Recently I've been experimenting with DALL-E 2, one of the models that uses CLIP to generate images from my text descriptions. It was trained on internet text and images, so there's a lot it can do, and a lot of ways it can remix the stuff it's seen online. I decided to have it generate new horsies.

This is "Product photo of a breyer horse model of a guinea pig"

A chunky horse with guinea pig markings, guinea pig ears, and a guinea pig face. Its legs are short but hooved.

I chose Breyer because the brand has been around so long that there are plenty of pictures of Breyer horses online, and also because they have a distinctive realistic style and matte plastic texture.

A horse toy with opossum face and ears, and opossum coloration. Its tail is long and bony.
Prompt: "Product photo of a breyer horse model of an opossum"

These particular models never existed, though.

Mostly looks like a chipmunk, but body and legs are very horselike. The tail is arched in a very horse toy like way.
Prompt: "Product photo of a breyer horse model of a chipmunk"
skinny, spiky black horse with armor-like texturing. The tail is arched over the horse's back and has a scorpion stinger.
Prompt: "Product photo of a breyer horse model of a scorpion"

It sometimes can produce unexpected solutions to strange combinations. How to combine a four-legged horse with a two-legged rooster? Maybe as a three-legged animal.

A slim horse with beak, wings, and rooster tail. It has three horse legs, two in front, and one in back.
Prompt: "Product photo of a breyer horse model of a rooster"

For some animal-horse combinations, I found that it wouldn't be horse-shaped unless I added "horsie" to the end. So, here is "Product photo of a breyer horse model of godzilla horsie"

Metallic grey horse toy with claws, a glowing red eye, and spiked mane. Tail is thick with dragon spikes.
Prompt: "Product photo of a breyer horse model of godzilla horsie"

And "Product photo of a breyer horse model of a poison dart frog horsie"

A slippery noodly-legged horse with red frog eyes and frog back legs and poison dart mottling.
Prompt: "Product photo of a breyer horse model of a poison dart frog horsie"

And "Product photo of a breyer horse model of a leaf-tailed gecko horsie"

A bony, scaly horse toy with large gecko eye and striped tail. Face is very lizardy, though it also has a large pointed ear.
Prompt: "Product photo of a breyer horse model of a leaf-tailed gecko horsie"

I hope you have enjoyed these.

A green snail shell with a hairless white horse front half emerging from it. The horse has no mane, skinny ears, and a long drooping muzzle. Its back end is a pointed snail foot.
Prompt: "Product photo of a breyer horse model of a snail"

Bonus post: more horsies!

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