With GenAI I’m always on the prowl for new tools and workflows, in pursuit of as much control and agency as possible.
I periodically circle back to ComfyUI, but as versatile as it is, it often ends up making me want to throw myself in front of a bus.
However, recently I took the latest version of Invoke for a spin, and I’m super impressed.
It offers a fantastic user experience, and an extremely powerful “active canvas” workflow that puts traditional manual input front and center, which I greatly prefer.
It may very well be the first truly professional-grade, end-to-end GenAI art tool, and it does feel as impactful and game-changing as tools like ZBrush or Substance did back in the day. It’s also open source.
The lovely lady below is the result of this experimentation: it’s an interpretation of one of our in-game characters, a female acolyte of a sinister Lovecraftian cult, right as her corruption takes hold.
