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Creating a cartoon with GenAI

Just a quick post on using ChatGPT4o to produce cartoons. The idea is inspired by a tweet by Dr Thomas Lancaster see below




Slightly modified it to get it to create the images and combine them in a GIF.


Prompt 1
The language is British English. You are an experienced comic book designer and a witty writer. Create a guide to being a Computing student in Higher Education in the UK using a comic book narrative. This should be educational and entertaining. The comic will have 8 panels and the style consistent between panels, You will generate the graphics for each panel separately; as seperate images. using speech bubbles (a maximum of 5 words). Reduce all other textual output to a minimum. 

Prompt 2
generate the images and combined the images into a file called computing_student2.gif




Have go it is fun to do.




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