♪ Music — Vocal synthesis
ACE Studio
An AI singing voice workstation that turns MIDI and lyrics into vocal performances.
Tool
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PROTO (Holly Herndon)
Holly Herndon's 2019 album made with a human vocal ensemble and Spawn, an AI she built with Mat Dryhurst and Jules LaPlace and trained on their own community's voices.
Hand vs. AI breakdown inside · unverified until the creator confirms
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Adobe Firefly
Adobe's family of generative models for images, vectors and more, available on the web and built into Creative Cloud apps.
Tool freemium licensed data
▲ Games · ✎ Art — Materials
Adobe Substance 3D Sampler
Material authoring software that turns photos into tileable PBR materials, with AI-assisted features like Image to Material.
Tool subscription
▲ Games — Environment generation
Blockade Labs Skybox AI
A tool for generating 360-degree skybox environments from prompts and sketches.
Tool freemium
✎ Art — Image generation
Bria
A visual generative AI platform and API that says its models are trained only on licensed data with attribution to contributors.
Tool licensed data
▲ Games — Animation
Cascadeur
A 3D keyframe animation tool with AI-assisted posing and physics tools for characters.
Tool freemium
✎ Art — Painting app
Clip Studio Paint
A drawing and painting app for comics and illustration that includes AI-assisted features such as auto-colorizing line art and pose detection from photos.
Tool paid
✎ Art — Node-based pipeline
ComfyUI
A node-graph interface for building image (and other media) generation pipelines with diffusion models, run locally or in the cloud.
Tool open-source
▲ Games · ✎ Art — Workflow
Concept art → AI base mesh → retopo in Blender
Turn your own concept drawing into a rough 3D base mesh, then retopologize, UV and texture it yourself.
Workflow
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