The First Breakthrough,
Back in July of this year, I started to seriously invest time into AI-Research. My eventual and long term goal is to multiply output and direct three more games. I want to keep my artistic sensibilities alive, while managing the future productions.
This year the first commercially accessible open-source LoRA-Trainers were released. I immediately saw the potential to input my own artworks and I was fascinated, terrified, electrified and everything else in between when it just worked.
My personal gatekeeper test to AI-Art-Quality was can it interpret and design like I do?
When I design a "parrot dragon" will the AI just create a half dragon-half parrot, but never how I would do it. I was surprised when it could. To be quite frank, I felt pride, as if my first assistant passed my personal art-test.