AI character designer

Editorial picks for "ai character design".

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Midjourney

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Image Generation · Midjourney v7

9.4

The gold standard for aesthetic AI image generation.

Paid· Basic: $20 · Pro: $50 · Enterprise: Contact salesillustrationconcept art

Nano Banana (Gemini Image)

Image Generation · Gemini 3 Pro Image (Nano Banana Pro), Gemini 3.1 Flash Image (Nano Banana 2), Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image (Nano Banana 2 Lite)

8.7

Google DeepMind's Gemini-powered image generation and conversational editing model family

Paid· Consumer access via Gemini app (free tier + Google AI Pro/Ultra subscriptions). API usage-based: Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) ~$0.134/image at 1K-2K, ~$0.24/image at 4K; Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) ~$0.067/image at 1K, up to ~$0.151 at higher resolutions; Nano Banana 2 Lite priced lower for high-throughput use. Batch API roughly 50% off. Enterprise pricing via Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and Vertex AI.Marketing hero imagesProduct mockups and packaging visualisations

Leonardo.ai

Image Generation · Phoenix / Lightning / fine-tuned variants

8.2

Production-grade image gen for games and design teams.

Freemium· Free 150 daily credits; from $12/mo Apprenticegame artdesign

Civitai

Image Generation · Stable Diffusion (SD1.5, SDXL, SD3, Flux, Pony, Illustrious)

8.0

Community hub for Stable Diffusion models, LoRAs, and AI-generated imagery with on-platform generation.

Freemium· Bronze: $10 · Silver: $25 · Gold: $50stable-diffusion-modelslora-discovery

Vidu

Video · Vidu (proprietary)

7.8

Multimodal AI video generator with strong reference-image consistency for characters and props.

Freemium· Free credits on signup; Creator Plan + CPP paid tiers; unlimited off-peak generationstext-to-videoimage-to-video

OpenArt

Image Generation · Multi-model (Sora 2, Veo 3, Kling 3.0, Seedance, GPT Image 2, Hailuo)

7.1

All-in-one AI canvas that bundles a dozen top image, video, and audio models behind a single subscription.

Freemium· Starter: $14 · Plus: $34 · Pro: $56 · Wonder: $240text-to-imagetext-to-video

Scenario

Image Generation · Multi-model (FLUX, Seedance, Kling, Hunyuan, Tripo, ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Gemini)

7.1

Custom-trained generative AI platform for studios that need on-brand image, video, 3D, and audio assets at scale.

Freemium· Starter: $15/mo · Pro: $45/mo · Max: $75/mo · Enterprise: Customcustom-lora-traininggame-asset-generation

Generated Photos Human Generator

Image Generation · Proprietary GAN trained on licensed studio photography

6.9

Real-time generator for hyperrealistic, royalty-free full-body humans and faces with parametric control.

Freemium· Faces: ? · Humans: ? · Bulk download: ?synthetic stock photoscharacter design

Artbreeder

Image Generation · SDXL, BigGAN, StyleGAN

6.8

Collaborative image generation playground built on GAN heritage with modern SDXL composer and gene-style splicing.

Freemium· starter: $7.49 · advanced: $15.99 · champion: $30.99text-to-imagecharacter-design

ComfyUI

Image Generation · Model-agnostic; runs Stable Diffusion, SDXL, SD3, Flux, HunyuanVideo, LTX-Video, Wan, Mochi and most open-weight diffusion checkpoints

Professional Control of Visual AI

Freemium· STANDARD: $20/month · CREATOR: $35/month · PRO: $100/month · TEAM: $700/monthStable Diffusion and Flux image generationControlNet-guided composition

Stable Diffusion Web UI (AUTOMATIC1111)

Image Generation · Stable Diffusion 1.x / 2.x / SDXL and community fine-tunes (Safetensors checkpoints)

The de facto local Stable Diffusion power-user UI.

Free· Free / open-source (AGPL-3.0). You provide your own compute (local GPU, rented cloud GPU, or a Colab instance).Local text-to-image generationInpainting and outpainting existing images