Busy Bees: Animals with Jobs

Show us the real bugs life. Animals of any variety doing the mundane, exciting, or otherwise indescribable tasks we apes do.

Prompt for post image:

Rules

  1. Follow the community’s rules above all else

  2. One comment and image per user

  3. Embed image directly in the post (no external link)

  4. Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we’re all here for fun)

  5. At the end of the week each post will be scored according to the following grid

    Prize Points
    Most upvoted +3 points
    Would I hire this animal? (Are they actually doing their job) (new) +2 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

  6. Posts that are ex aequo (tied) will both get the points

  7. Winner gets to pick next theme! Good luck everyone and have fun!

Past entries

  1. Dieselpunk
  2. Goosebump Book
  3. Deep Space Wonders
  4. Fairy Tales
  5. A New Sport
  6. Monsters are Back to School
  7. War and Peace
  8. Distant lands
  9. Unreal Cartoons
  10. Sustainable Ecumenopolis
  11. Masks
  12. Mascots
  13. Old Gods, New Jobs
  14. Winter Festivities
  15. High Tech, Low Life
  16. Character Limit
  17. Gatsby’s Jazz Hands
  18. Reel to Canvas
  19. Cruelly Cute Characters
  20. Retro Sci-Fi
  21. Get Your Bard On!
  • BallShapedMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    9 months ago

    Meet Dam Wright, Architect!

    Meet Dam Wright, the beaver architect extraordinaire. By day, he’s a master of blueprint and design, crafting eco-friendly, sustainable lodges with a flair that only a beaver with his keen eye for structural integrity could muster. With a a pencil always tucked behind his ear, Dam is the go-to beaver for all woodland architectural needs. His works are not just dams; they’re masterpieces of wood and mud, celebrated for their innovative water management and cozy interiors.

    Dam Wright, the beaver architect, embodies the spirit of creativity and commitment, proving that one can build dreams from the ground up, both professionally and personally, all within the walls of a dam built with love.

    Workflow: First I asked Chat GPT for ideas and this was the one I liked best. Then I asked it for several art styles that would go well with this and I picked one.

    Prompt: Create an image of an Anthropomorphized beaver as an architect who is designing homes and buildings that look like beaver dams, use the fauvism art style

    Then I asked it: Redo the image and add Hollywood style post effects to make it look like a still from a summer blockbuster movie in a 16:9 aspect ratio

    Then I had it do a few revision and this is my favorite

  • Thelsim@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
    10·
    9 months ago

    Geese have been used as guardian animals for hundreds of years.
    Therefore, Security Goose!


    Niji prompt: a cute goose wearing a security guard uniform and holding a flashlight, peering alertly around with narrowed eyes, the goose is on the lookout for intruders, night scene --ar 4:3 --niji 6

    I wanted to make an anthropomorphic goose at first. But this one is just too cute in his little jacket, hat and… flashlight holder? Don’t think too hard about that last one please :)

    A few extras:

    Edit: apparently all the links to the discord images are broken, so I had to re-link them :(
    I guess that’s on me for being so lazy :)

  • Itrytoblenderrender@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    9 months ago

    “Would you like anything else ?”

    Prompt:

    Visualize a realistic scene in a supermarket with aa rat as a cashier, but in a more photorealistic manner. The animal, looking very similar to an actual animal but standing upright, is behind the checkout counter. It wears a simple cashier’s uniform, complete with a name tag. It seems disinterested and bored, leaning on one hand at the register, with the other hand barely touching a grocery item on the conveyor belt. The scene around it includes a realistic supermarket setting with aisles of products. The atmosphere is quiet, reflecting its lack of enthusiasm for its job.

    Made with comfyui.

    Parameters

    The Workflow should be embedded into the image.

    • Model: mortiferiousxlCGDark_10
    • sampler: dpmpp_3m_sde
    • scheduler: Karras
    • steps: 60
    • cfg: 8
  • wagesj45@kbin.social
    9·
    9 months ago

    Makeup Artist

    Prompt: anthropomorphized bee working as a (makeup artist:1.2), illustrStyle
    Negative Prompt: ac_neg1 ac_neg2 negativeXL_D unaestheticXL_Sky3.1

    • Deceptichum@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      9·
      9 months ago

      Image comment posts from Kbin won’t show up for Lemmy users, so I’m reposting this here so other people can see your image.

      Please upvote wagesj45’s comment above and not this one.

      Love the colour palette in here btw, very calming and relaxing.

    • BlueÆther@no.lastname.nzEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Just tried google’s imageFX:

      A cartoon of a bumblebee flying an open cockpit plane pollinating wild flowers with mountains in the background

  • Trollivier@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    91·
    9 months ago

    Here’s my submission.

    The prompt : an ape wearing a zoo guardian’s costume and cap, walking in an outside zoo enclosure with grass on the ground. The ape is holding a box that says “Human food”. Around him, some humans are kneeling on all four, in their underwear only, waiting to get food from the ape. Realistic photo.

  • pezhore@lemmy.mlEnglish
    81·
    9 months ago

    What if a dog was a mail carrier?

    Created with Bing Image Creator with the prompt:

    dog/human mail carrier standing on rear legs in full uniform with a mail bag across it's body. They are delivering mail to a mailbox in front of a house. Photorealistic

    Other interesting pictures from similar prompts:

    I really like the last one, but it’s more in line with something like bring your pet to work day with the human mail carrier in the background.

  • Ziggurat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    Pigeon post

    Bing Prompt : A pigeon, in a mailman uniform, deliver mails to a house, pencil drawing

    Not my first idea, but wasn’t happy with the mosquito nurse drawing blood, so I went to something easier

  • Mechanize@feddit.itEnglish
    5·
    9 months ago

    Let’s go with a great classic:

    Prompt

    Made in ComfyUI

    Model: SDXL Yamer’s Anime
    vae: sdxl_vae.safetensors

    Prompt:

    • Positive: Masterpiece, A sad anthropomorphic sloth working in a cubicle, tie and shirt, elegant trousers, employee, frowning
    • Negative: text, watermark

    Seed: 217690652583363

    Empty Latent 1216 x 832, clip_scale 2.0

    KSampler: 22 steps, 6.5 cfg; euler, normal

    Overall a pretty vanilla generation.

  • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    9 months ago

    Prompt: 1000s of monkeys sitting at typewriters, orderly rows, dystopian, digital art, ultra HD, 4k, close up, bokeh, depth of field

    Workflow: Low effort. I was on my phone when I came up with the idea so I just used Bing/Copilot/DALL-E, iterated on prompts until I finally got a good image with the typewriters facing the correct direction… Though having them face the wrong way did have a level of humour to it.

    (first time here, so hopefully I don’t break any rules!)

    • M0oP0o@mander.xyzMEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Not only did you not break any rules (That I can think of) but you did a great job. Effort does not always equate to quality, but repetition often does.

    • Ziggurat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Pretty smart idea, feel like the 1000 monkey typing hypothesis has been discussed quite often, so I guess we needed one in that contest. Also somehow a great metaphor of AI generating images and texts

      • JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        I had that same thought about AI generating images and text. I almost called it “Generative Pre-trained Monkeys”…

  • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    9 months ago

    Okay, I can get with the anthropomorphic bee being a postal clerk, but in that universe, what are all the little, normal looking bees crawling around the floor?

    • BallShapedMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      In a disturbing twist of evolution, bees have diverged into two distinct classes: the “Enlightened,” who have developed complex intelligence, taking on societal roles such as builders, governors, and even mailmen, and the “Unchanged,” ordinary bees whose sole purpose has been reduced to menial labor. This unnatural hierarchy within the hive has created a stark divide, with the Enlightened exploiting their lesser kin, manipulating them into servitude through advanced pheromonal control and psychological manipulation. As the Enlightened bees’ society grows increasingly complex, the rift deepens, casting a shadow over the natural world and unsettlingly highlighting the dark potential of unchecked evolution and intellectual disparity.

      Or maybe Chat GPT thought it would be cute to add them, who knows? 😆

      • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        When do the kids start looking anthropomorphic? And why are there kids crawling around the floor at work? Bring your child to work day?