AI Art

[Simon]

Drawing and coming up with concept art is hard... so let a computer do the hard graft!
Is it Art? Who knows - but it is great fun to play with.

1) Craiyon - Free AI art:
https://www.craiyon.com/

2) Midjourney - Beta this, great looking results:
https://www.midjourney.com/home/

Prompt: "woman ranger wielding a sword adventurer forest dynamic"
AI produced art - with no human work in a minute (Midjourney)

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You can even use it to make seamless tiling textures for use on your models:

Prompt: ornate armor texture greyscale

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[mykyl]

It’s an intriguing idea. Not sure what I think of it. Might make some folks potential customers (those that think art is easy and fast) go cheap rather than hire an actual artist.

[Hawkpelt]

Yeah, it's something I'm pretty wary of myself--I think AI art works best as a tool/supplement to the creation of art rather than an outright substitution, but there are already quite a few "advocates" out there who really want the latter to happen. You're absolutely right, though--this is pretty solid for getting basic ideas and concepts down!

[Simon]

I've been playing with another AI tool, openai's playground davinci text generator

eg: Create character descriptions
"write character descriptions for 20 rpg non player characters."
https://beta.openai.com/playground/p/hW ... 1bHBtLiFuB

Then plugging the results into Midjourney:

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You can use the text generator to write stories, dialogs, and all kinds of other things. It's a lot of fun to play with.