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New Portrait for Fade

JirkisloJirkislo Member Posts: 13
edited June 14 in BGII:EE Mods

I've been a long-time fan of the Fade NPC mod and have been using these portraits in my own game for quite some time. I recently decided to share them with the community in case anyone else might enjoy them as well.

The portraits were generated using AI tools and then selected, edited, cropped, and formatted for use in Baldur's Gate 2: Enhanced Edition.

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  • shevy123456shevy123456 Member Posts: 499
    Quite interesting. We can see an older image here:

    https://baldursgate.fandom.com/wiki/Fade_NPC

    So I think this is an improvement while still staying true to the original.

    I noticed that sometimes AI images look really weird, like Jan looked
    like an alcohol addict with the AI image. I wonder if AI tools can
    "feel" a fantasy vibe and generate according to that, because e. g.
    with the Jan image, I had the distinct impression that the AI tool
    looked more for a photorealistic human variant. So this is interesting
    here, because Fade does not look quite like human (more like an
    elf or at the least with regards to the ears; though perhaps the
    face is more human than elvish, who knows).
  • JirkisloJirkislo Member Posts: 13
    edited June 14
    shevy123456 wrote: »
    Quite interesting. We can see an older image here:

    https://baldursgate.fandom.com/wiki/Fade_NPC

    So I think this is an improvement while still staying true to the original.

    I noticed that sometimes AI images look really weird, like Jan looked
    like an alcohol addict with the AI image. I wonder if AI tools can
    "feel" a fantasy vibe and generate according to that, because e. g.
    with the Jan image, I had the distinct impression that the AI tool
    looked more for a photorealistic human variant. So this is interesting
    here, because Fade does not look quite like human (more like an
    elf or at the least with regards to the ears; though perhaps the
    face is more human than elvish, who knows).

    You can nudge the AI in direction you like. I did give it the original portrait as reference with basic character description.
    Personally i do think Fade's portrait is somewhat iconic (at least for me) so i didn't want to steer too much away from the original.
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