Post 811 - Chat GPT Tries Very VERY Hard to "Colorize" One of My Old Sketches

Here's where we started, with a line drawing from my 1997 calendar, "Uncle Stan's Profusely Illustrated World of Pharmacy" -- 

Note that it is text heavy, and the characters have certain pronounced physical characteristics.

So let's check the progress - Run One:

 

It couldn't get in the whole image - and the text is obviously a challenge.  But the old newspaper color paper and palette was sort of interesting...

So - Run Two:

OK, the whole image is nearly there, but the text is a problem, and the characters are - well - still a challenge

Run Three:

 

The cropping was improved, but the characters are still a problem - just can't break out of its own interpretation that misses the whole point of the design - and now the surgeon has three arms and the patient has lost a pair of feet...

 

Run Four (and final, finally!)

Musical notes become birds (because birds make music, obviously) but still...

I'll be sticking to my old Photoshop protocols for the coloring project of this box full o' sketches, I guess!

 

 

Post 712 - First Run of a Forgotten Project of 2007 - "When a Felon..."

Found this old unfinished Flash file, so I thought I'd post it here before I go to work with adjustments and background.  Another work in progress!  (this is progress?)

Run B - testing backgrounds and an added highlighting effect for characters:

Run C - This'll do for now...back "in the day" it was a 720x480 project, when 1K was just fine, thank you very much

Here's a link to a final, slightly improved image version on Vimeo:  Here to Old Octopus Project

(c) 2025 Jim Middleton, The Animating Apothecary