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Honey Badger Kaiju
A giant armored honey badger, standing in Tokyo Bay, entirely unbothered.
It started as a joke request: a honey badger destroying Tokyo. The first render came back with the badger swimming. Thirty-two renders later it stands up, wears armor, and has exactly two hands.
Art: FLUX.1 schnell, running locally in ComfyUI · Direction and layout: Claude
The process
27 minutes, cut to 27 seconds
A sped-up screen recording of the render session, ending on the finished poster.
Finished
The posters
Five finished posters. The made-up Japanese the model scribbled on the drafts has been removed, or covered with real title boxes on the first one.
Ukiyo-e, with real title boxes 
Black and red vector 
Vintage, red sun 
Vintage, orange 
Ukiyo-e, cherry blossoms
The drafts
Everything the model returned
Thirty-two renders in four rounds, exactly as generated. Some have three hands. The Japanese on the posters is invented by the model and does not say anything. Click any image to enlarge.
Round 1 · Cinematic · 4 renders
The brief said wading. The badger heard swimming.
Take 1 
Take 2 
Take 3 
Take 4
Round 2 · Cinematic, again · 8 renders
Tokyo Tower and Skytree added, black bars gone. The collapsed bridge span never showed up.
Take 1 
Take 2 
Take 3 
Take 4 
Take 5 
Take 6 
Take 7 
Take 8
Round 3 · Three poster styles · 12 renders
Vintage paper, ukiyo-e print, bold vector. Standing up this time.
Vintage 1 
Vintage 2 
Vintage 3 
Vintage 4 
Ukiyo-e 1 
Ukiyo-e 2 
Ukiyo-e 3 
Ukiyo-e 4 
Vector 1 
Vector 2 
Vector 3 
Vector 4
Round 4 · Ukiyo-e redraw · 8 renders
Redrawn to get rid of a third hand: one prompt spells out two arms, the other hides the far arm.
Two-arms 1 
Two-arms 2 
Two-arms 3 
Two-arms 4 
One-arm 1 
One-arm 2 
One-arm 3 
One-arm 4
How it was made
FLUX.1 schnell running locally in ComfyUI on a single NVIDIA GPU, four steps per image. The twelve poster drafts rendered in under two minutes. Prompts, cropping, the title boxes and this page were directed with Claude; the 27-minute screen recording was cut down to the video above.