Try the workbench

I don't have art skills. I remembered how Scott Robertson built creatures out of found objects in Alien Race, and ChatGPT helped me build a tool to try it: pick ordinary things like bark, bone and bellows, shuffle them, mirror them, tilt them, and see what turns up. Sometimes it's a creature. Sometimes it's a ship, or a gadget nobody asked for. The newest part is the Design lens: label the pieces as head, body, limbs or details, lock the ones you love, and build comparison sheets. See where it led ▸

Not an AI image generator. The Alien Form Workbench is a digital collage and discovery tool. It uses programmed rules and randomness to combine and manipulate images of everyday materials, creating unexpected forms that can inspire creatures, ships and objects. The artist chooses what to keep and how to develop it. The starter material images were themselves made with AI, as plain studies of ordinary objects. Some of the finished concept studies shown here were then created with AI image generation, using earlier collage explorations as visual references.

It's locked for now. If I gave you the password, come play. Everything you make stays in your browser.