(I always feel a little self-conscious about dominating this thread with examples, but hopefully there are useful for some. I’d like to see other people post more, though.)
Months back in the thread I posted an image of a family picnic by Wane Barlowe where one of the images ended up with people seeming to be feasting on human heads sitting on the table. A day or two ago, I attempted to recreate that intentionally at Night Cafe, asking for heads on a table in different ways (as an aside, NC blocks “decapitated” but not “severed”). One of the new images was three (and a half) heads that immediately brought to mind the severed heads in jars from Futurama, and also maybe three stern judges of some type.
So today I trimmed the sides and reframed the image to be near the top of a 512x768 frame and moved over to Playground. I was wondering how much effort it was going to take to get it to attach bodies to the heads. It turned out to be incredibly easy, all I had to do was infill mask everything but the faces and describe it as simply as “people standing” plus my artist prompts. (The hardest part turned out to be making them not be naked or in skin-tight clothes, and it was never clear on the genders of each person. So I added various clothing description mods, including Victorian, Samurai armor, and loose casual.)
I then went on to try turning them into heads in jars on shelves, with some success. (Thanks to the aspect ratio, SD adds a second row of newly-invented heads.) I still want to work with those more and add more pre-made heads, but I set that aside for later.
I then set to work on one of the grisly gristly heads featured in an earlier post, and was wildly successful in making it look good on a shelf and in a jar. The jar in particular took quite a few rounds of editing to get it as good as it is. The sort of snowglobe/paperweight thing popped up mostly on its own during the variant generation process.
So then I headed back to Night Cafe to try some groups of “severed heads in mason jars sitting on shelves” images without a start image. A couple of them produced something like heads on shelves (with or without jars) but most of them produced small, head-free jars packed together. Some of which looked useful for later editing, though. One in particular had a red-headed person facing away from the “camera” in front of shelves.
I took that one over to Playground and described it as “woman with short red hair facing away looking at wooden shelves filled with colorful glass jars” and later as “woman with short red hair standing in front of shelves filled with colorful glass jars” (both with “Dan Witz, Mark Ryden, Margaret Keane, Pino Daeni” artist modifiers). These samples include more than one generation of evolution and noise levels ranging from little to lots. The one most similar to the original image is the third one in the middle row. I really like some of these and may later go to some effort to tweak the jars in at least one of the images so they all look good even on closer scrutiny.
(The images today range from funny to hideous to beautiful. Let’s just say my tastes are eclectic.)