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[Community Challenge #20] Retro Sci-Fi

Theme

This week's theme is Retro Sci-Fi!
Specifically any science fiction from the 40's - 60's. It's all about clunky robots, giant computers with dials, ray guns, and all the other old cheesy sci-fi tropes you can think of :)
There's a bonus point if the image matches the media of that era, for example by including cheap effects, obvious costumes, blurry film or anything else you can think of.

Prompt for post image:

a 50s cinemascope movie still of a clunky robot with an blinking lights on it's chest, in a fake looking space ship, a pilot is flying the ship, scene is shot with 8mm film --ar 16:9 --v 6.0
The image turned out better than how I intended :)

Rules

  1. Follow the community’s rules above all else

  2. One comment and image per user

  3. Embed image directly in the post (no external link)

  4. Workflow/Prompt sharing encouraged (we're all here for fun)

  5. At the end of the week each post will be scored according to the following grid

    Prize Points
    Most upvoted +3 points
    Second most upvoted +1 point
    Theme is clear +1 point
    OP’s favorite (me, this week) +1 point
    Most original +1 point
    Last entry (to compensate for less time to vote) +1 point
    Prompt and workflow included +1 point
    NEW Era appropriate effects +1 point

  6. Posts that are ex aequo (tied) will both get the points

  7. Winner gets to pick next theme! Good luck everyone and have fun!

Past entries

  1. Dieselpunk
  2. Goosebump Book
  3. Deep Space Wonders
  4. Fairy Tales
  5. A New Sport
  6. Monsters are Back to School
  7. War and Peace
  8. Distant lands
  9. Unreal Cartoons
  10. Sustainable Ecumenopolis
  11. Masks
  12. Mascots
  13. Old Gods, New Jobs
  14. Winter Festivities
  15. High Tech, Low Life
  16. Character Limit
  17. Gatsby's Jazz Hands
  18. Reel to Canvas
  19. Cruelly Cute Characters

This round's winners:

Place Winner Points
1 @BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 6
2 @merde@sh.itjust.works 5
2 @Trollivier@sh.itjust.works 5
3 @Deceptichum@kbin.social 4
3 @Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 4
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    • decided to stay with the "Damsel in Distress" theme that others started (it's the 40s 🤷) but the diffusions evolved into the damsel the distresser 😁

      some alternatives below 👇

      first or the last page of the story?

      i really like the tension in this one

    • Category Points
      Most votes +3
      Theme is clear +1
      Era approriate effects +1
      Total 5 points

      So close! Almost a shared 1st place if you included your workflow. Still, you got to a shared 2nd place! Great work!

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