The Gerosha Chronicles, According to an AI

The Gerosha Chronicles, According to an AI is a feature-length slideshow documentary video released in late November of 2022 by Dozerfleet Studios on its Dozerfleet Channel on YouTube.

After the months of October and November of that year were spent compiling attempts to rebuild much of The Gerosha Chronicles using the AI art generator app Wonder, by Codeway Dijital, the results were filtered and put into an Adobe Premiere timeline, to assemble a video showcasing how the AI sought to accompany more traditional machoonist art to build the world of Earth-G7, and retell its tales.

The video proved to be Dozerfleet's first truly feature-length video prodcution, given its runtime of more than 2 hours. Synopsis

The AI art generator app Wonder by Codeway Dijital was put to the test in October and November of 2022, to see if its world-building skills could measure up to the photographs, doctored video game screenshots, and other work assembled by human intelligence over the course of a decade toward making concept art for numerous comic and novel works in progress.

Here, it was specifically tasked with trying to re-create the "Cataclysmic" Gerosha (Earth-G7) timeline of The Gerosha Chronicles within Dozerfleet Comics.

Hopes with this video were that it could inspire other world-builders and writers to augment the use of AI apps in helping draft visual art for their own purposes, to illustrate how AI and human artists can complement one another's goals, rather than view each other as competition.

The cameos of characters with voices were to demonstrate that text-to-speech apps, like Narrator's Voice, are getting better and better.

The 2-hour video that resulted compares the results of the AI's efforts to re-create various Earth-G7 characters with their pre-existing renders in Spore, MakeHuman, The Sims 3, The Sims 4, GTA 5, Far Cry 5, Adobe Fuse / Mixamo, and other rendering software. Chapters

Intro: 0:00 Volume 1: Origins Lohtz: 0:22 The Battle for Gerosha: 0:35 Sorbet: 1:08 Volume 2: Legends The Gray Champion: Freedom's Apparition: 1:18 Extirpon: 1:50 Extirpon 2: 2:15 Pilltar: 2:24 Pilltar 2: 2:43 Cherinob: 2:56 Cherinob 2: 4:23 Cherinob 3: 7:11 The Horrorday Gang: 8:42 Volume 3: Orient They Call Him...Black Rat: 12:05 Little Shanghai Hornet: 12:26 The Tale of Plum Bixie: 13:06 Corando's "Don't Lose Hope": 15:11 Volume 4: Legacy Purge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil: 17:45 Blood Over Water: 18:05 Ciem: Inferno: 20:47 Sniperbadger: Fall of the Critter Resistance: 36:08 Ciem: Ash Cloud: 37:42 Ciem: Caldera: 45:17 Anarteq: Guardian of the Soo: 53:05 Anarteq: Tropic Mercenary: 1:06:11 Anarteq: Envoy to Lough Melvin: 1:10:43 Phaemer Village Peacekeepers: 1:13:05 Volume 5: Sodality Instigation (Season 1): 1:15:40 Adaptation (Season 2): 1:27:20 Determination (Season 3): 1:31:36 Augmentation (Season 4): 1:35:19 Vindication (Season 5): 1:38:18 Volume 6: Swappernetters: 1:55:44 Closing: 2:09:42

Characters

Lohtz showcase Captain Henry Lohtz Kamohoalii The Battle for Gerosha showcase Stan Flippo Shalia Flippo Sorbet showcase Hadley Mint The Gray Champion: Freedom's Apparition showcase John Domeck / Gray Champion (in and out of costume) Dereck Johnson / Eqquibus (Sim only) Hea Pang Kyle Medsor Tabitha Pang Extirpon showcase Eric Stanley Opendi / Extirpon Pam Marcones Pilltar showcase Stephanie Barrin Cherinob trilogy showcase Cherinob Cavalore Levio Filforth Maurice the Ferryman Gabriel Kritchobol (both his normal troublemaker and his Yevghenny Mavoric disguise forms) Boris Heminski Belay (AI, Sim, and Spore renders) Astirnah (AI, Sim, and Spore renders) Krystal Travin Detective Rick Hallower (Sim only) Prontchika / "Pele" Soetera The Horrorday Gang showcase Adolphus Kraus / Krampus Polly Ann Wilson / Perchta Gerald Smack / Jerry the Psycho Reindeer Luca "the Snowmobster" Ricci Tom Omtemin / The Tomte Salik Skifte / Hosenzunder (Sim only) Ivalu Molgaard / Scharfkatze Annabelle Shelly / Luftmaedchen Rob Strainer Leah Strainer Jack Strainer Ted Strainer Jemma Strainer Sheriff Chad Estahm CPS Agent Wilma Menka Orient volume showcases Shing Xu / Black Rat Mingmei Cheng / Stung Hornet Kai Yun (mentioned) Zize Choi / Plum Bixie Gary Wenzon (mentioned) Amado Marcones (Sim only) Darshan Chawla Mahima Zecharia Ketan Arudash Jerry Emberton Jen Emberton Spike Monide Purge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil showcase Chris Kennal / Purge-Flare (no AI render) Don "Module" Glotine Blood Over Water showcase Chris Kennal Aaron Stefflin Mark Stefflin Monica Shelly Vance Lingolin Meredith Celestine Wanda Celestine Annabelle Shelly Betsy Shelly Bob Lusital Clyde Spendelworth Ashley Phillips Kyle Tugrass George Lawence Ciem: Inferno showcase Candi Flippo / Ciem Miriam "Sniperbadger" Flippo Danny Loffin Imaki Izuki Arresting officers (Sims only) Mandy Jolina (Sim only) Phoebe Gadsbury (Sim only) Julie Saffins (Sim only) Antonio Frenze / Lava Tigre Frank Morvel (Sim only) Judge Richard Deckinson The Bailiff Probation Officer Terry McIntyre The Clumsy Janitor James Lonsil Lonny Factor / Drop-In Warden Bruce Almin Meagan Amez Grapey the Wonder Ball Brittany Lohmeyer Samirah Fantine Amirah Rose / Flintirah Sniperbadger: Fall of the Critter Resistance showcase Miriam "Sniperbadger" Flippo Tim Downsen (mentioned) Rick Sun / DeathDachshund (mentioned) The officer who wanted to be a mermaid Lionel Tiver Lindsay "the Snake" Reeber (Sim only) Ciem: Ash Cloud showcase Candi Flippo / Ciem Nancy Hizrah (Sim only) Warden Bruce Almin Patty Trean Paul Driveway / Goatgruff Heart of Pele necklace Eric Korsicht Anito Squad Donte McArthur / Emeraldon (Sim only) Marge Ramirez / Mapacha del Fuego (Sim only) Amirah Rose / Flintirah (Sim only) John Domeck / Gray Champion (Sim only) Officer Jordan Grentzwell Cynthia Trenson Karen Trenson Darius Philippine (mentioned) Ciem: Caldera showcase Tanya Woven / Ciem of Seattle Candi Flippo / Ciem Bernie Mudster / Quoll Kropimak Duzerit (Sim only) Agent Randy Lapborn Yong Steffan (mentioned) Anarteq: Guardian of the Soo showcase Akiak Sundue / Anarteq (mentioned) Toklo Sundue / Anarteq (mentioned) Tulimak Sundue / Anarteq (mentioned) Inukpak Mahaha Anjij Sundue (Sim only) Siaja Tiktak (Sim only) Isitoq Sundue / Anarteq Qalupaliks Jissika Sundue / Nemara Nanaouk Kunuk (mentioned) US Coast Guard (mentioned) Canadian Coast Guard (mentioned) Justin Trudeau (mentioned) Warren Buntine / Rappaccini (mentioned) Travis Beaverton / Wishpon Donte McArthur / Emeraldon (mentioned) Anarteq: Tropic Mercenary showcase Candi Flippo / Ciem (Sim only) Pakulihi Lekaho / Kamohoalii Haikili Kamapua'a       Prontchika / "Pele" Polly Ann Wilson / Perchta (mentioned) Adolphus Kraus / Krampus (mentioned) Gerald Smack / Jerry the Psycho Reindeer (mentioned) Jissika Sundue / Nemara (Sim only) Anarteq: Envoy to Lough Melvin showcase Isitoq Sundue / Anarteq Moira Flanagan / Li'Ban Gerald Smack / Jerry the Psycho Reindeer Famorians (mentioned) Merrows (mentioned) Phaemer Village Peacekeepers showcase Chancellor Avori Namolil (Sim only) Major Demerin Gosmerid (Sim only) Evan "Time Capsule" Manicotti Keet Kabo Bartholemew Chippen / Bolte Chipotle Titus "the Socratic" Rahmerthal Jake Semical / DJ Jackal Semicolon "Slip-Sadie" Klink Pillcenary (Sim only) The Paula (Sims 3 CC truck only) Sodality showcase Candi Flippo-McArthur / Ciem / Vanadium Centipede Donte McArthur / Emeraldon Dolly Malestrom / Earwig Jennifer Clankton / Jawknee (Sim only) Halal Affadidah Duke Arfaas Imaki Izuki (Sim only) Celia Winehart / Taterbug Monty Raquin (mentioned) Jack Mercreek / Jackrabbit Miranda Kanla Mingmei Cheng / Stung Hornet Miriam Flippo / Sniperbadger (Sim only) Marge Ramirez / Mapacha del Fuego Stephanie Barrin / Strawberry Rob Barrin / Pilltar (Sim only) Jonathan Tannuli (Sim only) Jeral Cormier / Arbustrombre Emily Cormier (Sim only) Don "the Psycho" Mendoza Wayne "the Vampire" Norfine (mentioned) Matt Baret (mentioned) Marina Baret Andy Baret (mentioned) Melinda Baret (Sim dog only) Ralph Beoden Tyrel Mace Harry Mensuto Phil Couric (Sim only) Tyrone Menster Cynthia Trenson (mentioned) Karen Trenson (mentioned) Chris Kennal / Purge-Flare (Sim only) Eric Stanley Opendi / Extirpon (Sim only) Pam Marcones-Opendi (Sim only) Wilfredo Opendi (Sim only) Jeraime Malestrom / Musaran Jim Oisdaat (Sim only) Jordan Reddlewick / Sapphire King Angelo Abrami / Cocklebur Michelle Winston / Feruga Wilbur Brocklyn (mentioned) Officer Lonny Grivolt (Sim only) Vince Finton / Navyrope (Sim only) Tiffany Sterlie (Sim only) Jordan Sterlie (Sim only) Brian Mizgel Kyle Freneti / Meerkat (Sim only) Charlotte Yamamura / Mukade (Sim only) Kimiyato Hiriyama / Milp (Sim only) Simon Ardvin / Captain Aardwulf Tabitha Pang Hea Pang John Domeck / Gray Champion (Sim only) Eric Copperton / Cupric (Sim only) Judge Terry Beliah Camille Beliah (mentioned) Frank McArthur (Sim only) Chad Orvain (Sim only) Laurie Pegol (Sim only) Tyler Kilmington (mentioned) Sarah Ruben (Sim only) Tobias Reno (Sim only) Zize Choi / Plum Bixie (Sim only) Amado Marcones (Sim only) Roy Bernald / Gray Rancher (Sim only) Phaletori (mentioned) Centhuen Warriors (mentioned) Swappernetters showcase Tabitha Pang Sarah Ruben Maurice the Ferryman (mentioned) Tobias Reno Jordan Sterlie Shaniqua Tamery (Sim only) Hea Pang Bret Kamhold (Sim only) Pete Hassler (Sim only) Cassidy Verner / Atroce (Sim only) Roy Bernald / Gray Rancher (Sim only) John Domeck / Gray Champion (Sim only) Random Navyrope enforcer (Sim only) Fellertooth (Sim horse only) Ted Yusef (mentioned) Horace Rantiber (mentioned) Steve Trussel (Sim only) Gina Swinton Geoff Throba Will Clamdor Microwave Mouth Mercury Troopers Stagtar Legions Hasam Arbini Sicklesaw Jill Hook / Lady Chillingworth Eric Johann / Bliksemhek Halal Affadidah (mentioned) Immanuel Corten / Feathertop Richard Swean Hitori Ikomara Triflow Trista Clarion Rev. Renald Richard Beauregard Marge Ramirez / Mapacha del Fuego (mentioned) Warren Buntine / Rappaccini Samantha Steel / Dollschief (mentioned) Trevar Steel (mentioned)

Locations

Earth North America Canada Ontario Sault Ste Marie Toronto North Bay Yellek Nunavut Project: Ijiraq lab Mexico Mexico City Cormier Estate United States Maine Orono Corando's old house University of Maine Alaska McLaine Science Center Massachusetts Boston Dae Pang's history museum Arkansas Little Rock Jonesboro Piggot Mansfield Juvenile Correctional Center McPherson's Correctional Facility Texas Denison Denison Death Camp Houston Waco Louisiana Baton Rouge Nearby swamps Freneti home New Orleans Oklahoma Oklahoma City Colorado Boulder Wyoming Yellowstone Caldera California Los Angeles Oregon Loffin family western home Washington Seattle Woven family new home Nevada South Dakota Brookings Police department Mental institution North Dakota Forbes Rob Strainer's trailer Oakes Michigan Sault Ste. Marie Big Rapids Mancino's                   Ferris State University North Bond Hall Stanwood Sleet Mountain Lower Northern Indiana Gerosha (Boonville) 1205 N. 1st Street Posey's Market Evansville Old National Events Center Vanderburgh County Jail Vanderburgh County Clerk's Office / Court Juvenile Justice Center Madison Madison Juvenile Correctional Facility South Bend South Bend Death Camp Ragglesville Jawknee farm Odon Ohio Cincinnati Module's home Kentucky Louisville Hebron Covington Rockholds Tennessee Gallatin Iowa Des Moines Ankeny Missouri Dexter Hawaii Captain Cook Kamohoalii's Hut Pele's Penditulum Europe United Kingdom Romania Bucharest Ireland Dublin Lough Neaugh Lough Melvin Denmark Greenland Nordreichdun Nordreichdun Palace Nordreichdun Airport Italy Florence Africa Mozambique Asia China Shanghai Harbin Beijing Hong Kong Xian Japan Tokyo India Porbandar Bipur The Philippines Luzon Manila Mindanao Cagayan de Oro Phaeleel Dephinapolis Phaemer Village

Production
Inspiration

The idea to use Wonder for anything at all came from a random ad on Instagram in early October. Impressed with how well it could render Cherinob, the Dozerfleet founder continued using the app, to see how much of the Dozerfleet Megaverse could be re-created with AI, and how well the results compared with Sims and other software render art previously made as conceptual art for those same projects. It was decided that character AI renders would be primarily divided into three camps: Cataclysmic Gerosha characters, Eccentriaverse characters, and Dromedeverse characters, with a video planned to showcase each of these universes.

Renders would initially be filtered, edited if need be, and uploaded to DeviantArt, before the results deemed most safe for YouTube would be compiled into videos. Results not deemed entirely YouTube-safe were sometimes allowed on DeviantArt anyway, but usually with content filter flags applied.

Experiments and results

Wonder was the main app used, though a few others were experimented on. Cherinob renders became the gold standard, as the Apthalan species could set the upper levels for how supernatural beings in general were depicted. However, convincing the AI to render Apthalans proved tricky. The dataset didn't recognize an "Apthalan" was being much of anything. However, most Apthalans don't actually have wings when their Humanoid Manifest Constructs are employed. Simply describing them as "angels" or "demons" almost always resulted in them being forced to have wings, even where it didn't make sense for them to have wings, even when "wingless" was entered as a prompt!

Instead, achieving the looks of most characters required several tries, as well as prompts describing their physical features with almost pornographic levels of detail. This complicated matters for some images, as Wonder in particular didn't shy away from nudity. Therefore, it often rendered many characters in the nude - even in situations where they shouldn't have been. Unusuable nude image results were either kept on DeviantArt exclusively, or were deleted.

Some images of partially-obscured nudity were edited in post, such as the scene in Cherinob 2 in which Cherinob reconstructs her HMC from mud not far from Brookings, SD. Cherinob specifically never manifests "naughty bits" where they are within line of sight of human eyes, so showing her at minimum manifest a green bikini should have been a priority for the AI. Yet, the initial render had her covering up her labia majora by hiding it behind her right arm, while sitting in the sand looking upwards. Some quick XGimp and Photoshop Elements editing was able to correct this, giving her a bikini bottom to make her more consistently modest.

To achieve the looks of non-armored HMCs of Apthalan species characters in the Cherinob series, facial and ethnic details were key. Maurice was described as "old Japanese doctor in white lab coat and fireman helmet." Cherinob was described as "red-haired Australian woman with long hair and radioactive glowing green eyes." Candi Flippo was usually variations of "black-haired mulatto teen woman with bob haircut," though one render gave her a curly Afro instead, and looked more like Meagan Amez. That render was later repurposed for Meagan Amez. Miriam Flippo's Detroit Tigers hat had to be edited in post, as the AI got confused when trying to render the "D" logo. Similarly, her black T-shirt is absent of its Snakes on a Plane logo in the AI.

Achieving Krampus involved cheating the prompts to give him his proper Dozerfleet form, prompts along the lines of "scary vampire Santa with goat horns." Simply entering Krampus by name into the prompts led to the AI getting confused, and defaulting to depicting him with more traditional takes on his appearance, as it couldn't separate the original Austrian folklore from the idea of Adolphus Kraus. It did seem intent on not rendering him according to the film by Michael Doughtery. Similarly, it cropped off Luftmaedchen's masked photo's top, refusing to show her head with her mask on, as it couldn't comprehend the plague mask that she typically wears. The AI was able to get some characters pretty close to how they were supposed to look. Plum Bixie, for example was almost perfect on the very first render. Any character invoking style information inspired by a pre-existing video game was fairly easy to imitate for the AI. The Twirlflame Trio, for example, had three panels rendered in which they looked like they were actually in the city of Glass from Mirror's Edge: Catalyst, since there was plenty of data on that game available for Wonder's data set.

In an unrelated experiment, Wonder successfully put Faith Connors from Mirror's Edge inside of worlds that resembled Hope County from both Far Cry 5 and Far Cry New Dawn, thus demonstrating its clear understanding of those video games' existence and art styles.

Some characters, it struggled to make them unique, and not resemble others. Li'Ban, for example, in spite being Irish, wound up looking very similar to Cherinob, whose HMC is supposed to look Australian. Jerry Emberton and Belay also began to look very similar, in spite one being a Christian post-grunge rock band singer and the other being a literal demon once worshiped as a Canaanite god.

Text-to-speech

The only voice to not feature as the result of a text-to-speech generation, is a sound clip of Kyle Mayer, voicing Kyle Tugrass, in the original Blood Over Water miniseries. Whenever possible, AI clips for the Blood Over Water remake comic were compared with clips of actors from the miniseries, to drive home the point that both the AI render and the Sim of a character in that instance were loosely based on some actual alum's 2009-era original flesh and blood student film presence.

Meanwhile, the phone app Narrator's Voice TTS on the Google Play Store was utilized to provide voices for the following characters:

Black Rat Stung Hornet Plum Bixie Darshan Chawla Mahima Zecharia Jerry Emberton Jen Emberton Spike Monide Candi Flippo Maurice the Ferryman Cherinob Soetera Krampus Luftmaedchen

Music
The most used royalty-free artist was Kevin MacLeod. His tune "Crypto" was used for the video's opening and closing credits. "Americana" was used for The Battle for Gerosha. "Rising Tide," meanwhile, was used for the Sorbet showcase. "Majestic Hills" was utilized for The Gray Champion: Freedom's Apparition. This was in large part due to the fact that there were no financial or legal ways to justify using "Freedom Fighter" by Creed.

"Noise Attack" was used for Extirpon and Extirpon 2, given their tonal similarity to "The Wolf" by Hi-Finesse, as featured in the soundtrack and trailers to Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. "Industrial Revolution" was used for the showcases for Pilltar and Pilltar 2, to invoke a similar feeling to "Iron Man" by Black Sabbath, used in the trailers for Marvel's Iron Man. "Prelude and Action" was used for They Call Him...Black Rat and Little Shanghai Hornet, while "Heavy Heart" was employed for The Tale of Plum Bixie, due to its tonal similarity to "When the Morning Light Shines In" by Dan Romer.

"Dhaka," due to its Indian mystical sound, was used for the showcase for Corando's "Don't Lose Hope," since there wasn't a recording available of the actual "Don't Lose Hope" song to insert. "Basic Implosion" was used for Purge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil's showcase, as that was almost the song used for its trailer. All music associated with Purge-Flare was intended to keep a consistent tone with the song that was originally desired for accompaniment with that production: the instrumental version of "In da Club" by 50 Cent.

In keeping with tradition, "Highlight Reel" was used for the showcase for Blood Over Water, due to its slight tonal similarity to "Cheddarman" from Gene Michael Productions, which featured in the end credits of the original miniseries. The Hidden Citizens cover of "Paint It Black," originally performed by The Rolling Stones, was desired, but not usable within deadlines.

The "Rynos Theme" was used for the showcase for Ciem: Inferno and Sniperbadger: Fall of the Critter Resistance, as well as all the Kahoopiliana segments that were tacked on to Inferno. It was chosen for slight tonal similarity to "Ascension," "Aitheros," and "Into the Wild, Chapter 1" by Axl Rosenberg, which feature on the Ciem: Inferno playlist on the Dozerfleet Channel.

Finally, Kevin MacLeod's "Consequence" and "How It Begins" were used for the showcases for Swappernetters. "Consequence" was chosen for its gloomy tone, for reflecting how Tabitha and Sarah's escape from Ameristan almost mirrored Candi and Dolly's escape.

"How It Begins" was chosen for its upbeat tone, invoking "Never Ending Circles" and "Clearest Blue" by Chvrches; whose other song "Warning Call" featured in Mirror's Edge: Catalyst - a game with visuals (alongside those of The Sims 3: Into the Future) that helped inform the look for Chrome Kite Little Rock in Swappernetters.

"The Pirate King" by Untold Journey was used for the showcase for Lohtz, as it was unexpectedly the perfect track of royalty-free pirate adventure music that felt like it could have happened in the time of Royal Hawaii.

"Give In" by Neostem was used for the showcase for Cherinob, Cherinob 2, and Cherinob 3. It was chosen for its symphonic metal guitar riffs, invoking a feeling of something somewhere in the middle amongst Nightwish, Within Temptation, and Evanescence. For Cherinob 1, the desired songs would have been "See Who I Am" and "A Demon's Fate" by Within Temptation. "Radioactive" and "Faster" would have been preferred for Cherinob 2.

"Krampus is Here" by Myuu was used for The Horrorday Gang, after a very lengthy search for any appropriate royalty-free Krampusnacht music. It perfectly sets the desired angsty tone of crossed Yuletide monsters and North Dakota families driven over the edge by a desire to exact revenge on a corrupt sheriff and his posse of sleazebag CPS agents.

"Last Hope" by Victor Cooper was used for the showcases for both Ciem: Ash Cloud and Ciem: Caldera. This was due to the fact that the Ash Cloud showcase was unable to secure permission to use "Claim Your Weapons" by Christian Reindl and Atrel nor to "City of the Dead" by Eurielle, nor to the Angelflare cover of "Stitches," originally performed by Shawn Mendes. The Caldera showcase was unable to secure the rights to "Hope is a Ghost" by Angelflare, nor to 2WEI's Linkin Park "In the End" cover.

"Into the Nature, Vol. 1" by Mu Hanz was used for the showcase for Anarteq: Guardian of the Soo, given its tonal similarity to "The Wolf and the Moon" by Brunuhville. "Fire and Thunder" by Cjbeards was used for the showcase for Anarteq: Tropic Mercenary, due to the Hawaiian adventure sound. "Dragonquest" by Alexander Nakarada was used for the showcase for Anarteq: Envoy to Lough Melvin, given the difficulty finding anything else usable with that distinct-yet-appropriate Irish adventure sound.

"Succubus" by Alexander Nakarada was utilized for the showcase for Phaemer Village Peacekeepers, as it was the only free and royalty-free soundtrack available that had a distinct 90s pop sound ready to go, one evocative of both "Tubthumping" by Chumbawamba and "Song 2" by Blur.

Sodality featured a wide variety of royalty-free artists. "Intruder" by Karl Casey from White Bat Audio marked the Instigation timeline's music. This was chosen due to "The Pyre" by Kevin MacLeod becoming overused on other YouTube videos. "Epic Superhero Soundtrack Copyright Free Music" by Rizdle was then used for the Adaptation, Determination, and Augmentation seasons' showcases.

"Prison Planet" by Karl Casey was utilized for the showcase for the Vindication timeline, due to some tonal similarity to the Tritonal Remix of "Surrender" by Cash Cash.

Editing

Upon export from the app, images were stored in Android folders on a Google Pixel 4A 5G phone. Some were immediately edited with XGimp for Mobile and Adobe Lightroom for Mobile, while others were exported to Sta.sh as they were. They were later downloaded from Sta.sh to Dozerfleet Main running Windows 10, and edited with Photoshop Elements 2019. Results were often sent to DeviantArt first. When the time came for a Gerosha-themed video of results to be made, Premiere Elements 2020 was the video editing software of choice.

Omissions

For all the characters and story works in progress that feature, there were a few that didn't make the cut, due to lack of renders / time, or due to difficulty getting the AI to comprehend the characters.

While Stephanie Barrin was easy, Seth Lambrelli wasn't.   Pilltar only features his Sims art, given how difficult he was for the AI to grasp. Likewise, Strawberry only features as Sims art in the video. No one from The Tragedy of Lord Zeras nor Feud of Three Worlds features in the Origins-related sections of the video. Only Inukpak features from Experiments and Offspring. Only John Domeck himself features from Of Angels and Icicles. Kicked Deer renders came out too late in production, to say nothing of Shrouded Entity or any others. Likewise, only Stan and Shalia made it into The Battle for Gerosha's section. Fantisk, Luddin, and any other supporting characters were absent. Apart from Pam Marcones herself, no one else relevant and new to Extirpon 2 features. Spoliat didn't get featured. Similarly, for the first Extirpon, only the man himself got renders. Nematode didn't get one in time. While it would have been nice to include them, Greg Travin and Detective Hallower from Cherinob 2 didn't make it to the final cut of the showcase. In the Legends portion, no renders were exported for anything from the following works: The Gray Champion: Chillingworth's Revenge (even though Chillingworth and Mapacha are mentioned later in the video.       The Gray Champion: Shaken Dust (even though its events, as well as Brackett and Hibbins, are later referenced.)        Extirpon 3        Pilltar 3        Navyrope        Navyrope 2 (even though the Navyropes are mentioned later on.)    The Orient section skipped Mukade: Reinvention entirely, even though Charlotte is referenced later on in the Legacy and Sodality sections.    Likewise, the Legacy section merged parts of Ciem / Anarteq: Kahoopiliana with Ciem: Ash Cloud and Anarteq: Tropic Mercenary.        It skipped Path of the Ming-Cho entirely.    Sodality was long and ambitious, so a great many characters never got their renders.         Meerkat, for example, never got a proper AI render.     Swappernetters ran into similar issues as Sodality, though a lot of major characters still found a way in.

Notable display fonts

Several custom typefaces were employed to create narration text and logos for the different stories being showcased and previewed.

Lohtz used Rapscallion as its logo font. Cherinob, Cherinob 2, and Cherinob 3, meanwhile, primarily used variations of Living Hell. The Horrorday Gang used Candy Stripe (BRK) as its font of choice. For They Call Him...Black Rat and Little Shanghai Hornet " a Asian Ninja" was the font of choice. The Tale of Plum Bixie mixed "a Asian Ninja" with Mesquite Std, to show a contrast of East and West in Zize's origins. "Corando's Don't Lose Hope" uses Bauhaus 93 and Galiver Sans for the Corando band's sections, and Jawadipa Adisastra for all sections about Darshan and Mahima.

This trend in the Origins, Legends, and Orient volumes continued in the Legacy volume. Purge-Flare: Stickin' It to Pencil takes after Extirpon, in that both employ variants of the font "Flames." For its comic remake, Blood Over Water employs "Fiendish" for the blood portion of its logo, and "Decay" for the water portion.

Ciem: Inferno, Ciem: Ash Cloud, and Ciem: Caldera all make use of Bebas Centipede for the main Ciem logo. However, they vary regarding subtitles. Inferno uses "Flames" for its subtitle, while Ash Cloud uses "Acid Label." Caldera uses Komikahuna. Sniperbadger: Fall of the Critter Resistance utilizes Yonder Recoil and Dot Matrix.

The Anarteq saga follows similar logic. All three parts of the trilogy utilize "Extrano - Arano." However, Envoy to Lough Melvin adds the use of "Celticmd" for the subtitle.

Phaemer Village Peacekeepers, true to its first logo designs in 2014, utilizes "HP PSG." Moving on, the Sodality volume uses variants of "60sekuntia" for virtually everything logo-related. Similarly, Swappernetters makes heavy use of Kimono Kong. Distribution

On Sunday, ‎November ‎27th of 2022 at 6:48:13 PM EST, the film was converted from Adobe Premiere into an MP4 file on Dozerfleet Main. It was then promptly uploaded to YouTube, and assigned a blog post to discuss its arrival, before later being given a showcase theater page on the Dozerfleet Studios section of the blog. In three week's time, it received over 20 views, and was favorited one time. On December 22nd of 2022, a link to promote it was posted to the Facebook fan group "AI-Generated Art." Trivia

This video was not endorsed nor paid for by Codeway Dijital at the time of production. In fact, given the ads viewed, and money paid to stop the ads from showing ($25), it could be argued that Dozerfleet Studios overall lost money on the experiment. Photographs of Cincinnati were taken in early March of 2021, from a Honda Odyssey minivan driving down I-75. Photographs of Boonville and Evansville are from Ciem: Inferno: The Grand Tour, from July of 2019. Photographs of Sault Ste. Marie are from A Very Anarteq Tour of the Soo, from September of 2019. The alternate monster demon forms for Belay and Astirnah were made in Spore. The Dozerfleet founder's one niece once got a Ciem shirt for Christmas of 2019. She didn't understand the concept of Ciem, nor Centhuen Prototypes, nor Gerosha mythos. She only thought the centipede chest insignia vaguely resembled a spider, and thought he got her an orange Spider-Gwen shirt from Spirit Halloween. (She was pretty young that year.) Because of this, Ciem suits were increasingly later designed to look more and more like Sam Fisher outfits in the Splinter Cell games, to clarify that Ciem is NOT Spider-Man. Yet, because children with small reference pools tend to believe that all bug-themed heroes are Spider-Man, this inspired many of the joke characters in the video. For Ciem: Inferno and Sniperbadger: Fall of the Critter Resistance, Candi's potential probation officer, Terry McIntyre, is a virtual clone of Tobey Maguire, to capitalize on the Bully Maguire meme popularized by editors such as YouTube's "The Human Spider." The clumsy janitor that bumps into Candi, similarly, was made to look like Tom Holland. The bailiff at Candi's court hearing was made to look like Andrew Garfield. In essense, the legacy of Spider-Man won't leave Candi alone, was the ongoing joke. Furthermore, Judge Richard Deckinson was deliberately prompted to look like JK Simmons, yet has an apathetic attitude about learning Candi is Ciem. This is a subversion of his role as Jameson, and what we'd normally expect to come of that. The attorneys Lonsil and Tiver are made to resemble Mario and Luigi, just to further drive home that Candi finds the entire justice system to have become a joke. The officer that escorts Miriam to court, complaining how she wanted to play a mermaid but "it didn't end well," was intentionally a jab at Disney over the Halle Bailey Ariel casting hullabaloo for their remake of The Little Mermaid. Hence why that nameless officer was deliberately prompted to resemble Halle Bailey. As if all the above-mentioned Spider-Man references to taunt Candi with weren't enough, she is written to develop a mild crush on a corrections officer named Paul Driveway by the Kahoopiliana timeline. Paul Driveway was deliberately prompted to resemble Yuri Lowenthal, in both Wonder and The Sims 4. His "Goatgruff" alternate form references the "spider goat" throwaway line in Spider-Man: Far From Home. However, any similarity of Ash Cloud-era Cincinnati to NYC during the final stages of Spider-Man PS4 is purely coincidental, as that aesthetic for the ash cloud-covered Cincinnati was decided two years before Spider-Man PS4 hit the market. If anything, the look of it was more informed by the 2016 film Suicide Squad. Notably, however, Korsicht fires red mystical beams into the ground, rather than a blue laser into the sky. Time Capsule resembling Jack Black is also deliberate. Jack Black was the inspiration for Evan Manicotti's appearance when he was first rendered him in The Sims 3 back in 2014. Bolte Chipotle isn't modeled directly on chili peppers, but to resemble the Southwest Chipotle sauce from Subway. Titus Rahmerthal as "the Socratic" is based on a miniature plastic statue of Socrates, designed to resemble a larger marble statue of Socrates. Keet Kabo is modeled after a parakeet that the Dozerfleet founder's mother used to have. Basically, she's Gamora merged with a blue budgie. Flintirah being a bully was inspired by the character Kody from the Asylum film Jailbait. The idea was that she tried to play that character's role, but it was brutally subverted; because Candi refused to play the role of Anna Nix. The joke is that Amirah vs. Candi would be like Kody trying to bully Anna, but accidentally picking on Spider-Gwen instead, and getting promptly humiliated. Jailbait is more directly parodied in the "17 and Amphibious" 2-parter in Camelorum Adventures, where the Kody parody in that story gets humiliated by Lemon Witch - who's even more insufferable than Ciem. Flintirah's backstory is similar to that of El Diablo from Suicide Squad, but re-tailored to make sense for a teenage delinquent girl living close to downtown Evansville. Grapey the Wonder Ball began as a joke on Girls Incarcerated Wiki on Fandom, regarding the purple exercise / stress ball in the timeout room. Namely, in one scene, the purple ball in the corner was able to command audience attention better than Paige McAtee herself could. Tanya Woven is an homage to Taryn Twine. Taryn herself was unsure what to think of that, other than to laugh about it. Bruce Almin is also a joke character, oddly enough. His name references the film Bruce Almighty, yet he looks like Michael Caine, who played Alfred, Bruce Wayne's butler. His actually being willing to care for the lives of the girls, rather than lie to them and fill them with false hope, is a jab at Caine's more cynical character from The Cider House Rules. Drop-In, in spite similarities to Green Goblin and Vulture, has a face modeled after that of Brett Dalton, whom some might remember playing Grant Ward on Agents of SHIELD. Drop-In's alter ego, Lonny Factor, is named that way as a joke. "Lonny" as in loan, versus grant. And "factor" as in "benefactor," rather than "ward" (beneficiary.)