Dream AI by WOMBO — The Avatar Files

So, Dream AI added an Avatar option. What does that mean?

Well, you upload a photo (just the face), and give it a prompt. For the image above, I uploaded a photo of my mother, said she did cross stitch, and that’s what it generated.

There are certainly elements of her in the visage, but it’s obviously stylized.

The same for my sister AnnMarie who does watercolors . . .

. . . my sister Louise who is a scrapbooking queen . . .

. . . and for me, I said writer . . .

It’s odd that it gave me a goatee since I don’t have one. It also appears to have assumed I keep what little hair I have left slicked back and long. Not.

Here’s my mother as a librarian . . .

As mentioned, there are elements of the person, but the app is not consistent in representing the facial feature, with a fair amount of variance between renderings.

There are more versions in the gallery, but the above gives you an idea of how they can vary.

For instance, here’s a version of me as an ice cream truck driver . . .

At least I lost the goatee. I think that has to be a pedal toy truck as there’s no way that has an engine in it. I’m pretty sure kids would not want to come anywhere near that thing.

Here’s me as an evil wizard . . . although I don’t look all that evil. I mean, some people might think so, but that’s close to how I normally look (it helps in keeping people from approaching me).

Choosing a more ‘evil’ image got me this:

Going back to the original photo, here’s a rendering of me as Cruella . . .

I then tried Viking (or something) . . .

. . . huh! . . . a smiling, friendly-like Viking about to bash you with a hammer-like implement that’s lacking a proper handle. But, hey! … look at them biceps!

. . . not liking the mullet, though. Not above, and not in the next image of me as a caveman.

I kept going . . . me as an old cowboy . . .

. . . as a superhero (I just specified superhero; it picked the costume) . . .

. . . as an older superhero . . .

Again, not really what I look like, but at least I’m wearing my underwear on the inside. Another superhero . . .

No mask, though. A little closer to my photo? Maybe . . . you be the judge:

Not sure which superhero is represented by this next rendering . . .

Here’s me as a swordsmith . . .

. . . as a surfer . . .

. . . and a snowboarder . . .

Is that me as Bill Murray with half a goatee?!?

I never realized I shared features with Bill. The last time I shared features with anyone was in my 30s when I was told I resembled Billy Crystal. I never saw that, but I definitely see Murray in these renderings.

Me doing an impression of a cat . . .

Here’s a watercolor of me as a tired and disillusioned old man . . . or Bill Murray.

But back to my mother, here she is as a Paladin . . .

She was and — through the years — remains a fighter . . .

Us kids are fighters too . . .

OK, maybe we don’t look quite that good, but still . . . fighters!

I need to clarify I don’t describe the avatars in detail. I said superhero, surfer, boxer, etc., and the app does the rest.

By the way, the scowling images of me come from this shot taken shortly after the one I shared above (I had just cut my hair).

Anyway, I’m not sure how often I’ll use this feature of the app since I don’t snap many photos of people (I had to hunt around for the ones used in this post). Still, it was interesting playing with it.

Again, while there are elements of the original, there’s a fair amount of variance in the renderings.

If you want to see a slideshow of the above (with a few extra images), click the link below.

Slideshow

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