Theme

Unexpected Astronaut!

What could possibly be unexpected, unusual, or surprising about astronauts or the situations they find themselves in?

Rules

  • Follow the community’s rules above all else
  • One comment and image per user
  • Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
  • Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun and learning)
  • Posts that are tied will both get the points
  • The challenge runs for 7 days from now on
  • Down votes will not be counted

Scores

At the end of the challenge each post will be scored:

  • Most upvoted: +3 points
  • Second most upvoted: +2 pointS
  • Third most upvoted: +1 point
  • OP’s favorite: +1 point
  • Most original: +1 point
  • Last two entries (to compensate for less time to vote): +1 point
  • Prompt and workflow included: +1 point

The winner gets to pick next theme! Have fun everyone!

  • Thelsim@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
    15·
    16 days ago

    Houston, we’ve got contact!

    Prompt: sci-fi movie still, of a scared lego astronaut aiming a pistol, at a huge normal cat, on a dining table, cinematic lighting --ar 4:3

      • Thelsim@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
        9·
        16 days ago

        Thank you for the compliment!
        I really don’t know, it’s a bit of an organic process. I usually start with a style or gimmick I’d like to use and go from there.

        For this one I wanted to do a lego one because it seemed like fun and astronauts are very doable in lego.
        At first I wanted to do a space madness kind of thing, where a human astronaut was slowly transforming into a lego character, but that was a bit too much to ask. So I figured let’s put a lego astronaut in a normal setting but make it an adventure. The cat was a logical next step :)

        And I make a LOT of tries and variations with the prompt. But seeing all the weird and wonderful failed images is half the fun :)

        Here’s a small selection of them

        Edit: Forgot to say thank you. I was raised better than this :)

  • M0oP0o@mander.xyzMEnglish
    8·
    14 days ago

    Hmmm, well I failed at this one. But on the plus side the result is funny.

    “An astronaut is picking up samples on a strange planet, but the astronaut does not know that the planet is actually a very large sailor moon head” In the bingilator, 25 plus tries.

    • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      3·
      9 days ago

      I picked this as the most original of the submissions for this contest. Even if you couldn’t get exactly what you were going for, having a moonlet cosplaying as sailor moon was certainly unexpected!

    • ✧✨🌿Allo🌿✨✧@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      14 days ago

      idk why it would be a fail. i think it’s hysterical. the face, how the astronaught is looking at their reader thing, everything

      edit: and look, your mysterious downvoter hasn’t woken up for the day yet either

      • M0oP0o@mander.xyzMEnglish
        3·
        14 days ago

        Yay!

        I treated this a fail because I was going for a giant sailor moon with a astronaut on her. The tiny eyes made me laugh though so here we are.

  • Ziggurat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    16 days ago

    Need to choose one, so here is it

    A cute gay lemming, wears a space suit, on the dancefloor in a night club, neon colour, pride flag on the suit generated with SDVN7-NijiStyleXL

    Full workflow

    • Ziggurat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      16 days ago

      So, I started by trying 2-3 models and went for SDVN7-NijiStyle XL giving a cute lemming astronaut

      Great, but that the cute guy missed the unexpected aspect, also I wanted to get some fun neon colour

      so I went for the night club and added neon colour, got this one which was kinda neat

      But the neon colour made me think about the rainbow flag colour, so I tried to get a pride flag on the image, put the US in negative prompt, and generated a lot of cool images.

      Here is one with a flying flag

      Here the whole suit is rainbow coloured, but the ears seems to pass through the helmet

      That one is pretty neat, has all the needed colour but no clear flag

      So at a point I had to choose one.

      • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.caOPEnglish
        4·
        16 days ago

        I think I did you a disservice with my theme description, I think all of your pictures would qualify as unexpected! I was a bit vague because I didn’t wanna dampen creativity, but I fully considered “astronauts that aren’t human” to be unexpected to a (hopefully) human audience.

        In either case, I love it!

    • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      This was my favorite submission of the contest, good job! I love it, so cute, so colorful, so surprising to see an animal as an astronaut at a dance party in space!

    • LazerFX@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      14 days ago

      That’s… Tim Dodd, who is the Everyday Astronaut on YouTube, quite a well respected rocket follower and commentator.

    • Thelsim@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
      2·
      15 days ago

      Oh my god, now I remember Flickr! I’ve totally forgotten about them for years. I think I had an account there about… 20 years ago?
      Urgh, time just keeps marching on doesn’t it?

  • Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    4·
    16 days ago

    Moonolith

    Prompt: a photorealistic picture of an astronaut walking on the surface of the moon, seen from behind. you can see his steps in the moon dust. there’s also a small crater. the astronaut encounters a huge black monolith similar to the iconic opening scene of the movie “2001 Odyssey in space”. In the sky above there’s a nebula and the sun. The image is somewhat grainy like a photograph.

  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.caOPEnglish
    3·
    9 days ago

    The submissions are in and the results have been tabulated.
    Everyone did an amazing job, but there can only be one two winners!

    Congratulations to @thelsim@sh.itjust.works and @M0oP0o@mander.xyz who tied for first place!
    Since thelsim got to choose the theme fairly recently, I’ll make an executive decision and grant next week’s theme to M0oP0o! Good luck, I hope you can choose better than I did 😜

    The podium finishers are:
    1st @thelsim@sh.itjust.works: 4
    1st @M0oP0o@mander.xyz: 4
    3rd @cloudless@lemmy.cafe: 2
    3rd @Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works: 2
    3rd @Itrytoblenderrender@lemmy.world: 2
    3rd @allo@sh.itjust.works: 2

    • Thelsim@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      Since thelsim got to choose the theme fairly recently, I’ll make an executive decision and grant next week’s theme to M0oP0o! Good luck, I hope you can choose better than I did 😜

      That’s fine. I’d most likely would have done the same. @M0oP0o@mander.xyz, enjoy hosting the next challenge. I’ll happily participate again :)

    • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      We should probably make a rule about who gets to choose the next week’s theme, if there is a tie for first or the winner already got to pick recently 🤔

      • M0oP0o@mander.xyzMEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        Or, lets collaborate for the next one. I mean lets be fair there is a good chance mine will involve Sailor Moon anyway.

        • Thelsim@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
          2·
          9 days ago

          That’s ok, you’ve earned your spot in the limelight :)
          I’ll get my chance again in the future, so don’t worry about me.

      • Thelsim@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
        1·
        9 days ago

        I’d leave it up to the host to come up with a creative solution.
        It’s all in good fun, I doubt anyone would feel offended if they lost in a tie.

  • LilDumpy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    16 days ago

    Retribution

    Bing prompts:

    • Create an image of a potato chip as an astronaut floating in a spaceship eat homer simpson
    • Make and astronaut potato chip monster about to eat homer simpson in space
    • The astronaut monster should be made out of potato chips
    • make more images and there should only be two characters
    • now make it about to eat homer simpson

    (I don’t want to compete, but I do want to participate)

  • FiveMacs@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    16 days ago

    Complete shock that nuking the planet didn’t stop people from generating pictures with AI