[__grob]

Glad you enjoyed the technical postmortem!

I agree with what you said, but I think it's reductive for a few reasons:

- It was (and still is) amazing to me that GPT Image 2.0 was this good at making a coherent manga page in one shot.

- This project was focused mainly on the animation pipeline, not the manga page content.

- As with all things AI, it is up to the user's creative direction to make the output good. I did not give much creative direction at all to the example manga page, thus the AI catchphrases. With some guidance, this seems to be a very promising way to get your manga ideas onto "paper" quickly if you desire.

[vunderba]

Yeah, I agree, I think specificity is key. If you leave an LLM, or any AI model, to its own devices, it gravitates to the figurative "mean of its training data" which tends to be pretty sterile.

I actually have some examples of my own comics that I used to put gpt-image-2 through its paces, and the results were surprisingly good as well:

https://mordenstar.com/other/gpt-2-comics