Theme

This week’s theme is Retro Sci-Fi!
Specifically any science fiction from the 40’s - 60’s. It’s all about clunky robots, giant computers with dials, ray guns, and all the other old cheesy sci-fi tropes you can think of :)
There’s a bonus point if the image matches the media of that era, for example by including cheap effects, obvious costumes, blurry film or anything else you can think of.

Prompt for post image:

a 50s cinemascope movie still of a clunky robot with an blinking lights on it's chest, in a fake looking space ship, a pilot is flying the ship, scene is shot with 8mm film --ar 16:9 --v 6.0
The image turned out better than how I intended :)

Rules

  1. Follow the community’s rules above all else

  2. One comment and image per user

  3. Embed image directly in the post (no external link)

  4. Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun)

  5. At the end of the week each post will be scored according to the following grid

    Prize Points
    Most upvoted +3 points
    Second most upvoted +1 point
    Theme is clear +1 point
    OP’s favorite (me, this week) +1 point
    Most original +1 point
    Last entry (to compensate for less time to vote) +1 point
    Prompt and workflow included +1 point
    NEW Era appropriate effects +1 point

  6. Posts that are ex aequo (tied) will both get the points

  7. Winner gets to pick next theme! Good luck everyone and have fun!

Past entries

  1. Dieselpunk
  2. Goosebump Book
  3. Deep Space Wonders
  4. Fairy Tales
  5. A New Sport
  6. Monsters are Back to School
  7. War and Peace
  8. Distant lands
  9. Unreal Cartoons
  10. Sustainable Ecumenopolis
  11. Masks
  12. Mascots
  13. Old Gods, New Jobs
  14. Winter Festivities
  15. High Tech, Low Life
  16. Character Limit
  17. Gatsby’s Jazz Hands
  18. Reel to Canvas
  19. Cruelly Cute Characters

This round’s winners:

Place Winner Points
1 @[email protected] 6
2 @[email protected] 5
2 @[email protected] 5
3 @[email protected] 4
3 @[email protected] 4
  • @BallShapedManEnglish
    10•11 months ago

    To get this image I put the movie poster from Forbidden Planet into Chat GPT and asked it to give me a prompt to recreate it. The prompt it gave me was: Create an image in the style of a vintage 1950s science fiction movie poster. It should feature a colossal robot with a detailed, colorful design, including visible gears and glowing eyes, against a backdrop of an alien landscape. The robot is gently holding a humanoid figure, who appears to be in a state of distress. The landscape has vibrant, exotic vegetation, futuristic architecture with domes and spires, and a sky filled with stars, planets, and a sleek, ringed spacecraft. The color palette should be rich and evocative of the era’s sci-fi art, with a mix of ominous and wondrous tones.

    Poster image:

    I put this into Dall-E 3 but the line about the humanoid figure I altered to: The robot is gently holding a female humanoid figure in an accurate 1950’s evening gown

    And instead of create an image I changed it to: create a movie poster

    I also removed the line about the space ship as clearly the original poster has no such thing in it.

    I got this image first:

    I asked it to have the woman laying in the robots arms and passed out, the image I got was:

    I last asked it to make the poster warn out like it’s seen too many summers, the background more flat with a teal color and I got my final image/submission at the top.

    • ThelsimOPMEnglish
      4•11 months ago
      Category Points
      Most votes +3
      Theme is clear +1
      Workflow included +1
      Era approriate effects +1
      Total 6 points

      Awesome work! You win!

      You get to choose the next theme, looking forward to it! :)

      • @BallShapedManEnglish
        2•11 months ago

        Lol thank you! And I didn’t even notice it until you pointed it out. That may be my favorite detail now!

    • ThelsimOPMEnglish
      2•11 months ago

      Very nice! I tried to get something similar but I didn’t manage to get the woman to lie in the robots arms.
      I like the little robot dog thing hiding in the background :)

      • @BallShapedManEnglish
        2•11 months ago

        Thank you! And to be fair, I cheated by using a template.