Early Halloween in Splinterlands
This post was made as entry for Splinterlands Social Media Challenge.
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It's been ages since I've made my last post and joined a Splinterlands contest. Since then, I've improved very significant in both my internet knowledge and coding in general (Thanks friend!). Roaming around hive this past few weeks also gave me ideas that I can use in my posts. I found out you can use both markdown and some html codes in creating the post. It's a shame that marquee tag doesn't work. If so, it would be interesting to see some moving texts and images on the screen.
While playing Splinterlands, I've seen three new creatures or rather new designs for old creatures. This gave me ideas on what to do on my comeback post for that I planned to do for this week. I hope you would like the experience I am about to show you so scroll down below.
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The first and most obvious is Kelya Frendul. She was wearing a witch costume instead of her usual blue armor. The smirk still didn't change but the lipstick threw me off. Who knew our battle-hardened warrior has a feminine side?
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Next is Uraeus, the cobra-like creature from the Neutral territory. In this image though, somethng is strange, something is added. I just can't put my finger on it. Oh, well, I guess we'll never know.
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Venari Marksrat is the last on the list. He's cosplaying as a mummy, I guess. It looked really cool though as if he was a member of the Death elements. I do wish they gave him a hat. I don't know why. It just seems like a good idea.
With these three images from Splinterlands, I thought of a good idea. I wonder if I can make my own halloween-themed cards like that? I remembered seeing some AI Art when visiting the Splinterlands art contest section. So, I think using AI isn't banned in the community. I looked around and saw a really good, trusted site. After a few moments of fiddling, I finally learned how to use Google Gemini, an AI text-based chat bot that is capable of doing image manipulation.
Here's some AI art I was able to do with the help of Google Gemini.
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The first one I thought of related to halloween design is pumpkin and pumpkin head. I remembered using a centaur-like creature before so I searched it and found Kron the Undying. Using the headless horseman as the inspiration, I was able to make a pumpkin-head Kron the Undying in headless horseman style.
Prompt: Create an anime or Japanese cartoon style illustration in Halloween themed of an image of a powerful headless horseman or headless centaur with a dark, brooding aura.
On his hand, he is holding his own pumpkin head attached with deer antlers and green hair. The hair is slightly long and flowing.
He is wearing a formal outfit with a cape and a hat, and he is wielding a glowing green staff with intricate details. The centaur's lower body is that of a horse, and his expression is serious and determined.
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Next, I saw this wonderful man-made (or goblin-made?) tower. I was thinking that the AI can then design it making it like a fort for the little gobbos. Actually, this was the easiest of the three. The initial one was not far off from what I wanted. I wished I was able to save it though now that I think of it.
The initial design was like an updated version of the Splinterlands Goblin Tower but there's no halloween theme on it even though I added it in the prompt. After a few more trials, I finally was able to make the one I am satisfied with.
Prompt: Create an anime or Japanese cartoon style illustration in Halloween themed of a goblin tower made from used wood patched together to make a rectangular goblin tower. Add more designs to the tower to make it more halloween themed. A pumpkin is shown as bullets for the cannon
The goblins should be wearing pumpkin hats while still showing their sharp teeth and green skin. The tower should be dark and brooding. One goblin inside the tower should be seen holding a broom and a fork peeking, and the another goblin should be peeking out from a window, holding a plate. At the very top is a cannon made from a cooking pot where a goblin is peeking.
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Lastly, to finish up, I wanted to make something related to ghosts and spirit. Luckily, Splinterlands already blessed us with this wonderful sinister spirit, the Fallen Spectre. Splinterlands has such a unique art-style that I cannot recreate it even with the hours of attempts in this AI program.
Prompt: Create a goofy and aloof, cartoon-styled illustration in Halloween themed of a spectral, ghostly spirit creature covered pretending to be a ghost using white blanket with holes for eyes and mouth. Each part of its body is spirit-like except for the blanket covering its head and body.
The blanket has three holes, two for the eyes, one for the mouth. The mouth has jagged red grin. It has glowing red eyes as seen through the hole. The face and teeth are not visible. Everything looks spirit-like.
Underneath the blanket, the cartoonish creature shows two spirit-like limbs for its ghostly with glowing blue energy. The creature appears to be floating or hovering, with wispy tendrils of blue energy trailing behind it.
The overall feeling is not horror or scary but more like a goofy and aloof spirit trying to pretend like a ghost by putting blanket over it.
I actually wanted it to show the spirit arms or hands but anything I tried, it wouldn't let me do what I want. After an hour and a half of trying, I settled with an earlier one I liked. This was the last failed attempt that I did that didn't make the cut because the arms wasn't ghostly enough.
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About the Author
Hi! I’m Mavis, a Splinterlands fanatic and total Harry Potter fanatic (seriously, I can recite spells on demand! 🤓 ).
Besides being a gamer and wizard at heart, I’m also a self-taught coder. I'm happy that I was able to apply the recent knowledge I gained when making posts in Hive. (Thanks friend!)
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Good Work, thanks for sharing!
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