Useful, High-Quality Character Art Tool

Looking for an easy to use tool to make pictures of your characters or those of your game world?  Look no further than Epic Generator. This tool has been on my radar since its release and we’ve used it here at Inkwell Ideas for the art of some of our NPC cards.

The tool has a free version which puts the product logo in the corner of the images created and has limited art.  But $50 gets rid of the logo and gives you more art options.  Extra art packs are $5-$10 and each focuses on a particular character type: male elves, female dwarves, fae folk, and many more. Some of these have a lot of variety: one pack in particular allows you to make lamia-like creatures, centaur, minotaur and more.

Modern and science fiction art packs are also available and expand your options to hackers, aliens, superheroes, starship pilots, etc.

There are a few drawbacks:

• It seems only available for Windows.
• It would be nice to have more body styles.  While most heroes are fit, not everyone is. And they can be revealing, so the user should be aware of that. But it is easy to only make characters that are covered up.
• There aren’t yet easy ways to make gnomes and halflings.  Gnomes can be made as shortened “fae folk” without wings (for women) and shortened elves with elongated ears (for men).  Halflings can be beardless dwarves with some careful selection of items.  Shortening the characters and elongating ears most be done in a separate image editor.

So if you’d like good art for your characters and a nearly-idiot proof interface, check out Epic Generator. We recently updated the art with cropped portraits on the “staff & patrons” page of our inn/tavern generator.