Using AI in your "traditional" artworks

[parkdalegardener]

So; we have an AI gallery now. I think people don't truly grasp the depth of what AI can mean to a non AI artist. I see lots of misinformation and fear about the whole scene. I'm not going to lecture one way or the other. I do think that if people saw there was a way to incorporate it into their work flow there would be better understanding of the whole thing rather than an outright opinion. Reddit and Twitter are quite toxic over this and unfounded opinions are flying fast and furious masquerading as fact.

So let's put this AI thing to some practical use. Egypt is a current contest theme. Poser, Blender, and probably DS; all have a cylinder prop of some type. Now I don't happen to have an Egyptian Column or a texture for one but I have that cylinder prop. I want an Egyptian column or two for use in an entry. Let's do AI to make a few.


So; I run Stable Diffusion locally. I'm cheap and can't afford online generations so I simply fire up SD in another browser tab. I'm doing this in real time. Typing as I go. Simple prompt "Egyptian hieroglyphics, orthographic" and set the output to seamless tile. In another tab 12 test images are generating... and they are done. Pardon me for a sec while I take a peek. Good. There are a few usable ones.


OK, I like one of these. so I'll send it to another browser tab. An open source AI tool for generating normal maps. Done. A normal map. Instant. AI strikes again. Download your normal map and there you go.


There you go. An image map with a normal that you can use to texture your new Egyptian Column.

The whole process was done faster than I could type this out. That is the real thing about AI generated processes. Sheer speed.

Oh; and the paint program I use is another open source freebie paint.net

[sanbie]

I have always loved your tutorials pdg, I know you taught me a lot...most of it I have now forgotten and needs a memory jog to click back into place lol
I had to stop using poser as the print was far too small and my eyes got so sore real quick.

[parkdalegardener]

Then I'll just have to use bigger pictures sanbie.

[parkdalegardener]

You can make most any seamless texture. Brick walls, pillow embroidery, dress material. All of it without burnt in lighting effects. Scale as necessary to suit the size of the object you want to texture. Generation information is in the image name by default.

[parkdalegardener]

Even came up with a pale "freen" background I see. 

[sanbie]

Love the freen pdg lol

[parkdalegardener]

I see a lot of people making backing plates for their foreground figures. Simple enough but you can also use your images for environments. Accurate reflections and all that jazz. No problem. Equirectangular and most other environment spheres are mapped 2:1. If you asymmetrically tile your output to that scale you will get an image suitable for mapping to your environment. 360 degree reflections on your windshield glass, sci-fi visor, metal armour and so on. If you need the image to light the scene, Blender amongs't other free and open source software can easily provide light probes. Poser can use the image to light a scene as is but it could use a little work in paint.net to crank out reasonable lighting. Still, any environment you want, for any imagined scene; from ancient history to a dystopian future to deep space is there if you can imagine it.

[thelufias]

I've got a feeling this room will get a lot of visitors PDG....Thanks for doing this...

[parkdalegardener]

Any time.

[Aelin]

I didn't know about the second AI you talked about for seamless files. Since the time I tried to convince Stable Diffusion (online and with only 4 choices at time) to do seamless work!

Unfortunately, the egyptian motifs weren't as good as yours when I tried It was more a kind of "went in washing machine"