Pixel Art XL: Stable Diffusion XL for Pixel Art

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That's actually pretty impressive. I always assumed that AI wouldn't be too good for pixel art due to the low resolution and thus less area for the uncanny effects to be concealed.

The previous pixel AI I'd seen had this really awkward pillow shaded art-style but this is much better.

Are there any good resources for generating art for games? (pixel art or otherwise)

I've seen people use Scenario.GG and Leonardo AI.

I myself am working on KREA, but we focus more on moodboards, though some people use our software to create assets for games.

In my experience, using these direct pixelart models is very limiting (and often quite expensive).

I've had a lot of success using a combination of stylized StableDiffusion models like

OccidentalMix (careful, potentially NSFW: https://civitai.com/models/63920/occidentalmix)

and Ditherdragon (https://winterveil.itch.io/ditherdragon) which uses special downscaling algos to turn that into astoundingly good Pixelart.

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