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Turn a Napkin Sketch into Concept Art

Convert a rough napkin sketch, whiteboard drawing, or quick concept doodle into polished concept art for games, films, or creative projects.

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Creative professionals and game developers regularly sketch ideas on anything available — notebooks, whiteboards, paper napkins — and the best concepts often emerge in these informal moments. The gap between a rough sketch and presentable concept art has always required either a skilled illustrator or hours of digital painting.

Sketch to Render converts any rough sketch into polished concept art with consistent style, lighting, and detail. Whether the sketch is a character design, a creature concept, an environment idea, or a vehicle, the model can render it with professional-quality finish while preserving the core design intent in the original drawing.

Game developers use this to visualize concepts for pitches, writers and filmmakers use it to bring narrative concepts to life, and concept artists use it to accelerate the early exploration phase of any creative project.

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Claude

  1. Connect ToolRouter to Claude: claude mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
  2. Share the sketch and describe the intended style, tone, and context — for example, 'dark fantasy, painterly style, heavily armoured warrior'.
  3. Ask Claude to run `render` via the sketch-to-render tool.
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ChatGPT

  1. Add ToolRouter to ChatGPT using the MCP JSON configuration: {"mcpServers":{"toolrouter":{"command":"npx","args":["-y","toolrouter-mcp"]}}}
  2. Provide the sketch and the creative context — what the character or concept is, the world it lives in.
  3. Run `render` via sketch-to-render to generate the concept art.
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Copilot

  1. Add ToolRouter to your Copilot MCP configuration: {"mcpServers":{"toolrouter":{"command":"npx","args":["-y","toolrouter-mcp"]}}}
  2. Provide the sketch and the creative document it needs to contribute to.
  3. Run `render` via sketch-to-render to generate the concept art.
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OpenClaw

  1. Connect ToolRouter to OpenClaw: openclaw mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
  2. Build your input list — one sketch per row with the style and context description for each.
  3. Run `render` via sketch-to-render across all sketches in the batch.
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