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For those interested in building something similar, I prompted a story book generator using v0 and Gemini’s image generation a few weeks ago: Demo: https://v0-story-maker.vercel.app/ The chat: https://v0.dev/chat/ai-story-book-creator-zw7TrmkN2Eb
How much does the api cost to run? Do you have any safe guards in place in case bots try to build 1000 stories?
The comics look pretty Miyazaki-inspired, like all of the comics I've seen lately. I've kinda started to dislike this look because it's _everywhere_ that low-effort comics are these days. Maybe worth trying to train a better style for this. This is probably something where you could put a little effort in up-front (ie: using a model that's for segmentation to get outlines, using some classic image-processing for boun…
It doesn't look particularly Miyazaki style to me; it's just a generic cartoon style. I think the Ghiblipocalypse has gotten people on edge.
Here's some generic cartoon styles to look at: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5f/04/ef/5f04ef77ce3beb272a61...
I wonder if printing services (Lulu?) have a automatic API or if it requires some manual intervention? (And the shipping part?)
For those interested in building something similar, I prompted a story book generator using v0 and Gemini’s image generation a few weeks ago: Demo: https://v0-story-maker.vercel.app/ The chat: https://v0.dev/chat/ai-story-book-creator-zw7TrmkN2Eb
The quality of the images is incredible! Great job How much does the api cost to run? Do you have any safe guards in place in case bots try to build 1000 stories?
I’m just using Geminis rate limits, because its pretty ridiculously cheap. You can get pretty far on just their free tier last I checked (when I made this the image model was 100% free)
I wrote about it a little bit here: https://x.com/max_leiter/status/1906492622551884187
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This has zero resemblance to Miyazaki’s style. (And I say that as someone who isn’t a fan of this idea at all.)
Hard disagree. Sample #2 is totally the Miyazaki-vibe that is everywhere in OpenAI-generated comics. https://clevercoloringbook.com/samples/2_cartoon.png The cartoon owl at the top has a different vibe and would probably work for the comics as well.
For anyone looking for a prompt to do this manually, it seems to be as simple as this: > Generate a version of this photo that can be used as a coloring sheet
For what it’s worth (and it’s probably not much), it doesn’t cost that much to commission comic book-style art from an actual artist online. When you do that, the proceeds go to an artist, not to an AI company that stole from them and a software developer who wrote a wrapper around their API.
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In fairness no artists are advertising a personal coloring book. The time, effort and cost would put this out of reach for 99.99 of people. No artists are losing income because of this and no industry is being upended. This is a new product that's available because of a technology advanced. Why the focus the artist? Everytime you order in food online you take away a tip from a host, server, bartender and take away a…
The food you order online was not stolen from the server/bartender without their permission or compensation. Even if the analogy holds, this is whataboutism, and in the U.S. at least tipping is a fucked system too.
