AI Drew This Gorgeous Comic Series, But You’d Never Know It
You might expect a comic book series featuring art generated entirely by artificial intelligence technology to be full of surreal images that have you tilting your head trying to grasp what kind of sense-shifting madness you’re looking at.
Not so with the images in The Bestiary Chronicles, a free, three-part comics series from Campfire Entertainment, an award-winning New York-based production house focused on creative storytelling.
The visuals in the trilogy — believed to be the first comics series made with AI-assisted art — are stunning. They’re also stunningly precise, as if they’ve come straight from the hand of a seasoned digital artist with a very specific story and style in mind.
“Deep underground, the last remnants of humanity gather to learn about the monsters that have destroyed their planet,” reads a description of The Lesson, the visually rich retro-futuristic third comic in the trilogy. All three are available to download now on Campfire’s siteand also come in softcover and hardcover printed anthologies.
Though AI-generated visual art can tend toward the wildly absurd, the photorealistic humans in The Bestiary Chronicles don’t have rearranged facial features, or limbs protruding at odd angles. The monsters — with their glowing eyes