Can you reccomend me an AI that can help me make backgrounds?

[Nobody Cares]

I am currently selecting an artist to do the sprites and scenes for my upcoming game. It is the first time I am taking on a project of this magnitude and could use a little direction.

I was considering using an AI to draw the (very generic) backgrounds for the game so that my capable artists can focus on the titties characters.

I would of course prefer something free, but am willing to spend some money if needed. Can you help?

 

[FoolsBeGone]

Tensor has some great Lora's for background scenery and they give 100 free credits per day. The average ai generated pic costing about 1.2 credits

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[osanaiko]

Do you have a recent NVidia GPU? Anything from the 20x0 series and 8GB or better will work at home with Automatic1111. RTX3060 12GB is perfect for a starter. From there, you just need to experiment with prompts, checkpoints, loras, and controlnet, and you'll be able to crank out some stuff that is "passable" but not perfect. There is a learning curve but it's like 100x shorter than learning to draw yourself.

 

[Nobody Cares]

Do you have a recent NVidia GPU? Anything from the 20x0 series and 8GB or better will work at home with Automatic1111. RTX3060 12GB is perfect for a starter. From there, you just need to experiment with prompts, checkpoints, loras, and controlnet, and you'll be able to crank out some stuff that is "passable" but not perfect. There is a learning curve but it's like 100x shorter than learning to draw yourself.

I got an RTX3050 laptop. Close enough?

 

[Deleted member 6928841]

I got an RTX3050 laptop. Close enough?

Not really.
4gb vram is so low even maybe 512x512 image size.

May you can use google colab, just search how to setup stable diffusion in it.

 

[osanaiko]

I got an RTX3050 laptop. Close enough?

Okay, 4GB is not enough to do much, so in that case you would need to use one of the services. There is a rapidly evolving market of these service providers such as the one that FoolsBeGone mentioned above. Civtai has one built in, and there are many more. Setup a budget of a hundred bucks or whatever with one of them and go for it, to learn the basics.

The Femboy Destroyer suggestion of Google colab: it definitely works and a lot of the early creators were using it to get started and making "how to" vids, but you need to do a lot of the setup yourself if you want cutting edge combination of SD+plugins+etcetc. this is complex and time consuming to get right, and you're burning credits the whole time. Better to use a prepackaged service in my opinion.

 

[Nobody Cares]

Okay, 4GB is not enough to do much, so in that case you would need to use one of the services. There is a rapidly evolving market of these service providers such as the one that FoolsBeGone mentioned above. Civtai has one built in, and there are many more. Setup a budget of a hundred bucks or whatever with one of them and go for it, to learn the basics.

The Femboy Destroyer suggestion of Google colab: it definitely works and a lot of the early creators were using it to get started and making "how to" vids, but you need to do a lot of the setup yourself if you want cutting edge combination of SD+plugins+etcetc. this is complex and time consuming to get right, and you're burning credits the whole time. Better to use a prepackaged service in my opinion.

I once tried midjourney but did not use it all that much. Should I give it another try?

 

[osanaiko]

I once tried midjourney but did not use it all that much. Should I give it another try?

Following comment based on last time I looked at Midjourney , it may have changed since then.

Midjourney is cool if you're trying to make hyper saturated "modern pop" style images. What it doesn't have is any real control knobs you can twist beyond the prompt itself.

With Stable Diffusion (and my experience here is running it locally), there are many and varied ways to change the way the tools work - different models, different plugins (controlnet et al), various finetunes like LORAs and LYCORIS etc.

I believe that the more wild-west services give you an experience more like stabdiff - lots of choices and control. Honestly, look around at some youtube vids of people using at least 3 different ones, including midjourney, and get a feel for what you want to try/what is achievable.