made this. I’m sure that news shocks everyone.
Theme is clear +1
TOTAL +1
DALLE-3 Prompt: can you make an illustration of jesus as a baby dressed up as santa claus. He’s handing out gifts to a colony of meerkats. the illustration is cartoonish, colorful, and festive
As a latino I wanted to see how DALLE combined “el niño Dios” and Santa :P
Theme is clear +1 Prompt included +1
TOTAL +2
Inspired by the ABC Article “North Korea was floundering under sanctions. Now it’s making billions from stolen cryptocurrency” I thought it would be nice to cast Santa and Kim Jong Un as friends. My biggest worry about this picture is that it portrays crypto in a positive light, that’s probably not as light hearted as I intended.
Bing Dall-E. Prompt: “Santa Claus has a manic smile as he helps the Supreme Leader of North Korea count their bitcoin.” Bing blacklists the words “Jim Jong Un” but this synonym seems to work.
Theme is clear +1 Prompt included +1
TOTAL +2
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Donkey, the donkey-nosed donkey.
Looks like stable diffusion struggles with cheese, I tried a variant with a raclette which was even worse
Prompt Santa claus, in a swiss chalet, eats a fondue **Negative prompt **: low quality, extra fingers, extra limbs
Model Absolute realistic v20, using Gravity Diffus
Try adding: holding food draped in cloth made of melted cheese
Theme is clear +1 Prompt included +1
TOTAL +2
“Wacky salamanders enjoy christmas day” using Bing ai image generator.
Happy holidays from the salamanders!
Theme is clear +1 Prompt included +1
TOTAL +2
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