Tools Used

 Planets and Maps

Are created using the SciFi World Generator tool by Drow from donjon.bin.sh.

Original Character Portraits

Character Portraits are selected from hundreds generated by AI using This Person Does Not Exist. When a suitable portrait is found it is edited in Adobe Photoshop Elements 14.1

I use the following method

• Open the image from TPDNE
• Duplicate the image twice.
• On the uppermost layer use the Graphic Novel Filter (hard line, 2 smoothness passes) 
• Multiply the upper layer at 40% Opacity.
• On the Middle Layer run the Comic Filter (Sunny Day, 2 smoothness passes)
• Then on the Middle Layer run the Cutout Filter (8 layers, 0 edge simplicity, 1-2 edge fidelity)
• On the Upper Layer outline the character using magnetic lasso.
• Invert the selection
• Create a new "Black" layer on top, and fill the selection in black.
• Copy and paste a background over top of the character.
• Transform the backround image until it fills the image.
• Select the Black Layer and use Magic wand to select the negative space where the character is.
• Select the Background and delete it.
• Run the Comic filter (sunny day) on the background.
• Select elements of the character and adjust with Hue/Saturation as nedded.

Starship Art

Is grabbed from image searches of No Man's Sky.

Later Character Portraits 

Most of the character Portraits and alien designs from Voyage 2 onward were created using a Stable Diffusion based android app, Imagine. I used the Creative or Dream Shaper engines, coupled with Anime v.2, Futuristic,  Vibrant, & Studio Ghibli style tools.

Every character and alien species has a description I have saved of them to seed images.

This creates a lot of variation I'm style between images, but for my purposes, has been useful.