{"id":84525,"date":"2026-06-16T06:47:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84525"},"modified":"2026-06-16T08:37:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:37:54","slug":"fortnite-maker-confirms-how-it-uses-generative-ai-to-help-create-concept-art-and-designs-for-new-skins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84525","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite Maker Confirms How It Uses Generative AI to Help Create Concept Art and Designs for New Skins"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/fortnite\">Fortnite<\/a> maker Epic Games has offered a rare glimpse behind the scenes at how it designs new character skins and in-game locations \u2014 and shown how certain stages involve the use of generative AI tools.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZR2xbcf3Xyw\">video<\/a> published to the Unreal Engine YouTube channel, Epic Games shows how a new Fortnite character is designed and iterated on by hand before being modified using an AI prompt to look more like a 3D model.<\/p>\n<p>The video makes a clear distinction between the ideation stage and later changes made by AI generation \u2014 and all of this still in the concept art stage, before any asset is recreated in-game. But the footage also shows how AI generation will create unwanted additions or errors, which then must be identified and corrected in a further design pass by the (human) artist. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The design is king, AI can generate generic stuff all day, but that&#8217;s not what we&#8217;re doing here,&#8221; an Epic Games staff member says. &#8220;It just skips ahead in the timeline so [the artist] can focus on honing in on the design and crafting it exactly how he wants it to be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The video&#8217;s publication follows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/fortnite-artist-responds-as-fans-claim-game-now-includes-examples-of-blatant-ai-artwork-including-a-nine-toed-character-in-a-hammock\">repeated questions from Fortnite fans over potential AI<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortnite maker Epic Games has offered a rare glimpse behind the scenes at how it designs new character skins and in-game locations \u2014 and shown how certain stages involve the use of generative AI tools. In a video published to the Unreal Engine YouTube channel, Epic Games shows how a new Fortnite character is designed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":84527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84525"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84529,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84525\/revisions\/84529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}