Hornet inspired prompting thoughts to the Carnivai/Steampunk Circus SC117 model which is a Stable Diffusion 1.5. Exploring how bringing in some hornet parts would work with the rest of the features already a part of that model.

I’ve not upscaled any of them. Just exploring, gathering some ideas and documenting. At least making an effort to.

Two mechanical, hornet-like, winged creatures envelope a hornet inspired performer at the circus.
These two posing prior to the stage are primed for the show. That wild smile is adorable.
A hornet inspired performer in the world renowned Carnivai.
A hornet inspired performer at the perpetually pereposterous Carnivai. Gear/eye-patched from the steampunk parts I imagine.
Look deep into her eyes and find to your surprise that you are hypnotized. Realize real eyes see real lies.

Looks very promising. I’m feeling I should spend some more time, effort and compute on this. I’m still putting together the imagery from the Bald Faced Hornets I’ve been documenting on the Johnny Peck on YouTube channel. I’m putting together a reasonable dataset from that corpus to add into Carnivai as well as it’s own model that is not a circus. Stay tuned for that.

A performer with her flying insect machine sitting in the palm of her hand.
Hornet inspired circus performers.
Rootin' and tootin' carnival colludin' wholesome entertainment for all. Wobble, wobble.
We intend to take flight from right where we stand. What sort of hornet inspired performers do you take us for? The cannons fire once we're in the air.
Hornet inspired circus performer.

The usual tooling came to my aid once again. The -ish stands for the various incarnations of that model that make up the circus. The workflow here is pretty generic. I didn’t setup any configurations to run for hours for animations or have some GPU compute cost saving approach in mind. Just exploring.

  • Stable Diffusion 1.5
  • Deforum
  • Python
  • Google Collab

Did you know that hornet’s nests are mostly made up of females? For the most part all of them are female and none of them specialize. They even mutiny.

Carnivai circus performers wearing dance and gymnatics style outfits inspired by hornet..
Hornet inspired circus performers.
Hornet inspired circus performers
Carnivai circus performers wearing dance and gymnatics style outfits inspired by hornet..
Hornet inspired circus performers.
Carnivai circus performers wearing dance and gymnatics style outfits inspired by hornet..
Two performers costumedin yellow and leather accordingly for the job. Mechanical insect wrangling.
These two are dancing away in all kinds of ways. The foreground costumed in gears with the flair of hornets well imbued yet lightly in copper.

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Carnivai, a steampunk circus on YouTube

Hornet inspired circus performer in classic, lush steampunk circus garb is gear-patched with a wing design from our flying friends in copper.
A performer is clearly brooding for hornet gears at the world renowned Carnivai, a steampunk circus.
A mechanical hornet of some kind protrudes from a smiling performers head. The copper clothing is very steampunk detailed.