D&D General DALL·E 3 does amazing D&D art

[tsadkiel]

A passing fancy leads to a quick descent into madness, ending with borrowing ideas from elsewhere in the thread.

Sixties spy thriller

Sixties spy comic

Fifties comic

Seventies comic

Fifties Western comic

Fifties romance comic

Fifties war comic

Fifties horror comic

Seventies dracula comic

Eighties fantasy comic

Eighties advanced dungeons and dragons rulebook

Nineties advanced dungeons and dragons rulebook

That is not nineties AD&D trade dress at all - looks more like Dungeon Crawl Classics.

 

[pukunui]

My youngest has settled on a look for her Witchlight PC, a wood elf wild magic barbarian who has worked at the Witchlight Carnival (hence the fake butterfly wings):

We did a version of her in claymation as well:

And as a Lego mini-fig:

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

Uuuhhhhh, magic. Yeah, that's the ticket.

The innkeeper is a high elf. He chose Mage Hand as a cantrip. Immensely more useful than Green-flame Blade for 99.9% of the population.

In an unrelated thought, I wonder where the engine got the idea that elves have huge prosthetic ears like it draws...

 

[Parmandur]

The innkeeper is a high elf. He chose Mage Hand as a cantrip. Immensely more useful than Green-flame Blade for 99.9% of the population.

In an unrelated thought, I wonder where the engine got the idea that elves have huge prosthetic ears like it draws...

Anime Elves have ears precisely like this.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

Anime Elves have ears precisely like this.

Thank you. I am not into anime style so I didn't make the link. And it's very clear that the model was trained with lot of it, so it makes sense.

Meanwhile, I decided to subscribe to chat-gpt pro service. It's not the monetary amount (20 $/month) that blocked me but the fear of being let down. But I did it because I had spent 10 boost trying to recreate a very complex scene to illustration a specific scene that happened in last Friday's session. The players wanted to send a warning to a NPC far, far away. It wasn't D&D but I was inspired by Skywrite and I let them find a grimoire (they were in a magical university) to cast a ritual emulating that, except with risk and requirements in term of skill checks, including rare ones (Calligraphy and Danse, who does put points in those skills at character creation). So we had one of our character dancing and drawing his message in the air while scrying on their target (who was currently in an airship) in order to see clouds and write with them. I had a very specific image in my mid of what it must have looked like. I couldn't get the free D3 implementation to get it right, and I would have spent hours inpainting all the little details with SDXL.

Using chatgpt, I generated images very similar to what I had with D3 "free" but I could tell to add details. Here are the iterations of the image:

It took two tries, to get something that is very close.

I asked him for a wider view.

It's not just wider, it's another image, very close in spirit to the first one. I am rather unhappy with the sailing ship placement, because I preferred the first one, but holding the calligraphy pencil in the right hand is better.

But it looked like he was looking at the window, not a magical view, so I asked him to replace the window outline with glowing red runes.

It switched hands again, but the flying ship is better. Also, curiously failed at red runes. It was probably the easiest.

In the end, I am quite happy as it adds precision to an already good (and free tool). It will still need inpainting because there is no way the character face will look like the PC (who is described "canonically" as resmebling a very dead French actor that ChatGPT doesn't want to recreate even in painting in what can't be mistaken as a deepfake ;-)

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

So, I tried using the "D&D forest gnome" prompt. Gnome family portrait!

 

[Parmandur]

Thank you. I am not into anime style so I didn't make the link. And it's very clear that the model was trained with lot of it, so it makes sense.

Yeah, I think anime influenced FSN art on the internet has had a pretty big influence on the training data for Rlves and Orcs specifically, and thst shows up no matter the style.

When doing photorealistic movie styles, however, I do specify long ears because otherwise the style tends to assert normal human ears on Elven characters.

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

The innkeeper is a high elf. He chose Mage Hand as a cantrip. Immensely more useful than Green-flame Blade for 99.9% of the population.

In an unrelated thought, I wonder where the engine got the idea that elves have huge prosthetic ears like it draws...

Yeah, sorry, I think I broke the AI with my gnomes

 

[Scribe]

So am I missing something, or is it OpenAI that allows for the iteration on a single, and can you reference old image ID values or something or upload through that?

I'm just using the Bing -> Create URL.

 

[Parmandur]

"D&D Forest Gnome" works well