Chris Raroque

It might surprise people, but I've found also that for coming up with novel mascots, ChatGPT is actually better than Gemini, better than NanoBanana from Google.

I think NanoBanana is very good if you want to make iterations, so when you have the base mascot, but I am still finding myself making actual mascots, like the first version, in ChatGPT.

Okay, let's see what it does here, and then let's see what it copies.

Also another pro tip when you're using ChatGPT for image generation, the more you ask of it, the harder or the worse it usually gets.

So it starts deviating and then you start getting that kind of ChatGPT style that you see in a lot of ChatGPT images.

If you ask it to just do one thing really well, it's way better at following instructions.

so okay let's see it did come up with a banana um i think it did kind of it did keep some of the shadowing that's here for sure it kept the tongue it actually kept also really the same style as the eyes even the lines yeah are pretty similar so i think it did a good job of keeping the style because that this is what we gave it so it's like it does seem like it's kind of similar um

We could keep riffing off of it.

There's so many things you can keep riffing off of it.

I think what I would do, again, my advice is

if you can use original art somehow, or a combination.

Actually, let's just see what happens here.

I have no idea what it's going to do if I do this.

If I feed in both this hand-drawn illustration of my dog and the Snapchat mascot, both the ghost and dog mascots,

I've noticed also when you do combinations, you get very interesting results.

I literally have no idea what it's going to do here, but it'll be cool to see because we at least know what's going to happen if we just did the ghost.

Let's see what happens if we do both.

But this is actually a way to, because I think something that I'm really worried about when I made a video explaining how I do this stuff, I explicitly was like,

do not try to copy someone's style one for one like you need to be original here so definitely if you're going to do it make sure you just iterate a ton so it looks very different or again use original art or mash like three or four things and get the elements that you like from it to get something unique that's probably what I would do because I know that if someone's going to do this the first thing they're going to do is just probably throw in the Duolingo owl or some logo that they really like oh my god what is this laughing

it's very different okay i see that it's it's okay it's more 3d already yeah it looks like a lot more like you can tell it has a lot more depth it's probably because it now has two references of something with a little bit more depth like this has a like some more shadows here wow that is insane and it kept the bow so now it has the tongue and it has the bow from my dog um