Virtually any time you like!

WOW!  One of my images got chosen to go on rotation on the front page of THE AI art community website, and that's boosted it quite nicely.  It's already got over 50 "likes".  My only other comparably-scoring images have taken weeks to get that many.  The daft thing is, it was just a silly throwaway series of six images I did with no particular artistic merit.  To wit...

I knew that Slinger bloke before he became famous

Holy Crap.  I've just checked and my image has now had 1,175 "likes" and I'm now up to 76 followers on the strength of it.  It's also had a knock-on effect with some of my other images.  The system lets one know when "milestones" are achieved, and there were a raft of notifications telling me that other historic images have received five or ten likes.  More people have downloaded my models too.

For someone who has only been playing with this stuff for under six months I am inordiantely pleased with myself (you possibly noticed?).  I will attempt to lock my own trumpet away safely to avoid blowing it too much.  Promise. 

I wonder if they're ready for my next series yet, in the style of Anton Semenov

All it takes is application, and a modicum of talent.  I've been involved in computer-generated art one way or another over the course of about 30 years, on and off, (mostly off for the past 10 years or so) but this a completely new way of working for me.

Keep at it as long as its fun
Likes can come and go

Look at 2:58

It's mind blowing what they can already do for ultra modular image generation like adding skins onto anything you've created. Taking photos of textures from the real world and applying them to objects created by the AI.

Let's see how far you can take this new hobby of yours Paul.

"Taking photos of textures from the real world..."  is something that's been done for donkey's years in the 3D software world.  I've used the same technique to create models like this...



The basic textures were designed and generated within a program called Cinema 4D (which you'll see mentioned when he puts up the list of the software he's had to learn) and the screen was from an image overlaid on a plain surface inside the same software.

In this one, I created all of the textures procedurally, except for the wood, and the overlay for the controls, which were from  "real-world" sources.



What he's talking about is nothing short of amazing compared to my attempts, above though, and the format they're in.  It is, however, a logical progression, but at hyperspeed.  My AI software doesn't support Control Net, so I've never really investigated it, and I've found no use for "inpainting" so far, although I know it exists, and Fooocus, which I use, does support it.  I'm happy doing what I'm doing until, as usual, I find something that I want to do, that I don't know how to do, and that something either becomes my next learning project or gets kicked to the curb with murmurs of "life's to fekkin short".    I honestly could not keep up with the speed things are developing, nor would I want to, to be honest.  It's my hobby; those guys are doing it for a living, which is always an incentive that I'll never have again, I'm happy to say.

Not a job if you love doing it