portraits I upscaled + restyled some BG portraits with AI

[jwronsky]

I posted that on Reddit an people harassed me there (literally) for using AI. I hope this community is more open minded.

I tried to both upscale them and make them look like photographs (closer to the original BG style). I didn't try to recreate those portraits exactly, I just wanted to preserve the general look & feel and convert them to something more photographic, while being creative.

I used Stable Diffusion upscaler (Ultimate SD upscale) + img2img + ControlNet for anatomy

I spent too much time getting those fingers to look at least kind of right ^

 

Edited January 28 by jwronsky

[jwronsky]

Example positive/negative prompts and settings for Viconia:

[Connelly]

Harass, no.

But honestly, they feel so goddamn off to me that I only want to scroll away/close the tab. :/

[moggadeet]

Serious uncanny valley territory for me. They don't really convey the personalities evoked in their original portraits, and they're just kind of... off in general.

[suy]

I think Amelyssan is pretty good. Sarevok seems OK. Maybe not 100% similar to what the original, but good enough to be a pass for me. So, from my POV, don't get discouraged. I would like to see more myself! I also would love to have the time to tinker with Stable Diffusion.

[J Beau]

To each his own, but I really like where you are going with this.

[jwronsky]

^ Baeloth I couldn't get rid of the facial hair completely, unfortunately.

^ much older version

[bob_veng]

There's a lot potential here. Could you upscale all the vanilla ToB portraits?

[Felipe]

This is GREAT! I hope you upscale all of them. :)

[RoyalProtector]

There's a lot of potential here for good stuff -- and overall creepiness. I'll be curious to see where this goes.

[jwronsky]

Some simple animation:

https://i.imgur.com/I5ItM0N.mp4

[ktchong]

Check these out:

Link: Realistic NPC Portraits for BGEE @ NexusMods

 

Link: Realistic NPC Portraits for BG2EE @ NexusMods

Edited March 18 by ktchong

[ktchong]

Another set.  These were created with Stable Diffusion.  Link to source at Beamdog forums (includes a download link.)

 

Edited March 18 by ktchong

[Daulmakan]

On 1/28/2024 at 3:27 PM, jwronsky said:

I posted that on Reddit an people harassed me there (literally) for using AI. I hope this community is more open minded.

Can you try doing The Five from Throne of Bhaal? 

[ktchong]

On 1/30/2024 at 12:25 PM, jwronsky said:

Baeloth I couldn't get rid of the facial hair completely, unfortunately.

^ much older version

 

FYI, as per DnD and Forgotten Realm lore, elves and drows do NOT have facial hair.  It is genetic.