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

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Page 666 calls for something demonic! Here's an attempt at a Marilith, made with Z-Image.

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Wow. did it know the marilith or did you prompt the description?

 

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

Wow. did it know the marilith or did you prompt the description?

I had to explicitly prompt for "a female demon with the lower body of a snake, the upper body of a woman and 6 arms" Just asking for "a Marilith" gave me a woman with blue skin, pointy horns and ears and spiky armor, so the model does appear to have a vague idea that a Marilith is a female demon, but doesn't know what one actually looks like.

I also had to generate around 40 images with the final prompt before I got one I was really satisfied with. AI can struggle with regular human bodies, so when you have a creature with oddball anatomy you get a lot of weird pictures.

 

[DragonLancer]

I've found that if I want to generate an actual D&D monster, I have to say specifically that it is from Dungeons & Dragons. Then it tends to get it more right.

 

[zakael19]

I've found that if I want to generate an actual D&D monster, I have to say specifically that it is from Dungeons & Dragons. Then it tends to get it more right.

there sure is a lot of art it's scrapped with that hashtag.

My favorite thing was when I was doing some Bing image gen for player portraits a couple years back, prompting for a "blah blah in D&D character art style" actually gave a really good black panther tabaxi, but it kept working d20 motifs into things! Like his staff had a melty d20 metal-like cap on it. Funny and kinda cool.

Today, the relatively simple prompt "generate a tabaxi wizard portrait like d&d character art, shaded digital art style. the robes should be a medium tone purple, he should have a staff with a blue gem tip, a spell book hanging from his belt, and have fur tones like a caracal" gets this really solid piece of art out of Nano Banana Pro:

Quite like this silver Dragonborn fighter, with a silver pseudo dragon curled around its neck "like a cat." Gave me the pose I wanted (hands crossed, resting on a Warhammer which has its head on the ground), and the simple steel cuirass for armor.

 

[overgeeked]

I've found that if I want to generate an actual D&D monster, I have to say specifically that it is from Dungeons & Dragons. Then it tends to get it more right.

True. But I find it produces more interesting results without that specificity. Give it a vague description, let it run wild, and it’ll surprise you almost every time.