{"id":24109,"date":"2025-12-01T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/?p=24109"},"modified":"2025-11-23T11:06:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T19:06:42","slug":"sylum-advent-2025-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-advent-2025-day-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylum Advent 2025: Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Artwork:<\/strong> Tony as a Templar (AI)<\/span><\/p>\n

Artist:<\/strong> Bj Jones<\/span><\/p>\n

Notes:<\/strong> A quick personal note.\u00a0 It’s been a rough year – actually it’s been a rough few years – basically I haven’t had much time to do any thing let alone writing.\u00a0 So this year’s main focus was playing around with AI to get our Sylum characters into historical recreations.\u00a0 \u00a0Now that’s not been easy as you’ve seen, the images just don’t quite come out right.\u00a0 \u00a0What you’re going to see for Advent is some of the best ones.\u00a0 It’s a variety of characters, from famous moments from Sylum storyline, and also historical events.\u00a0 \u00a0Also will be showcasing new imagery for the recent casting change.\u00a0 Oh and last thing – some will have a small video to show them moving.<\/span><\/p>\n

So please do enjoy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Added Note:<\/strong>\u00a0 Getting Tony as a Templar was a pain in my backside.\u00a0 \u00a0This was the closest one, and it turned out to be like one of those religious paintings.\u00a0 My theory is Speed got it commissioned as a gift, first as a joke but turned into a true heartfelt gift.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Here’s another version – I worked with a starter photo.\u00a0 It looks like Tony but the outfit doesn’t fit Templar Knight.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Artwork: Tony as a Templar (AI) Artist: Bj Jones Notes: A quick personal note.\u00a0 It’s been a rough year – actually it’s been a rough few years – basically I haven’t had much time to do any thing let alone writing.\u00a0 So this year’s main focus was playing around with …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1137,137],"tags":[1136,50,1138],"class_list":["post-24109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sylum-advent-2025","category-sylum-events","tag-ai-images","tag-bj-jones","tag-sylum-advent-2025"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Da1M-6gR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24170,"url":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-advent-2025-day-8\/","url_meta":{"origin":24109,"position":0},"title":"Sylum Advent 2025: Day 8","author":"Nicolaus Meridius","date":"December 8, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Artwork: Edward Kenway (AI) Artist: Bj Jones Note: One of the other benefits of playing with the AI is putting the actor to a character that they didn't play - for example the assassins or historical characters.\u00a0 This one wasn't the easiest - the Assassin part wasn't to hard getting\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Sylum Advent: 2025"","block_context":{"text":"Sylum Advent: 2025","link":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/category\/sylum-events\/sylum-advent-2025\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bar-banner_advent2025.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":24279,"url":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-advent-2025-day-26\/","url_meta":{"origin":24109,"position":1},"title":"Sylum Advent 2025: Day 26","author":"Nicolaus Meridius","date":"December 26, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Artwork: Paul & Cloudjumper (AI) Artist: Bj Jones Note: One more in the Dragon Series.\u00a0 Paul was the easiest part, Cloudjumper not so much.\u00a0 Matter of fact this is likely what he would look like outside the animation.\u00a0 Though with the new live action HTTYD - if they do the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Sylum Advent: 2025"","block_context":{"text":"Sylum Advent: 2025","link":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/category\/sylum-events\/sylum-advent-2025\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bar-banner_advent2025.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":24228,"url":"https:\/\/www.sylumclan.com\/sylumblog\/sylum-advent-2025-day-19-part-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":24109,"position":2},"title":"Sylum Advent 2025: Day 19 (Part 2)","author":"Nicolaus Meridius","date":"December 19, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Artwork: General Grant & Sherman (AI) Artist: Bj Jones Notes: Let me tell you a tale!\u00a0 It's not easy to get two characters in the same piece or at least not for me.\u00a0 Then I discovered a merge program, and was able to merge to images together! 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