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Saturday, September 6, 2025

INTRODUCING THE BAZILLION BIKER BROS OF PHANTASMAGORIA! - GALLERY #1: IMAGES IN PHOTO-REALISTIC PAINTING STYLE

 
An AI-generated image of one of Phantasmagoria's Bazillion Biker Bros amidst just a few of the countless - and totally unaccountable! - inhabitants of this fantastical realm; image created by RebelBikerDude using Dream Lab

I'm a Brit, so I was pleased to learn today what was for me an entirely new New World word - 'bazillion', an informal North American term referring to an exceedingly large number of anything, so large in fact that the items so described are to all intents and purposes innumerable, incalculable, countless. Consequently, as will now be seen, it's the ideal (and also ideally alliterative) word for describing my latest AI-generated biker characters - so without further ado, please welcome the Bazillion Biker Bros of Phantasmagoria!

My inspiration for this truly incalculable, countless, innumerable contingent of biker brothers came from my Disney-influenced childhood, and specifically from a series of Disney comic-strip sibling villains known as the Beagle Boys (back in those far-distant days, they only appeared in Disney comic-strips in newspapers and Disney comic-books, not in its animated shorts or full-length animated movies, but they did eventually appear in the hugely-expanded Disney universe of animated TV series - notably DuckTales - and DVDs). Invariably masked and amusingly inept, these anthropomorphic canine criminals usually appeared as a trio (but occasionally in larger numbers, up to ten at a time), and soon found themselves arrested and locked behind prison bars, only for another, identical trio of Beagle Boys to appear on the scene and take over where their now-imprisoned brethren had left off, but with the same inevitable incarceration result, upon which yet another identical BB trio would appear, and so on. No-one knew how many Beagle Boys there were in total, and apart from each one having his own unique prison number embroidered upon his red sweater, there was no way of telling them apart anyway.


I liked the idea of a band of biker brothers of seemingly unlimited number, but I made some changes to the Beagle Boys concept by making every Bazillion Biker Bro physically and behaviourally distinct (a few of them even sport wings, one of whom, moreover, prefers riding horses to motorbikes!), and turning them into heroes rather than villains. Also, and as readily seen in this blog, I've always been a fan of the magical realms of L. Frank Baum's Oz and Lewis Carroll's Wonderland (plus Looking-Glass World), so why not locate the Biker Bros in a truly fantastical, psychedelic, inconceivably surreal realm of their own,  populated by all manner of indescribably strange & thoroughly incongruous inhabitants so outrageously bizarre, grotesque & unimaginably outlandish, not to mention more than a little macabre, monstrous, or even downright menacing in some cases, that the afore-mentioned Oz & Wonderland would seem positively straight-laced and sober in comparison!

So that's what I did, and here is what I plan to be the first of many galleries devoted to Phantasmagoria and its limitless & quite literally fraternal biker brotherhood. Dream Lab's generation of this weird and wacky realm's equally OTT occupants has truly surpassed itself in its imaginative largesse, especially given the fact that my verbal prompts deliberately provided virtually no descriptive details, choosing instead to allow this AI image-generation program free reign on how they would look. And as I'm sure you'll agree, the results are trul;y spctacular in their diversity and detail, as well as exquisitely beautiful in their splendour and colour, exemplified by this first gallery's images, which are all presented in the style of lush photo-realistic paintings.





























































































































(Incidentally, the final image uploaded here, which appears immediately above this present paragraph, exhibits a rather more comic-strip/line-drawing art style than the much more photo-realistic painting style exhibited by all of this gallery's other images. This in turn gave me the idea of creating a second, companion gallery in which all of the Bazillion Biker Bros and other inhabitants of Phantasmagoria represented in it are portrayed in a comic-stri/line-drawing art style, thus encouraging viewers to compare and contrast the two galleries' images. So look out for that second, companioin gallery soon!)
 
More of my AI biker images next time!

Plus: please click here to access a chronological listing of fully clickable links to all galleries uploaded by me on this blog. NB - all of the images included in this page's gallery were created by me, RebelBikerDude, using the AI image-generation program Dream Lab, for non-commercial, entertainment purposes only, and do not feature any real-life persons or copyrighted characters.
 

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