Another little note in an old notebook about recreating scenes from major motion pictures using stick figures.
Low fidelity seemed to be a bit of a problem for Gemini. I asked it to:
Create a square image from your favorite movie scene but make it stick figures using black ink on a white screen.
Not quite the stick figures I was looking for. I then entered into a conversation with Gemini where I asked what it thought stick figures were and then drew and shared with it what I thought a stick figure was. Based on that, I asked again:
Okay use the style of stick figure I showed you to make a single square image from a scene of your favorite movie.
Which then caused it to have some fits – saying it was generating images but never generating them. Finally, after it shared some of it’s internal interpretations of my prompts, I fed one of them back to it:
A single square image, black ink on a white background, in the exact simple stick figure style of the user’s uploaded photo. The scene is the ‘I’m flying’ moment from Titanic. Two very simple, hand-drawn stick figures—one with a simple triangle dress like the photo—stand at the edge of a basic ship’s prow. The lines are thick and look like they were drawn with a felt-tip marker. Minimalist and charmingly rough.
Exactly what I had hoped for.
Then I asked Gemini to:
Great. How about another square image like that but it’s a lightsaber battle between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader
But NOW it had issues with copyright infringement. It had no issue with Neo or Morpheus, but now Gemini was worried stick figure versions of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader would get it into trouble. So I pivoted:
Great. How about another square image like that but it’s a lightsaber battle between stick figure 1 and stick figure 2
Eat your heart out Hollywood!
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