Portrait Creation using AI
Zeno_42
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Just posting here from a discussion I started in the IWDEE section:
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/88553/ai-portrait-generation
I've been experimenting with generating character portraits using free online AI art generation tools. I've been writing about it on my website here:
http://www.zenosziggurat.com
Any of my portraits are free for use, but the real goal is to help others learn to make their own.
Check us out!
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/88553/ai-portrait-generation
I've been experimenting with generating character portraits using free online AI art generation tools. I've been writing about it on my website here:
http://www.zenosziggurat.com
Any of my portraits are free for use, but the real goal is to help others learn to make their own.
Check us out!
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Half Orc "Monk":
Half Orc Street Tough:
Halfling Knife Thrower:
Human Fighter:
Human Rogue:
Dwarf Warrior:
Gnome Inventor:
Gnome Alchemist:
Lots more on my web site - free for any to use:
https://zenosziggurat.com/
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/88614/re-imagining-baldurs-gate-npcs
Also includes some fun pics of Imoen trying to get a rise out of various other NPCs:
I very much thank you for your posts here. It caused me to look into AI art creation for organizing my BG head story, and I have to say that I'm incredibly pleased with how well it's turned out. It was seeing how well your initial suggestions worked and reading the suggestions on your webpage that drove me to work at it. So... thank you very much.
As sort of a thank you, here's one of my favorite images that I created using your Imoen tags:
I prefer a more anime-esque style, but the suggestions in your examples have been so very useful.
And thanks to experimenting with this, I discovered that Aerie and Viconia make an excellent comic duo.
Who are simply not getting paid enough to deal with <CHARNAME>'s shenanigans.
> I very much thank you for your posts here. It caused me to look into AI art creation for organizing my BG head story, and I have to say that I'm incredibly pleased with how well it's turned out. It was seeing how well your initial suggestions worked and reading the suggestions on your webpage that drove me to work at it. So... thank you very much.
Really glad it helped, and that Imoen came out with that much personality. The anime-leaning style actually fits her chaos gremlin energy pretty well, especially if you’re using the portraits to keep a “head story” organized rather than trying to mimic the original BG look exactly. Aerie and Viconia as a comic duo is dangerous territory in the best way: one nervous over-explainer, one professional-grade side-eye machine. Poor CHARNAME probably deserves every bit of it. If you keep experimenting, I’d love to see more of those pairings, the NPC reactions are often more fun than the heroic poses.
@steadywren72
I certainly can't turn down a request from the one who started me on this path. Since you've asked, I will provide a few to show how your suggestions have helped me curate what images our AI Overlords have bestowed.
I use Perchance AI Image Generator as my formation device of choice. Advantages: free, and a pretty good option of styles. Disadvantages: free, so no model retention. It's basically a crap shoot if a good image carries forward. But since it's free, I have to be okay if I'm 90% of the way there.
So to start off, and because he may show up in other pictures and you'll not have to ask "who is that dork?", I'll introduce my <CHARNAME>, Cywulf... Whitest of the White Bread.
tags: 24 year old Welshman, short messy black hair, green eyes, stubble on his cheeks and chin. He is a D&D fighter. He has a lean and athletic build. He is wearing 15-century plate armor colored green with silver trim. He is wearing a blue tunic underneath the armor. He has a straight sword in a sheath at his waist. He has a focused expression. Setting is a forest during the day, brightly lit. Style is pained anime.
The green plate is actually Ankheg plate... I loved it when I played BG 1 back in 2000... such a great call back to the first Monster Manual! So to signify it, green is his signature color palette.
Next up is Mazzy:
tags: A 25 year old woman. A D&D halfling. She has blue eyes. She has olive colored skin. She has auburn hair in dreadlocks with small fabric ties in her hair. She is smiling slightly. She is a D&D paladin. She is wearing 15 century plate armor. She is wearing a brown tabard. She is carrying a spear. Neutral background. Generic anime style.
Since Mazzy had dreadlocks to begin with, it was an easy decision to darken her skin tone to add some diversity to the cast.
I did something similar with Nalia, in order to differentiate her from being an Imoen-clone. I also had difficulty in figuring out her visual gimmick, until I realized I could use that blue/yellow striped hood she wore as being House de'Arnise heraldry colors.
tags: one woman. A 20 year old Italian woman. She has brown eyes and olive skin tone. She has short light brown hair in dreadlocks. She is wearing a headband. She is wearing a stole that is striped pale blue and pale yellow. The stole is pinned with a purple gem brooch. She is wearing a lilac riding gown. She is wearing a thick belt with a golden buckle and hanging pouches. She is holding a silver coin. She has a hand on her hip. She is smiling. Brightly lit, daylight. Setting is a medieval town.
Once I'd settled on the colors as being Nalia's thing, it could be used when she was advising <CHARNAME> while he was 'ruling' her domain.
tags are basically the same as above: except for gold trim on the armor (to signify armor upgrade), and Nalia's wearing a gold and blue formal gown as opposed to the lilac riding dress.
Time warp back to BG I for a hamster, his ranger mount, and their accompanying witch:
tags: 2 people, standing together. (Man1 is a 30 year old Russian male. He has a hamster sitting on his shoulder. He is a D&D ranger. He has a hefty build. He is bald. He has irregular circular tattoos over his right eye and and his head. He is well muscled. He is wearing a sleeveless green shirt. He is wearing a tan breastplate, he is carrying a large sword. He is smiling.) (Woman1 is a 27 year old Black woman. She has cyan eyes. She has long, flowing black hair. She is a D&D wizard. She is wearing purple riding robes. She is wearing a heavy golden necklace. She is wearing golden armbands. She is slender with a slight hourglass figure. She is wearing a heavy belt with pouches.) Style: Dark fantasy. Style: D&D fantasy. Setting is a cave, well lit.
One of the problems with something like abstract tattoos is that they rarely place correctly, and are often just a random thing. With Aerie and Minsc, I've very much had to accept, "Meh, close enough," when it comes to their ink.
That's it for now. I think I'll let the variant elves express their opinions on my ability to wrangle art from a soulless machine: