Theme
This week’s theme is Retro Sci-Fi!
Specifically any science fiction from the 40’s - 60’s. It’s all about clunky robots, giant computers with dials, ray guns, and all the other old cheesy sci-fi tropes you can think of :)
There’s a bonus point if the image matches the media of that era, for example by including cheap effects, obvious costumes, blurry film or anything else you can think of.
Prompt for post image:
a 50s cinemascope movie still of a clunky robot with an blinking lights on it's chest, in a fake looking space ship, a pilot is flying the ship, scene is shot with 8mm film --ar 16:9 --v 6.0
The image turned out better than how I intended :)
Rules
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Follow the community’s rules above all else
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One comment and image per user
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Embed image directly in the post (no external link)
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Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun)
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At the end of the week each post will be scored according to the following grid
Prize Points Most upvoted +3 points Second most upvoted +1 point Theme is clear +1 point OP’s favorite (me, this week) +1 point Most original +1 point Last entry (to compensate for less time to vote) +1 point Prompt and workflow included +1 point NEW Era appropriate effects +1 point -
Posts that are ex aequo (tied) will both get the points
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Winner gets to pick next theme! Good luck everyone and have fun!
Past entries
- Dieselpunk
- Goosebump Book
- Deep Space Wonders
- Fairy Tales
- A New Sport
- Monsters are Back to School
- War and Peace
- Distant lands
- Unreal Cartoons
- Sustainable Ecumenopolis
- Masks
- Mascots
- Old Gods, New Jobs
- Winter Festivities
- High Tech, Low Life
- Character Limit
- Gatsby’s Jazz Hands
- Reel to Canvas
- Cruelly Cute Characters
This round’s winners:
Place | Winner | Points |
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1 | @[email protected] | 6 |
2 | @[email protected] | 5 |
2 | @[email protected] | 5 |
3 | @[email protected] | 4 |
3 | @[email protected] | 4 |
https://i.imgur.com/LgNnNaA.jpg
It kept giving everyone mohawks for some reason, even the robots.
Final prompt was: 1960’s sci-fi show, Thunderbirds style puppet is arm wrestling a robot with a plasma globe head, text saying ‘AMAZING ADVENTURES: man vs machine’, Technicolor, grainy VHS,
Also apologies if embedding isn’t working from Kbin, I’ve tried two different methods so hopefully one of them shows for you Lemmy users.
Too bad about the embedding because it looks really good! I’ll include it down here so everyone can see:
![](https://i.imgur.com/LgNnNaA_d.webp?maxwidth=760&fidelity=grand)
For anyone who likes this, upvote the parent, not this comment :)
Cheers for that!
Really nice work. I love the concept and the dynamics of the image. Never would have thought of Thunderbirds myself, that’s great touch. You got a shared 3rd place, congratulations!
![](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1125046315932459019/1199812822952063026/thelsim_product_placement_photograph_of_a_shiny_bronze_trophy_i_d0b85cdd-75d9-4dd7-9d37-3fc7f74ea481.png)
Haha thanks very much for the trophy!
I’ve re posted your image above so it shows up for everyone (I’m just getting a link), I hope that’s okay?