[webmaven]

> This is a fun project I've been working on recently. The idea of the cards started when I saw how an AI could generate realistic portraits of people. I tried to apply similar techniques to generating fantasy characters, and got amazing results.

Can you share a bit more about the art generation? Are you using StyleGAN or some other architecture? Are you hand-selecting the art from among generated images? What training dataset did you use or create?

[nerf0]

Sure! I'm using a network very similar to StyleGAN. After generating a batch, I review the images and weed out maybe 10% of the really bad ones. I was actually surprised at how well it worked.

For training, I spent a lot of time scraping images. I couldn't find any good dataset for this purpose. Controlling for quality is pretty tough, and I didn't spend nearly as much time as I should. And it's evident in the result. Some of the generated arts have pretty low pixel quality if you look at the original image. Luckily, it looks ok on the cards.