{"id":22743,"date":"2025-04-04T00:55:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T07:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=22743"},"modified":"2025-04-22T09:14:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T16:14:57","slug":"rustlin-up-some-russells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/04\/rustlin-up-some-russells\/","title":{"rendered":"Rustlin’ up some Russells"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

2025 marks an unheard-of 40th year in Adobe creative director Russell Brown’s remarkable tenure at the company. I remember first encountering him via the Out Of Office message marking his 15-year (!) sabbatical (off to Burning Man with Rick Smolan, if I recall correctly). If it weren’t for Russell’s last-minute intervention back in 2002<\/a>, when I was living out my last hours before being laid off from Adobe (interviewing at Microsoft, lol), I’d never have had the career I did, and you wouldn’t be reading this now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In any event, early in the pandemic Russell kept himself busy & entertained by taking a wild series of self portraits<\/a>. Having done some 3D printing with him (the output of which still forms my Twitter avatar<\/a>!), I thought, “Hmm, what would those personas look like as plastic action figures? Let’s see what ChatGPT thinks.” And voila, here they are<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click through the tweet below if you’re curious about the making-of process (e.g. the app starting to render him very faithfully, then freaking out midway through & insisting on delivering a more stylized, less specific rendition). But forget that\u2014how insane is it that any of this is possible??<\/p>\n\n\n

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Can you show ChatGPT 5 portraits of legendary Adobe creative director Russell Brown and get a whole set of action figures? Yep! pic.twitter.com\/gLTIcGqLJ0<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 John Nack (@jnack) April 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n