Portrait Wizard
With Portrait Wizard you can easily create good looking character portraits.
Portrait Wizard is a tool you use to puzzle together a portrait with a wide selection of highquality parts, to create hand-drawn like portraits.
You will be able to manipulate the parts in various ways, so the variations are endless.
Color, size(also x/y), brightness, angle, and more can be changed, depending on the part.
For who is this software?
-It is a great tool for Indie Devs who need royalty free portraits for their games.
-Or as a tool for concepting characters before you deal with other artists.
-A tool for artists, who want to experiment with different character styles.
-For roleplayers and people who like to add their own portraits into games to enhance their gaming experience.
..or just for fun..
Portrait Wizard runs in Windows in a window at 1280 x 960, so make sure your screen has high enough resolution to run it.
The portrait is saved as a 830 x 957 Bitmap file(BMP), and can be cut and resized with the cutting tool included in the software(or with any external image editing program such as Photoshop or Clip Studio).
In addition to the picture file, the portrait is now also saved in an ini file, which can be loaded into the software, so that you can continue working on your portraits at a later time.
After the launch I will still work on the project, add more material and improve on existing assets.
Thank you for checking this out!
Game Discussion
Steam User 19
I'm liking this product loads. I was after creating some retro assets, and the pixilization function makes it great for pixel portraits. It does need more facial features adding, but as it's early access and updated frequently I don't imagine this would be a problem.
10/10 Would use to pretend I have artistic talent again.
Steam User 22
A definite yes on this. I am writing a huge fantasy epic and as a very visual person, I need to "see" my characters. Usually I scour the internet for hours collecting interesting faces and save them for characters and even future characters, but even then, sometimes I just can't find exactly what I'm looking for. That is what i use Portrait Wizard for. You can see by my hours spent in the program I am definitely getting my money's worth. It is fun, the characters look great, and the developer is active and updating almost every day and listens to suggestions. When it's completely finished this is going to be a very powerful tool for avatar and character creation. So, yes, if you're looking for an easy to use RPG, avatar, whatever, character image maker, this is it.
Steam User 16
this game is still in alpha/beta and it's already really fun.
the developer is a real cool guy who listens to user feedback, suggestions and requests a lot. also he's just ONE GUY and he's doing the programming and the artwork.
there's a feature where you can import your own assets if you're an artist too.
right now due to being in alpha-beta status it's still missing a lot of features, but when this app is complete it's going to be a really awesome avatar maker, ESPECIALLY if the dev adds workshop support which iirc he said he might try and do.
highly recommend it if you can afford it and just keep in mind it's a WIP unfinished product. despite that, i've already gotten my money's worth : )
Steam User 11
I'm jumping the gun and leaving a review even though I've only used this program for about an hour and a half. I'll edit this review at a later date if I need to but I highly recommend this program. The number of choices are astonishing and you can make just about anything that you can think of. The sky is the limit as your options are particularly in-depth and it's nearly an art program in and of itself with all of them that are available.
What really sold me on this review, though, was that my girlfriend and I spent some time messing around and creating a pair of characters on it. We found only a couple of aspects missing that we would have liked to have had available and I posted on the forum shortly thereafter as a request. Within a couple of days, not only did the program get updated with the request but it was updated with several variations of it.
Great program, even better developer. I really see this going the distance (and more) as long as the developer keeps their head in the game and listens to their customer base as amazingly well as they have up to this point.
Steam User 2
I've used this app to create three characters so far, and generally found it to be an easygoing experience. Development seems to mostly be in maintenance mode with only a few updates (last one in late October 2019). Developer is active within the discussion forum and seems to respond to problems quite quickly.
Pros:
+ One of the few pieces of software to actually do this
# The dev could link up with other artists to implement their bases
+ Price is fair, when considering number of features compared to a base
+ Easy to transfer projects to other users (.ini files)
+ Actually able to use this for commercial projects! (Not for me, but still nice)
+ Possible to implement custom assets, but...
Cons:
- No Workshop support for user-generated assets
- Limited to one asset per layer
- Can have different left/right eyes, but only certain features
- Some assets, such as the mouth veil, could totally go with other "masks"
- A few assets - notably mouths - are low fairly quality
- The UI is VERY cumbersome.
- Auto-exported only as .bmp
- No easy link to the image & file directory
- Resolution hides bottom ~15% of images, requiring saving to see most clothes
Overall, I feel like my purchase was worth it. I know I'll probably keep using it to finalize my character ideas and get that first image out. If I decide to take it further, this will serve as a basis for a commissioned artist. $20 is pretty steep for what I use it for, but with few other options, I'll take it.
That said, I would really hope that the dev implements Workshop support. Put up a few of the current assets as a tutorial, create a small handful of assets unique to the Workshop as a new update, and/or commission someone to add a few new features! My fingers are crossed...
Steam User 4
I like this: if you're not an artist yourself, or like me, not good at this kind of art, but you like making your own character portraits for games, it does the job nicely. It's got a unique style, and if you dig the style, you'll dig the software. Thumbs up from me!
Steam User 4
If you are a game developer and in need of portraits this is a fantasitc bit of software. As of right now it has enough options to make a bunch of portraits for nearly any fantasy setting. It is a very nice tool and will save you tons of time from having to draw and create everything by hand. Pick it up, you will not be sad you did.
The developer is also currently updating the software making it better on a regular basis.
To tell you how easy it is to make something cool, my 6 year old made an awesome fire mage and has it hanging on her wall in her room.