A berry fun idea

A machine learning generated image of a chess set with pieces that look like fruit.

Machine learning image I generated using Midjourney.


A berry helpful idea generation strategy.

When I started thinking of chess set ideas I was looking at one of my pineapple planters that I designed and decided that I wanted to create something with a fruit theme. My partner even suggested fruits vs veggies.

Sketch with red pencil of a chess piece and some fruit silhouettes

I ended on settling on something more specific. Berries. They are fun because there are some fruits considered berries that we don't typically expect.

All of the following concept images are 
generated using Midjourney v4 
with a variety of prompts from myself.

Queen

A machine learning generated image of a yellow chess piece that looks like a pineapple.
A machine learning generated image of a yellow and black chess piece that looks like a pineapple.
A machine learning generated image of a black chess piece that looks like a pineapple.

King

A machine learning generated image of a wood chess piece with a stack of blueberries in it.
A machine learning generated image of a wood chess piece with a stack of blueberries in it.

Bishop

A machine learning generated image of a yellow chess piece that looks like a banana.
A machine learning generated image of an abstract yellow chess piece that looks like a banana.

Knight

A machine learning generated image of a red chess piece that looks like a horse and a strawberry.

Rook

A machine learning generated image of an abstract avocado
A machine learning generated image of an abstract avocado with a tower as the seed.

Pawn

A machine learning generated image of a chess piece that looks like a geometric blackberry
A machine learning generated image of a chess piece that looks like a raspberry.

The major way this whole process helped me was realize that I didn't want each piece to look exactly like a specific berry but more that each piece could just be inspired by a berry, loosely taking on some of it's qualities. I imagine very few of my pieces will look much like these images but they were quite helpful.

Comments

  1. Odin EllergodtDecember 1, 2022 at 9:09 AM

    I am so impressed yet again, you absolutely killed this project Vian!

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  2. Odin EllergodtDecember 4, 2022 at 3:10 PM

    I am still extremely impressed regardless of these not being your typical VRAY renders, I fully believed they were.

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