CaylaCatz on BudgetPixel

Since gpt2 is currently unavailable, I thought I'd do some research on other models for comic books. I found https://www.comicink.ai/ ComicInk. You describe the story you want and it generates the script for the panels and the dialogues. I didn't input dialogue initially. You choose the art style you want and I chose Manga. It gave me the cover and the first page for free and then it gave me 100 free credits. It costs 50 credicts to generate each page. You can make changes ot the panel descriptions and dialogue for free. So I changed up the dialogue to match more my idea of the characters. It does character genertions for each comicbook and the first 5 characters are free. You can upload an image if you already have one and it will do a character generation from that. Page 1 was already generted for free and I had just said a teal cheshire cat and page 1 is what I got. So for page 2, I went and described the Cheshire cat more fully to get mroe of the look I wanted. So you can page 2 and page 4, the change in the character from my fuller description. I thought it was pretty good. The biggest issue that I see is the characters look pasted on the background. They all have a halo effect around them. This makes it pretty obvious that it's AI generated. Issue 2 is that the speech bubbles have multiple pointers and sometimes to the wrong person. I corrected the speech bubbles in these 3 pages in Photoshop. This is easy to fix with cut/paste, and cloning over the background but it's a pain. Most speech bubbles needed to be fixed. Issue 3 is the characters keep changing sizes relative to each other. Sometimes Alice is taller than Cheshire, sometimes she is shorter. But I like very much that ComicInk generated the script and I could go on in and change the action in the panels or the dialogue before I generated the image. Changing was free so it was important to do this before generating at 50 a pop. I didn't generate page 3 because I was out of free credits.

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