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I am interested in guidance for generating a custom icon like this with a similar level of style consistency. I know there are some resources out there with guidance, but does anyone know any really good ones?

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This is absolutely not my area of expertise, and I can't fully vouch for how well it works, but I was looking for a similar solution for consistency across website graphics and came across this walkthrough for consistent game assets:

https://runware.ai/blog/creating-consistent-gaming-assets-wi...

Maybe helpful?

Generate something you like the style of, then run it back through a vision model and ask it to describe the image without describing the subject, append that to a batch of icon descriptions, easy custom icons. (figure out transparency at this step) Then ask it for an imagemagick script that will convert them into needed sizes and formats.

very manual yes, but gives a lot of control

[edit] the images seem to be made with a transformers model rather than diffusion (e.g. DallE3 vs MidJourney) which is mostly proprietary for now.

Me as well. The one thing I've struggled with is consistently getting a combination of object-only and transparent background.

one good technique is to pass the style guide as a json, where you define materials, lightning, perspective, etc

you can even use a vision model to generate the style guide for you

Very clever thank you

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