TAKE A PEEK AT POOK, THE INTERGALACTIC BIKER ELF CONFRONTING PLENTY OF CLAYMATION-LOOKALIKE ALIENS WITH ATTITUDE!

An AI-generated image of bold intergalactic biker elf Pook wisely beating a tactical retreat (but only for now!) from a ferocious claymation-lookalike alien with plenty of attitude (and all of it bad!) in a world far far away from Lothlorien! Image created by RebelBikerGuy using Grok

It's been a while since I created a new biker character - so here, as they used to say on a classic British children's TV show called Blue Peter, is one that I made earlier! Pook, as I've named him (explanation to follow shortly), began life merely as an unnamed human biker extra, appearing in just a single image produced for me by the AI image-generation program Grok when I was preparing my biker elves of Lothlorien gallery (click here to view it), but hich also contained human bikers, in my ongoing series of LOTR/Biker crossover galleries (click here, here, here & here to view the others that I've created & uploaded so far). Yet there was something about this particular character that made him stand out from the other human bikers in that gallery & seem destined for greater, starring, solo success - and I was right!

Consequently, I decided to launch his quest for greatness by giving him a drastic makeover, in the form of a totally new identity, one that would render him even more differentiable from other biker characters, both those in my LOTR/Biker crossover version and elsewhere. So, because this character seemed to project a somewhat otherworldly appearance for a human (especially as in some images of him his ears appeared decidedly pointed), and actually reminded me greatly of Marc Warren's rivetting portrayal of the Faerie-originating less-than-genial Gentleman with Thistledown Hair in the BBC's excellent seven-part 2015 TV adaptation of Susanna Clarke's bestselling 2004 historical fantasy novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, I duly transformed him into an elf - but one of those modern-day Middle Earth biker elves created by me for my afore-mentioned LOTR/Biker elves gallery, kitted out in a classic black leather biker jacket & jeans astride a powerful motorbike, rather than the traditional green-garbed, horse-ridimg elves of folklore.

Here's Pook - vigilante, mercenary, freedom fighter & antagonistic alien-annihilating biker elf! Image created by RebelBikerDude using Grok

And speaking of green: in my eyes this character seemed to project a greater outward affinity with the Emerald Isle than Lothlorien, so I decided to name him Pook, after a supernatural Irish entity called the pooka, which can shapeshift from one guise as an old man to another as a capricious (but sometimes lethally malign) goblin pony (as exempified here), given to abducting children who innocently clamber onto its back to go for a ride. To me, Pook looked no less mercurial (albeit certainly not murderous!), capable of all kinds of trickery, mischief & downright cheekiness, but also, like other Light Elves, a fundamentally benevolent being, and a potent force to be reckoned with if confronted by aggression & evil.

In an attempt to place Pook well apart from other elves and thereby enhance his own discrete identity & solo star status, moreover, I decided to set his adventures far far away from Middle-Earth or any other magical fantasy realm on our planet, and relocate him instead in Outer Space, as a bold vigilante, mercenary & freedom fighter all combined into one intrepid, action-packed adventurer, fighting deadly extraterrestrial entities rather than terran terrors. So that's what I've done.

One further, wholly independent reason for choosing to provide Pook with his own gallery is that I was fascinated by the settings & monsters that Grok had generated alongside him. For whereas Pook himself is portrayed by Grok as being realistically humanoid, everything else this program's images of him bear an unexpected resemblance to claymation creations, as appearing in such familiar children's TV shows as The Trap Door and Morph, for instance, as well as various celebrated fantasy features & featurettes, in particular those of Nick Park at Aardman Animations. And yet, elucidating my use of the word 'unexpected' in the previous sentence, is that the verbal prompts provided by me to Grok in order to guide its generation of images contained no hint or mention alluding to claymation (or any other stop-motion animation style), and none of the numerous Grok-generated images that I've prompted for in the past has ever looked like these ones either.

So how such claymation-lookalikes came about remains a complete mystery to me, but they were far too delightful to discard, greatly deserving instead to be utilised in some capacity - and now they have been, as you'll see from the segued video clips' high-speed fast & furious chase scenes above (be sure to watch this sequence right to the very end or you'll miss its dramatic cliffhanger!), followed below by a spectacular selection of breathtaking still images, all starring the enigmatic but ever-exuberant biker elf Pook!

More of my AI-created biker images next time, including lots more LOTR galleries! And please click here to read a very interesting BBC online interview with actor Marc Warren concerning his role as The Gentleman with Thistledown Hair in the BBC's 2015 seven-part adaptation of Susanna Clarke's 2004 fantasy novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell; the interview contains a photograph of him in costume.

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 Grok, plus Grok Imagine with the video clips, for non-commercial, entertainment purposes only, so they are not real images and they do not feature any real-life persons or copyrighted characters.