MJ: Rescue Mission Impossiburu

Gemini: realism achieved, face negotiations ongoing

The upscale produced a larger image while keeping its painted appearance. More resolution alone was not going to turn those brushlike marks into believable skin.

Upscale this image to high resolution without changing its appearance.

The realism request was the substantial transformation. Hair, skin and jewellery became much more photographic. But the face changed too.

Make this a realistic image. Do not change the face, expression or background.

Gemini made his features rounder, more moderate and more balanced. I liked the more balanced nose, but his face had lost some of the original’s slender shape.

Make his eyes more striking.

Making his eyes more striking brought more colour and emphasis to them. Then I tried to recover the narrower face while keeping the nose.

Make his face slightly narrower and restore the original’s slender, angular cheekbones and tapered jaw. Keep his current nose exactly as it is. Preserve his eyes, expression, skin texture, hair, jewellery, lighting, background and framing.

And here began the chin saga. The face became narrower, but the chin became too strong. Asking for a softer, shorter chin led to further corrections about its height, projection, cleft and relationship to the mouth.

The correction prompts

Refine only his chin. Make it slightly shorter vertically, less projecting and softly rounded at the tip, with a delicate transition into his slender jaw. Preserve his current cheekbones, face width, nose, eyes and expression. Keep the rest of the image exactly as it is.

His chin should be much closer to his mouth, with a visible cleft and a sharper shape. His jaw angle looks strange now, too. His cheekbones are also too angular; make them a little softer.

His chin is still too far from his mouth. Make it shorter, and make the cleft in his chin shallower.

Reduce his chin height by 30%, bringing it closer to his lips. Do not change anything else.

Make it look like this, but realistic.

Make it look like this, but realistic.

These were subjective visual adjustments. Instructions such as “reduce the chin height by 30%” expressed the change I wanted; they were not precise measurements the model reliably applied. The last reference-led instruction was tried twice. The exact source references and image-to-prompt mapping for every intermediate correction have not yet been confirmed.

After several iterations, I had a version I wanted to carry forward. It retained the red hair, pearls and fantasy styling, with a slender face and a photographic finish. It had also evolved from the original MJ design. This was already character development, with decisions about which changes to accept.

Flux.2 Pro: can he survive another angle?

I used the selected Gemini image as the reference for Flux.2 Pro in ComfyUI, requesting frontal, 45-degree and 90-degree studio views against a plain light background. Each prompt includes “Use the same eye colour.” The full prompts accompany the selected generations below.

I generated roughly three to four attempts for each angle and selected the strongest results. These are curated outputs, not first-try successes. Only the selected Flux results are included here; the unused attempts were not supplied.

The selected views carry enough shared features for me to develop Arian further. Jewellery arrangements vary, the expression remains slightly open-mouthed, and the selected profile does not fully achieve the strict 90-degree turn requested.

Every model leaves its own doll face behind

Each model contributes its own interpretation of the face, even when asked to preserve it. In this sequence, Gemini rounded and balanced the original painterly design. Flux tended to narrow the face again. To my eye, those influences partly balanced each other out in the selected results.

That does not make it a reliable formula for every image. In this rescue, I could work with those tendencies and select a result I liked. My job was to notice what changed and decide whether it helped.