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When GenAI gets "good enough" (and it seems close; just look at the difference between early posts in this thread and recent ones)

The thread starts in 2023. I think the biggest leaps occurred before, maybe in 2022. When the thread started, it was already "good enough to look at". Quality is improving steadily, but we need to remember that one year before the thread, we were there:

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D&D spell illustration challenge, day 48 : Expeditious Retreat

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Sometime, you don't need an hyperdetailed model to show that you don't need to outrun the bear, but you need to outrun the dwarf. A lesson that will teach the player not to invest too much time in a background at level 1. Only the party's wizard will live to fight again.
 


Here's the prompt (note that I gave it a copy of Tascha's cover for a style guide)

Usual disclaimers apply - no, I don't use AI in my commercial projects, this is experimentation to understand where the tech is at and what the implication is for folks in my industry (fairly grim), etc.


Draw this fantasy rpg image using the art style of the attached painting
Aspect ratio is 3:4

This image depicts a chaotic, close-quarters battle scene set within a stone corridor or dungeon. It is crowded, with the characters filling the scene. There is a sense of dynamic motion.


* The ogre: Dominating the center is a massive, muscular ogre with mottled skin and a black and white mohawk. He is shirtless but wears a spiked metal pauldron on his left shoulder and a studded leather wristband. He is wielding a large flail in one hand and has spiked knuckledusters in the other. the ogre is facing left and is looking down at his gut and is screaming in pain.

* The warrior: To the left, a human warrior with dark, shoulder-length hair is wielding a longsword in two hands, which he has stabbed into the ogres gut up to the hilt. the warrior wears plate armor on his shoulders and arms and is grinning fiercely.


* The Dwarf: To the bottom left, a dwarf with a bright orange, spiked mohawk and beard is locked in combat, facing right. He features blue spiral tattoos on the side of his head and a nose ring. He wears a studded tunic over chainmail. He is lunging forward, burying his great battle axe in the chest of a green goblin to his right. the goblins head is thrown back in a rictus of pain.

* The Spellcaster: On the right side in the background behind the ogre, a man with long dirty blonde hair and a middle-aged face stands wearing dark blue robes adorned with gold chains and a large medallion. He holds a rolled scroll in one hand and hold up a glowing ball of yellow and orange magical energy in the other.

* In the foreground are several green-skinned, goblins, wearing dirty mail and rusty spiked helmets and wielding jagged, serrated scimitars in one hand and small metal bucklers with deaths head emblems in the other.
* One is prominent in the bottom right corner.
* Other green limbs and faces are visible at the bottom and edges of the fray, indicating a swarm.

The Setting

* The background consists of grey stone blocks. On the left wall, there is a vertical stone pillar carved with stacked skulls.
* A small rat is visible running along a stone ledge on the left side behind the human warrior.
* The lighting highlights the center of the combat and the magical fire held by the spellcaster.
 


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