Guides Dashboard

Hey there! 🪶 Welcome to the hub - your chill starting point for turning ideas into AI game art, sprites, 3D assets, and more. Pick a section below and jump in. No fluff, just practical walkthroughs based on what actually works.

Start with the basics if you’re new, or skip around for quick lookups. Everything’s casual, step-by-step, with real-world tips.

Getting Started

🚀 Starting Guide Brand new? Start here - pipeline overview, tools you'll need, and mindset tips.

🎨 Midjourney Setup Cloud-based kickoff - signing up, first prompts, and organizing your gens.

🖥️ ComfyUI Setup Local powerhouse - install once, generate forever. Portable & manual options.

Components of AI Pipeline

🧠 Models Checkpoints are the soul - anime, realistic, furry, 3D/CGI styles and where to grab them.

✍️ Prompting Write prompts that actually work - weights, styles, negatives, reverse-engineering tips.

�- Embeddings Textual inversions & concepts - quick style boosters without full LoRAs.

🎭 LoRAs Lightweight add-ons for characters, styles, poses - loading, strength tuning, stacking.

🎨 VAE Fixing color/contrast weirdness - baked-in vs custom, when to swap.

🕹️ ControlNet Pose, lineart, depth, canny - locking composition with OpenPoseXL2 & DWPose.

⚡ Samplers & Scheduling The engine of generation - sampler algorithms, steps, CFG, denoise, and how they interact.

📈 Upscaling & Refinement From base to polished - latent upscale, ESRGAN, tiled diffusion, iterative img2img, and face fixes.

2D Asset Generation

🖼️ Midjourney 2D Realism, anime/Niji mode, animation tricks - frame consistency & motion prompts.

🎮 ComfyUI 2D Guide Nodes intro, text-to-image, image-to-image, LoRA setup - the full 2D workflow.

3D Asset Generation

🧊 Blender Setup Importing .obj/.glb, UV editing, rigging basics, and export tips.

�-️ ComfyUI 3D Tripo3D, Hunyuan3D, image-to-3D workflows - the best path to game-ready meshes.

Extras

🎨 Luddite Guide (Non-AI Art) Balance AI with traditional skills - real media, digital art, training your own style.

📝 Maximize Your Notetaking Markdown, Obsidian, blogging your workflows - document your experiments.

🔧 Common Nodes in ComfyUI Reference sheet - loaders, KSampler, CLIP, LoRA nodes, OpenPose editor and more.