Friday, October 06, 2023

HOMM3 Modification - Adela the Cleric

Continuing into the Cleric class, the next one we come to is Adela. The original Adela is not a very attractive woman; it's not even clear that she has any hair, and she has a kind of wild-eyed distracted stare going on; but honestly, the fact that she's kind of a severe "fighting nun" except wearing a Medieval friar's rough habit is kind of a cool concept for a fighting character. Because of that, most of the unusual examples aren't really ones that I looked at seriously. I didn't want a cute Adela, and I didn't want one in a radically different style (art style or concept style either one) than the original. That means, once again, that the ones that stick pretty close to the original but just look better are where I focused my attention. Let's have a look at the options on the table.

Ensrick tends to make really good alternatives, but he is trying to make her a little too pretty here. Ironically, the blank face isn't quite as pretty as Stable Diffusion 2's pleasant slight smile. Stable Diffusion AI's offering looks like her eyes are closed, and she may have drifted off to sleep. It also loses the stained glass window background, which is unfortunate.

Although Stable Diffusion 2 is a little lower res; the hood looks too smoth and less cloth-like, and the face is somewhat different, and the stained glass loses definition even compared to the original, I think that's the best of the options.

WINNER: Stable Diffusion 2


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