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Inspiration might not have been the right word... influence maybe? I've been using my middling skills to cobble together my own graphics for TEW for the past decade, so anyone who did any work with logos, renders, titles, etc has my respect, having spend countless hours myself before realizing I don't have a talent for it. All of that makes a lot of sense - I didn't even think about copying the letters from the bottom text, but that would have been a lot easier than trying to salvage the scraps of letters on the top half. Do you often switch the brush you use with the Clone tool? I find myself being a bit lazy with it, just keeping the same default brush and playing with the opacity if I don't want a 1-1 clone. I've used Dodge/Burn sparingly - honestly I've strayed away from trying to salvage logos with textured background for letters I need to fix for the sake of time, but as I have been cranking out 20-30 logos and belts a day I'm getting a lot faster at doing all of this. Thanks for this - As I go through the CVerse if I ever get any logos I really like but can't figure out how to clean up, I'll post them here. As @lavelleuk answered above, CGC merged with NOTBPW in TEW2020 and a lot of the event names carried over. In the default data, there are CGC event logos, so I wanted to take a swing at those. CGC's been a fan favorite company for as long as I've been on here - it's a bit sad, but I think both CGC and NOTBPW were both popular (despite the latter's atrocious name) while I barely see anyone play as CWA. Thanks, glad you guys are enjoying it. I am pretty motivated right now (with an end goal in sight), so over the next couple months I'll probably be cranking out a couple sets of event logos and belts until I fill out the default data. ___________________________________ QPW was a lot of fun, because it was the first promotion (other than the ones from my personal game) where it felt like a completely blank slate - I don't think I've seen ANYONE do anything with QPW, be it graphics, dynasties, etc. I hope giving a fresh coat of paint on all of these forgotten promotions will inspire some people to give them a shot. QPW Event Names - QPW Lutte Classique - QPW Classic Wrestling QPW Choc des Titans - QPW Clash of the Titans QPW Bataille Royale - QPW Royal Battle OR Battle Royale (either translation works) QPW Les Grands Duels - QPW The Great Duels QPW Combat de la Couronne - QPW Battle for the Crown QPW Guerre des Étoiles - QPW Star War (or War of the Stars, but this could be confused with Star Wars) QPW Fracas Montréalais - QPW Montreal Brawl QPW La Conquête - QPW The Conquest QPW Héritage Québécois - QPW Quebec Heritage QPW Affrontement Nordique - QPW Northern Clash QPW Les Maîtres de la Lutte - QPW Masters of Wrestling QPW Le Grand Frayeur - QPW The Big Scare QPW Suprematie - QPW Supremacy QPW Survivant - QPW Survivor QPW Oubli - QPW Forgotten (Thank you @Harts4Life for corrected translations!) I came up with a bunch of belts to give people the option of what to use - I also included a trophy title for the "King Of Quebec", both a title belt and a crown and scepter. My thought is it would be won at QPW Combat de la Couronne (Battle For The Crown), but again use these however you want! Since there were no events by default, I made 15 different event logos that you can use however you see fit, and the same goes for the titles. QPW Belts; Canadian / Quebec / Tag Team King Of Quebec (Belt and Trophy)

Thank you all for the comments, I'll get to them in a bit - wanted to post these before dinner. I have the titles and the event names/translations as well, but I'll post those and edit that in her afterwards. QUEBEC PRO WRESTLING (QPW) EVENTS: QPW Lutte Classique - QPW Classic Wrestling QPW Choc des Titans - QPW Clash of the Titans QPW Bataille Royale - QPW Royal Battle OR Battle Royale (either translation works) QPW Les Grands Duels - QPW The Great Duels QPW Combat de la Couronne - QPW Battle for the Crown QPW Guerre des Étoiles - QPW Star War (or War of the Stars, but this could be confused with Star Wars) QPW Fracas Montréalais - QPW Montreal Brawl QPW La Conquête - QPW The Conquest QPW Héritage Québécois - QPW Quebec Heritage QPW Affrontement Nordique - QPW Northern Clash QPW Les Maîtres de la Lutte - QPW Masters of Wrestling QPW Le Grand Frayeur - QPW The Big Scare QPW Suprematie - QPW Supremacy QPW Survivant - QPW Survivor QPW Oubli - QPW Forgotten (Thank you @Harts4Life for corrected translations!) TITLES:

I felt like for a promotion that is (was) a favorite to many, I needed to give their logo another shot. CGC: EVENTS: TITLES: I think as I do each promotion, I'll post all their graphics together like this - seeing them all together helps to make sure the aesthetic all feels right, and makes it easier to spot any that stand out in a bad way. Tomorrow I'll be doing MAW so I can finish the last promotion with default event graphics, then I'll work through Australia unless anyone has any promotions they want to see.

VWA: (@Genking) Events: Titles:

Absolutely love these - I love the idea of seeing promotions with different styles through the years, and these are just incredible. Amazing work as always, whether with AI, DAZ, or Photoshop.

Thanks everyone for the feedback. Especially happy to see guys like @Mammoth and @willr0ck, who are pretty big inspirations for the stuff I've been doing - most of my stuff before now has been frankensteining images together in GIMP to get something passable for my personal games, but the work you and many others here have done are a big reason I'm doing what I am now! Right now I have no plans to do that - renders, to me, are very tough and time consuming, and the first thing I'll be rerendering is every single wrestler and regen in my current save... I don't have a good way to measure how much that is, but probably a couple thousand? I don't think I'll get to rendering anything else any time soon. Regardless, given that the mod is someone else's creation I wouldn't want to "re-create" anything from that mod without their blessing in the first place. This is phenomenal, thank you for taking this up - I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to hit you with a ton of questions as I'd like to be able to do this myself eventually: 1) How did you make the E and A? Since my ONE big peeve with GIMP is the super clunky text creator tool, I've been very happy that I can usually just cut and crop and edit the text I get from AI, but that's not always possible (as you can see by my original attempt). Did you find a font that was similar, or did you just create it by selecting out the rough area where you wanted the E and A and filled it in? I've done that before but never with the main text on a logo. Th shadow on the horns on the A and E is a very nice touch, I'm taking notes. 2) For recreating the background, what method do you use? My go-to is usually the clone brush, but it's not perfect with polygonal designs like the flag - I have been selecting the area I want each color to be and using the clone tool, but the results vary based on how good of a job I did highlighting the area... I've occasionally taken chunks of the texture I want from other parts of the image and layer them in behind, but I stuck with the clone brush and got mediocre results from it.

Started rendering a bit later today after watching Dynamite, and I'm locked out... ChatGPT recently dropped the limit of Chats/Hr to 25 (at least for GPTs) and blocked new user sign up for GPT+ because the demand has been so high. Hopefully things settle down soon and the limits go back to what they were. Only 2 VWA event logos so far unfortunately. Hopefully I'll have some more time tomorrow:

Here's the 21CW Belts and Trophies - I think I'll only get VWA done tonight after this. 21CW: Retired/Unused:

One other thing I wanted to add - I really wanted to fix the original Head To Head logo I got, but I struggled a lot with the text, with the partially shadowed flag as the background rather than a solid color (my bread and butter at this point). If anyone wants to take a swing, I'm curious if anyone can clean this logo up. Looking at the 150x150, I thought I messed up the flag, but it seems like the botch of it in the top right is in the original... Also, wanted to give you guys an idea of what most of these logos look like. It's roughly 1-2 of 12 that don't need fixes, so it's not as simple as finding the "right prompt" to get good logos. Prompts can just get you closer to getting a "close enough" graphic, that can get really close with some simple edits.

I think they look great, especially the 2nd belt. My opinion on creating AI graphics for a company or inspired from designs created by someone else - I think it's just good practice to get some form of permission? This AI stuff is all pretty new and there's no hard rule on it that I've seen, but I would personally consider any graphic created by someone else, using a custom promotion name or aesthetic would be in some way their intellectual property. Essentially, if someone came up with the idea for a promotion name and logo, and you re-did it with AI, I'd say that's bad manners if you didn't clear it with them. Again, that's just my opinion - I don't want to "re" create anything based off of graphics that aren't in the default CornellVerse, unless it's with permissions from whoever came up with that promotion or initial design. _______________________ I re-did 21CW Head To Head - I thought I would be able to salvage the text on the previous image, but I don't think I kept it clean enough. Here's v2 for Head To Head, I'll update the first post with all the 21CW logos as well.

Makes sense - I was expecting the Welsh Dragon vs Edison Silva match to set up Silva's next challenger, and a debut makes more sense than a champ vs champ title program so early. Nate Manchester vs Rohan Kirchner The Tribe exist to lose Red Dragon vs ??? Got to build up the next challenger for Edison Silva Landon Mallory & Dangermouth vs ??? Can't imagine these two guys losing, they are your next big babyface stars The Youth Bandits (Ian Vincible & Cannonball Logan) vs The Northern Lights (Alton Vicious & Riddick Jordan) Northern Lights are tag champs within the next year IMO. Too good not to strap up in a thin British indies scene Number One Contenders Match: Sharp & Heath (Jon Michael Sharp & Martin Heath) vs Taypen & Buzzard (Grant Taypen & Leighton Buzzard) I stand by that Sharp and Heath are one of the best indy tag teams in the CVerse, but incredibly bland. I think they win here pretty comfortably

This is the first time I've been able to get into one of your works from the beginning. It's been said to death, but your presentation is simply phenomenal and your shows are an easy read. Glad to get in at the beginning. I am not super familiar with the IPW/GSW promotions and most of their workers, so I'll give my best guesses at winners and losers based on my first impressions and write up more detail once I get a better handle of the roster... Deadly Deadshot vs Zombie Boy HAVOC Battle Royale - Hustle Muvva? Kip Keenan, Tavon Blake & Stanley Axis vs Hugh de Aske & ?? & ?? Coulrophobia vs The Night Terrors Canadian Hardcore vs Mexican Hardcore Killers Frantic Ali vs Mobstar Aldous Blackfriar vs Deacon Darkhold vs Lug Phelan

I'm a big fan of that original VWA roster, so happy to see guys like Macks, Night Spyder, Walker van Cleer, Jason Dempsey and Landon Mallory getting prominent roles in BOW. BOW Night Of Wrestling #4: BOW World Championship #1 Contender Match: Three-Way Match: Landon Mallory vs Nate Manchester vs Walker van Cleer Comments: Trying to make sure I don't get my wires crossed with NWF - I think Nate is the safe pick, but I think Manchester/Stoat is a match you run back later down the line. If Nate wins, do you have him lose again? If he were to win then beat Stoat, it feels like it cuts the legs out from him before he even got going. Going with Mallory since WVC interrupted Nate first, could see Landon vs Stoat and Manchester vs WVC at the event. BOW Tag Team Championship Tournament Quarter Finals: The Fashionistas (Gianfranco Morelli & Roberto Milano) w/Holly Leves vs The X Force (Christopher Lister & Eric Future) Comments: Coinflip, the deciding factor for me was having a face/heel bout in the semifinals. I could see The Fashionistas losing because they aren't 100% after the attack from a 2 weeks ago, but I'm leaning in the heel's favor. Hardcore Match: Milton Hittlespitz vs Night Spyder w/Laurel Wreath Comments: Going to double down - if Spyder cost Macks his match last week, the same thing will happen this week. Konrad Makinen vs Lenny Mochin Comments: Same logic to the reason I thought Merle would win last week, but this time for a younger Brit getting the rub Karen Bilous vs Steffi Chee Comments: Could be Steffi getting her win back, but Karen Bilous is an absolute monster of a woman and I think she squashes Steffi Royal Air Force (Jon Michael Sharp & Martin Heath) vs Strife & Wild Child: Comments: RAF is such brilliant branding for one of the best (bland) teams that aren't signed by a major company. Easy win for them Glen Ward w/Gavin Owen vs Jason Dempsey Comments: Dempsey has been getting some mic time, and I think he snags a win here as the Brit needs to build up his cred in front of his home country, having cut his teeth in Europe for so long

Main Event Tag Team Match COTT United States Tag Team Championship The Wild Cats vs. Hostile Takeover © w/ Clare South I don't see the champs losing in their first defense. Semi Main Event Tag Team Match FCW Tag Team Championship The Island Boys vs. Relentless © w/ Clare South I think The Island Boys are the best pick to dethrone Relentless, and given Handsome Stranger passing the baton, I can see Relentless doing the same. A new era for House Handsome with Hostile Takeover and Xavi running point perhaps? Singles Match Ox Mastadon vs. Hell’s Bouncer Tough call because I know you are a big Ox mark, but Hell's Bouncer has always been the Undertaker to Puerto Rican Power's Hulk Hogan, so I have a harder time seeing him take a loss without a solid build to it Trios Match Future Shot at COTT World Six Man Championship The Latino Kings vs. House of Handsome [Ferrera, Jones, Dreadnought] w/ Clare South Another match I can see it going either way, but I'm leaning all in with my earlier prediction that we see a new era of House Handsome Tag Team Match The Gonzalez Family vs. The Harlem Knights The Harlem Knights felt like they are clearly an undercard team in their last match, while the Gonzalez boys are always going to have a solid place in FCW. If they can't beat Curtis Shaw, who can they beat? Opening Match Singles Match “The Jackhammer” Joffy Laine vs. “The Triple Threat” Davis Wayne Newton A talent filled opener. I am leaning with DWN as I think you need some singles challengers for Mutant that aren't affiliated with House Handsome, and DWN fits that spot like a glove

Love the graphics, also was a fan of 4C but felt like they got shafted in the default data, especially considering there's only 2 Canadian companies on launch now... 4C CHAMPIONSHIP STEEL CAGE MATCH: THE EAST SIDE ASSASSIN VS AARON KNIGHT (C, 5TH DEFENSE) It's a new era, and Mr. Knight might not be long for this new era given his COTT connections #1 CONTENDER'S MATCH FOR THE 4C CHAMPIONSHIP: CHRISTIAN PRICE VS TYRONE GRAY I have 0 knowledge of the alt22 mod other than through the lens of DIW, so I'm going bullish on this - Sayeed Ali's starting a new regime in 4C with the former Citizen X, and I think we see a guy he worked a lot with in MAW getting the first shot at Ali 4C TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP: THE HARDCORE TORONTONIANS VS THE GILBERT BROTHERS (C, 4TH DEFENSE) The Gilberts are the heart and soul of 4C, so while some things may change with Ali in charge, some things should stay the same too 4C HARDCORE CHAMPIONSHIP BARBED WIRE CAGE OF DEATH ESCAPE MATCH: CARNAVAL VS KOBRA KHAN VS MOSHER VS THE ANARCHY VS THE MISFIT VS SETH WISH (C, 3RD DEFENSE) The future DIW Champion isn't dropping his title just yet IMO CANADA'S MOST WANTED VS THE BERZERKERS Can see this going either way, but The Berzerkers are one of the best hardcore tag teams in all of wrestling and I think they have a date with the Gilbert Brothers sooner rather than later, while all four men are still able to wrestle at a high enough level SHIVA VS PAUL VAUGHAN Paul Vaughan is the star of tomorrow, but Shiva is one of your top guys right now. IEYOSHI SHIMAKAGE VS LEWIS FREY I have no idea if much is different in the alt CVerse, but Shimakage is so good - in my game he left BHOTWG and formed stables in WLW and EX2010 while winning both their top titles, something I've never seen the AI do before. On paper he stands head and shoulders above pretty much every guy you have IMO KALEPO FAINU'U VS MIGUEL ANGEL GONZALES Big Pacific Islanders squashing guys is a wrestling tradition no matter what corner of the world you are in

Thanks @Black Pegasus II, I had the same thought when I saw the image. Using the GPT I built, that was the first image I got for it. Sidenote, it's kind of insane that a database called the Cornellverse didn't have default logos for either the Cornell Cup event or trophy... I updated the link to a ZIP file so you only have to do one download instead of hundreds: https://www.mediafire.com/file/bdoy5itcaca04x6/AIVerse.zip/file I'll update the first post. I have the BCG/21CW graphics in there, but I might go back and change at least one of the 21CW ones so don't get too attached. I want to finish up the events for ones that have graphics already first - that means after 21CW belts, and VWA, I'm going to work through CGC, MAW, and USPW.

Wanted to put my 2 cents in, because this has come up a lot in the past couple of weeks. You've said it yourself before and I haven't seen anyone refute it - (at least right now) AI created logos cannot replace logos and banners actually made by a human. If you look closely at probably 80% of the hundreds of logos I tweaked over the past few weeks, they fall apart! When it comes to quality, art like yours always stands out when compared to something created by a robot. You should look at it another way - with AI, people can create their own graphics more easily that are "good enough" for them, and similarly you can use it to create graphics that you might need but aren't as passionate about. There's creating graphics, creating art, when the time and effort is worth what you get out of it. It would be a tragedy for you or anyone else who makes renders, logos, belts, etc to give up doing it because AI can do it faster. In my opinion, you should use this as an opportunity to make sure the graphics you are working on are something you want to do first. Who cares if it takes you longer to make it? It's better in any way and has your personal touch on it. You know that and everyone else does to. Please don't get discouraged because of what other people are doing. What you are doing is more then just creating graphics to fill a need, you are making art.

Thanks for the praise - seeing people, especially people who haven't posted much, come on in here and give me positive feedback on these graphics is what keeps me (and every other user on here, whether it's AI, DAZ, or otherwise) motivated to keep working on this stuff. It might seem like a simple thing but it means a lot. Sure! I posted a GPT earlier that has the logic baked in, but for titles it's pretty simple. I haven't messed around with the prompt in DALL-E or Bing or anything like that, but kind issue with those is all images are square, so you just get the center buckle. This is what I put in to make sure I get the belts right: "I will be using this chat to create wrestling title belts. ALL title belts will have the following: illustration in a linear layout. landscape image. The entire length of the strap is visible. Remember the belt is a title, not a poster - do not include excessive images of wrestlers on the graphic." I added the second sentence because as I kept getting belts, the so would just continually add more and more renders of wrestlers to the belt to the point I had 10+ malformed wrestlers all posing on a single strap and buckle... You can amend the above however you want, but the key words are illustration, linear layout, landscape image, entire strap is visible.

Thanks for the feedback - if you see any others let me know! Thanks you for this - I'll update it tomorrow, so if you don't want to download each individually, give me 24 hours or so to update it. ______________________________________ @The Lloyd Did I do your baby proud? 21CW: Old version of Head to Head - I couldn't figure out the way to "save" the text, but if anyone wants to take a swing themselves I can post the full version.

Well, the forums went down right after I got locked out at 25 messages (instead of 50) for two hours. I did manage to finish up BCG, and instead of any of the promotions I have listed, I went with a different promotion for the other one I'll get done tonight. BCG:

AI Recreates the CornellVerse DOWNLOAD LINK: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/jcjzio7egwz70/AIVerse_-_Pictures LAST UPDATED - 11/14/2023 Contents: Logos - 100% [Custom promotions - WCW, PPW] Banners - 100% [Custom promotions - WCW, PPW] Belts - 5SSW, ACPW, APW*, BCG, CZCW, DIW, FCW, RAW, SWF, TCW, WINNOW*, ZEN [Custom promotions - WCW, PPW] Events - 5SSW, ACPW, APW, CZCW, FCW, SWF, TCW, ZEN - [Custom promotions - WCW, PPW] TV - 5SSW, ACPW, CZCW, FCW, SWF, TCW, ZEN - [Custom promotions - WCW] Broadcasters - NONE Stables/Dojos - Golden Army - [A ton of custom stables] People - A ton of random custom ones if people are interested, I'm likely redoing these all last after finishing the above _______________________________________ My goal is to recreate every single graphic in the base CornellVerse, as well as creating graphics for events, stables, etc that are blank in the current data. I want to try and keep the original image and design of the promotions, titles, etc as best as I can. I will be updating this download link weekly. If you have any promotions you want me to work through first, feel free to drop a comment in this thread. All of these graphics are created with AI, with me editing the vast majority of them. I am trying to balance quantity with quality, so if you notice anything that looks off and fixable (I forgot to cut out some pixels, the text is uneven to a bad degree, etc), TELL ME SO I CAN FIX IT! If you use GIMP, I included in the download link the XCF files that have all full size logos, titles, events, etc. Use them however you want! Hell, if you see a crappy cut of an event and want to take another swing at, be my guest! All files that have an image in the default data should have the exact same name as the CVerse file, so you should just be able to replace them (any or all). If there are any where this isn't the case, let me know. For the graphics that aren't in the base data (FCW and ACPW events, for example), I'm not really sure of an easier way to share it - you'll have to go into the editor and set all of those graphics. _______________________________________ These are what I am currently planning for this week. Thanksgiving week I have family in town, so I may get MORE done, or less, depending on how the week goes... EVENTS: BCG, DIW, RAW, WINNOW, ? BELTS: Finish APW and WINNOW, ?

Here's Christmas Clash and 5 SWF TV shows, 4 in the default data and one that they made in my current game: For ZEN, I made a minor adjustment to their logo. Their event logos were much easier for me, and in my game they have a TV show which I called "Chapter #". ZEN - Art Of Wrestling That's it for tonight - tomorrow I'll probably try and do 2 more promotions, and figure out how to make a ZIP file for all of these.

Well, I must have made my descriptions for the SWF event logos too complicated, or GPT is struggling tonight - hit a ton of errors, which count towards the message cap, and got into a bit of fight trying to get Supreme Challenge XXX... before realizing I can just do X and copy the symbol to avoid the content policy. Here's every event, with the Supreme Challenge XXX alt, for SWF... other than Christmas Clash. I'll finish this up, then I'm doing ZEN events. SWF: As always let me know which ones you like, and if you have some promotions you want to see let me know! I should be able to finish ZEN tonight, maybe start another. My lock out ends in about an hour, so I figure I have 2 more hours of work left in me.

Just wanted to chime in - there hasn't been 1 render that has wow'd me since I don't really have any connections with these workers. I will say, though, that the new batch of RIPW workers seemed so lifeless in their base renders, and you brought a ton of life and personality to guys I honestly would never do a double take on. Those have been great - I look forward to seeing the rest of your USPW renders, another company I've never really had much interest in.

Diesel Dan as a singles babyface is awesome, big fan of that - The Bad Truckers are, IMO, probably one of the better indy tag teams that people don't know about, but they are both older and limited so unless you get some good destiny rolls, they jump head first into time decline. You're starting to get some more "big" guys, and you can really use a physically large babyface. He's also a guy with a TON of history with Warmonger - The Bad Truckers and The Apocalypse are the two tag teams I think of when I think about DIW. A meaty clash of the titans might be on the cards in 2023. No idea who the mystery man could be, which is awesome. Another big meaty boy to throw down. I do have a theory - given Lone Rider's confusion, my bet is that the big man is some way connected to his dad. Who else would be so insistent that Lone Rider "finish the job"? He's the only character I think has a motivation to try and help Lone Rider win, that Lone Rider wouldn't be openly working with. Excited to see how it all plays out. You've done a great job of integrating Bruce The Giant into the show. He's a big deal in wrestling (he's one of the only people who has won gold outside of SZW, and the only one to have held a World title) and he feels like a big deal, and I anyone who interacts with him gets a rub. He's helped Adgee out a lot, and as a whole I think Adgee did a great job as establishing himself as THE guy in SZW.