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The title excited me - maybe someone succeeded making new art that looks like the old pre-renders, maybe a convincing imitation of the scanline render look. Ins
by carrolldunham 4y ago
The title excited me - maybe someone succeeded making new art that looks like the old pre-renders, maybe a convincing imitation of the scanline render look. Instead it was a vapid article about tossing pixel art into img-2-img and getting some tenuously related junk.
- canadianfella 4y ago[dead]
- Jiro 4y agoHe didn't even do that. He used text descriptions; the original pixel art wasn't involved.
- layer8 4y agoI guess that explains why the results were only vaguely related to the original pictures.
- nineteen999 4y agoI think the new images look jarring next to the original 8-bit Konami style font at the bottom, the look clashes in my mind. I would have pixelated the generated images and dithered them down to a smaller palette to look more retro. Or kept the hi-res images but subtituted the fonts to something more detailed and modern. But that's just me.
- hnbad 4y agoIt reminds me of those HD texture packs for Minecraft in the early days that would attempt to map photorealistic textures onto a world almost entirely made of cubes. Yes it's more high-fidelity, but it adds nothing except emphasizing the low fidelity of everything else.
- nineteen999 4y agoI agree with you. The other point it makes to me is that AI art generation doesn't turn non-artists into artists, no matter how many programmer types suddenly think they can replace artists now. You still need a developed sense of taste and style, which lets face it, outside of software, many programmers do not have.