[Portraits] Neural faces of Baldur's Gate v1, yet-another portrait replacer, EE & SOD NPCs included
ivavlakul
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Here is a complete portrait replacer for Baldur's Gate EE and SOD made with InvokeAI and DreamShaper.
There are 5 alternative portraits for each NPC, available both as higher-res png (420*660)px and standard-res bmp (210*330)px.
Note a few more variants at the bottom of the thread, including a small extra-hires set.
Full roster
Preview
Ajantis-to-Edwin
Eldoth-to-Khalid
Kivan-to-Safana
Corwin-to-Xzar
And lone Yeslick
For a curious reader
Neuro-ladies
Disclaimer
There are 5 alternative portraits for each NPC, available both as higher-res png (420*660)px and standard-res bmp (210*330)px.
Note a few more variants at the bottom of the thread, including a small extra-hires set.
Full roster
Preview
Ajantis-to-Edwin
Eldoth-to-Khalid
Kivan-to-Safana
Corwin-to-Xzar
And lone Yeslick
For a curious reader
This was a crazy effort: 200-500 generated images per NPC plus extra variants, more than 10k total portraits, nearly 1 out of 5 was quickly preselected, and then iteratively filtered by checking for typical artifacts of AI-generated imagery. BTW, extra variants were generated and reconsidered for most promising images (nearly half of the final set). Also, my potato hardware makes only 1-2 images per minute so you can do the math on how long it physically takes even to generate the starting material.
Compared to the original mini-collection, this time all portraits were edited to mask obvious artifacts and cropped so a face takes nearly half of the portrait space.
Compared to the original mini-collection, this time all portraits were edited to mask obvious artifacts and cropped so a face takes nearly half of the portrait space.
Neuro-ladies
This started with a smaller pack of portraits for female NPCs, which is still available if you prefer older variants:
210x330 bmps are here.
Higher-res pngs are there
210x330 bmps are here.
Higher-res pngs are there
Disclaimer
There are tensions regarding the legal status of the AI art, and the original post was banned from the baldursgate subreddit. Hopefully, this collection does not offend any artists.
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Are you going to do the other npcs? And those of BG2 too?
Here are a few other 'leftover' Viconias, though.
BTW, there are a few more alternative portraits for other ladies as well, in case you'd like more variety.
I am still considering to generate male bg1 NPCs for a fresh playthrough, probably it'll be impossible to get a canonical Minsc face tattoo, but including a hamster might be fun.
In my mind Vic always had this kind of dangerous and sensual aura, like all drow.
More or less like the example below.... Made in Midjourney...... Her hand has six fingers, lol.
I've always looked for something like that, in this type of art.
And yes, I would like the alternate portraits, maybe I can use them on other npcs. And I hope you make the male npcs, I think they will be interesting.
While I struggle with multi-hamster Minscs, here are a few other nice leftovers from the collection of ladies.
Sure, the aim was not to replicate the bg1 style although nowadays it might be possible with LoRA. The idea was to get a somewhat consistent set of portraits reflecting a few key character features.
And yes, the resulting style consistency is not above 'somewhat', or maybe even below
Thanks for commenting, quite encouraging. Maybe I will finish the complete set for bg1 someday.
Thankee!
Practice: dunno, it just sounds funny.
Meanwhile male NPC portraits are being baked, and some results are hilarious.
The complete pack (including males and extra female portraits) is already half-done,
and here is a small teaser of Edwin who did not enter the final shortlist.
A final note, genuine Minsc with double-Boo.
Definitely like the updated Viconia 2.
One of Montaron and two of Xzar caught my eyes too.
Minsc is nice too.
Do you plan to also do the important NPC like Hood Man, Caelar and Hephernaan?
Cool, thanks for the feedback!
*Generating non-joinable NPCs might be interesting but only after BGII facepack, and this project is also on a long sabbatical 'maybe'.
As the neural-faces pack has hit 300+ downloads, I am releasing a yet-another bonus.
Here is a manually and subjectively selected subset of portraits: some are inherited from the original pack, and some are completely new.
A major feature of this pack is that all portraits were processed with a fancy LDSR upscaling resulting in trembling crispiness for all hires screen users. The pack includes -M and -L portraits, where -M variants are cropped (for in-game sidebar portraits), and -L variants are original uncropped versions (for character record screen), when available.
The resolution of all files is 1023*651 which is the largest possible for EE to process directly w/o manual resizing (technically it can be even 1024*652, but it has a bit skewed aspect ratio).
Download link: https://disk.yandex.ru/d/Y51P8Y-7_zK4KA
Preview of -L portraits:
You won't believe it
* Not all of them look like ninjas, but probably will do their job for rogue-type characters.
** Taken right from the shelf and now only a few shmexy Jaheiras remain there.
Grab them right now!
Peek inside:
Should be badassier or even more evilish, sure, but I still like the light reflections on some blades and armor.
Generating such portraits w/o extra object is much easier, but extra stuff like weapons remains problematic for detailed close-up images.
* Midjourney might be more skillful in terms of artistic style, as in the complete set of NPC portraits from Reverie.
** Stable Diffusion models other than DreamShaper (used here) might be also interesting to explore. But this project has already gone too far
Xzar :
Viconia :
Thanks again for all this work. :-)
* I consider http://www.wtfpl.net/ as a quite appropriate license for the original images