I imagine it's possible with expert knowledge to create a script in the future that more or less automates or makes it easy to generate this art, but for now at current state of development of stable diffusion and tools I had to muck about with settings and generations for a while to produce adequate art (not to mention having a beefy graphics card and installing software, although there are online services which allow you to do the same albeit with different licensing perhaps).
The main point lies in curating. For example I generate 16 candidate images then select the best one, put that image as the second generation input image, then generate 16 new candidates images, rinse and repeat until happy, then finally adjust the settings for better quality and longer runtime and generate one after one random instance until I'm happy with the result. Each generation takes about a minute to 3, depending on settings. There is a lot of randomization and waiting for the lucky jackpot then selecting that. Say I do 10 iterations per image then that's 10-30 minutes in waiting time, sometimes with adjustments needed.
Sometimes I get creative and layer the orange skin on top of an image then run that through the AI again or paint a few strokes of green and run that through the AI to get leaves. And I also have to modify the prompts sometimes so the AI understands the different parts of the picture I'm trying to get, for example getting the correct leaf and stem on a fruit or vegetable and not turning it into something else entirely. I'm not an artist but finally I'm able to contribute thanks to AI.
So I hope someone will have use of this art. I'm also a game dev much more than an artist so I might try to figure out how to use the art in a game of my own, although I'm not sure about that yet. I have 3 games on Steam but 2 of them suck and one is barely okay. Maybe in future I will succeed.
Well I spent a whole day generating these images, so I wouldn't say it's trivial, you have to make many trials and select iterations. I'll keep it as CC-BY-SA per default but if the law or common sense says otherwise as it becomes clearer what the copyright issues are with AI generated art in the future then sure I don't really mind if they are public domain either. Please refer me to some authoritative source if at a later time I should change the license :)
Ok I removed the cherry tree and corrected the license.
I also renamed the balrog to demon just to be sure.
I imagine it's possible with expert knowledge to create a script in the future that more or less automates or makes it easy to generate this art, but for now at current state of development of stable diffusion and tools I had to muck about with settings and generations for a while to produce adequate art (not to mention having a beefy graphics card and installing software, although there are online services which allow you to do the same albeit with different licensing perhaps).
The main point lies in curating. For example I generate 16 candidate images then select the best one, put that image as the second generation input image, then generate 16 new candidates images, rinse and repeat until happy, then finally adjust the settings for better quality and longer runtime and generate one after one random instance until I'm happy with the result. Each generation takes about a minute to 3, depending on settings. There is a lot of randomization and waiting for the lucky jackpot then selecting that. Say I do 10 iterations per image then that's 10-30 minutes in waiting time, sometimes with adjustments needed.
Sometimes I get creative and layer the orange skin on top of an image then run that through the AI again or paint a few strokes of green and run that through the AI to get leaves. And I also have to modify the prompts sometimes so the AI understands the different parts of the picture I'm trying to get, for example getting the correct leaf and stem on a fruit or vegetable and not turning it into something else entirely. I'm not an artist but finally I'm able to contribute thanks to AI.
So I hope someone will have use of this art. I'm also a game dev much more than an artist so I might try to figure out how to use the art in a game of my own, although I'm not sure about that yet. I have 3 games on Steam but 2 of them suck and one is barely okay. Maybe in future I will succeed.
Well I spent a whole day generating these images, so I wouldn't say it's trivial, you have to make many trials and select iterations. I'll keep it as CC-BY-SA per default but if the law or common sense says otherwise as it becomes clearer what the copyright issues are with AI generated art in the future then sure I don't really mind if they are public domain either. Please refer me to some authoritative source if at a later time I should change the license :)
Thank you! :)
I'm on the Front of Hacker News with this pixel art search now :)
An article of how it was made is at https://github.com/emnh/PixelArtSearch/blob/master/README.md
I'm using your music in my game!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1462200/Speyarranoth/
Thank you! :)
Will be a credits screen in the game at some point.
Thank you :)