Lechuck Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 (edited) I've been thinking for a while how much I'd love to have a framed print of some Monkey Island 2 background art. I was looking through the collection of what's been released - which we're lucky to have - but I was sad that some of my favorite backgrounds are not among them. Like Woodtick, or the exterior of the International House of Mojo. We do have a very low res scan of the interior, and I thought, what if I tried using one of these new AI tools to upres that and see if I can get something print-worthy? But then I wondered... what would happen if I put the original pixel art backgrounds through it? I thought the results were interesting enough to share: Then I wondered, why not try some Monkey 1 backgrounds too? Perhaps not quite as successful since they weren't originally hand drawn, but I thought it was still interesting. I know these are all poor mans attempts at getting something we don't have, but people more talented than me could probably turn these into something pretty nice. Edited September 14 by Lechuck 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThunderPeel2001 Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 Woodtick came out quite nicely! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lechuck Posted September 16 Author Share Posted September 16 (edited) On 9/14/2024 at 10:17 PM, ThunderPeel2001 said: Woodtick came out quite nicely! Agreed it was probably the best Not surprisingly, upresing the actual low res art leads to better results: Edited September 16 by Lechuck 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThunderPeel2001 Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 I'd love a version of MI2 that looked like these original sketches! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuigiHann Posted September 18 Share Posted September 18 I'll be impressed when AI gets to the point where you could feed it the concept art and the pixel art and it could map them together and fill in the gaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veda Posted September 19 Share Posted September 19 12 hours ago, LuigiHann said: I'll be impressed when AI gets to the point where you could feed it the concept art and the pixel art and it could map them together and fill in the gaps. Something that I have in mind is to try to train ESRGAN using the concept art and the relative backgrounds extracted from the game... But I am a total newbie to ESRGAN and AI training and I still have to find the time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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