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damn opsec....
I'm currently using Midjourney, and I'm only just dipping my toes in the shallow end. Here's what I've learned so far:
Midjourney does not seem capable of generating a clean sprite sheet, nor tiling textures. If there's a way to do it, I haven't found it yet. What I have been able to do is to generate good-looking pixel-art images of terrain, then chop chunks out of that terrain and compile them into a sheet of raw chunks. My plan is to process these chunks using photoshop magic (desaturate to greyscale, clamp number of colors to a small value, gradient map to recolor with a consistent pallete) and possibly some cleanup by hand to eliminate rendering artifacts and inconsistencies in the chunks, and then use the chunks like lego pieces to assemble production-quality sprites. Creating tiling textures is fairly trivial in photoshop using filter > other > offset and fill > content-aware or minor editing.
I've started experimenting with re-rendering of images I've painted myself, but so far the results have been unusable. I think this is probably just lack of knowledge on my part, so I'm gonna keep digging on it.
I've also started testing generation of monster sprites. So far the results for that have also been unusable, but did have some interesting bits. I'm hoping the re-rendering might help a lot here if I can get it working properly.
You got some examples of the kind of pixel art you're going for? any details on the sorts of sprites you're trying to make?
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