hey! very cool demo, refined aestetic, personally it hits the spot. This experience feels like a vivid dream, were it inspired by a dream you had by any chance? I have added Skinator to steam wishlist immidiately. There you say "As a small team of 2, we used A.I. to generate references and some base materials." - what did you mean by that?
Hey! Thank you so much for playing the game. We are glad you liked it!
The original idea came about trying to create an experience similar to that old game "exquisite corpse", where several people draw different parts of a creature on a folder y papel without seeing what the other persons drew. That way you end up with a weird monster with mismatched parts. We tried to bring that into the spirit of the game and the rest of the ideas surfaces while playing with that original concept.
To answer your other question, we use it as a tool to produce sometimes references, or base materials to then paint over and edit. The final results are either completely redone by us or heavily worked over.