You could just take that, throw it through remove.bg or Adobe Express's background remover (or a local Stable Diffusion setup with the right extension) and use that directly without any Photoshop touchups.
Last night on Tensor dot art, using some Hades LoRA I got this and this on the first try.
It's not close to perfect, but I think some more tweaking with the settings and then off to GIMP to lower the color temp to match the game, AI bg remove and I think it'd fit the game pretty well.
edit: that'd be for an actual patch to share on based mods, I'm making my own big tittied degen one.
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You could easily use AI to generate actually appealing versions of the characters.
Here's what I got from Hotpot with Portrait Game 7 and the prompt:
You can probably get something better with a different style generator, but it's enough to show that you can get some decent results.
You could just take that, throw it through remove.bg or Adobe Express's background remover (or a local Stable Diffusion setup with the right extension) and use that directly without any Photoshop touchups.
Last night on Tensor dot art, using some Hades LoRA I got this and this on the first try.
It's not close to perfect, but I think some more tweaking with the settings and then off to GIMP to lower the color temp to match the game, AI bg remove and I think it'd fit the game pretty well.
edit: that'd be for an actual patch to share on based mods, I'm making my own big tittied degen one.
Yeah, something like...
Treat AI art programs like they're autistic if you wanna get the best results.