Some thoughts on trying to create a consistent AI character -
I've seen a bunch of YouTubers claiming to have the magic formula for creating consistent AI characters for Instagram. There's one making $10,000/month as an influencer, and everyone's trying to figure out how the team behind her gets the AI to keep her likeness the same between images. Well, for only $9.99/month I'll - just kidding, I'll tell you for free what I think the secret sauce might be - Photoshop and a traditional portrait artist. That's right, you're not going to do it with AI alone. The AI will unload some of the burden from a guy who's already a great artist, and that's it.
So here's what I'm going through. I've got 15 images of the same character, but different angles, so the AI knows what she looks like from every angle. Here's the first full-body image, generated in Openart.ai from the portrait I posted earlier -
The forum shrinks these images down. The original is 1024 pixels high.
I took this image into flux1.ai and used the enhance feature to generate this image -
This one is 2048 pixels high.
Even in the shrunk down version on the forum, you can see that the quality of the image is much higher, but the AI has made a few mistakes. Typically, it loses the nailpolish, changes her hair color and lip stick color, changes costume details or leaves them out, won't draw the rims of her glasses if they block her eyes, often tries to change the hair bows into ribbons, and the look of her face has changed. It changes her eye color, and adds Caucasian facial features. All of this has to be fixed, and hopefully the errors won't be reintroduced when I run these pics through openart.ai's modelling process.
Or I can push the magic button so many people imagine is there, and the AI will do everything for me. Someone tell me where that button is . . .
