76 Johan Eldorado Bomb Gets AI Inspiration

[Lunajammer]

I've had this bomb in my junkers box for some time and I'm considering a custom makeover by redoing the top and back and maybe the trunk. You can see the front of the top is gone and rear bumper is broken and missing. For inspiration, I explored generative AI to see what might look cool. 

This is what I've got.

 

I selected the area I want to change and gave minimal prompts, just to see what AI would come up. For the first one I used an internet convertible. First pic of each example is the real car. AI seems to favor a sedan in this set.

Love the traditional Cadillac look in this one, including the homage to the era of fins. There are a few of those wonky details I'm willing to overlook since I'm seeking inspiration, not logic.

 

This profile shot seemed to make trouble for generative AI. Most of the time I just got craziness, like it didn't really know what it was looking at. Here's the original...

????

 

In this set, AI seemed fully in control and gave some beautiful clean results...

 

This up-top convertible offered some interesting considerations, but AI simply would not understand my prompts for a "station wagon."

 

 

Edited April 4, 2024 by Lunajammer

[Lunajammer]

This one gave me the most consistently interesting options. 

 

I love how the car in the back of this one even got a little PT Pronto treatment. This vert also required me to give it a little Photoshop treatment to dial  out some wonkiness to preserve an otherwise great rendering.

[Lunajammer]

This one has some exciting ideas that I'd like to explore more for my model.

 

[Lunajammer]

Lastly is this '70. I have a junker of one of these too, unbuilt but missing the chassis and engine so I thought I'd explore some ideas here. 

 

Again, I'm willing to accept the wonkiness of AI's uncertainty on some of this one, but I'm stoked about the concept.

[Bainford]

Some very interesting renderings. A little bit of craziness and some intriguing ideas. I thought the fastback would look good, but the side profile images did not look right at all. I think there could be hope for a fastback, but the roofline would need some careful consideration. 
 

Very cool tool!

[Ace-Garageguy]

Interesting, and a couple even have some merit.

Also interesting is that even the worst of them (well, almost) are no more horribly bizarre than some of the styling departments' and talentless customizers' efforts in days past.

The '70 Eldo is one of the most perfect designs to ever have been built, so it's no real surprise that AI fails to improve it...though I wonder where it got the idea for the reverse-leaning back window that looks like an old Mercury...

[Little Timmy]

Instead of prompting AI  for a station wagon, try prompting for a hearse.

( can't wait to see where this goes. )

 

[Lunajammer]

16 minutes ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

.though I wonder where it got the idea for the reverse-leaning back window that looks like an old Mercury...

I had to explain this very car to my buddy at work when I showed him the pics since there's hardly another American car like it. On some of the prompts I had to specify "American" car, since a lot of results on certain pictures had a distinctive European influence.  Think Austin FX4 London taxi.

[Lunajammer]

2 minutes ago, Little Timmy said:

Instead of prompting AI  for a station wagon, try prompting for a hearse.

( can't wait to see where this goes. )

 

Tried it, along with any other term I could think of for long roof. I even tried "van roof" and I got a notice about using restricted verbiage. Maybe it thought "van roof" was a proper noun, a person's name. I also got restricted using the term "shooting brake."

[Little Timmy]

Delivery sedan?

Panel van ?

( I'm determined  to " help". )

 

[Tabbysdaddy]

Maybe try 8 passenger. 

[Lunajammer]

18 minutes ago, Tabbysdaddy said:

Maybe try 8 passenger. 

I did get a six door limo once, but it was really messed up.

[Ace-Garageguy]

1 hour ago, Lunajammer said:

Tried it, along with any other term I could think of for long roof. I even tried "van roof" and I got a notice about using restricted verbiage. Maybe it thought "van roof" was a proper noun, a person's name. I also got restricted using the term "shooting brake."

Sounds like a google product. 

[MeatMan]

My wife hates AI so much that I think she'd hurt me physically if she knew I'd tried something like that! ?