Clearly AI
AI shit like this is especially uncanny because it seems to have extra depth that’s impossible normally in the medium.
Very freaky feels like a dream and kinda hurts my eyes
It’s the shading that matches the ambient lighting. You could physically shade a real thing like this with effort but it would only look right in aligned lighting.
I really want one
Preponente
Missed opportunity: No creepy goat eyes
the creepy part is that they can spin so they are always horizontal
They can what now!?
I wish this wasn’t AI, I’d buy that in a heartbeat…
They have these on Temu, but I think they’re prints, not embroidered. I know because I have one in my cart.
It doesn’t look impossible to make, so it probably could exist, given enough of the time of a sufficiently skilled embroiderer.
The color gradients and shading would be effectively impossible, unfortunately. You could recreate the flat pattern possibly, but it just wouldn’t look the same. The detailing on the mouth especially wouldn’t work :(
Glad you used “effectively impossible” because I think it is possible, though it would be tedious as fuck to do because you’d have like a hundred different shades where each one gets used only a handful of times. It would probably take a computer program pattern helper where you tell it what colour you’re doing so it can highlight where that thread is supposed to show up. You might need to spin some of your own threads to get the correct shades, too.
That would be like a $1000 pillow for the number of hours that would need to go into it, at least.
I’ve seen stuff on r/embroidery that’s difficult to believe. E.g.:
‘Well, I have finished my new embroidery, now you can admire it’
‘I can finally reveal my latest embroidery project’
‘I tell my gran I’m into embroidery and she casually drops she used to be a master’
You could reproduce something like it, but I’m going to stand by the assertion that the subtle color gradients that cause the “shading” effect and give the AI piece depth are realistically impossible.
Those are all amazing but they’re working with the limitations of the medium masterfully, not recreating something pre-dictated. Stupid metaphor: It’s like how the graphics in windwaker still hold up while most of the other games on that platform look horrible by modern standards; they produced art that looked good on it’s own instead of art that relied on you to fill in implied details.
Once again AI broke my heart. I can’t believe some people actually look out for AI girlfriend…
Could you not also control the height of the pattern by having more stitches under the raised parts?
You for sure can! Were I doing this I’d use a 3D stitch for the teeth/gums/lips and the outlines of the eye and lower jaw (probably also combined with stitching over layers of felt (or similar) to really bulk up the depth for the whole piece, especially for the horns), but it’s going to be miserable to do and I really don’t expect such coarse stitching to look right when done that way.
The big issue I see is that the shading is just too gentle - most complex embroidery like this looks “cel shaded” because you can’t get smooth gradients with thread, and swapping different colors of thread to produce that look ruins the stitch pattern.
There are a handful of techniques wherein you create the stitch using a single thread on a blank piece, paint the color gradients on with dye, unravel the whole embroidery then recreate it exactly on the final piece. (I own an edo period tapestry where this was done, though it’s faded to where it’s extremely difficult to tell.) Needless to say it’s incredibly rare for anyone to take the time to do it this way anymore
Just throw the pattern file onto the embroidery machine and wait
Could an embroidery machine be programmed to set the stitches’ directions as in the picture?
My embroidery machine is really old, like 30+ yrs, with very basic programmability, and it can do stitches in multiple directions. It has a foot plate thing that moves the cloth as needed, and it works pretty well.
I have to imagine a newer more advanced one would be capable of something like this, tho would probably need to be simplified somewhat.
https://wilcom.com/embroiderystudio/designing
I think you can do just about anything you want
I want the shit out of this pillow
I’ll create a guest room somewhere, just to freak someone out with this pillow
I would suggest this bed set too
Looks great, but I’m not sure I’m willing to go that far. I do see some great designs there, but am more likely to go with the Minecraft style or Yggdrasil!
Oh Lord knows I wouldn’t…but my running idea is to get that in a guest room and never acknowledge it’s weird to have a full on satanic duvet in an IKEA display like guest room.
It shouldn’t really have any in it
Get out of here BBB!
It’d make a better belt buckle
I’m honestly not much of a belt buckle guy so it probably wouldn’t get as much use.
I wasn’t either and then I bought 3. Now I’m a belt buckle guy.
Wrong eyes, goats have way more demonic eyes
How about someone makes this for real? The world needs screaming goat pillows!
?I think you meant to end that with an exclamation mark.
Slop well
Prepotente?
I can only have five Soda pops a day. Ahhhhhhh
“I HAD THIS, AND YOU HAVE RUINED MY PLANS. AGAIN. YOU ARE ALWAYS RUINING MY PLANS. YOU RUIN EVERYTHING, AND THIS TIME I DO NOT FORGIVE YOU. THERE WILL BE NO MORE WARM HUGS FROM ME. YOU ARE BANNED!”
“I love you”
Anyone else thought the thing in the bottom was it’s hoof at first glance?
Fuck yeah… I so would buy this.
Sub-sub title: If your embroidering grandmother was into scaring her grandkids.
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