Well, out of tokens again. I was able to get a good picture, but the AI couldn't animate it and do what I wanted, and I kept trying until I ran out of tokens for the day. Here is the picture. It's of @HD_Takeshi I was trying to get the AI to shoot his robot arm like a projectile, but the AI kept doing Iron-Man stuff where it dragged HD with the arm.
@Tfmonkey "HD_Takeshi firing his detached cybernetic arm as a rocket projectile, arm launching forward away from his body trailing green energy, character remains stationary in combat stance, arm separate from shoulder socket mid-flight"
"Mechanical arm detaching at shoulder joint, launching forward like a missile, green plasma thruster at the elbow, character watching it fly, clear separation between body and arm"
Key phrases to include:
Things like these ->
@Tfmonkey
"detached arm" or "separated from shoulder"
"arm as projectile/missile"
"character's shoulder showing empty socket"
"arm flying independently"
Key phrases to avoid:
Anything mentioning "extending" or "reaching" (triggers Iron Man stretchy arm)
"rocket punch" (often keeps the arm attached)
For animation specifically, describing it as two frames can help: "before: arm attached, after: arm launched mid-air, body recoiling backward"
@Tfmonkey hope these helped
@VooDooMedic I'll try again tomorrow and see if I have better luck.
@Tfmonkey @VooDooMedic well, I did mention before that my alternative idea for my robot arm intro animation is that it opens up into an arm cannon to fire an energy blast. As I open my arm and point toward the screen POV, the left eye len of my glasses glows/reflects white with a crosshair circle appearing on it, serving as the aiming function as the cannon fires towards the screen. Don't know which one is easier for your AI to pick up and animate properly; just want to put the idea out here.
@HD_Takeshi @VooDooMedic it's not that it's easy or hard for me to describe. It's whether the AI understands it and renders it correctly before I run out of tokens or not.
@Tfmonkey yes i sought out claude + deepseek to source ways to explain it clear enough **According to the AI** that it would be able to recognize what you wanted to do
@Tfmonkey @HD_Takeshi @VooDooMedic so apparently AI doesnt know ANYTHING about the age of sail, napoleonic wars or uboat specific themes. FML am I right?
@TheBoatMan @HD_Takeshi @VooDooMedic just throw a concept at me and I'll see what I can do. I need your concept ASAP
@Tfmonkey @HD_Takeshi @VooDooMedic Just go off this I guess. Maybe make him more of a priate and give him a robot cyborg parrot maybe? I live the complete opposite of a cyber punk lifestyle, so its kind of a square peg, round hole kind of thing for my brain
@Tfmonkey @HD_Takeshi @VooDooMedic maybe a tricorn hat?
@TheBoatMan @HD_Takeshi @VooDooMedic so like Treasure Planet?
@Tfmonkey @HD_Takeshi @VooDooMedic um.... more like master and commander royal navy uniform only minus rank insignia and more "piraty" look
@TheBoatMan @HD_Takeshi @VooDooMedic any of these do it for ya?
@Tfmonkey @HD_Takeshi @VooDooMedic shit dude thats pretty good
@TheBoatMan @HD_Takeshi @VooDooMedic I need a reference picture of your waifu. I don't want to just use the girl from inuyasha. Is there something different about her I can work with?
@TheBoatMan @HD_Takeshi @VooDooMedic here are some cyberpunk versions of Kikyo from Inuyasha.
@Tfmonkey For getting better results with Grok/image AI when you have tokens again, here are some prompt tips for that specific shot:
The core problem — AI models default to "arm attached to body" physics, so you need to explicitly break that assumption.
Try prompts like:
These ->