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#RetroDiffusion
12.0.0!
Palette control has been added to the controlnet generation menus, so you can finally specify exactly the colors you want it to use!
There have also been lots of QoL improvements, and some key bug fixes.
See how to update, or get the extension below!
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Final version of the
#pixelart
AI model in
@nashor_kim
's style. Pretty happy with it now, I think it has a lot of the identifying features.
Super cool of Nashor to invite people to train on his art, and I hope this model helps inspire him.
It was only trained on 81 images. 👀
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@aseprite
Hey, I’m the model creator, and I’m doing my best to both use the incredible technology AI is, and keep it ethical and respectful of artists and their work.
Please don’t make a blanket statement like this. You didn’t even reach out to learn about my product or how it was made.
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Coming soon to
#RetroDiffusion
you'll be able to take non-pixel-perfect images from generators like
#DALLE3
and easily convert them into pixel perfect generations that you can actually use!
Downscaling (even using AI) can't even come close to this level of quality.
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The pixel artists are out witch hunting again! This time against someone with an insane amount of art skill who has been in the community for years, and even made an article showing how they use AI as a reference tool.
These people are insane.
@thisislux
is skilled as fuck.
Please beware of this pixel artist. They like to use AI :///
Were very vocal and pro AI but now they hide it
YES AI PIXEL GENERATION IS A THING
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(Thread) How I took a 1 minute sketch and turned it into a full
#pixelart
scene in less than 10 minutes with
#RetroDiffusion
Sketch, Final, NES palette, AAP128 palette.
Check out the thread for instructions!
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Okay promise not to freak out but easy seamless tiles are coming to
#RetroDiffusion
, no image to image needed. Prompts in alt text. 👀
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Made in like 5 minutes. Still problems obviously, but it's pretty damn close.
#RetroDiffusion
+ Pokemon style lora, done in the aseprite extension.
"Thunder wolf"
"Water snake"
"Metal monkey"
"Fire bear"
Used the built in automatic background removal tool.
I don't care what you say, AI can't replicate Pixel art to this level of detail/quality, it may never will
IP + high-quality Pixel Art will be the real MOAT and perceived as premium in a couple years
Prove me wrong
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My favorite part of making art more accessible to people, BasedBanana in my discord server put together this AWESOME scene for a classic style adventure game, all with
#RetroDiffusion
.
THIS IS AMAZING!
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New background remover for
#RetroDiffusion
in the works, so far it performs really well.
~2 seconds per image, capable of removing the backgrounds from pixel art AND most other kinds of images.
Simple & complex backgrounds work fine, as long as the subject is well defined.
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First working test of the upcoming mini model for
#AsepriteDiffusion
This version can go all the way down to 24x24 and still have coherent results!
These are some 32x32 farm animals (and scarecrow protecting them)
#pixelart
#stablediffusion
#aiart
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#RetroDiffusion
Has even more insane stuff coming, this spritesheet model by
@nerijs
is just ONE of the crazy new features we are experimenting with!
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#AsepriteDiffusion
2.0 is here!
Detailed list of changes can be found on my site:
Get Aseprite Diffusion here:
If you already own Aseprite Diffusion, check you inbox for the new file!
#aseprite
#stablediffusion
#pixelart
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Experiments with ControlNet. This version takes an image, extracts a pose, and uses that pose to guide
#RetroDiffusion
image generation.
Absolutely insane, this might lead to easy animation.
This is just ONE of EIGHT input options!
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Trying my hand at Magnific's Lara Croft PS1 thing, no prompt, just a size selection and a few seconds.
Super excited to bring this pixel art conversion tool to
#RetroDiffusion
soon!
⚡ OK, this is impressive 🤯
I also wanted to try upscaling Lara Croft from PS1 to super high resolution! Mini step by step tutorial 👇
1/ First Upscaling:
- Preset: Standard
- Creativity: 3
- HDR: 0
- Resemblance: -1
- Prompt: "Screenshot, (detailed eyes:1.2), (detailed
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Still trying out some different ways of creating animations for
#RetroDiffusion
, nothing solid, but this method has some promise.
Going to keep testing it and see where it goes!
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Final tests for the new
#RetroDiffusion
models!
So excited to ship these, simultaneity going live to the Aseprite extension and the standalone models tomorrow, along with some smaller tools and fixes.
Get your GPU's ready!
#pixelart
#landscape
#aiart
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#RetroDiffusion
9.5.0!
Too many new things to cover in one post, so I'll summarize and give more details later.
8 new modifier models, game characters, isometric, and game console specific styles!
Background removal!
LLM prompt enhancer!
20% speed boost!
Links below!
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Pretty sure compression will obliterate this, but here's a neat parallax background I put together this morning using
#RetroDiffusion
.
It's so easy to just make some layers, cut out the background, and put them all together. Only took a couple hours.
#pixelart
#gamedev
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1/? Apparently something has caused the old Aseprite related drama to flair up, so lets recap:
Aseprite publicly attacked a tool I (a very small developer, especially then) was building for THEIR platform and ecosystem, calling it theft.
They asked me to change the name~
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#RetroDiffusion
has a website now!
By creating an account you automatically get 20 free credits to try it out!
For the first week all credit packs are 20% off when you use the code "CLOUDGEN"
Thanks to you guys, and my amazing team for making this real!
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It's wooorrrkkiinnggg!
Got some testing to do, and no idea what the price/credit will be, but a
#RetroDiffusion
website is coming!
Soon everyone can get cool AI pixels without needing an RTX over-9000 80GB GPU.
(RD can actually run on 4gb nvidia cards, but you get the point)
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It's here!
#RetroDiffusion
8.0.0!
RD now supports MacOS, Linux, and AMD GPUs (on Linux)!
Generate awesome
#pixelart
on any powerful enough hardware, check out the product page in the second post for more details!
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#RetroDiffusion
8.5.0!
Mainly releasing for a critical install bug, but we're also adding in the AMAZING
@nashor_kim
style item modifier. I seriously can't thank him enough for allowing us to add it to RD.
To update or purchase, check out the second post in the thread.
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Thank you to the haters for sharing my work and pushing me from 1.7k to 1.8k followers today ❤️
Wouldn’t be here without them 🥺
I hope eventually you can see I’m helping artists, and have been from the start.
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Steam finally released an official statement on AI generation in games on the platform, AND ITS A HUGE WIN FOR AI! 🎉🎉🎉
Basically boils down to being treated the same way all other images are, and live generated content is expected to adhere to the same standard
Link below ⬇️
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Another late night working on
#RetroDiffusion
I was playing around with the idea of "prompt upsampling" from the Dalle-3 paper.
Leads to some awesome results ngl. Way better at understanding short prompts and making relevant images. Nailed the vibe I had in mind every time.
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Ha
Hahaha
Yep, artists are still bitching about AI, even though there has been virtually no effect on the industry, and it’s their own pricing and poor marketing keeping them from succeeding.
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This past week has been incredible. I never though my extension would get this much attention.
I was able to pay off my student loans today because of your support. I can't even begin to say how much that means to me.
Thank you all so very very much
<3
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After the news today about OpenAI’s board removing CEO Sam Altman, the Retro Diffusion board (me) met to discuss removing the current CEO (also me). We are excited to announce that all of the shareholders (me again) agree that I should step down, and be replaced by me.
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Testing the size limits of the next
#RetroDiffusion
pixel art model... These are generated at 1408x960 (176x120 pixels) and image to image'd for 2816x1920 (352x240 pixels).
Probably won't be able to reach those sizes inside Aseprite, but hey, the model doesn't break down!
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Working on a one click photo -> pixel art pipeline for
#RetroDiffusion
.
Not perfect, but damn its close. CLIP interrogation, ControlNet, img2img, and image processing all wrapped into one.
#pixelart
#stablediffusion
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Not sure if they want to be named, but one of my favorite game developers and artists just got Retro Diffusion.
They got me interested in pixel art when I took a class from them as a teenager.
Today is even my birthday.
I can’t even express how much this means to me. 🥹
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We've been building up this awesome little UI for controlling image lighting, colors, and some other features in
#RetroDiffusion
. Here's an example of it being used to move the lighting around a portrait!
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The results of a multi-hour stress test on
#RetroDiffusion
If you've got enough vram, it can push out some pretty nice renders using image to image.
#pixelart
#stablediffusion
#aiart
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Some quick tests with a new model for
#SDXL
Things are looking super promising for high res, less so for low res. The style is a bit different from the current
#RetoDiffusion
models, but
@nerijs
and I will keep tuning it until its perfect!
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My pain spending 7 hours staring at noise was so worth it.
Native 256x192 pixel art generation in
#RetroDiffusion
, no image to image tricks, no upscaling, not even any controlnets.
🤩
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Daily reminder that pixel artists are the people who stand to gain the most from tools like Retro Diffusion.
Literally built it for other artists from the start. Other pixel artists were the ones who asked me to make it public.
🤷♂️
Can’t wait to be out of a job
All those jokes that pixelart would be the last to bite it were foolish
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So we have the mini model for
#RetroDiffusion
, but now I'm working on a MEGA model!
These are high resolution (pixel art) images, generated from nothing but a prompt! No image to image or high res fix necessary.
Still some issues, but its getting there. I'll keep you updated.
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Just to make it as transparent as possible, this is how a good number of other artists respond to me talking about getting death threats.
So glad these individuals are so caring and tolerant.
Really a shining beacon of morality for the rest of us.
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Our Discord community member
@MapleSenpai1
is doing INCREDIBLE things with
#RetroDiffusion
.
They've made 150 game icons, absolutely blowing MY mind. All credit to them!
#pixelart
#gamedev
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Lux is learning, adapting, and absolutely crushing it. AI isn't replacing her, or taking anything away from her, its multiplying her creativity.
Instead of shitting on real artists using AI responsibly, maybe find someone who deserves the hate.
Nice job eating your own, idiots.
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Some friends wanted character portraits, so I put these together in a couple hours with
#RetroDiffusion
! Really happy with these results.
#pixelart
#dnd
#characterart
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#RetroDiffusion
Update v7.0.0!
Tons of changes and improvements to the models, UI, performance, and setup tools.
The new tiling model makes flat textures easier than ever, with no need for i2i or prompting wizardry.
Check your email, or get it here:
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I just managed to get floating point 8 precision working in
#RetroDiffusion
(only for 30+ series nvidia GPUs)
This means you'll be able to generate up to a 240x240 pixel art image with only 4GB of VRAM!
That's 1920x1920 for normal stable diffusion, absolutely massive for 4gb!
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A friend wanted some desktop backgrounds, so I took a few minutes(!!!) to generate some. Still honestly can't believe how far things have come. Absolutely mind-blowing.
#pixelart
#ドット絵
#RetroDiffusion
#aiart
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So excited about this, the new text encoding for
#RetroDiffusion
makes image gen follow prompts way more closely, and it should be able to run on most hardware.
Minimum spec is either 20gb RAM + 4gb VRAM or 16gb RAM + 8gb VRAM
Also next to no performance trade-off 😎
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Once this is ready it will change
#gamedev
so much.
Right now its pretty tough to get good results, but its getting better every day.
#RetroDiffusion
is going to make minecraft content, game icons, and just small assets in general so easy to make. I'm so excited for this!
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To show all the people whining about my AI that I actually know that I'm doing.
Nice double standards guys💖
#pixelart
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MacOS, Linux, and AMD GPU support are all coming to
#RetroDiffusion
this week!
This is a huge step for RD, and there's even more amazing things just around the corner, like the cloud hosted pixel art generation website :)
Make sure to join the Discord to get notified!
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This is a REAL art tool helping REAL artists, and it will only get better from here.
I'm more committed than I have ever been to building useful tools for pixel art, and I'm sure as hell not giving in to a bunch of spiteful and uninformed neo-luddites.
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Two of the styles coming to
#RetroDiffusion
in the next couple weeks:
Top-down, and Front-facing perspective.
Super consistent and beautiful LoRA's designed by
@nerijs
, perfect for
#gamedev
, modding, or just making cute corgis.
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A sneak peek of the new game character modifier dropping in the next update 👀
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Another example of the new pixelate feature coming to
#RetroDiffusion
next update!
You can take basically anything and not only reduce the resolution, but add pixel-art-specific details
AND the whole generation can use loras, and composition sliders to adjust the style further!
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Made this with a model specifically trained on my portraiture style :)
Even got the shadow effect right.
#pixelart
#pirate
#retrodiffusion
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Some 64x64 chestplate designs I made in a few seconds with image to image!
Game Items at 60%, Front-facing at 55%, image to image strength at 75%. Prompt "medieval armor chestplate"
Just another example of how powerful
#RetroDiffusion
is for
#gamedev
.
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While I'm on a roll today...
We updated to include the new Game Console style models, along with Isometric, Game Characters, and the model collab we did with
@nashor_kim
!
Check it out and generate some images!
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Making all these took like 30 minutes.
The
#RetroDiffusion
update will be out in a week, brining LoRA support (+ a bunch of built in loras), 16x16 models, customizable sounds, and tons of fixes/improvements/optimizations.
This is just the start,
@nerijs
and I have more cooking!
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"Spider themed"
#minecraft
assets made in less than 10 minutes. I was pretty picky too, could have been even faster if I didn't care about matching the colors.
The next
#RetroDiffusion
update is going to be insane 🤯
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Hey guys I did a thing.
Halved VRAM use for large generations, with no speed impact.
Yeah I'm kinda cool like that 😎
#RetroDiffusion
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I made some more pretty pictures with
#RetroDiffusion
🤩
All as generated, no touching up or edits. Default settings (except size) and prompts generated using the LLM enhancement and the instruction to "Make a variety of interesting scenes with detailed subjects"
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Game item style is also getting a big overhaul tomorrow, way better quality and background separation across the board!
#RetroDiffusion
is going to be even more powerful for
#gamedev
that it already is. This isn't even factoring in the new 'top-down' perspective model!
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For the past week there's been a contest going on in the
#RetroDiffusion
discord server. The theme was "deep ocean". Here are some of the amazing entries!
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Sneak peek of the "Game Characters (Retro)" modifier model coming to
#RetroDiffusion
soon.
There's also a more anime style game character model as well, and finally a Sega Genesis style model too :)
Super simple prompts, no clean up at all:
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#RetroDiffusion
10.5.0!
We've finally added the Neural tools to the extension!
Now can pixelate, resize, add detail to, or transform images right inside of
#aseprite
.
Also tons of performance improvements and bug fixes.
See how to update, or get the extension below!
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1/6 Yesterday I turned 22, I’m willing to bet most of you had no idea I was so young. The past year has been quite a ride, its had some of the best moments in my life, along with the worst. Last August I lost a lot of important people, all within a week. That left me devastated.
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I was wondering where all the traffic last night came from! Thank you so much!
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Converting dalle3 non-pixel perfect gens into pixel art is too much fun!
Controlnet based pixelate tools, resizing, detail adding, and transforming tools coming to
#RetroDiffusion
asap!
We've got it all working in-engine and just need to do testing before release 😎
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I've been having fun with upscaling and downscaling pixel art using
#RetroDiffusion
.
It's super simple too, for this I just used Image to Image, 65 strength, and the prompt "a close up portrait of a muscular man with a beard, dark, dramatic".
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#RetroDiffusion
Update v6.0.0!
This update has three new models, all showing huge improvements over the previous versions.
Along with the new models is a new palettize option that handles color selection for you!
Check your email, or get it here:
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#RetroDiffusion
has come a long way 😅
So many more things to do still. No end in sight for all the new techniques, tools, and models.
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Just made some killer improvements to
#RetroDiffusion
's image to image. Next update it will use a specialized controlnet to maintain better image consistency and content awareness, while still allowing for tons of variation.
Basically a straight upgrade to I2I!
"A king"
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"A canoe on a lake" "River" "A deer" "A cute duck"
That, and about 30 seconds is all it took to make these.
And we're still not even close to the vision I had when I started all this a year ago. It only goes up from here.
#RetroDiffusion
#pixelart
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#RetroDiffusion
's Mega model is here!
Along with it come some massive performance improvements, new features, and tons of fixes.
Update notes here:
You can get Retro Diffusion here:
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#RetroDiffusion
10.0.0!
Introducing the new Composition menu that makes colors and lighting easy!
Change light direction, hue, saturation, brightness, etc, all in one easy to use interface!
We also have an official documentation page, check out the links below!
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I'm working on a new upscaling tool for
#RetroDiffusion
, calling it Neural Resize. It's capable of doing some crazy stuff, the only inputs it requires are a short description of the image, and a new size.
Here's a few comparisons to other upscaling methods, including RotSprite.
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JK, this took no skill. Anyone can do it. You can type some words and get some cool art.
Democratize art. It's for everyone now. If you're not okay with that... Maybe you're the baddies?
#RetroDiffusion
#pixelart
My skills are increasing.
Making a video as we speak showing my process and how I get these results. The level of artistry needed, the technical knowledge required, and amount of work involved I think is going to shock people.
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LoRA support is coming to the next
#RetroDiffusion
update!
Here's an example using the "Detail Tweaker" LoRA:
Left side has no LoRA applied, right side has the same settings, but the detail LoRA added at 60% strength.
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Been doing some image -> pixel art conversion prototyping for
#RetroDiffusion
. Amazing results so far.
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Making more
#minecraft
blocks with
#RetroDiffusion
This all took 5 minutes with editing, making a whole resource pack might actually be something a single person can do in a reasonable amount of time now.
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*Accidentally* left the GPU oven on while I was away.
Oops 🤷♂️
New base models coming to
#RetroDiffusion
soon!
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A workflow I'm absolutely in love with for the upcoming
#RetroDiffusion
update is using dalle3 images and turning them into pixel art, its so easy and the results are awesome.
Absolutely crushes every other way of "pixel-art-ifying" images!
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Thank you all so much for 1000 followers!
Hope I can keep you entertained with my computer generated squares (And occasional rants about AI being weird). 💟
Image made with
#RetroDiffusion
of course. Text + image to image = cool ruins
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How can anyone be expected to make a game when getting good art takes so long?
I had to wait a whole 46 seconds for these to generate, have the colors restricted, and the backgrounds automatically removed.
Surely there is a better way. 😤
#RetroDiffusion
#pixelart
#gamedev
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Okay nerdy math things that no one will care about, but
@poof_eth
was talking with me about image fourier transforms for detecting AI images, but while I was messing with them I found they actually do an amazing job of predicting pixel art image scaling (duh)
Continued V
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#RetroDiffution
now includes Pixel Model 2.5 with massive improvements to character art, colors, and textures!
Generations can now go all the way down to 24x24 with no loss in quality!
Get it here:
#stablediffusion
#aiart
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This exchange is GOLD
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Testing out some playing card stuff with
#RetroDiffusion
.
Middle is original for image to image.
This is so much fun.
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#RetroDiffusion
community member
@Evan_Haaland
made this awesome game level image, all the assets are made with Retro Diffusion. Super cool stuff!
#pixelart
#gamedev
#aiart
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Staying up until 1AM optimizing code, 100% worth it.
Just got an across the board 20% speed up for image generation (more with higher steps) AND made the automatic palette calculator run nearly 100x faster, with BETTER quality.
Won't remember how it works tomorrow I promise 😂
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@aseprite
There is a version that comes with Stable Diffusion, because thats a standard in AI tools now. I genuinely didn’t realize about the name, and I have no problem changing it if you’d like me to.
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