Buff Hutt & Friends Return

Hello and golly. We’re going on another trip kind of soon so I’m blowing the dust off this old thing and making sure I still know how it works. What better way to test dive something than with a big slimy Buff Hutt by your side, right?

In case you missed it last time or somehow forgot, almost exactly a year ago I decided I needed to see a very buff Jabba the Hutt and set about achieving that vision via AI art generators. It didn’t go well. Technology just wasn’t up to the challenge.

Well it’s been a WHOLE YEAR, maybe we’re due a little update. I’m in Midjourney 5.2 this time and the results are definitely better (depending on how you personally define ‘better’). Here’s a comparison of where we ended last time and where we’re starting today:

Dall-e prompt: green muscle man with Jabba the Hutt’s head

Midjourney prompt: jabba the hutt but he's really buff and sweaty at the gym, accurate face from original trilogy, lots of muscles strongman slug, candid shot with disposable film camera 1990s --ar 2:1

Okay so that’s a big difference, good job I guess, but I refuse to accept any of those large frogs as a genuine Jabba. The face still isn’t quite right of course, but I want to focus on fixing the buffness first. The next prompt attempts to trim some of the fat.

prompt: jabba the hutt but he's really buff and sweaty at the gym, accurate face from original trilogy, lots of muscles strongman slug, candid shot with disposable film camera 1990s --ar 2:1 --no fat

It’s good to see my man BH absolutely loving this process but… wow. And yikes! And bad news, dear reader, Midjourney has this new feature where you can zoom out and extend your images so… yeah, we’re going to get to see what a couple of these beefy abominations look like toe-to-tip. Lucky!

Let’s start with this gleeful little fella…

And then pan down a little because morbid curiosity never permanently scarred anyone ever…

Oh man, oh geez, oh no. Here comes another pan down…

It’s like loose calloused elbow skin all the way down, isn’t it?

NOW WAIT A MINUTE. Some kind of bonkers ghost-in-the-machine nonsense is going on here. Jabba had that menacing little pet in the movies, right? Granted that one had big ears and a beak but, like, is this THAT? I have to believe that Buff Hutt is actually in there somewhere, waiting to be discovered, and with that belief travels hope, and with that hope I continue. But first here’s what another of those last BH rejects looks like fully revealed:

jabba the hutt but he's really buff and sweaty at the gym, accurate face from original trilogy, lots of muscles strongman slug, candid shot with disposable film camera 1990s --no fat --weird 1000

I kind of cheated on that last image. As I generated the final pan down I added a parameter, —weird 1000, to really goose up the bottom bits of our most aggressive BH yet. That’s the max weird value, which just tells MJ, “yet buddy go nuts, you do you.” Unfortunately it still just gave us a yoked and juiced Ken doll. Here’s the outcome I got absent that —weird parameter altogether.

jabba the hutt but he's really buff and sweaty at the gym, accurate face from original trilogy, lots of muscles strongman slug, candid shot with disposable film camera 1990s --no fat

See? Not much difference. For comparison, here’s the simple prompt “buff hutt” with none and 1000 —weird points.

buff hutt --ar 2:1

buff hutt --ar 2:1 --weird 1000

Hey can we take a second to appreciate how happy and fabulous —weird 1000 BH is in this shot?

I hate that it’s blurry, maybe I can get him in focus with a little prompt doctoring?

buff hutt in focus --ar 2:1 --weird 1000

Oops and wonderful, I accidentally left the —weird parameter in there so it kind of doubled up on the deviation. One last digression here to see what removing that command does…

buff hutt in focus --ar 2:1

Oh well. There will never be another like you, androgynous fanciful dancing Buff Hutt bride/goddess.

Now, back to the search. Where were we?

full body pose, jabba the hutt but he's really buff and sweaty at the gym, accurate face from original trilogy, lots of muscles strongman slug, candid shot with disposable film camera 1990s --ar 2:1 --no fat

Ugh. Right. Not Buff Hutt. I really do appreciate Midjourney’s attempt at diverse casting here but… Jabba’s green, man. I hate the proximity this puts me to the “Yeehaw mermaids are WHITE, not my Ariel!” crowd, but I’m going to have to insist we try to get back to the traditional fictional slug-alien slave trader we all grew up with. Heritage not hate folks.

full slug body pose, jabba the hutt but he's really buff and sweaty at the gym, accurate movie face and green color, lots of muscles veins tendons strongman slug, candid shot with disposable film camera 1990s --ar 2:1 --no fat

That’s closer I guess. Let’s just keep moving along before someone decides I absolutely HAVE TO pan down a little on that horrorshow in the bottom lef—

Coooooool. Love it. Time for a fresh prompt. Jabba ain’t got no legs. He’s a slug alien. Give him a home gym and make him jacked.

movie scene, jabba the hutt Star Wars alien in his home gym, all buff lots of muscles, sweaty from recent workout --ar 2:1 --no legs

Wrong, bad, all you did was hide his legs and also this is a painting now? I need a movie still. Try again.

realistic live-action movie scene, jabba the hutt Star Wars alien in his home gym, all buff lots of muscles, sweaty from recent workout --ar 2:1 --no legs

No! Not my Jabba! Not buff! Not from a movie! And I want practical effects like a costume, not late-stage Lucas CG. Do it over!

realistic live-action movie scene, practical effects costume jabba the hutt Star Wars alien in his home gym, all buff lots of muscles, sweaty from recent workout --ar 2:1 --no legs --no CG

I… think it’s time to take a break. Like, that third image doesn’t even have a Hutt, buff or otherwise. I need to meditate on this. I’m going to take one last shot at it and use the exact same prompt I finished on last time we did this: “a green muscle man with Jabba the Hutt’s head.”

a green muscle man with Jabba the Hutt’s head --ar 2:1

UM ACTUALLY… yes kinda. BH even has that yellow belly in image three. And I’d definitely watch whatever Dwayne Johnson movie that is in #4. Head’s still wrong in all of them but slab a couple slug bottoms on these fellas and we’re finally more than half way there.

Glad to have a solid place to start next time. In the meantime, may the Buff Hutt watch over and protect you. Specifically one of these two:

~J