Rotating a character

The above images were generated by the model and should therefore give an idea of how the model perceives the different views and directions.

Let's start with this image of a pirate (generated using the workflow described in the Getting Started guide).

First, we'll select the Rotate tool. If we reference the above chart, we can see that the From direction is south and the From view is Sidescroller. Let's set To direction to south-east, To view to Sidescroller, and then go ahead and click Generate.

Here is the generated image of the pirate facing south-east:

Now we can choose from the 2 methods described above to generate the remaining directions. Below is the result of generating all the directions from the same starting image.

It's not perfect, as we can see it especially struggles with the hat, but it will save a lot of time compared to hand-drawing each direction from scratch. There are several options to make fixes to a generated direction:

• The easiest option is, of course, regenerating everything from scratch again. However, the model might make the same mistake again (for example, with the hat above).
• Fixing the parts where it failed using the inpaint tool.
• Using the generated direction with slight manual fixes as an init image for a new generation.
• If the character is symmetric, we can use the mirrored direction, i.e., if the south-east direction looks bad but the south-west direction looks good, we can flip the good south-west direction horizontally to get a new south-east direction.

Sometimes it can be useful to change the camera perspective that a character is shown from. This is not something the model has been trained to do, but sometimes it works quite well. To do this, we would keep the From/To direction constant but change the From/To view. Here is our character going from Sidescroller to Low top-down, to High top-down: