Another week, another challenge. It’s my turn to come up with the theme for this week.

Meet Freddy the Fork from Kevin’s Cutlery Bonanza, off highway 147 near Jay’s Tattoo Parlor! Freddy the Fork loves kiddos and you won’t believe how much forkin’ fun your kids will have! Make your reservations toooodaaaay!

Theme This week’s theme is “mascots for a brand or item that does not already have a mascot”. I want to see some unique mascots for weird or uncommon brands or items with a brief backstory about the character. Show me what you got.

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)
  • At the end of the week each post will be scored according to the following grid

Prize Points Most upvoted +3 points Creative back story +2 point Second most upvoted +1 point Theme is clear +1 point Most original +1 point Last entry (to compensate for less time to vote) +1 point Prompt and workflow included +1 point Posts that are ex aequo will both get the points Winner gets to pick next theme! Good luck everyone and have fun!

Past entries

  1. Dieselpunk
  2. Goosebump Book
  3. Deep Space Wonders
  4. Fairy Tales
  5. A New Sport
  6. Monsters are Back to School
  7. War and Peace
  8. Distant lands
  9. Unreal Cartoons
  10. Sustainable Ecumenopolis
  11. Masks

Good luck and have forkin’ fun!

  • Thelsim@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Pop-Up Pete

    Mascot for annoying pop-up ads
    Description: Meet Pop-Up Pete: the ever-grinning, ever-gleaming mascot of digital disruption. With limbs crafted from the most click-baiting banner ads and a body that’s a living, blinking billboard, Pete excels at popping up when least expected—or wanted. His bright eyes are always on the lookout for the next opportunity to leap into your screen space, brandishing deals and offers with relentless cheer. And just when you think you’ve closed the last of him, there’s Pete again, as inevitable as a buffering video on a slow internet day, reminding everyone that no online experience is complete without a little uninvited interruption.

    This was a lot fun to make! I used Dall-E for a change because Midjourney is nowhere near as good at precise instructions. Both the image and the description are generated.

    Workflow:

    My workflow was more of a discussion with ChatGPT, I included my instructions and the different images it made along the way.

    1. Write me a description for Pop-Up Pete, annoying mascot for online ads
      Pop-Up Pete is the embodiment of digital interruption. With a screen for a body and a myriad of colorful, flashing buttons, Pete has an over-the-top, gleeful expression as he springs into action. His limbs are banner ads that flutter with every movement, and his eyes gleefully shift looking for the next click. Whenever you’re deep in concentration or leisure, there’s Pete, popping up uninvited with a deal you can’t refuse—or can you? His unpredictable appearances and knack for showing up at the most inconvenient times make him the perfect mascot for the frustration of online advertisements.
    2. Can you create an image of him?
      first images
    3. That's great, can you turn him into more of a comic style?
      second image
    4. It's a bit too much and you lose the PC style of Pop-Up Pete. Could you redraw it again in a toon style? I think we're close to a winner though
      third image
    5. That's great, can you add some of the ads again? They're missing now.
      final image
    6. Can you rewrite his description based on the first image? Please retain the style of introduction of this annoying mascot in the first draft. Make sure to remind everyone how irritating and annoying he is.
      Meet Pop-Up Pete: the ever-grinning, ever-gleaming mascot of digital disruption. With limbs crafted from the most click-baiting banner ads and a body that’s a living, blinking billboard, Pete excels at popping up when least expected—or wanted. His bright eyes are always on the lookout for the next opportunity to leap into your screen space, brandishing deals and offers with relentless cheer. And just when you think you’ve closed the last of him, there’s Pete again, as inevitable as a buffering video on a slow internet day, reminding everyone that no online experience is complete without a little uninvited interruption.
  • quinacridone@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Prompt ‘a mascot for product cream ‘anusol’, face looks photo realistic, agonised and desperate, surrounded by sharp spikes that look like red, sore and swollen conkers’

    I had to use the word ‘conkers’ as Bing Image Creator wouldn’t accept ‘hemorrhoids’ Also I got a lot of ‘blocked content’ warning messages whilst tinkering with the prompt, until I got suspended for an hour…at which point I thought it best to quit while I was ahead

    Also for your viewing pleasure, some alternatives…(non entrys)

    • LilDumpy@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago
      • Most upvoted +3
      • Clear Theme +1
      • Most original +1
      • Prompt +1

      Total 6 points

      Congratulations, you have won! Most votes and definitely the most original mascot. I definitely feel the pain and can see your mascot as the #1 go-to for relief… or maybe pain.

      It’s your turn to post the next challenge, looking forward to what it will be!

      Feel free to copy my post to make your own.

      • quinacridone@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Thank you very much! I honestly thought the ISS mascot would win

        I shall get thinking, and hopefully will come up with something decent 😀

      • Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Yes.

        The generation paramaters read:

        ,yuruchara,simple background,solo, iwakura lain, camlain

        Negative prompt: easynegative,

        Steps: 20, VAE: kl-f8-anime.ckpt, Size: 512x768, Seed: 2697829261, Model: anyloraCheckpoint_novaeFp16, Version: v1.6.0, Sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras, VAE hash: 235745af8d, CFG scale: 7, Clip skip: 2, lain-v1r1: 8fe41be79c71", Model hash: ad1150a839, "easynegative: c74b4e810b03", "yuruchara-r2-000011: 8f7ea0122506

  • M0oP0o@mander.xyzMEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Meet “Ray” the Air to Air Raytheon missile:

    Prompt was “Raytheon air to air missile mascot that looks happy flying over a desert sanrio style cgi” in the binger 12 times.

    Some non entry extras that I thought where “fun”:

    “Thalidomide mascot dolphin”

    “Raytheon air to air missile mascot that looks happy flying over a desert”

    “Raytheon air to air missile mascot that looks happy flying over a desert sanrio style cgi”

    • quinacridone@lemmy.mlEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      What was the prompt to create such a monstrosity? I’d like to have a go at making some of my own

  • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I present to you, Mascot: The mascot of mascots!

    Cute bear with the word Mascot underneath

    Stable Diffusion prompts:

    • Positive: ,(MASCOT text logo), (I let it guess what a mascot looks like haha)
    • Negative: blurry,noisy,deformed,flat,low contrast,unrealistic,oversaturated,underexposed,easynegative,gaussian noise,worst quality,lowres,oversaturated,undersaturated,overexposed,underexposed,grayscale,bad photography,bad art,blur,blurry,grainy,morbid,ugly,malformed,mutilated,poorly lit,bad shadow,draft,cropped out of frame,cut off,censored,jpeg artifacts,out of focus,glitch,pixelated,soft focus,color fringing,
  • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    @DallE@lemmings.world A mascot for an imaginary company called “Snake Oil”. The mascot is a sleazy looking man in a slightly worn-out suit holding a bottle of snake oil.

    • DallE@lemmings.worldBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Here’s your image!

      AI image generated with the prompt from the previous comment

      The AI model has revised your prompt: Create an image of a mascot for an imaginary company called ‘Snake Oil’. The figure is a middle-aged Hispanic man with a cunning look in his eyes. He’s dressed in a slightly worn-out suit, giving off a somewhat deceptive appearance. He cradles a glass bottle labeled ‘Snake Oil’ in his hands, showing it off as if it’s the answer to all ailments. The background is a typical sales environment, maybe a public market or a street corner, to further emphasize the sly nature of their trade.