Swatcher Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 Context: I've been using DALL-E mini since it's been popular this past week, and I noticed that the image resolutions(256x256) are surprisingly close to portrait resolution(210x330). I slopped together a quick test. AI Example (generated by DALL-E mini): Disregard the PoE1. That's just what I had installed at the moment. I didn't bother refining the portrait much. Only spent like 10 min on all this to prove how quick it can be. In the forums, custom portraits are something I see come up fairly often, so I'm wondering why no one here ever considered neural networks to do it for them. I haven't seen anyone ever suggest it, and I just searched for anyone too. Hell I made an account just to post this. I guess it is pretty recent tech though. I've been watching different AI/neural network stuff for the past couple years. There's been some pretty impressive leaps in general from the last year alone (And just wait until next year and the year after!). (To the mods--Wasn't sure if this'd get buried under the main portraits thread or whether the AI stuff is directly relevant to it, so new topic it is. I hope that's okay) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swatcher Posted June 28 Author Share Posted June 28 (edited) Maybe this is a bit of an off-kilter topic, but I hope people see it, haha. AI-generated custom RPG portraits in one minute. How ridiculous is that for real Could also use it for tabletop characters too Here's what I did in DALL-E mini. btw this isn't the only website or software out there. 1. I entered my own prompt "Black woman with white hair, Pillars of Eternity portrait" (don't need an account, eyy). Waited ~1 minute, and this was the very first result. 2. NOTE: You can probably come up with something decent-looking after doing enough runs, but I used GIMP to speed things along and for my personal adjustments. Chose the top-right creature for its outfit and the top-left square bc I preferred the head(look at the other choices) 3. The actual work. I went into GIMP and quickly just slapped on the left's face to the right one. Warped the stank mouth, bit of nose, slight brightness adjustments, and that's it, image done in like 10 minutes total. Probably could've been even faster. Spoiler Kinda reminds me of Jade Cargill now that I look at it Can someone make something better than my rushed test job? Maybe. Probably. Better yet, make a quick AI portrait and commission an artist to use that as a base/reference to make something better and less crusty-looking. Artists could use the money anyway. Either way, it's easier than making something on your own from scratch, esp. for multiple characters. Edited July 6 by Swatcher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swatcher Posted June 29 Author Share Posted June 29 (edited) One more thing: Note that this AI is mostly good for humanoids or elves. I tried some Aumaua, but it just gave me more humanish people. A different more specific prompt COULD work for Aumaua maybe, but I only tried "blue-skinned shark man portrait" and got THIS lmao. Jesus. Spoiler And SOMEHOW, out of all these interspecies abominations, the middle right one. It's not a "sharkman". It's a shark trying to be a man. Even has the tail poking out a hole in its pants. Spoiler Hold on, breaking news! For your eyes only. My uncle that works at Obsidian is now confirming, Pillars of Eternity is not actually dead! Pillars 4 is in development!!1 Goku is in it too. First gameplay teaser, you didn't hear it from me Edited July 6 by Swatcher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelee Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 DALL-E mini is technologically impressive, but seems frustrating for a use case like this IMO. Though honestly I hadn't considered this use case before, so I'm excited at the possibility! I'm surprised you actually got something legible out of it (that you're even using as a profile pic). What i'd *really* want to see is someone with DALL-E access generating these portraits. Would also help solve my frustration at the lack of halfling portraits in WOTR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swatcher Posted June 29 Author Share Posted June 29 (edited) DALL-E mini is only just how I got the custom portraits idea, but honestly, using it really wasn't as frustrating as you think. The first grid I posted was from literally my first attempt after I got the idea. Mini's faces could use some work, but just editing a new face on top like I did speeds it up; there's a lot of faces to choose from. Pretty fast and headache free(if you're not picky), which I like. And I'm also surprised! The quality, just how far has this tech come in the past year... I've been watching neural networks rapidly progress since Google DeepDream made the waves 7 years ago. You wanna see something ridiculous? Instead of DALL-E like you said, check out DALL-E 2, the new closed-beta. Just look at some of the AI-generated prompts on the r/dalle2 subreddit (link. also their top posts of all time). The output quality is insane. 'Midjourney' AI is also good (and quicker to get into the closed-beta, I hear). Also could try 'DiscoDiffusion', not closed but requires a gmail plus some set-up work; check the wiki on the same-name subreddit for guides. https://huggingface.co/spaces/dalle-mini/dalle-mini (Here, if anyone wants to try DALL-E mini for portraits or otherwise. Just enter a prompt. Supposedly they're moving to craiyon.com, so the first url might not work for future people) Edited July 3 by Swatcher 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swatcher Posted July 2 Author Share Posted July 2 (edited) Decided to try a few more portraits since this is fun Black-haired girl in leather armor And the properly cropped versions Spoiler SOURCES: Spoiler I only used the second one for the tired eye. Edited July 6 by Swatcher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swatcher Posted July 2 Author Share Posted July 2 (edited) Woman in decorative plate w/ thick wavy black hair And properly cropped: Spoiler EDIT: Decided to make a slightly smaller-hair version since I wasn't overly fond of big 80's hair in my crpg And like I said, plenty of faces to choose from. For this one and only this one, I chose a face from a real existing portrait (well, someone else's edit of an existing portrait. Same difference). For the rest, I'm using AI results only, just to test DALL-E mini. Some of the AI results can be perturbing. Spoiler Yeah. SOURCES: Spoiler 1st as a base. 2nd (actual portrait) for face. The goofy 3rd one was only for its hairline. Edited July 6 by Swatcher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swatcher Posted July 2 Author Share Posted July 2 (edited) Pale elf man in plate armor Armor seems a tiny bit too sharp compared to his softly lit features. Might try flattening it out. And cropped to size: Spoiler SOURCES: Spoiler 1st one as a base. 2nd for the face. EDIT: Slight armor lighting adjust Spoiler Edited July 5 by Swatcher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swatcher Posted July 2 Author Share Posted July 2 (edited) Old pale elf man Seems a little scarred. Might've been the balrog that got his face. Cropped: Spoiler SOURCES: Spoiler #1 for body. #2 for face. #3 for mouth only. #4 for ear only. The process can be frankenstein-y, just a little bit. Edited July 6 by Swatcher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swatcher Posted July 2 Author Share Posted July 2 (edited) A couple observations I made 1. Men seem to be harder to get good faces for. Women usually only take me a few prompts. Maybe it's not as weird as I think. Probably less photos of men than women online, so a weaker sample size to train the AI. Sucks 2. Close-up is good. Especially for faces. The further away & smaller anything gets, the worse the AI's detailing gets (this is also true for other AI models, in my experience. Not a DALL-E thing). Including terms like 'close-up' yielded better results. Try something similar. 3. Faces are the hardest for a lot of AI, so try to use a face from an existing RPG portrait. Of course, as of this year there's better AI models like DALL-E 2 that can do highly accurate faces, IF you have access... Anyway, if you're really gonna use DALL-E mini's faces, focus on getting a good face first, then get the body/armor later. Don't be picky. It's harder to find a face that fits a body than the other way around. Angles are the absolute worst. And speaking of picky, the biggest weakness of this: You can't get too specific about what you want your results to look like, or it'll take forever. I just picked whatever looked good. Don't look for a tanned face at a 45° angle eyes cast down with curly black hair unless you wanna spend five years re-running prompts. Edited July 3 by Swatcher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swatcher Posted July 2 Author Share Posted July 2 (edited) Even if there's better choices, DALL-E mini is pretty fun to use. Sometimes the AI even decides to have a good day, like on my 1st try this knight dude is just straight up usable An actual face! Minus the snail ear, which is only minor. Just Mike Tyson a better ear from someone. For some reason "knight" alone just produced a lot of decent results. By the way, this guy Spoiler Edited July 6 by Swatcher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swatcher Posted July 3 Author Share Posted July 3 (edited) Trying anything that isn't "man", "woman", or non-human terms is iffy at best. Currently struggling with "Female Dwarf" and Orlan prompts. Related: After fiddling with keywords, I think I discovered the secret keywords for Coastal Aumaua. The best description of Aumaua: Spoiler Josh is in shambles Edited July 5 by Swatcher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swatcher Posted July 3 Author Share Posted July 3 (edited) I tried doing just "Dark Souls" for portraits and got some unexpectedly good results. This was the 1st attempt Half-considering fixing up one of these into a portrait. Man if I had the patience, a lot of these would make a good base for drawing a portrait from scratch. Two more Spoiler Surprising that Pillars portrait x Dark Souls actually worked. I wonder what other video games would make good mashups? Even though DALL-E mini isn't the best quality this is too much fun. I should probably go set up DiscoDiffusion or anything with Diffusion Models, but I just can't help but love this one's sheer variety and speed. Still though, resolution is meh. If anyone here somehow has access to one of the better AI models, I'd like to see what they can make with it. Edited July 10 by Swatcher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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