Does AI paint well?

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I’m developing a card game, but I’m not good at painting pictures. So, I’m trying generative AI. I don’t have enough money to employee illustrator.
Question: Do pictures generated by AI looks well, or weird?

This is a picture generated by Gemini.

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I’ve been testing it for the past few days (Gemini), and it seems to do things well when you tell him what to do correctly. But if you are not detailed enough he may be extremely stupid

Here are a tips I’ve got for you:

  1. Don’t overcomplicate, it can jam his systems adding useless information
  2. One at a time, don’t tell him to change everything at once or he’ll miss some stuff
  3. Be detailed, as he needs detail for some stuff or he’ll just do the complete opposite
  4. Patience, it sometimes takes 5 prompts to get something right
  5. Delete the wrong stuff, don’t leave images that didn’t go well as he could use them as reference
  6. Use reference when tokens maxed, download some images and start a new chat with them as reference for Gemini. This helps keep consistence

If he is just terrible, consider finding a cheap icon pack with whatever stuff you need. This guy makes the best icons you can get.

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Thanks for your reply.
I heard that there is trend to avoid contents generated by AI. Don’t you worry about it?

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Well, yes, and that’s why I’d rather get myself the icon pack if I were you, but sometimes you don’t have money and you use AI, there’s no problem there. But don’t make it look like those absurd AI thumbnails, make it at least look reasonable, so no one will care if it’s AI.

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Nah AI looks bad. It’s easy to tell if someones using AI, and people will avoid playing your game because you use AI. Just whip something up in ms paint, doesnt have to be good. People would rather play a game with okay looking human-made art, rather than playing a game with AI generated slop.

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Here is a picture that took about 15 hours. Do you really think this is better than AI?

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Well i personally think ai looks visually better, but like what @MagnificentMotif said, i and most people steer clear of ai made xontent and visuals, and i like to see people put effort into their games and images, not just put on a prompt. I think ai can drain a devs creativity and skill over time. Thats just my opinion tho.

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It looks soulless and repulsive, saying this as a guy who absolutely cannot draw. I would recommend finding stock images and processing them in photoshop to achieve a painting-like effect - it’s something I would do in your situation.

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Ai art just feels cheap, and to a player older than a certain age makes the game loose its taste

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Thanks for all the replies. I’m glad if you participate in this vote.

  • Use AI
  • Prepare myself
  • others (please comment)
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How about editing a picture generateed by AI?
Is it different from your suggestion?

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I guess it is better than just using plan ai slop, but it will never lose that uncanny, unreal, dream-like (in a bad way) feeling of generated imagery.

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Yes. Because a human made it. AI is unethical at the very least.

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What about AI for art for an uncanny game

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Some people voted for AI, but they hardly commented. Can someone among them tell me about your opinion?
I want as various comments as possible.

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I’m still not sure what should I do.
Just to let you know, I want to prepare over 100 pictures for cards.

AI is overwhelmingly prompt, but has a risk to miss many number of players. Also, AI art isn’t perfectly satisfying.
Painting myself surely satisfy me, but it’s too slow and it takes long time to learn. I don’t want to delay completion of my game.
Processing a picture(@Igggosha_0 suggested) seems good, but there may be no picture suits my needs.

Pictures are essential part of my game, so I don’t want to compromise.

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using AI for images will makes your players immediately not want to touch your game

just like how moses split the sea apart, players will split away from your game as soon as they find out the images were made with AI

also like ai built off of theft and drains massive ammounts of water from communities so like dont use it anyways, stock images exist for this purpose

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Reading many replies, I decided to use stock images in my game. Thank you!

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