Nyghtfall3D

Enjoy Spy Game!

It’s been a minute since I last worked with my favorite suburban serial killer – I posted my last piece in November – so I took a test project I rendered on Krea in January and used Budget Pixel’s Design Studio to remove my protagonist’s robe. Having her topless was my original vision, but after switching to Nano Banana Pro in January, the SDXL models I used for inpainting nudity offline couldn’t blend natural skin textures well enough to keep bare breasts from looking like bad patch jobs.

Incidentally, I canceled my Krea Max membership this morning. It doesn’t expire until September, but I won’t be using them anymore because of their Victorianesque NSFW filters.

Enjoy Realtor’s Final Listing!

I’ve discovered that I can render a base image with Nano Banana 2, and then postwork nudity with SeeDream 4.5 via BudgetPixel.com’s Design Studio. I may have to play it by sight with each project – and I’m still limited to one nude image per project because of the generative nature of AI editing – but the results for this piece looked good enough to publish.

Incidentally, I’ve sorely missed having this level of creative freedom.

Enjoy Leftovers!

Nano Banana quickly proved a lost cause for this piece, so I tried it with SeeDream 4.5. Getting the shark’s mouth to render closed on her torso was like pulling teeth until I tried a little post-work editing using Budget Pixel’s Design Studio. Thankfully, SeeDream is a relatively cheap model at 45 credits per image.

That said, two years after embracing AI, and ditching Daz in January, I finally managed to create the kind of shark attack I’ve wanted to see since1975’s JAWS.

Enjoy Bride’s Last Swim!

Someone on a message board I frequent suggested I try a different API platform for a less expensive alternative to Krea, and to get away from Krea’s NSFW filters. They recommended BudgetPixel.com, a platform they use when Higgsfield acts up. They also suggested I try SeeDream on BP for creating more mature content.

BP should consider changing their name – they’re more expensive than Krea. Here’s the breakdown of my AI model of choice:

Nano Banana Pro at 2K

Budget Pixel: 160 credits
Krea: 119 compute units

Nano Banana 2 at 2K

Budget Pixel: 125 credits
Krea: 80.2 compute units

And what SeeDream costs:

SeeDream 4.5 at 2K

Budget Pixel: 45 credits
Krea: 31.7 units

Despite their more expensive pricing, I joined Budget Pixel for a month under their Pro plan for 60,000 credits, to try SeeDream 4.5 without Krea’s NSFW filters. It’s nice to see bare breasts without having to inpaint them offline, but Nano Banana 2 still smokes it on prompt accuracy and foot anatomy, two aspects of AI that are critical for my work, and remain far more important to me than nudity. Working with Nano is like eating flavorful mashed potatoes without gravy, but I can’t deny that I really fucking miss the gravy.

Anyhoo… this is a prompt I ran on Budget Pixel:

An elegant, confident 40-year-old woman reclining on a chaise lounge in an upscale, modern home interior. She wears a white satin blouse with a deep V-shaped neckline and visible cleavage, paired with a navy blue, knee-length pencil skirt. Her long honey-blonde hair is styled in a sleek bob parted on one side. Makeup is refined and striking: deep burgundy lipstick and nail polish, and smoky eyeshadow. her feet are low volume slender aa wide with high pes cavus and sharply pronounced midfoot break with long narrow toes. She is lying back comfortably, legs extended, feet pointed in a 98degree graceful tendu position with visibly high arches, toes fully flexed. She looks directly at the camera with a subtle, wry grin—self-assured, knowing, and relaxed. shes licking her upper teeth. Warm ambient lighting, intimate but sophisticated atmosphere, cinematic realism, ultra-realistic, high-end editorial photography, shallow depth of field, natural skin texture.

This is what SeeDream rendered. Notice how completely mangled her feet look – SeeDream even gave her integrated stiletto heels. 😛 Her tongue is completely wrong, and her hair is much longer than it should be for a bob cut. She doesn’t even have a seductive pose. This is what I call AI slop:

And this is Nano Banana 2. Gorgeous, anatomically correct feet, hair is the right length and style, tongue doing exactly what I wanted, and her pose is sublime:

One big point in BP’s favor is the ability to configure how many images it generates simultaneously. Krea automatically generates two, which blows through compute units fast when using high-end models like Nano Banana. The result is an asset library full of extra images you may not need. In contrast, BP lets you configure just one image per generation. That alone is a godsend after spending hundreds of dollars on extra compute packs beyond the monthly 60,000-unit allotment on Krea’s Max membership plan for the last several months.

Today is the first day of a week-long vacation, and my compute units on Krea.com have reset for March, but I have next to zero interest in trying to create anything because I know I’ll blow through all 60,000 units by Wednesday. I have a few projects I rendered last month that are still waiting for the next step in my workflow, but I lack the drive to finish them because of how much time and money I spent rendering the handful of images I managed to wrangle.

I’m starving for (far) greater creative control so I can stop throwing money down the drain on trial and error, and that goes double for being able to incorporate NSFW elements.

Since I started using it last month, ChatGPT has become censored to the point of being useless for my needs as a prompt generator for Nano Banana Pro, so I canceled my subscription tonight, and am looking for other solutions.

A writer is touring America’s haunted hotels for a book when she turns in for the night at a hotel that isn’t on her list, and is strangled while she sleeps. Enjoy Silent Guest, Deadly Host!

This comic was inspired by an episode of the TV series, Supernatural – Season 1, episode 17, titled “Hell House”. In my story, a college sophomore enters the basement of an abandoned house on a dare, and is strangled by the ghost of a serial killer. Enjoy Ghost in the Basement!

I’ve updated the Software section of my About page with a timeline of my toolkit:

2009 – 2022: Daz Studio, Comic Life, PaintShop Pro, Affinity Photo

2023 – 2025: Daz Studio, Comic Life, PaintShop Pro, Affinity Photo, Stable Diffusion, Imagen 4

2026 – Current: ChatGPT, Nano Banana Pro, Comic Life, Affinity Photo