I thought that I would make monthly digest of results, accumulated for a month.
It will be released (if possible) every 28th day of month.
So, let the new tradition start.
Project: Soulstealer
May 2023 Digest / #1
Images created / total: 22 / 22
details:
* Academic Paintings made / total: 17 / 17
* Souls accumulated / total: 5 / 5
Views gathered / total: 3708 / 3708
Favorites received / total: 266 / 266
details:
* Most beloved image of the month: Academic Picture: Avali, with 76 views and 14 favorites. Every 2 of 11 persons liked this image!
* Top 3 beloved images at all times:
1. Academic Picture: Avali - 76 views, 14 favorites, every 5.5th faved!
2. Academic Picture: Riolu-In-A-Lab - 150 views, 20 favorites, every 7.5th faved!
3. Academic Picture: SnowLeo-In-Bed - 111 views, 14 favorites, every ~8th faved!
Watchers joined / total: 33 / 33
details:
* Bystanders: 29
* Neuroartists: 0
* Artists 69- level: 4
* Artists 70+ level: 0
Academic Requests received this month / total: 21 / 21
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* Fullfilled requests this month / total: 13 / 13
* Unfullfilled requests this month / total: 5 / 5
* Vetoed (indefenitely postponed) requests this month / total: 3 / 3
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I have a lot to talk about in this digest.
Topic: Academic Requester
I will be honest. Making Requester was mostly a successful success. It is used somewhat actively, giving Project multiple ideas to recreate, and therefore, much more images to be taught about to. I do hope that this feature would be used towards learning how to make better pictures yourself. Together we will have a word in this community.
Of course, some Requests are... questionable, to say the least. Like, I can understand fetishes, yeah. But I think, not everyone are on the same page with me, though. You see, it is in the name of the feature we are talking about. It is Academic Requester. It means, usually, this: "If you lack an ability to perform something, you can ask for instructions, and you will be taught the ability you lack." But, in the last generations, I tend to notice that... pretty much every one of you did a request of some fetish art, and pretty much none of my watchers (would expect that if you watch me, then you are interested in AI-generated art... probably till the level you want to do it yourself.) actually did anything themselves... publically, at least.
That, sadly, only tells me, that most of you probably use Requester with a mentality of "Oh, a person who does things for free, I just send him all my fetishes at once, and will have much much pleasure.". And I am... actively against such things. I may be many things, but I am not a free workforce, and I have feelings on my own. So, I intoduced new mechanic: Vetoing. Or, speaking less harshly - 'state of indefinite postpone'. What does it mean?
I will veto any request, if I have strong discomfort about it, or by any reason I consider appropriate. You can't lift the veto by any means. Currently, all vetoed images will be mentioned in a end-of-month digest. If you found your request here: I strictly advice you to NOT send it again. Believe, your requests are remembered at all times, so the more you send, the more they clog the system, and the more I will be irritated and seek a way to reduce number of bad requests. Actually, last phrase can be true to everyone: Do not send your request more than once. If you don't see it, it is either vetoed, or awaiting it's turn, and you will know for sure near end of month.
The best way to not get vetoed, is to follow simple logic. First, ask yourself 'Is it hard to imagine what I ask for, to a common bystander?'. If answer is 'yes', you are one step closed to be indefenitely postponed. Second, ask yourself 'Is there more than 2 fetishes that deviate from norm?'. If so, add another 'step' to your counter. Third, ask yourself 'Is this considered a bad, painful or unwanted experience?'. If 'yes', then one more step closer. Count your steps. If it is higher than 1, then you are very likely to get vetoed. Of course, I will TRY to not deny any request. But it doesn't mean I won't.
Otherwise, I'll gladly tackle any challenge you throw at me, and teach you how to do it yourself. There is a lot of interesting techniques out here, and if you listen closely, you will be able to hear it. Time and Patience. Time and Patience.
Sadly, currently there is no other way to know if request was vetoed, as it will, well, never appear in my gallery. If you have some ideas on how to backtrack requests, you may say them here, in comments section.
Topic: Academic Requester, Upgraded
I also found out that people have hard time to send uniform requests. So, I upgraded Requester to version 2! It now have better descriptions, examples, and points. Also, had to change the way stylization selector works. Instead of 4 styles, I divided them to two parts:
1. Amount of details
* Extreme details
* Good details
* Simplified
2. Style of drawing
* Sharp and developed
* Fuzzy and vibrant
* Soft and blurry
* Gradiently and plastic-y
Essentially making 12 styles from 4. I made a lot of descriptions - so it would be easy to differentiate between stylings, and in future I will give even more examples, by providing links to pictures with examples to style.
Topic: L O V E
People really love detailed pictures. With heavy shadows, with switching colors, with visible fur, like, the more the merrier.
On the contrary, flat images, or images that looked like glossy/plastic photos were not receiving much attention, with exception being Non-Academical images.
So, the 'pure digital' is overrated, and 'oil painting style' is mostly what people actually crave. Either that or an extremely heavy stylization.
And, yeah, about 'love'... Interestingly, some people leave favorites, but do not become watchers (winch is logical), and some never fav, but instead, watch (...less, but still logical?). So, how to actually calculate how much my pictures is 'technically' loved? 'At least the amount of watchers'? Well, cannot agree - I, myself, have a lot of artists whom I watched for exactly one piece of artwork, but they never did anything like that before, and I never gave up hope. 'Only account favs'? Well, but then, I, myself, are of the worst types - sometimes I love every piece of art from specific person, but I never leave favs, instead I simply save the piece on my PC. So, yeah. Actually don't know how to calculate best picture, as there is not enough metrics to do so.
Topic: Looking for other Neuroartists
Yeah. I really am interested in other Neuroartists. Because The Project Soulstealer is just a name, just the Idea, and not a nickname, not a person. The Project is actually a Group, Group of neuroartists who set a goal to spread knowledge to every part of the world. To become one of Soulstealers, all you need is... well... to be interested. Set yourself a goal, find yourself a suitable tool, and just go forth. Obey TOS and any other rule. Be a Lawful-Neutral character. Or Lawful-Evil. Or Lawful-Good. Or, like me - Lawful-Chaotic. :D
The thing about Neuroartists is... they are friendly. Like a people who wear hats with pompoms. Unlike most Artists, they don't keep secrets, and are actively sharing their knowledge and skills to each other. They are actively trying to get better... actually Together. They do not have throat-tearing competition like Artists do. And I am not an exception. While I may deny some of the requests, I usually will try to accept most of them, and usually will show how to achieve better results. Without making a single penny out of that. So was pretty surprised to see that I was watched by an Artist, or, actually, two. Level 50s artists, but nonetheless, an artists. Maybe I could convert them to be partially a Neuroartist, huh? :)
Why? Well, I was surprised about a lot of things. For example, a lot of people having hard time to distinguish an AI art from actual art. Remember The Test? This journal, I mean. Only 30% of people are able to get past the threshold. Like, author did not said how much there was AI arts and Artist arts (I, for sure, can say I know some artists from test, so there IS a valid arts, and I for sure can find AI art, so it is not a joke like 100% of only arts or only AIs), but only 30% of participants were able to, at least, get enough points to be considered keen-eyed. It means, that 70% of participants were not only named AI arts as Artist's ones, but vice versa - 70% of people guaranteedly named Artists arts as AI ones. And, considering that all Artists arts are taken from 2015-2020 range, when there was no AI whatsoever, this is REALLY daunting. It means, Neuroartists IS a thing. And/or people doesn't really care if art is generated by AI or a real person.
Topic: Streaming!
I should think about making some streams. I guess, when I get an additional videocard for a rendering server, I would do couple of them in a month. If you can advice a nice, AI-friendly, ADULT-friendly streaming website, then name a link in comments, and I will try it one day. For now I think about Pomf.TV, as their TOS do not forbid AI art, or even anything at all, with exception being minor humans, winch I'm not doing in the first place.
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Academic Requester: Current state.
Vetoed Requests this month
1. (Adult Rating) Male Raccoon in stasis tube in laboratory, pregnant, lactating, connected to milking machine and breeding machine and so on.
* This is wrong on so many sides. If you can imagine it yourself - good for you. I find this idea not only highly disturbing, but also impossible to make. While I did, as an example, a couple images of mpreg fetish, I will limit it only to couple instances, so you will know that it is possible and with multiple styles. Just trying to imagine that transgender fluffery makes me shudder. So, summarizing: An idea that won't generate on its own because is too complex, will require manual work and inpanting, is highly disturbing in content, and will make me to look at it more than one hour? No, thank you.
2. (Mature Rating, actually was sent twice) Feral Male Arcanine, that happens to be pregnant with a xenomorph, and showing signs of ill, discomfort, and so on.
* While this piece would be canonical in some Alien franchise, I don't really like the idea. It scares me. I actively try to avoid highly negative themes, and imminent death is one of them. Parasites is the other, so it kinda kicks both things at once and a little bit more. Also, look at first veto. In canonical Alien worlds, victims were never mpreg.
3. (Adult Rating) Herm Anthro Skunk, heavily pregnant + hyper, sitting on floor, and nothing small about it.
* While I may tolerate herms, in one way or another, I do find them slightly disturbing. But more than that, I find even more disturbing the idea of "hyper everything". I can understand one, okay, maybe two unreasonably sized parts (and that is a limit!). But ALL of them, and at the same time? This would be bunch of immobile spheres, that have zero ability to actually 'sit' anywhere, because of all hyper things there is nothing to fluffin sit on! If you wish to try it - well, you are welcome, but only on your own. I already know that AI wouldn't make anything sensible from this request, because there is nothing logical here at all.
Currently In Queue Requests
1. (Adult Rating) Semi-Anthro Female Protogen, but with a lot of feathers and in a seducing mood.
* That is a wonderful idea. Not to mention, that there is no signs of any fetish.
2. (Adult Rating) Anthro Male Canine, standing in mountainous area, shy and hiding, but highly interested in viewer.
* One of a good ideas. I am saving it till June.
3. (Adult Rating) Semi-Anthro Male 'Rocket Raccoon' (yeah, from Guardians of the Galaxy), standing on spaceship bridge.
* Well, at least I'll try. There should be a plenty of tags for this character. And portrait is not a bad idea.
4. (General Rating) Anthro Female Panther dressed in bridesmaid dress, holding flowers, and standing near the lake.
* I'll be dead honest, this would be my best work, probably. Clothing may be a little tricky to manipulate, but I'll find a way. 
