If you commission art, please refrain from using genAI to generate ref images. Because at the end of the day, any usage of exploitative AI directly supports the plagiaristic AI companies and their exploitation/theft of creative labor.
There are so many ethical options you can use to create refs.
Some alternative resources for creating character refs:
Hero Forge (free)
Picrew character creators (free)
Dress-up & doll maker games (free)
Photos, photo collages & mood boards (free)
Self-drawn doodles (free)
RPG character creators (Dragon's Dogma 2, BG3 etc)
Character image packs by creatives
I’ll throw in VR Chat/Unity avatars/resources and a texture editor like the open source art program Krita. Since it’s Unity you can model them pretty easily with a customized background.
This was taken inside VRChat in a world that supports it but it’s easy enough to just use Unity
