Exploratory Visual Digital Character and Visual Digital Scene Design Using Artmaking Generative AI

Abstract

Static visual illustrations with characters and scenes play an important role in story problems and other pedagogical narratives. Such visuals may better engage learners, connect learners with the learning sequence, set the emotional tone, evoke settings, emphasize critical moments, and support the teaching and learning in other ways. With the popularization of artmaking generative AI, a practical question is how well this tool can make visual characters based on character design prompts for both animate and inanimate characters? What about the computerized drawing of scenes in which such characters may be placed, alone or in relation to each other? How difficult is it to prompt the generative AI to create consistent characters from different angles and perspectives? To create consistent scenes and backgrounds? This work explores how practically usable the AI-generated visuals are for the making of characters and scenes, with some light pre-production and post-production, as needed.