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Re: Which 5 software tools would you have installed on your computer in the event of a worldwide interne

A solar storm would wipe out the net connection, wouldn't it? Rendering all subscription software useless as well as tools that mandate license checkups like Toolbag.

Consider me a prepper then:

1. Blender

2. Zbrush (permanent license)

3. Affinity

4. Reallusion CC

5. Mudbox (pre-subscription)

thomasp

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Re: AI Art, Good or Bad? A (hopefully) nuanced take on the subject.

Hella funny tho!

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Eric Chadwick

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Re: AI Art, Good or Bad? A (hopefully) nuanced take on the subject.

Yeah it was a bot or a link spammer. When we mark an account as spam, we delete all their posts too. Which breaks continuity (sorry not sorry). It could be a conspiracy though you never know.

Automating simulations like cloth and muscle with actual data from the original sim makes so much sense—it's focused, faster, and avoids the ethical concerns of scraping.

Plus, not relying on an LLM for interpretation sounds like a smarter, more efficient approach if done right. It really comes down to whether the tool developers are genuinely building it with care or just taking shortcuts with open-source models.

The same can be said for [link redacted], where the data sources and training methods often determine how ethical or innovative the output is.

Eric Chadwick

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Re: AI Art, Good or Bad? A (hopefully) nuanced take on the subject.

it was a bot.

Alex_J

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Re: The Bi-Monthly Environment Art Challenge | September - October (92)

Hello! I'm joining a bit late on this one, and only had this weekend to work on it since I'm pretty busy with work. I spent most of saturday modeling and uv-ing, and most of today was high poly and texturing. I used some techniques I learned from my last job, adding 'floater' geometry over the mesh, to avoid having to do any booleans and such for the high poly detail. I also removed some panels as it didn't make sense for some of the drawers to exist in certain areas. The texturing could use so much more work and love, and I wish I had the time to do so.

They same very flat, and don't pop too much, but I also feel as though it's because I haven't been able to model objects outside that of real-world objects, so I'm not used to get the colors and materials just right. But yah, I hope I get to do another one of these at some point next year!

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eskrimador98

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Re: Which 5 software tools would you have installed on your computer in the event of a worldwide interne

1. Zbrush

2. Modo

3. Unreal Engine

4. Photoshop

5. Obsidian

It takes me 12 months to sculpt things anyway, so I'll just do all the baking after the solar storm

zetheros

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Re: AI Art, Good or Bad? A (hopefully) nuanced take on the subject.

On the surface this court decision makes some sense, since by definition a DB is simply a sort of indexing - not so different from the widely accepted way a search engine indexes content for retrieval. After all, one wouldn't blame Google for the actions of chinese video card manufacturers stealing art they find online for their boxes.

So from there I suppose that the appeal will likely hinge on wether or not the people operating Laion where knowingly or not steering their actions/data collection towards the use of their DB in plagiarism machines like MJ and SD. The fact that they do provide an "aesthetic score" is probably not a great look for them, since it clearly makes them appear as knowingly facilitating copyright-infringing image generators by going much further than merely providing indexed data.

Furthermore, "non-profit" and "scientific research" are not a free passes for everything ; and, data collection of any kind is still subject to existing international legislation (predating AI) on the right to be digitally forgotten.

This year is shaping up to be very interesting, as legislation is slowly starting to emerge - like with the recent California bill about the transparency of training datasets.
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/california-legislature-passes-1908394/

I find it fascinating how in the span of about two years we are already out of the "AI hype" trend, with AIbros and AI companies running in circles - with an output consisting of infinite Facebook slop, a few art gallery scams, fake anime waifus for lofi youtube channels, and highly airbrushed, derivative kitsh. So much for dEmOcRaTiZeD cReAtIvItY

pior

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'Halls of Torment' 3D/2D environment art

Hey everyone!

Some props/environments I worked on for the game 'Halls of Torment' by 'Chasing Carrots'. It's a singleplayer horde survivor game with an mid-90s prerendered (spritebased) pixel retro look. Hope you like it !

Used tools: 3dsmax, Blender, Photoshop, Godot Engine

Cheers,
Daniel