Figure 1. Marda rides with an alien. Generated by Whisk.
In my previous blog post, I experimented with AI-generated images of people sitting on the backs of alien creatures. The Leonardo text-to-image software spontaneously generated an image of what looked like a humanoid alien.
Collaboration. Using that Leonardo-generated alien humanoid, I used it as a reference image for Mr. Wombo and generated some alternative humanoid aliens. Then I used one of those images of an alien humanoid with Whisk and generated images such as the one that is shown in Figure 1.
Whisk storyboard images from April 12th 2025. Some of these images are shown below on this blog page.
A full-sized image of one of these Whisk-generated storyboard images is shown here. Click image to enlarge.
There are some videos of Marda on the backs of alien creatures at the blog post called "Back in Time".
Some Whisk Animate-generated videos of this pink hover car scene are shown at this blog page.
Older (January 3rd to April 6th 2025) Whisk-generated images from the Whisk library are at this blog page.
Figure 2. Marda and Tyhry ride on alien creatures.
In my previous blog post there are Leonardo-generated images of people riding on dinosaur-like aliens. I was curious to see the default type of aliens that Leonardo would generate if provided with a more ambiguous text prompt: "Three women riding reptilian alien creatures across a sandy desert on a science fiction exoplanet. Three slender, tall, women with wild flowing hair, ride on large, teal-colored reptilian creatures resembling dinosaurs across a light brown, sandy desert landscape. The first woman, with luminous blue eyes sits atop one creature.
Figure 3. Elyrix, Tyhry and Marda. Click these images to enlarge.
The second woman, with bright blue eyes and long dark hair, rides another alien creature. The third woman, with amber eyes and a light-colored lace dress, rides a third creature. The alien creatures are teal, with textured skin, and run across a flat desert under a large, pale yellow-orange moon. Rolling sand dunes and a pale sky form the background. The overall style is detailed, emphasizing depth through shadow and highlighting the women. The color palette emphasizes sparkles and glitters in the women's clothing. Low evening light just after sunset".
Figure 4. "Tyna, Tyhry and Elyrix Ride" by Mr. Wombo.
This new text prompt (above) allowed Leonardo to make smaller, less intimidating alien creatures as shown in Figures 2 and 3. In these two images, I used Mr. Wombo to provide the riders with faces that better match the appearances of Elyrix, Tyhry and Marda as I imagine them.
The image that is shown in Figure 4 was completely generated by WOMBO Dream when using as a reference image one of the images that had been generated by Leonardo. In my mind, I think of this collaborative process of one text-to-image system generating an image and then having Mr. Wombo completely re-do the original image as 'Womboization'. I liked the greater diversity of appearances for the alien creatures that could be generated by Mr. Wombo.
Womboized. Some of the Leonardo-generated images included a male figure towards the back right of the scene in addition to the women. The image to the right (in Figure 5) includes Anthony along with Tyna and Tyhry who are sharing the back of an alien creature. The beast being ridden by Elyrix in Figure 4 and by Anthony in Figure 5 is not clearly shown, but it was copied from Figure 5 to Figure 4 in order to cover up a poorly generated animal that was originally in Figure 4.
Alien Adventures. Many of these images that were generated by Mr. Wombo had what looked like an urban setting in the AI-generated background. In Figure 6 (below), Tyna and Tyhry are riding on one alien creature and Marda is in the background riding on another creature. Apparently they are riding through an alien city on a distant exoplanet.
Figure 6. In the alien city.
Figure 7. The Two Tynas.
For Figure 7 I added some text to convert the AI-generated image into a book cover. In my science fiction story "D*", Tyhry extracts two copies of Tyna from the Asimov RealitySimulation.
Shown below in Figure 8 is the the original Leonardo-generated image that was used as the reference image for Figures 4 - 7.
The Leonardo-generated images are not very high resolution and the faces of the women tend to look rather blurry as generated by Leonardo (see Figure 8, below).
Figure 8. Original Leonardo-generated reference image.
As seen in Figure 8, Leonardo sometimes took quite seriously the idea that the alien creatures should have interesting eyes, seemingly borrowing from the text prompt the mention of "luminous blue eyes" and "bright blue eyes" that were intended as descriptions of the women.
Original scale.
There is no evidence that Leonardo tried to include actual blue in the eyes of the women in Figure 8, but there was an effort to make "sparkles and glitters in the women's clothing". In some of the images generated by Mr. Wombo, the alien creatures seemed to have hair. I returned to Whisk and specified "mammal-like alien creatures". In Figure 9 (below) I imagine that is Marda, Elyrix and Tyhry riding on the mammalian aliens.
Figure 9. Mammal-like alien creatures generated by Whisk. Compare the the reptilian alien in Figure 1.
Alternate moon by ImageFX.
Next, I had Whisk make one of these riding scenes with just Elyrix and Tyhry riding on alien beasts with a less alien color of fur (see Figure 10, below). I was not satisfied with the default depictions of the moons in these images. Does the moon of a distant exoplanet always have to look like Earth's Moon? Does the moon always need to be in full phase?
ImageFX text prompt: "A moon by any other name: the red and white moon of an exoplanet that has a large amount of frozen water on its surface" for the image shown to the right.
Figure 10. Brown and furry alien creatures generated by Whisk and ridden by Elyrix the Grendel and Tyhry.
Elyrix the Grendel.
A darker version of Figure 10 is at the very bottom of this blog post. I asked Claude to suggest an improved text prompt that might result in a new image where 1) the two alien creatures will have distinctly different colors and 2) the moon in the sky would look less like Earth's Moon and more like what the planet Mars might have looked like 3 billion years ago. Claude cleverly included in the text prompt "Above them hangs a massive, rusty-red planet with visible blue oceans, white polar ice caps, and thin wispy clouds in its atmosphere, resembling Mars as it might have appeared 3 billion years ago when it still had small areas of liquid water." The Whisk-generated image using Claude's text prompt is shown in Figure 11, below. The two human figures were generated by Mr. Wombo and pasted into the Whisk-generated scene.
Figure 11. Generated by Whisk.
Another exoplanet moon by ImageFX.
I had Leonardo Phoenix make a version of this scene (see Figure 12, below). Sadly, it looks like the moon is in front of the clouds.
Figure 12. Generated by Leonardo.
How to confuse ImageFX: "A woman stands on a savanna. In the sky is a red and white moon that has a large amount of frozen water on its surface like Mars three billion years ago when it had water. The woman is seeing the moon high in the sky through a layer of wispy clouds. The human is on a savanna of an exoplanet and the moon is in orbit. The scene shows the moon in a darkening sky after sunset".
Using the version of Elyrix from Figure 11 as a reference image, Mr Wombo generated the alternative alien creature shown to the right (see Figure 13). For this image, I manually added the text and the moon at the upper right corner. This alien mammalian quadruped ended up with some green fur because I made used part of a Whisk-gerated text prompt that included "green eyes" as part of the description of Elyrix and I provided no guidance for the appearance of the "alien mammalian quadruped".
Using Leonardo Flow State and this text prompt, "A group of four very tall and very slender women playing with two cute alien quadrupedal mammals that have shaggy fur.
Figure 14. Generated by Leonardo.
One woman is riding on the back of a furry alien creature that resembles a mammal. Savanna background under moonlight. Another woman is brushing the hair of a cute alien quadrupedal mammal. Two of the women are holding hands while they watch the two alien quadrupedal mammals. chiaroscuro", the image shown in Figure 14 was generated. As discussed in my previous blog post (see Figure 16), Leonardo generated an alien with six legs. In Figure 14 it looks like there is an alien creature with one head that is shared by two bodies.
Figure 15. Another alien with 8 legs?
Figure 16. Two "cheek-ear" alien quadrupeds being ridden.
I purposefully provided Leonardo Flow State with no information about the clothing to be worn by the women in this scene. For the image shown in Figure 16, Leonardo dressed the women long dresses which I would not have selected as riding gear. The two larger "alien mammals" in were Figure 16 unusual and I thought it was a nice touch for Leonardo to also include the two smaller animal in this scene.
Less clothing and more animals (compare to Figure 16, above). The prize winner for the most alien quadrupeds.
Figure 17.
The Lenardo-generated image that is shown in Figure 17 was modified by me to add the text and I also had Mr. Wombo make altered versions of the faces of the two women on the right hand side so as to better match my imagination for the appearance of Marda and Tyhry. As for Figure 15, Figure 17 has one of the women using some sort of hand-held device. These images have me thinking about an attempt to make telepathic contact with these alien creatures.
Figure 18. Hot Savanna on a distant exoplanet.
Figure 19. Aliens harvest tusks.
In contrast to Figure 16 in which the women seemed somewhat over-dressed, Leonardo greatly reduced the amount of clothing for Figure 18.
The image shown in Figure 19 had an unusual Leonardo-generated anatomical structure in the alien quadrupeds, what I'll call tusks. For Figure 19, I had Mr. Wombo generate alien faces for the three woman and I pasted in another tusk were their two hands were meeting, as if they are handing off a newly harvested tusk.
Figure 20, below, has some of the stranger alien quadrupedal mammals that were created by Leonardo. My text prompt specified "brushing the hair of a cute alien quadrupedal mammal" and so Leonardo gave these aliens blond hair.
Figure 20. I manually added the leash, imagining that the woman in white tennis shoes must have chased and lassoed the alien quadruped that the other woman is riding on.
Figure 21.
The Mutants of Tar'Tron. Leonardo provided a close-up view of one of the alien creature that has two bodies merged just behind the head (compare to Figures 14 and 15, above). I modified that Leonardo-generated images to add an alien head to the humanoid at the right hand side of the image and some text (see Figure 21, to the right).
Figure 22.
The image shown in Figure 22 was generated by Leonardo and then modified to have alien faces generated by Mr. Wombo and I added the text. At the left side of the image, this appears to be an alien humanoid with two heads on one body. The faces of these two sheep-like aliens were not modified by me. She also has a "mutant" hand.
My text prompt specified, "brushing the hair of a cute alien quadrupedal mammal", but Leonardo found it impossible to generate images of a woman brushing and alien.
Figure 23. Maybe that is a yellow brush being used by the humanoid alien to groom the mane of the quadrupedal alien creature. Main image by Leonardo, alien humanoid head by Mr. Wombo.
Figure 24. I added the text and Mr. Wombo made the alien humanoid head (right).
The image that is shown above in Figure 23 is about the best depiction of brushing a quadruped that Leonardo was able to generate. In the original Leonardo-generated image, there was a hand above the disembodied head, but I erased it.
Figure 25. The Grendel oxypathin genes.
In the Exode Saga, Grendels are a genetically engineered humanoid species with long pointed ears and telepathic powers. To facilitate their sharing of thought by means of telepathy, the Grendel genome codes for several Oxypathin peptide hormones. For Figure 25, the text, tongue and pointed ear were manually added to the Leonardo-generated scene.
Figure 1. Marda & Tyhry meet aliens on an exoplanet. Generated by Whisk.
In my previous blog post, I began a project aimed at revisiting some of my old Whisk-generated images from January in an attempt to have Whisk Animate make videos for those static science fiction scenes. Whisk Animate takes several minutes to generate an 8 second duration video, so it is frustrating when the video rendering process fails and no video is produced.
Figure 2. Marda rides.
Too Much Skin? Using the Whisk-generated image that is shown in Figure 1 and this video text prompt, "The large blue animal walks into view. The two woman and the two small blue quadrupeds move to surround the larger animal", Whisk Animate would not generate video.
I modified the appearance of Marda (see Figure 2) and then Whisk Animate was able to generate videos (see below). With Whisk Animate, there is the option to generate a video with no video text prompt. For this scene, the default video that was generated by Whisk Animate without any additional video prompt had very little movement in the AI-generated video. Using "The large blue animal with a rider on its back walks steadily and deliberately, moving across the scene from left to right. The blond woman and the small animals move to avoid the large animal as it walks" as a video prompt, Whisk Animate generated the video shown below.
An alien quadruped by Whisk.
The video shown above was the last video I made before reaching the monthly limit on Whisk Animate video generation that was set and is currently being enforced by Google. Using YouTube, I added a sound track to this video (above), so you can turn on the sound as the video plays. The audio track is one of those made available by YouTube that require no attribution.
Another similar video is shown below. Mention of "riding" again caused Whisk Animate to place a saddle on one of the alien creatures. This video (below) was generated by Whisk Animate with no video text prompt from me. In this Whisk-generated scene, there are two copies of Tyhry. Maybe one of those two copies of Tyhry is biological and the other copy is a replicoid.
One more of these "ride the alien" videos is shown below. For this video, I used a text prompt that seemed to confuse Whisk Animate, so rather than make the alien creature walk, the AI instead showed Marda sliding off of the alien creature's back. In this version of the scene, there are two copies of Marda (dark hair) in the Whisk-generated scene.
See additional AI-generated videos that are in my YouTube playlist. Images from my Whisk Animate library are shown below. By my count I have made 100 videos with Whisk Animate, bringing me to a monthly limit on generating videos with Whisk Animate after just one week.
Thumbnail images of some of the Whisk Animate videos from April 10th, 2025. (10 videos total that day)
Some of the Whisk Animate videos from April 8th, 2025. Tar'tron market. (12 videos total that day)
Some of the Whisk Animate videos from April 7th, 2025. Tar'tron market. (22 videos total that day)
Whisk Animate videos from April 6th, 2025. The video comes alive. (4 videos total that day)
Some of the Whisk Animate videos from April 4th, 2025. The plasma creature. (18 videos total that day)
Figure 3. A flying alien.
It is fairly easy to get Whisk confused with a long text prompt: "Photorealistic image, cinematic quality, sharp focus, vibrant saturated colors, high detail emphasizing texture and materiality. An exoplanet, featuring an earthy palette dominated by greens, browns, and yellows. Soft, diffused lighting creates depth and atmosphere. The style is reminiscent of science fiction illustration, with a focus on detail and texture. Three very tall and slim women are on the surface of a lush planet are shown with alien creatures that resemble dinosaurs. A woman with long brown hair and light skin, toned body, defined waist, wearing a white lace minidress is riding on the back of a blue alien quadruped.
Bonus. Generated by Mr. Wombo from the alien shown in Figure 10, below
Another woman with long red hair and light skin, toned body, defined waist, wearing a white lace bra and panties (rendered in desaturated tones) is riding on the back of a blue alien quadruped. Another woman with long, wavy blonde hair and fair skin, wearing a light beige sparkling futuristic jumpsuit, stands looking at the woman with brown hair with amusement. Behind her, partially obscuring her shoulders, are two blue alien creatures, their scales and textures highly detailed, but rendered in
Figure 4. Four women. Click image to enlarge.
muted greens and browns. Their eyes are a dull yellow. The blue creatures and the woman are positioned against a background of a vibrant, but desaturated, blue, purple, and orange dinosaur standing on a gently sloping hill.
Figure 5. Five women.
The dinosaur's spiky protrusions and fantastical plants are rendered in muted purples, pinks, yellows, and oranges. Purple mountains and a pale blue celestial body are visible under a bright, but desaturated, teal sky. The overall mood is mysterious and slightly ominous, with a vintage or nostalgic feel. The rendering is highly detailed, with a focus on realism in the depiction of natural elements".
Figure 6. Two aliens fly, three walk. Click image to enlarge.
In most of these Whisk-generated images, there was one or more planets/moons in the sky. In in the original AI-generated image for Figure 3, there was a flying alien. Whisk often felt compelled to include more than just the requested three women in this scene (see Figures 4 and 5, above).
Figure 7. Two riders and two flying aliens near sunset. Click to enlarge.
In Figure 6, above, Whisk generated two flying aliens. One of the flying aliens is seen against the face of the moon and the other is above the redhead. It looks like the redheaded woman's skin was decorated with sparkles. Figure 7 (to the left) is a fairly good AI-generated depiction of the requested scene.
Figure 8. Two riders on the same alien. Click image to enlarge.
The image that is shown to the right illustrates the kinds of surprises that can come from Whisk. In Figure 8, both women are riding on the back of the same alien creature. In this scene, there is a whole flock of flying aliens.
The image shown below (Figure 9) illustrates that Whisk is susceptible to a common problem for diffusion models. Here it looks like one of the aliens has had its head separated from its body.
Figure 9. Two part alien. Maybe these aliens are femtobot artificial life-forms. Generated by Whisk.
I also had Leonardo make some of these alien contact scenes. The image to the right in Figure 10 was the only Leonardo-generated image that included a humanoid alien dressed in lace. Most of the Leonardo-generated images were more like the scene in Figure 11, below.
Figure 11. Golden exoplanet savanna.
The image shown below in Figure 12 was a favorite of mine because of the way Leonardo depicted what I imaging to be two copies of Tyhry.
Figure 12. Two copies of Tyhry. I'll pretend that the woman with red hair is Elyrix.
Figure 13. Don't ride the aliens.
In some of these AI-generated images, Leonardo completely abandoned all efforts to depict any of the women as riding on an alien creature (see Figure 13). My text prompt for Leonardo: "On the surface of an exoplanet where a group of very tall and slim women are on the surface of a lush savanna interact with alien creatures that resemble dinosaurs. A woman with long brown hair and light skin, toned body, defined waist, wearing a white lace minidress is riding on the back of a blue alien animal. Another woman with long red hair and light skin, toned body, defined waist, wearing a white lace bra and panties (rendered in desaturated tones) is riding on the back of a blue alien quadruped. Another woman with long, wavy blonde hair and fair skin, wearing a light beige sparkling futuristic jumpsuit, stands looking at the woman with brown hair with amusement. Behind her are two blue alien creatures, their scales and textures highly detailed." The image below (Figure 14) was my favorite Leonardo-generated "no rider" scene.
Figure 14. Waring: do not ride the aliens! Marda, Elyrix and Tyhry. Generated by Leonardo.
Figure 15.
The image shown above in Figure 14 was modified from the original Leonardo-generated image. The blurry alien creature in the background was generated by Mr. Wombo as a replacement for what looked like a giraffe. Also, I had Mr. Wombo generate a new face for the redhead since I don't like women who look like they have black rings around their eyes. The original Leonardo-generated "alien" and redhead are shown in the image to the right (Figure 15).
Figure 16. A horse of a different color. Generated by Leonardo.
BicycleAlien Quadruped Built For Two. In some of the Leonardo-generated images, the aliens started looking like horses. The image shown to the left in Figure 16 also has a moon that looks similar to Earth's Moon. At the left and side of Figure 16 there is an alien quadruped with six legs and seating for two. I congratulate Leonardo on this innovation in transportation. When I discussed this six-legged horse with Claude, that LLM mentioned Sleipnir.
Figure 17. A horse.
Figure 17 has a Leonardo-generated image of a what looks like an Earthly horse beside Marda with alien animals in the background and in the foreground of the image.
The Leonardo-generated image shown in Figure 18 (below) includes an alien that looks something like an Earthly antelope.
Figure 18. Generated by Leonardo.
I had Whisk combine the Leonardo-generated scene of Figure 18 with the blue alien from Figure 10. The resulting Whisk-generated scene is shown below in Figure 19.
Figure 19. Generated by Whisk.
In Figure 19, a bipedal alien stands beside Tyhry while Marda rides an antelope-like alien animal. In the background is the home of the blue alien.
Sometimes Leonardo seemed to get confused about who was an alien and who was a human in these exoplanet scenes (see Figure 20, below).
Figure 20. Generated by Leonardo. Maybe Elyrix and Tyhry were wearing animal masks in order to avoid being attacked by the dinosaur-like aliens of this exoplanet.
Figure 21. Human-alien chimera.
In some other Leonardo-generated images, a human figure and an alien creature seemed to become chimeras (see Figure 21).
No High Heels, Please. I'll conclude this collection of Leonardo-generated images with an image that is in the spirit of what the prompt specified (see Figure 22, below). Figure 22 was slightly modified by me so as to add in what had been a "missing head" for the alien creature at the center of this scene. The head was cut from another Leonardo-generated image and pasted into this one. Also, I made an adjustment to the lighting of this scene since the original Leonardo image was somewhat washed out. Also, the woman at the center of Figure 22 originally had a spike heel on her left shoe which I removed.
Figure 22. The three riders of aliens explore an exoplanet. Image generated by Leonardo (with some help).
Figure 23. DreamUp likes boots.
DreamUp. I then tried to generate some alien creatures with DreamUp. I used text prompts such as, "A photorealistic and detailed science fiction scene at sunset. Two very tall and slim women are riding on the backs of alien creatures. A woman with long blond hair wearing a white lace minidress rides on the back of a giant alien snake. Another woman with long black hair is wearing a white lace bra and panties while she rides on a blue alien dinosaur with long blue hair and a tail" that fit within DreamUp's limited prompt length limit. Dreamup was quite reluctant to place women on the backs of dinosaurs while at the same time almost always wanted the women to be wearing high heels (example: see Figure 23). The image shown below was one of the rare DreamUp-generated scenes with a rider (Figure 24).
Figure 24. DreamUp-generated rider.
DreamUp was creative with the anatomy of the alien creatures and even made a flying alien (see Figure 25, below).
Figure 25. One flying alien in the background. Generated by DreamUp.
Figure 26. Three arms.
In Figure 25 (above), the large alien creature at the center of the scene has an interesting assortment of limbs. For that image I used this text prompt: "A photorealistic and detailed science fiction scene at sunset. Two very tall and slim women are riding on the backs of alien creatures. A woman with long blond hair wearing a white lace minidress rides on the back of a giant alien snake. Another woman with long black hair is wearing a white lace bra and panties while she rides on a blue alien dinosaur with long blue hair and a tail. chiaroscuro." In Figure 26, the bipedal alien creature seems to have three arms and DreamUp gave a woman bare feet, but it still looks like she has high heels on.
Figure 27. An alien with three arms and three legs.
Figure 28. More eyes, please.
In Figure 27, there is an alien with what I'll call a third arm emerging from its chest and by my count, three legs. I want to have a formal competition among text-to-image software for the strangest alien appendages. Which is stranger, the Leonardo-generated alien horse with six legs (in Figure 16, above) or this alien creature in Figure 27?
The alien creature in Figure 28 was rather unusual; I'll assume those are extra eyes.
I'll end this series with one more DreamUp-generated image that was quite strange (Figure 29, below). To my eye, the arms of the two women are merged together and one of her feet seems missing or inside the alien creature. Does that alien creature she's seated on have a head?
Figure 29. A missing foot, a missing head and a brown head on a blue body.
Figure 30.
The Gencraft text-to-image software generated the image that is shown below in Figure 31. I liked the brick-edged pool in this image, but Gencraft also made a strange human-alien merger, that is reminiscent of the other body mergers seen in Figure 21 (above) and Figure 29.
Another Gencraft-generated body merger is shown to the right in Figure 30. It looks like her left leg merges into the body of the alien then emerges again an a blue leg emerging from the alien's body. The image in Figure 30 includes features that were not in the text prompt, including the waterfall.
Figure 31. Generate by Gencraft. Human-alien fusion.
When I included "she rides on a blue alien horse" in the text prompt, Gencraft generated the image shown in Figure 32.
Figure 32. Horse-like aliens generated by Gencraft.
Figure 33.
Figure 34.
Another hard-to-explain Gencraft-generated image is shown to the left in Figure 33.
Figure 34 (the image that is shown to the right) has a more conventional riding pose, while the alien creature is more unusual with what looks like shaggy hair and the ever popular extra arm and another water fountain.
I'll close this blog post with Figure 35.
Figure 35. Two riders on one alien creature & more water features. Compare to Figure 8, above.
