Last Christmas, I gave this a start,
But soon before that day, I gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I′ll give it to you as a special...
Thank Goodness you did not hear me sing this song.
Alright then. When I prepared a Xmas present for my boss last year I was stuck a bit. He is a big Star Wars fan and I had planned to give him a couple of figures. However, one of them, the Stormtrooper Commander, did not come with a suitable packaging and I did not want to just put it into a zip lock bag. So I had to come up with a nice and appropriate packaging idea.
The first was to put it into a box with a custom-made card in the style of the Hasbro Vintage Collection. That idea was good but not perfect. A box had to be found, a card created - much work for one figure and not much time left. I was thinking back and forth and found this idea a bit too haphazard and lazy.
I skipped the idea for later and decided to work on a suitable greeting card. I launched Gemini and gave it a picture of the two figures which were supposed to be displayed together:
Reason for this: Gemini is insanely good at creating visuals, but it is also insanely bad at scaling. I wanted it to display both figures in approxiamately the same scale, so I had to show it both figures together in one image. If I had shown it in two different images it might have scaled them wrong and made the droid too small (it knows that a droid is smaller than a trooper but not by how much). It is insanely dumb at enlarging an object which is too small later (it simply refuses to do it) so it is best to show it how big the figures are in the first place.
Then I asked it to create a festive Xmas card featuring these figures:
Well. It took my request a little too literal and displayed the droid still carded. However, it showed something interesting: He put the Trooper inside a sled, in Imperial style and with Imperial reindeer droids. This triggered something. The droids were cool and could be built using the eggs from "kinder Überraschung". The sled looked really cool and I decided to build upon it.
Next I asked it to delete the reindeers, unpack the R2 droid and put it into the sled instead:
That was absolutely insane! Gemini even used the bubble from the card as a windshield!
Now I had an idea and pushed this to the limit.
The sled as of itself was neat - but it resembled too much the way I decorated the AT-AT a few years ago.
So I asked it to nix the Xmas decoration and focus on the sled design.
Whoah! That was mind-boggling! Especially the red one was interesting. A few prompts later and I got this:
which led me to THIS:
DANG - that was cool! I decided to go with this and proceeded with the design. Stay tuned!
But soon before that day, I gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I′ll give it to you as a special...
Thank Goodness you did not hear me sing this song.
Alright then. When I prepared a Xmas present for my boss last year I was stuck a bit. He is a big Star Wars fan and I had planned to give him a couple of figures. However, one of them, the Stormtrooper Commander, did not come with a suitable packaging and I did not want to just put it into a zip lock bag. So I had to come up with a nice and appropriate packaging idea.
The first was to put it into a box with a custom-made card in the style of the Hasbro Vintage Collection. That idea was good but not perfect. A box had to be found, a card created - much work for one figure and not much time left. I was thinking back and forth and found this idea a bit too haphazard and lazy.
I skipped the idea for later and decided to work on a suitable greeting card. I launched Gemini and gave it a picture of the two figures which were supposed to be displayed together:
Reason for this: Gemini is insanely good at creating visuals, but it is also insanely bad at scaling. I wanted it to display both figures in approxiamately the same scale, so I had to show it both figures together in one image. If I had shown it in two different images it might have scaled them wrong and made the droid too small (it knows that a droid is smaller than a trooper but not by how much). It is insanely dumb at enlarging an object which is too small later (it simply refuses to do it) so it is best to show it how big the figures are in the first place.
Then I asked it to create a festive Xmas card featuring these figures:
Well. It took my request a little too literal and displayed the droid still carded. However, it showed something interesting: He put the Trooper inside a sled, in Imperial style and with Imperial reindeer droids. This triggered something. The droids were cool and could be built using the eggs from "kinder Überraschung". The sled looked really cool and I decided to build upon it.
Next I asked it to delete the reindeers, unpack the R2 droid and put it into the sled instead:
That was absolutely insane! Gemini even used the bubble from the card as a windshield!
Now I had an idea and pushed this to the limit.
The sled as of itself was neat - but it resembled too much the way I decorated the AT-AT a few years ago.
So I asked it to nix the Xmas decoration and focus on the sled design.
Whoah! That was mind-boggling! Especially the red one was interesting. A few prompts later and I got this:
which led me to THIS:
DANG - that was cool! I decided to go with this and proceeded with the design. Stay tuned!
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Thank Goodness there are not too many of them. 
