Leonardo Took Over My Game Art After Midjourney Started Missing the Brief.

I love Midjourney's mood. But on a game asset pack, mood kills you. Every generation is a snowflake; ask for 'orc grunt, three-quarter view, flat shading' and you get a different orc with different lighting every time. I spent a weekend trying to force coherence and got maybe four usable frames.

Leonardo's preset and training tools changed that. I locked a style, generated a batch at fixed dimensions, and used image conditioning to keep the silhouette stable across a unit type. It's less magical, more like a controlled factory, and for a game that's exactly what you want.

Midjourney still wins for concept exploration and splash art where every frame being unique is the goal. Leonardo wins for the hundred small icons and tiles that need to read as one set.

Verdict: Midjourney for the poster, Leonardo for the production line. If you're shipping a coherent visual product, the consistent tool pays for itself in rejected generations you didn't make.