Scenario announced it plans to open its GenAI art engine to artists during an early access period. They also raised over $6 million in a new round of funding. Investors in this funding round include Play Ventures, Anorak Ventures, Founders, Inc, Venture Reality Fund, Sebastien Borget (Sandbox), Luc Vincent (Meta), Patrick Wyatt (One More Game), Hamilton Chu (Second Dinner) and Justin Kan (Twitch).
Scenario’s custom generators are trained with a set of images and prompts, with the intention being for artists to upload their own images and produce similar ones in the same style. The GenAI produces images imitating the style of the training images, and can be used to generate things such as buildings, character models, items and maps.
Emmanuel de Maistre, Scenario’s CEO, stated:
“Digital artists must be empowered to train their own generators, have control over their art direction and work alongside, not against, AI. No GenAI product delivers these critical elements today – Scenario exists to deliver all of them. Generative AI will be as transformational for game development as Photoshop has been for digital photography, but it cannot get there without the same commitment to consistency and ease of use.”
