Congrats to the other two winners too, your pieces were sick! Also much love for throwing this contest. It's really awesome to see a contest that shows off the other interests and talents within a community who all have a mutual love for kendama, and not just a giant skill contest. I'd love to see more things like this in the future.
Here's a few young kusa members being pro superheroes! This thread has been so fun to watch congrats to the winners! Let's see some more!
that deepart AI is kind of trippy. Doesn't always work though, just tried to do this grab from skiing last weekend: Before after DUDE IT TOTALLY LOOKS LIKE A SKULL
@Cheech_Sander yea, I've used it a fair bit, so I've gotten a decent idea as to what sort of input images will work best. That said, you never really know what'll come back out of it until you try. Google searches for 'CRAZY WALLPAPER' or similar are what I use to find style images. Seems like images that have a good variation of colour and contrast, with some good 'micro structure' in the image work best. If that makes sense As examples: (this one is awesome) (this one is meh) (this one is... weird)