Post-apocalyptic group of survivors around a ruined city at sunset, with a guitarist and a ferris wheel in the background.

Post-apocalyptic group of five survivors in a ruined building with a ferris wheel outside

Two men performing a wheelie on a motorcycle on a desolate road with a distant skyline and ferris wheel.

Post-apocalyptic group of friends and musicians gather in a ruined town with a guitar and a dog.

Post-apocalyptic group of survivors around a ruined city at sunset

By @panos · Apr 30, 2026

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The Exclusion Zone: A Bard Bonding with a Stalker Crew 1) Singing to the Crew from left to right: (Sitting on the bench) The Bard, Wilhelmina, (sitting on the ground) Little Katya (Katyusha), Ophelia (Wilhelmina's daughter), (standing) Stargazer, Amalia, (sitting) Wu Ming, Oksana, (standing) Dirty Biker, Katya Belova. The Bard by @TheBard Wu Ming & Oksana by @EternaSky Dirty Biker by @dirty_biker Katya Belova by @Bobbie 2)Drinking with the Crew The Bard, Davydos, Irina, Stargazer, Amalia (Stargazer seems to have been put "on the wagon" under the vigilant vampire stare of Amalia) Davydos by @DavidP 3) Dirty Biker takes the Bard for a spin on his Harley 4) The original of 1. GPT-2 has still prolbems with multiple cast. It kept on replicating Amalia, instead of showing Amalia AND Katya in the image. Finally, after much frustration and a ridiculous waste of credits, I was forced to do that in SD 4.5. I attach the original, because of its higher quality and because SD seems to have demolished half of Pripyat, without been told to do so

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Comments (210)

@DavidP · Apr 30, 2026
That I can believe. Just finishing the last image now for a short episode in which Davydos and TheBard visit Zalissya. I may not get the story written this eveing (dinner beckons) but will write it tomorrow morning. Hope y'all will enjoy it - @TheBard
@panos · Apr 30, 2026
Thank you, David. It's incredible! She expects me to like this milk crap! And then gets hurt when I don't! I can't help it man, I don't have a "poker face' You can see exactly what I feel on my ugly mug. (Don't be fooled, though - she is waiting for me NOT to drink my milk and then - I'm in trouble!
@TheBard · Apr 30, 2026
Hmm ... I think on my tries it was not confused, but had a technical problem ... I tried to make the rift opening with GPT 2 ... I was able to see, what it tried to do, but the picture got all blury pixeled, like some steps in rendering missing. Tried 2x and then changed to GPT 1.5
@panos · Apr 30, 2026
@TheBard I think it gets confuse when img-to-imging many people. same thing happened on the fight in the classroom image. it kept prividing double Ashe instead of Ash and Irina
@panos · Apr 30, 2026
Grea David! I'll also sign off for a few. I spent most of my time with that issue with images 1 & 4
@DavidP · Apr 30, 2026
Awesome, especially 2. And Amalia does not look happy
@panos · May 7, 2026
Well, why wouldn't I answer? 😃 Image #4 is the original, made with GPT 2 img-to-img. However it had a problem by keeping replicating Amalia (standing at the center, black crop top, hand-in-hand with Stargazer) in place of Katya (standing athe right, white t-shirt, pigtails) so I had two Amalias. After two - costly - tries, I took it to SD 4.5 img-to-img, telling it clearly to replace Amalia at the right with Katya. On its own, SD made the image much more bright than the original (which is the real gloomy atmsophere of the Zone) and also, it tore downsome tall apartment buildings at the left, replacing them with lower ones. I don't know why it did those tthings, but I finally had all the people I wanted in the image, so I kept it. 😃 (#2 & 3 are GPT 1.5 Medium)
@panos · Apr 30, 2026
Indeed! Well, but for one problem. GPT 2 has an issue with img-to-img. It replicates people. As with the previous image of the fight in the classroom where it made two Ashes instead of Ash and irina (there were just five people there) here it insisted on giving me two Amalias instead of Amalia and Katya. Finally, having spent a lot of creditz, I edited that on SD 4.5. Original image is #4 of this set. I put it here, despite the 2 Amalias, because it is much better in quality.
@panos · May 7, 2026
Yes, this is me. I made a spelling error in the @... and left it at that. I post one image for the DC there and these few days past, one or two for that Quest thing. Otherwise, nothing else. I make an affort every two or three days to answer to people (Oh, forgot to tell, I do the wellcome-to-NC thing for credz and so I comment on people's work - some comment back)
@panos · Apr 30, 2026
IKR? TEN people in one image!!!!!!! also this is the first set I've done of the Zone. It appears the Bard is having a great time in the Zone - and Starcazer has to change his choice of drinks - or else... 😃 The fault is not yours Bobbie, nut mine. I have to make a blog or something where I explain the main facts about the Zone and present the cast