Rugby Socks with Stripes
Rugby players hanging out in the living room in their long rugby socks with thick stripes.
I made these after the wonderful photos that ruggersox2 posts to his Instagram profile. I have always loved them, but they’re hard to render with AI using the existing checkpoint models because of the lack of training data. (In layman terms, the machine won’t know how to render a concept or keyword unless they have been trained with them)
Although these socks don’t go over the knee as he likes them, this is the closest rendering I’ve been able to get with any model. Flux Pro is quite impressive in this regard.
From technical point of view, I have a strong belief that Flux Pro forces beautiful and structurally logical hand and feet because all of them have some type of built-in articulation that’s very apparent once you have rendered enough of it. I have rendered about 2000 images via the API this way, and I noticed how the fingers and toes always seem to have this added level of details that you won’t see from the older models. Looking at the images here, you would see that the toes are almost too individually defined — making them look as if Vibram Five Fingers decided to make a new socks line.
If you look at image 7, you can see how well this model renders light hitting on the skin and the glimmer of body hair reflection. The level of realism is detailed and quite amazing.
Stable Diffusion via Replicate API. Flux Pro, 30 steps, Lightroom, Topaz Gigapixel AI.
