D&D General AI Art for D&D: Experiments

[Distracted DM]

Models have various level of familiarity with some concepts. This one might be difficult because models are trained to avoid showing three-armed or six-fingered humans, and it might be more difficult to deviate from the norm. An angel with two pairs of wings is often a struggle.

Here's NB result:

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Totally ignoring the "with two pairs of wings" part of the "an angel with two pairs of wings" prompt...

(Some models do know mariliths without prompting details, but none of the local ones)

can you give me the exact prompt you used? here's my gemini/NB request

 

[Distracted DM]

can you give me the exact prompt you used? here's my gemini/NB request
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and here's another prompt, gemini-BP:
planetar celestial angel with five wings, two on the left and three on the right; and three arms, two on the left and one on the right

It originally gave 5 wings and 4 arms, so I requested it remove one of the arms according to the original prompt and it fixed it.

 

[Distracted DM]

Alright just cuz I'm a little on a roll now, decided to make it a little funky:

up close:

Spoiler

 

[BigMac75]

Wanted to create a humorous image to go along with the concept that Warlocks can milk their familiars for poison to sell. Could be better but thought I would share anyway.

"Can you create a picture of a Warlock milking (collecting poison from) his Pseudodragon familiar where the rest of the party walks in on him and both he and the pseudodragon look embarrassed at the compromising situation they were found in?"

 

[Distracted DM]

Wanted to create a humorous image to go along with the concept that Warlocks can milk their familiars for poison to sell. Could be better but thought I would share anyway.

"Can you create a picture of a Warlock milking (collecting poison from) his Pseudodragon familiar where the rest of the party walks in on him and both he and the pseudodragon look embarrassed at the compromising situation they were found in?"

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Yup. Disturbing.
One of my players actually asked about doing this to sell and have such poison always used by the party ... shot that down due to the immediate abusability of it (easy reasoning just saying this specific milked poison wouldn't retain potency). I've always been cool with them trying to get poison etc. from monsters they killed, since that's a limited quantity.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

and here's another prompt, gemini-BP:
planetar celestial angel with five wings, two on the left and three on the right; and three arms, two on the left and one on the right
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It originally gave 5 wings and 4 arms, so I requested it remove one of the arms according to the original prompt and it fixed it.

I must have been unlucky (and NB is probably the best available model right now) because it tended to ignore my prompt. This one is great.

 

[Tigris]

Remember we're talking about zero or near-zero resource types here, as in the person doing this after coming home from a day job. Anything big enough to call itself a publisher is already bigger than a typical hobbyist and might be trying to have that gig become the day job, at which point yes it's a business and at the same time isn't much of a hobby any more.

A hobbyist can take as long as desired to produce something, even if the end intent is that it go on the market and maybe make a buck or two, and can always harmlessly bail on the project if it doesn't work out. A business can as well, provided the business funds the project itself and doesn't rely on anyone else.

Once you go with a crowd-fund, however, you've given yourself fairly hard deadlines due to the promises you've made (assuming a good-faith intent on keeping those promises). And, bailing on a failed project becomes a much more fraught and complicated process.

So now it's become work, rather than a hobby; never mind deadlines can and do cause loss of quality if-when time gets tight.

In addition to this nowadays in order to do a successfull kickstarter you need already art. No one will fund a project whithout art.

This means if you pay an artist in advance for the kickstarter you need a not ignoreable financial investment, which adds even more pressure.

 

[zakael19]

I must have been unlucky (and NB is probably the best available model right now) because it tended to ignore my prompt. This one is great.

NBP is, there’s an immediate and noticeable regression going to the standard Nano Banana with the same prompt set.

NPB has gotten pretty darn good at spitting out on-par with basic digital char art stuff in particular. Most of the things posted in the last couple dozen pages are still pretty dire, many suffer from the common AI downsides (and Dall-E/GPT still do their piss filter most of the time).

NBP will do the sort of sub $100 commissioned art quality with good fidelity to prompt, even if some of the small details are still not what I’d pick and you can’t always get it to hit the mark with “remake prior but…”

 

[Richards]

planetar celestial angel with five wings, two on the left and three on the right; and three arms, two on the left and one on the right
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I'm trying to figure out how a creature with five wings (or any odd number of wings) could possibly fly in a straight line. It's starting to hurt my brain.

Johnathan

 

[Distracted DM]

I'm trying to figure out how a creature with five wings (or any odd number of wings) could possibly fly in a straight line. It's starting to hurt my brain.

Johnathan

Besides "magic," it was more to demonstrate to those saying that it had problems with doing four wings, or with doing odd numbers of limbs etc.
Though can be a strange appeal to asymmetry.