Redrawing 'Cute' A.I. Generated Pixel Art

What does AI-generated pixel art look like? Well, in this video we’ll find out - and then I attempt to redraw it!
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0:00 Intro | AI Art
0:54 “Cute Pixel Art”
1:26 Translating the A.I. Art into Pixel Art
5:29 A.I. to Pixel Art Montage
6:33 FINAL COMPARISON
7:11 CRT Time
8:14 VID OVER

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Software used: Adobe Photoshop 2022 (for my Pixel Art), Craiyon (for the AI-Generated Art)
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Title sequence theme music by Failpositive:

[BunnyTPerson]

I would love to play a game with those sprites, imagine the amount of lore that could be extracted from these characters

[blazerchocobo]

I thought the generated results would be weirder, ngl. It was interesting to see how your designs blended in with the original ideas, which were very much open to interpretation.

[scooter]

Wow. My favourite is the blue blob in the mech chair, so cute!!! The idea of a literal "Hamster-ball" is too pure. Also, the character with the beak, did you know it was a beak from the start or did you figure that out from blocking? Originally, I saw a dog with big floppy ears, looking to the side and then my brain melted trying to figure out where it was going. Nice to see you actually DO something with the generated images, as well as generate them in the first place. Awesome video! ❤

[COMMANDR.ID]

I am in awe with the creativity put into some of the sprites you had translated these janky masses of random squares into.

Great video as always :D

[milesparker]

The ai generated piece of the girl actually doesn't look bad. It would probably fit in a horror game.

This might just be a good way of getting ideas.

[Musically_Declined]

I’d love to see a video on “blender models conversion into pixel art” tutorials, as they seem like a really easy way to make pretty good pixel art and it’d be interesting to see an actual pixel artists opinion on it

[inner-critic]

I am so obsessed with all the finished designs/interpretations.. Very cool!

[CKTDanny]

Haha I love this idea!! I was especially looking forward to how you'd interpret the blue one. I think it has to be my fav design before & after the translation - it's so unique! 😁

I also really liked the bird's design, honestly they're all super fun! Seems like a nice way to explore some really unique ideas 🤩

[Cam-TK]

Surprisingly enough the designs fit well with each other, they look like the cast for a game...

Sorry for the long text (:P) but I got these ideas:
-The redhead girl is the protagonist, she's a human damsel who lives in a cabin near a river. She is looking for her missing dog (the light brown one).
-The bald kid who is wearing a cardboard box is a human trying to look like a robot, he's dream is to live in a sci-fi city when he's older. He's from a regular city area with regular humans.
-The bird guy is a citizen from a city full with tall tress that reach near the sky. This could be a platformer area.
-The yellow hamster could be the protagonist's helper/assistant who joins early in the game. They felt lonely and really wanted to become our friend.
-The pink hair lady is an androide who is friends with the blue cyborg creature, they live in a sci-fi city and give techno related minigames (like hacking a computer or making an techno armor...)
-The pink plant creature is from a forest area with plant related puzzles and maybe a foraging minigame.
At the end of the game the damsel finds her dog next to the pink dog, the dogs are in love with each other so the damsel decides to adopt the pink dog and the hamster, then they all go back home together.


... Quite a wholesome little game, huh.

[ARDIZsq]

This is amazing. I especially love the timelapse where you can see the sort of evolution morphing from the raw output of the AI to a refined and finalized sprite. Incredible work.

[mebamme]

This is fantastic! I love the style you made these in and the balance between the AI's ideas and your own, and they all came out great and really inspiring. This might be one of your best videos yet!

[lurkinlittlesquares]

That style of outlines is so cool and is something I never would've thought about trying before

[iamsushi]

I really enjoyed seeing the higher color counts with more blending, the “higher bit depth” looks of pixel art.

[yuri_nori]

I also LOVE the hamster ball it's my favorite And this is so amazing to watch good job!💕

[yotan]

This was incredible! My favourites by far were the dog and the toucan, such fun silhouettes

[gorkamorka]

Those are some great characters. Looks like the crew of a starship in an RPG maker game or something. Very fun bunch of designs.

[GrandpuhTy]

"Looks like Stewie in this sort of a Lord of the Flies type situation-"
That's just The Binding of Isaac with extra steps!

[ollie_]

My silly little idea for their story:
Game takes place throughout red hair girls life in her dreams or an imagination world. Characters in the start are the cuter and more pastel ones, inspired by her stuffed animals. As she grows older though her sense of wonder and creativity is sorta taken out of her so she will conform to society, she works an office job, and the cute computer creature is a manifestation of said job.
Throughout the game she looses her childlike imagination and joy and has to slowly regain it to find meaning in her routine based life in the office and follow her dreams.
Maybe pink hair girl is an imaginary friend or alternatively a girl from her job. Idk

[TheScarnak]

Would love to see more of this! Upscaling artificial art with human creativity is great fun to watch and to learn from.

[sageeden]

I like how instead of replacing everything, you try and add on to them, sort of improvising the drawing! Nice!