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FitzTheRuke

Legend
People make lots of money making bland, unoriginal art.
Oh yeah, for sure. But most human-made bland, unoriginal art is still better than most of this stuff, even as surprisingly decent as it is.

And "good" is subjective, so from a corporate perspective, "good" art is what people will pay for.
Yup, that's true, but there are also certain objective qualities that can be understood by those who make a deeper study of them. I believe that those qualities would be noticed by even the general public, if they were (across the board) more prominently done poorly.

Don't get me wrong - real artists make terrible art too!

On the other hand, sadly, like a lot of modern layout design - when the correct way to do it is left forgotten long enough, everyone can generally understand that what we're getting isn't very good, but not understand why.
 

RoughCoronet0

Dragon Lover
This has definitely helps me create an image to a vision of mine. The Black dragon with the multitude of violet eyes has been a character concept that has been mulling in my head for so long.

However, I’m not artistically inclined enough to ever make a decent sketch of her. On top of that, I’m not the greatest at describing things and have had problems in the past with that when trying to have art commissioned and it not coming out so great (in my opinion). And that was because of me and my inability to communicate effectively due to my anxiety, not the artist.

This however has done a better job at showing what was in my head then my words have ever done (ironic because I had to type words to get this, I know). If I was ever to create a book with art for her, I would use this as a point of reference for any artist I would commission to properly bring her to life on paper.
 

EzekielRaiden

Follower of the Way
Is there a (SFW) way to get Frazetta style? The Goliath's last page I guess would count.
Tried an experiment. These were the images generated by the first attempt (spoilered because big. One of the images is...potentially risque, so I will only link it, not attach it.)

Prompt: "Two muscular, scantily-clad young barbarians, one male and one female, standing on a hill, behind and below them a battlefield littered with bodies of monsters; their blue tiger ally stands nearby, oil paint on top of watercolor and ink"

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Notably, one of the images features two men, even though I explicitly said "one male and one female," so...not sure what happened there. Apart from that one wrinkle, I think this prompt did pretty well.
 



If Hasbro wanted a software could be written to create AI-Art with their franchises, but there are some risks, not only about too pervert people creating NsfW but for example somebody use AI-Art for his title in DMGuild, and other uses a redawned version of those pictures for his own sourcebook. Plagiarism? Law says AI-Art can't be protected by trademark.

Other point is creating a comic using AI-Art and pictures from a machinima, for example the Sims. Then the AI only would be creating a photorealistic version of the machinima picture.

Pro-artists shouldn't worry too much until now, because they can pictures with more characters, more dinamic poses, and the right distribution of elements on the screen. Those things aren't learn't by AI yet.

Can be protected "templates" by trademark when these are created by humans?

* How would be D&D characters as Fortnite skins?
 


Its far more than a tool.

I'm not an artist. Going by the prompts here, I could generate all the art I want, in a style I want, for my own RPG book, with zero artistic training, or skill.

That is not a tool. That is replacing artists.

As an artist who has done quite a bit illustration work, I am almost certain this will end illustration as a viable career. The technology will only get better and the legal uncertainties will be clarified, and I have little doubt that they will be clarified in favour of big companies not having to pay artists. I m glad that I'm currently making my money as an art teacher rather than as an illustrator, though I have no doubt that as the technology becomes more widespread, it will dampen the enthusiasm of people to learn art too.
 


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