What is Artbreeder?
- Founder: Joel Simon
- Launch: 2018
- Use Cases: AI art creation, character design, concept development, portraits, landscapes, creative exploration
- Technology: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
Artbreeder is an AI-powered image platform that allows users to explore and create unique visual art through the power of generative AI. At its core, it lets you blend images and adjust sliders corresponding to genes—such as style, color, shape, and more—to “breed” new images that reflect your vision. Whether you're crafting landscapes, human faces, animals, or abstract textures, Artbreeder gives you intuitive controls to morph one image into another, combining features and aesthetics in unpredictable, exciting ways. This interactive remixing encourages experimentation: you might begin with a base portrait and gradually introduce elements from landscapes, surreal art, or fantasy illustrations, resulting in outputs you never anticipated. Beyond its creative fun, Artbreeder serves as a tool for artists, designers, and storytellers seeking novel visual inspiration. Because the platform operates in the cloud, all edits are non-destructive and retraceable—so you can revisit earlier versions or mix new influences at any time. In short, Artbreeder is not just a tool but a collaborative playground between human imagination and algorithmic creativity, where every new image becomes a stepping stone to endless visual possibilities.