Feel free to use my prompts, switch them around, modify them, can't wait to see what people come up with. I love the advertising aesthetic mashed up with the grotesque, the more of these images that are out there, the better as far as I'm concerned.
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Z-Image Turbo is difficult to get right, but once you've figured out what it likes and doesn't like, you can generate some pretty amazing stuff. So far I've found that it's quite finicky with the syntax and descriptors, and it doesn't know what a lot of things are so it will often completely ignore you. By far the biggest challenge was getting it to not use any english letters or words.
The prompt structure that seems to work is:
-------- A [object/service] made of [descriptor 1] [descriptor 2] [material or trait] [where it is / what it is doing]. [Optional humanoid or second object]. Front-facing advertisement scan, [layout], [aesthetic]. [decade], [ad style], [paper condition], [palette], [mood]. [headline style]. [text-zone 1] and [text-zone 2] have [decorative symbol patterns / nonalphabetic pictographs / occult ornament marks / abstract glyph rows / strange printed icons / mysterious cryptographs / unusual hieroglyphic patterns / unreadable catalogue texture] (don't pick more than 2 of these symbol descriptions). All ad-copy areas are ornamental printed symbol patterns and abstract marks. --------------
Negative prompt: cute, whimsical, playful, campy, cartoonish, mascot, funny, cheerful, happiness, soft, friendly, adorable, fantasy, alien, comic, childlike, goofy, charming, plush, text, numbers, letters, readable text, readable letters, readable language.
You may have to use the "evolve" feature to remove any stubborn english lettering because it is determined to shove those english letters in there, no matter what.
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For most of the earlier ones I'm using the GPT2 generator, Best prompt so far is:
Create a different image each time: a flat scanned full-page advertisement from an alternate 1960s–1980s magazine, rendered as simple period-authentic commercial illustration with limited detail, sparse backgrounds, flat shapes, bold forms, halftone dots, offset print texture, faded ink, and slight aging.
Populate the advertisement with commercial figures that are body horror nightmare creatures wearing human skins, with boneless postures. Show malformed consumer-creatures made of waxy flesh, incomplete faces, branching limbs, misplaced sensory organs, fused torsos, tendrils, organ-like folds, rib-like growths, and boneless postures. They should appear posed as if cheerfully endorsing a product, but their anatomy should feel unstable and misassembled.
The product should be the central focus of the image, an invented surreal biomechanical object from a cursed consumer culture: living food packaging, wet chrome health equipment, ceremonial grooming devices, breathing children’s toys, devotional kitchen gadgets, or organic office technology.
Design the layout like an authentic old print ad with fake slogans, product labels, seals, and typography, but all wording must be unreadable occult glyphs and eldritch symbols only.
Keep the visual style restrained and believable as a real last-century advertisement.
---Negatives: english words, latin letters, english letters, glossy, ultra detailed, intricate, photorealistic, hyperreal, cinematic
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It seems to works even better if you upload an existing advertisement, in which case use GPT2 with the following prompt:
Flat front-facing scan with the print-era limitations of the 1960's: clean vintage layout, cheap magazine printing, limited detail, 1970's art style. Use a limited color palette. Completely change any humans into body horror nightmare creatures wearing human skins, with boneless postures. Keep them stylized and period-authentic rather than hyper-detailed. Change the appearance of the product to look surreal, organic, profane, and eldritch. Make the image look like a 1960's billboard advertisement, with a title and a product description, but in profane symbols. Distort any english letters or words into profane surreal symbols, distort all english letters and words, do not retain any of the original image's text.
---Negatives: english words, latin letters, english letters, glossy, ultra detailed, intricate, photorealistic, hyperreal, cinematic
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Try to avoid using commonplace words like alien, mutant, freak, telephone, television, earring, etc because they seem to be too stereotypical and will mostly dominate the image and refuse any modifications. Instead use nonspecific phrases like "communication device" or "household appliance".
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