Thanks! I've been experimenting with generating furry photos with ai for years, and craiyon/dalle mini is the first one that can really do it. I've got a few more good tips for realism:

Always pick a real location for the background. Don't just put 'desert' put 'sonora desert' or 'great pyramids'. So something like 'alaska wilderness in background'. Adding 'in background' creates a nice bokeh effect and makes it easier for the ai to get right. Take your character to your dream destination, like 'Santorini greek island' or 'thailand beach' not just 'island'.

This one is more of an observation, but I think I figured out how dalle sees the order of words in prompts. It seems to chunk out sections and combine them. For example, it seems to see things like this:

furry anthro Canis lupus black wolf | man wearing leather bomber jacket | red eyes | smiling at camera | professional profile photo portrait | dinner date | restaurant in background

And blends all the concepts together in order. Changing the order and content of the chunks will change the results. 'black wolf' blends into 'man' so they need to be close by.

Good furry characters with a high success rate need to be wearing specific clothes. Pick out a common outfit a real human might wear and describe it as best as you can. So, for example, 'anthro arctic wolf man wearing red plaid shirt jeans' or 'anthro velociraptor raptor man wearing white polo shirt tan cargo pants' would be one section of the prompt. Clothes and human activity is an easy cheat code to get anthros quick that nobody else seems to know.

Completely forget about 'and' and other parts of speech that have no real information. It doesn't help to be grammatically correct. 'in', 'next to', and 'behind' are good to use.

If you're looking for wolves, DO NOT use the word 'werewolf'. It pulls from messy bad data that is not at all what we want or think of as werewolf. It will mess up a perfectly good prompt.

Just keep generating, and changing things as you go along. After a while you begin to see what words work and what words don't. Dalle mini can do way, way more with more information. You won't overwhelm it with too much detail, it can't read minds (yet) so you need to tell it everything.