I worked with AI again using a sketch. I am trying to make an atari/intellivision style artwork for a bitsy project I had. The idea is to have a huge contrast between the artwork and the pixelated game like back in those days.
Here is the reference sketch
I wanted to try Adobe Firefly, but they demanded intrusive information like birth date, so I aborted the process.
So I first I tried with ChatGPT, the look is very interesting, but there are some mistakes like the thumb on one of the hands, the spear is off a bit, and the arrows are buggy. The composition is vertical instead of horizontal. I did not try to refine yet. It did not seem to respect my sketch, it has more likely use the prompt than my sketch.
Then I tried Nano Banana lite using Google Flow. This one is more accurate to the sketch, but I made a typo that changed the faces into bear faces. Its funny, but not what I need. Then there is the problem with arrows, like double feathered arrows, or arrows without tips. The spear is badly placed. Now I tried to make modifications and it did not really help, you has for modifications and it does not give it to you.
Modifications from the first image
The I decided to try Nano Banana regular, this one is more accurate, but its more cartoon-ish which is not bad for a video game cover. Maybe the head is too big?
So those are my experiments so far, even with long complex prompt and a sketch, it not as easy to control. Probably if I could do AI generations on my own computer, I would get more control.
What are your thoughts?
Google image "intellivision cover art" OR "atari cover art" you will see what I mean.
The covers looks cool, very thematic, when you look this as a kid you are like "wow! that looks a like an amazing game". But when you play the actual game, its super pixelated, with low colors, or even single color sprites.
That Is the contrast I want to get, super cool cover art, pixelated game screen shots.
I will add a border around the artwork like the Intellivision covers, and add "Bitsy" like if Bitsy was a video game console. They would probably game box picture as intellivision had no pictures on the cartridge. Atari had pictures.
I will see if I can easily change the art style of the last piece of art for something non-cartoon-ish and maybe use that.
Probably there was more work generating this image from sketch because its not just a single object like that lightning gun, its a whole scene.
Apparently making prompts for AI generators can sometimes be so much complicated that you need to ask an AI chat bot how to build an AI generator prompt.