Theme

This week’s theme is Retro Sci-Fi!
Specifically any science fiction from the 40’s - 60’s. It’s all about clunky robots, giant computers with dials, ray guns, and all the other old cheesy sci-fi tropes you can think of :)
There’s a bonus point if the image matches the media of that era, for example by including cheap effects, obvious costumes, blurry film or anything else you can think of.

Prompt for post image:

a 50s cinemascope movie still of a clunky robot with an blinking lights on it's chest, in a fake looking space ship, a pilot is flying the ship, scene is shot with 8mm film --ar 16:9 --v 6.0
The image turned out better than how I intended :)

Rules

  1. Follow the community’s rules above all else

  2. One comment and image per user

  3. Embed image directly in the post (no external link)

  4. Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun)

  5. 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
    NEW Era appropriate effects +1 point

  6. Posts that are ex aequo (tied) will both get the points

  7. Winner gets to pick next theme! Good luck everyone and have fun!

Past entries

  1. Dieselpunk
  2. Goosebump Book
  3. Deep Space Wonders
  4. Fairy Tales
  5. A New Sport
  6. Monsters are Back to School
  7. War and Peace
  8. Distant lands
  9. Unreal Cartoons
  10. Sustainable Ecumenopolis
  11. Masks
  12. Mascots
  13. Old Gods, New Jobs
  14. Winter Festivities
  15. High Tech, Low Life
  16. Character Limit
  17. Gatsby’s Jazz Hands
  18. Reel to Canvas
  19. Cruelly Cute Characters

This round’s winners:

Place Winner Points
1 @BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 6
2 @merde@sh.itjust.works 5
2 @Trollivier@sh.itjust.works 5
3 @Deceptichum@kbin.social 4
3 @Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 4
  • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    While it’s obviously AI generated, I found this surprisingly readable, and I did not see the twist coming! Fascinating stuff. What was the genesis of the story while creating the image?

    • HalcyonEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Yes, I enjoyed reading it too and I was happy with that outcome. Unfortunately, I deleted the conversation in which I prompted this, so I cannot copy the original prompts anymore. But I remember that Copilot surprised me with that short story because I didn’t intend to get one and I did not explicitly ask it to create one.

      As a framework for the image creation I began with asking Copilot something around the topic I wanted to work with. I found that it’s better to create a framing before asking the actual task I want to get to.

      It was a double question, something like:

      "How might people in the 1950s have imagined office work in the future? What were science fiction stories in the 1950s like?

      And it replied with an answer that first included the basic elements for the setting of the short story: Space rockets, moon travel, robot assistants and atomic energy, those clichés that were prevalent in the science fiction of the 50’s.

      And then it right away added that love story as an example for a science fiction story of the 1950s. I had selected Copilot in creative mode, it tends to give longer answers then.

      Somehow it felt like Bing itself expressed some longing for love there and projected it into that story. 🥰