For the first time ever, the moderation team were tasked in joining and picking our top favorites for a contest. I feel I should celebrate by also making my first-ever article!
For images I’m mostly drawn to strong composition, interesting concepts, and pieces that have a bit of atmosphere or a story to them. I like bold colors, dramatic lighting, surreal and fantasy elements, and generally anything that makes me stop scrolling for a second. I don’t really stick to one particular style. I'd like to think I pass this over onto the models I've picked for this contest.
I'll perhaps make another article later explaining who I am but for now - let's focus on the contest, my picks and why I picked them.
💡 Krea 2 Concept
Creative ideas brought to life: memes, unique objects, clothing styles, poses, whatever you can teach the model.
Transparent body - bial - See-through and transparency are hard concepts to look good. This concept makes your job just a little bit easier.
Project Beta - Hailoknight - Robots go brr. AI in general has trouble with good mechanical joints.
Droste effect - hxyy - Whilst the author explains it flaws, at its core it's a mind boggling concept. Who doesn't like that?
Honorable Mention:
Anomalocaris - FuenfFingerFaultier
Why: Why not? Realistic Anorinth is popping off. Admit it, prehistoric creatures are awesome.
🎨 Krea 2 Art Style
LoRAs trained on specific art styles: unique mediums, distinct artistic movements, particular artists or eras that Krea 2 might not natively support.
Glitch Photo Effect - novuschroma - I love this as a concept and as a style. The photos in the showcase are amazing and could easily be featured.
Cybernoir - tokazou - The selective coloring and the charcoal style is something I've done in the past and I love it.
Drawever - LOREVER - Sketches are fun. Additional lines in the sketch to emphasize the drawing and process is even more fun.
Honorable mention:
Macro surrealism - forsete77 - A wristwatch with a forest or a man paddling on tears, to a castle built on a nail in floorboards. It's more of a concept than artstyle but it's intense and thought-provoking.
🗺️ Krea 2 World Morph
A World Morph transforms your images according to a specific theme, turning an entire scene into a themed world.
Technoglass - marcusravenmindrealm - Circuitboards but on glass, and the entire world (or whatever you choose) is infected with it.
Bioluminescent - Twistadelic - I miss the old UV/Blacklight posters and have been on a rampage with this style for a while. Loud colors, infected world, almost alien.
Xenogears ID - smoonHacker - The good ol' world morph coffee machine. The vibrancy, the technology and futuristic world speaks to me.
Honorable Mention:
Transformers - mnemic - Transformers. Everything is a robot. Cassette, the recliner and your 3pm tea - all from Cybertron (or made with the AllSpark)
Congratulations to all the winners!
I'd also like to add that we had some difficulties choosing. So many of you made really good models and some of you made more than just one, too.
Some of these were not the winners but I hope you check out the collection and generate awesome pieces.
EDITS: Apparently my brain didn't work when this article was written. Fixed some spelling mistakes.
Please keep comment-section civil and nice and on topic, or I'll be forced to close them.