Artstyle Guide

[slim shale]

It would be cool if we had guides on how the art for the game was made and tips and tricks to better replicate the artstyle

[grim dome]

some of it is AI i think

[gilded salmon]

pretty sure they mean sprites, not the AI smushed loading screens they're halfway through replacing

[neon lantern]

i am getting a little tired of people complaining about the AI stuff

human-generated art run through an AI is not only far less bad than just generating from scratch, but they're also ALREADY replacing it

people seem like they're just looking for any reason to get mad at fakefish and regalis for using AI on everything (i have seen people trying to argue that the sprites are AI too)

i agree that it's bad and you should get actual art made by a human

but i feel like it's blown out of proportion

but yeah an artstyle guide would be good

one of the main things is oversharpening

doing that brings it closer to the barotrauma vibe

helps if you photobash too since the sprites have a pseudo photorealistic aesthetic (because iirc a lot of the sprites were photobashed too, giving it that look)

[subtle veldt]

lots of sprites are real life stock images touched up yeah

Adding a dark semi transparent 1 pixel thick border/blur helps sprites not have the white outline problem

[gilded salmon]

Yeah but it looks just as bad as something 100% AI, because that's how it works

The people who go around saying everything is AI when it's clearly not are just stupid and wrong and should not be paid attention to

[slim shale]

I was more specifically talking about the monsters

[gilded salmon]

Painted

[grim dome]

ah, well i achieved something close by 3d modeling objects and then rendering them in a 2d angle

i had a sprite of a gun i made somewhere

the compression makes it look barotrauma-like

[gilded salmon]

Yes and? Not AI related

[grim dome]

nothing ive said in this reply in particular ever suggested that it was though