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🦢 Yasha Lebedev

I just don't have enough words. Never has Yasha Lebedev looked more realistic and at the same time exactly as I always remembered him.

I haven't finished reading the new edition of Yasha's biography yet, but the way you updated Yasha's page on the site really excited me. If you're going to make sections like this for all your main characters, that would be great.
Also, it would be really cool if you made a special page on the site for your characters. Right now, if I want to see all the images of, say, Lychard, I have to find at least one image of Lychard in the gallery first. It's really inconvenient when there haven't been any new images of a character in the gallery for months.
And new visitors might not even see some of the old characters they might have liked.

I'm so glad to see that you're giving the characters their last names again. Firstly, I think it gives them more individuality, and secondly, their full names are usually quite funny.

And also, when Yasha and Andrzej finally get married, they will argue for a long time whether their last name should be pronounced as Lebedev-Kowalczyk or Kowalczyk-Lebedev. :D
Sasha M

I'm super happy that you think the more realistic version still looks like him! It's my ultimate goal/dream to eventually give each character a distinctive face, kind of like Sarah... It's still not an easy task for me because my workflow isn't primitive, so maintaining the facial high quality, emotional expression and recognizability, all at once, is almost too magical for me. But I'm really trying my best!

Sure, I want a character catalog but you wouldn't believe how many characters there are. It's like 50+ and I haven't even counted yet! So I don't think anyone would be that into scrolling through a page filled with them all. My idea was to just bring them back every now and then, so when I post a new pic of Sir Lichard, people can look at other pics of him, so it's never overwhelming.

And I'm happy you like their last names, I generally select them using some "names and their meanings" websites or name generators. The name Yasha Lebedev was entirely generated, and there's nothing wrong with that since the name Yuni was also auto-generated using a random name generator I made back in 2003 that randomly combined kana syllables - I used it to create the names for my early characters like Yuni, Jahi, Haji, Atsu, Shani, etc. The name Andrzej Kowalczyk was entirely made not by me, my friend Filter-GX at DeviantArt created this Polish character back in 2014, he made several other contortionists from various countries, as well as their stories, but his characters were mostly girls and Andrzej wasn't really in the spotlight. In the end I ended up making more pics of Andrzej than Filter-GX himself, so over the years I kind of stole him from the original creator little by little haha. Well, not really, we talked many times and he always loved how I turned Andrzej into a real prodigy - his original Andrzej was used to be pretty humble. As for marriage, maybe Kowalebdz or Lebodzcyk... or Kawaii-Lewd XD

Just calm, but still a little erotic portrait, I like it.

Yup, I wanted to use it as his official bio, so tried to make it safe for work 😜 (I think)

I love to see all the information about this character finally in one place. Beautiful!

Many thanks!! I'm thrilled to finally compile all the Yasha-themed content after more than ten years of writing stuff about him. Fingers crossed this is just the start of a long adventure... 🦢💦🏊‍♀️

🥵 Stretch Tester

Oh wow! These vids are really cool😁 You’re really getting the hang of AI and I love how Leslie is interacting with the camera too, I hope we get to see much more of this💖

It is really iteresting how you squeezing maximum even from that limited few seconds o video. Yup more squishing would be nice X-)
Shifty

Really intriguing animations! I'm dying to know what Leslie is saying (and if his voice is as sweet as his face!)

-J

Now we'll need an AI that can convert images to voice... 😂

If only you could do something like this with nudity as well, and a longer video...

*stay folded*
A good way to wish all the best to Leslie, Yasha or another avid contortionist. :D

Yuni, I'm blown away by the second one!!! The fact that he's talking to the cameraperson just does absolute wonders to making him feel like a real person. I'm amazed!! Can't take my eyes off. If this is what Hailuo can do even right now I'm very excited to see how it will be in the future.

🧺 Circus Laundry

Your art is very uplifting even if it is "safe" yet you really good with naked versions so... X-)
Yeah I know API models just freak out when they see naked human body... like it is most satanic thing which can't be allowed into silicon heaven :D

That older local metod works good too when i stop some frames i can see nice passages!
Shifty

Reflections in the glass is something I didn't expect... But seems like twisted torso is still too unusual, so AI can't properly draw it.
Which returns us to its main limitation: artist can create something nonexisting, while AI can only repeat what has already been done :)

AI takes the best guess about what it is and I believe it guessed correctly that it looks more like a twisted cloth, but I'm sure there must be a better way to describe it to the AI because it's very sensitive to your description. For example, when I called someone "a rubber doll" in another attempt, he ended up moving just like an actual doll instead of having human body physics. The problem is, I'm on the free plan, so I have to wait for ages between attempts and can only make 3 attempts each day, so it's difficult to experiment...

And I agree, an artist CAN create something nonexisting, the problem is there were like 10-15 of such artists in the entirety of human history. Most artists simply copy one another, fuse existing ideas, and the less talented they are the more try to market their work as "profoundly original". With AI's assistance, it could potentially be even simpler for someone to come up with something truly new by accident because of its random nature.