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Leonardo AI Motion 2.0 Blows Away Kling AI Motion Videos

This is how it started, a Second Live avatar tarted up in some slave chains and sporting a ballgag. Very nice, I used it for my book cover. But cartoonish, not what it could be. So I ran it through Leonardo AI to get a more lifelike image and damn did I win! 

Holy crap, Batman! Leonardo AI, without even being asked to in the prompt, removed her ballgag and all her brass bikini accessories and gave her a smoking hot redhead face! I would have been fine with the brass bikini and the ballgag, but whatevs! And this is the image I decided to try out Leonardo AIs new motion 2 image motion generation system on. My prompt was "A woman rises to her feet and dances happily."

Just incredible, a far cry from the Lovecraftian horrors Leonardo AI used to generate when you innocently asked it to convert still images to videos. I've gotten a lot of pleasure from mocking Leonardo AI's feeble excuse for videos, but this video changes EVERYTHING! It doesn't have any problems with morphing. There's some blurring as her hands move, but not a lot of it. But most of all, the nudity remains intact! She's got breasts and a pussy and there's noting covering them. Just a gauzy cover for her butt! And her face is so beautifully conveyed, wonderful smile throughout. What's more, this is the first and only video I generated. A whole new world beckons! But then there's the acid test... is Leonardo AI motion video as good as Kling AI motion videos? Let's find out!

This is a promo video created by Kling AI. I really like it. The motions are realistic, beautiful and not blobular at all. The brests have skimpy covering but that's more than made up for by the wonderful Gainax bouncing the breasts do as she moves. And such a great smile! No wonder I liked this. So I tried recreating a very similiar figure dancing with Leonardo AI.

I used pretty much the same figure for my Leonardo AI motion video, but with a gray background, asking for a dancing woman in a beautiful springtime park in the prompt. The text prompt didn't really work, it put the figure on a stage with a floral decor. But will you LOOK at that skimpy excuse for a bra being strained by those huge breasts doing such very natural looking gainax bouncing! And the hands, so beautifully done. Better than Kling? I think so!

I'll close with this more-or-less random screenshot from the Leonardo AI video above. Wonderful pose, wonderful expression, and look how beautifully and accurately the hands and the one foot are portrayed. Curling so naturally! Kling AI, I kinda hate to say it, but Leonardo AI has made you their bitch.

Leonardo AI Introduces: The Pussybutt!

 

This is where it all started. I uploaded this image of a Second Life avatar to Leonardo AI just to see how Leonardo would deal with it. I used Image to Image in Legacy mode to create a lifelike, kinda/sorta image of my avatar. I already had a pretty good idea that Leonardo AI would deal with the image badly. But how badly, and in what way? It took only seconds to find out!

What I got was... the pussybutt! In almost every case, Leonardo AI decided that at the juncture of the upper butt cheeks there should be a pussy. But it's more, much more, well maybe not a WHOLE lot more, but definitely more. If you close in on the upper portion of the avatar, it becomes evident that what has happened is that the Leonardo AI apparently decided that the image wasn't looking down at a woman bending over in front of the viewer. Instead, it decided that the viewer was sitting behind the avatar, looking up at her naked butt cheeks and lower back and upper thighs which had been flipped upside down and remounted to her torso in a surgery too awful to even have a name.

I am an experienced AI creator. I had expected hands to become feet and feet to become hands. But I never expected the pussybutt. I also never expected a breast to morph into an arm with a foothand at its end. Makes the hand that morphed into a foot look prosaic.

We'll close with the one image where a pussy butt didn't appear. This one. Apparently on this occasion Leonardo AI recognized the string thong the avatar is wearing for what it is, and did the inappropriate thing. Of course. Now the string thong slides between the avatar's butt cheeks and disappears into a seriously misplaced anus. If you look close you can see that Leonardo AI even dirtied up the bit of string that's halfway into the seriously misplaced anus. That's commitment! And you also have to wonder, if the thong string is in the anus, what would be holding the bottom of the pussy cover in place? It could be flapping around all over the place. Unless... unless the string at the front is shoved into the woman's vagina. Though that would make hiding the vagina more difficult, if not impossible. Maybe... maybe the front strong could be tied to a dildo thrust deep into the vagina, a dildo with a large triangular shield on its end that stays out of the vagina and shields it. Is this... is this how fashion designers think? Am I becoming a defacto fashion designer here? Scary! Anyway, the string could disappear into another, normally placed anus. She would just have two anuses. Nothing wrong with that! It's almost enough to make up for the hand that became a foot and the foot that's becoming a hand and the breast that has morphed into a flesh connector of some kind between the avatar's rib cage and her knee. Of course. I think I'll stop now before I become a Lovecraftian fasion designer, and before Leonardo AI creates something even more Lovecraftian for me to wonder about.

Tan Lines And Pasties: Secret To Success With Kling AI?

I thought I'd see how my Ebook promo week images might do with Kling AI. I took this image, which was a nude Second Life avatar run through Leonardo AI's Image to Image app. Leonardo AI interpreted the avatar's nipples as pasties and deepened the avatar's tan lines until they were almost bralike, probably in the insensate AI desire to make a bra, but not quite making it. I wondered: could this image slide past Kling's notoriously prudish censorship and make a nude woman dancing among flowers in park while under the impression it was a woman in a bra? Well, there was only one way to find out...

And the answer to our question was, "Oh, yes, yes, hell yes." 

That's how you beat censorship, you have to keep sliding one 

toe over the line no matter how many get chopped off. Figuratively speaking.

 Anyway, gorgeous video, not sure what I'll do but damn I do like it.

The Perils of Using Game Avatars Instead of Photos To Make Covers When You Are An Indie Author

Cover for the Smashwords version of "Louisiana Slay Ride"

Cover for the Amazon version of "Louisiana Slay Ride"

Raw art file of Second Life avatar for "Louisiana Slay Ride"

I like the cover art I got for “Louisiana Slay Ride" but getting there wasn’t easy. The big problem was the left leg, particularly the knee, though censorship issues posed their usual problems.

As you can see on the raw art file, the entire left leg is off. Compare it to the right leg, which is smooth and nicely modeled, connecting nicely to the hip, the left leg is very nearly two dimensional. The seam between the left thigh and the left calf is almost invisible and ends way too soon. (I double checked by looking at photos of kneeling models, the seam was always clearly visible.)

Even worse is the knee. The knee is a tricky thing to accurately represent. But that dark blob where the kneecap should be looks nothing like a knee should. And that bright Y-shaped highlight is in the wrong place and looks off.

It’s a problem with Second Life avatars, joints like the shoulders, elbows and knees tend to render unrealistically. But the whole left leg going out is a mystery. If you look at pretty much the same avatar used for the cover of “I, The Glider Gun” which is taken from straight-on, you’ll see that both legs are nicely modeled.

Why does the left leg go two dimensional in a ¾ view? No idea. But I had to deal with that stupid knee. So I created a new layer in GIMP and put a white area matching the dark area of the knee. And I copied skin tone from the left thigh and put it on another layer. Then I used the white layer to lighten the dark knee blob, playing with the opacity until I had it lightened to roughly the same value as the inner thigh. Finally, I made the inner thigh skin sample visible and played with its opacity until the dark blobby knee area looked like the inner thigh skin, only a little lighter.

The idea was to capture the underlying kneecap shape with the skin tones where they should be. But what I wound up was mostly flat skin tones like the inner thigh. So I did the artistic thing and covered up the damn knee with my byline. Now that’s artistry!

A decent artist could have solved the problem in five or ten minutes, I’m sure. Took me two hours to come up with my half-assed solution.

The censorship needed for the breasts on the Amazon cover was also an issue. I could have just had the avatar wear a bra. But nooooo, I decided that since the pasties I was using for the Smashwords cover were white, I could create a white bra layer and lay it on over the avatar’s breasts. Pasties hide the nipples, bra obscures the breasts, boob’s yer uncle. And since you can get a white overlay looking three dimensional by playing with the opacity of the white layer, and bras are easy to create by using portions of circles as your templates, it can be a quick, easy task.

But the pasties proved to be a bit time-consuming, because if the bra covered the pasties or the chain between them it would look wrong. So after I created the bra outline I had to go into the bra layer and carefully erase those portions of the bra that covered the pasties and chain. I also had to erase those portions of the bra that covered the curls of the avatars hair that would have covered her bra strap. It didn't require any artistic skill, but it was time consuming, painstaking work.

All that work with the knee and the bra on top of posing the avatar, finding the background art, obtaining and creating the chain art in Second Life, and doing some other little stuff like enlarging the size of the avatar’s thong cup to keep the censors happy, the job was time consuming.

So it took about a day and a half to come up with both cover versions. Maybe two days. OK, two days. I was happy with the cover art, and I enjoyed making it, but damn. The images based on photos are a lot easier. But it’s much harder to get a clip art photo posed properly and to make the photo as naked and bondage-y as I can get away with.

Just part of the fun of being an indie author, I guess.