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AI and future of 3d artists
hi there folks. newbie here. just getting into 3d since I'm extremely passionate about not starving to death. Tried graphic design and web dev but AI threw a wrench in that. Did a lot of research before giving up web dev. Really wanted to make a living makin flashy sites but with AI i don't see a future there. Currently, AI gen sites are garbage but like 5 years in the future, web dev is cooked. Pivoted to 3d. Goal is to make a buck and quick with freelancing. Having same doubts about AI taking the job in like 5 yrs? Can more experienced member shed some light on the situation?
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It's all bullshit - all of it.
Also - there's no quick buck to be found here. making 3d models does not pay well
As for AI, as someone with 10+ years as a 3d artist and solo developer on the side; AI hasn't changed much since our crafts require 1:1 precision & iteration, context awareness, non-destructive workflows and optimization. Ethics and legal issues aside, AI is not the right tool for these things.
My advice for you is to pursue web design as a serious hobby that will evolve into a career, pick up a job that isn't absolute shit and that will sustain you financially, and ignore the 'threat' of AI for now. It's a bubble that will burst soon; you don't want to be caught in the blast radius of a multi-trillion dollar flop.
I think there are use cases for AI, just more limited in scope; mostly as a information search tool, and possibly to aid in detecting unusual player behaviour in games.
It's great at handling the filler, not so great at getting the specifics correct.
I recently was handed a writeup, created with AI, about my artwork. It took care of around 80% of the formatting and content, but failed miserably at the crucial meat of the post, the most important information we want to share with the audience. Without human editing on the result, the output would be totally incorrect.
Does it save us time? Sure, if we're creating content that's been made a thousand times before, and just needs to be tweaked to match the current subject.
Curious how this is going to play out with actual 3d content-creation work, and not just writing press releases. I suspect it'll end up in the same general area, great to speed up some of the drudgery, but always needing an adult at the wheel to steer us away from the cliff's edge.
edit... I still have major qualms about using AI models at all, since they're all sourced with tons of copyrighted content, without any author permission. It's still all so fucking wrong.
Like the others here, I think it's largely a bubble that will burst. I think like Erik says, it will stick for very specific well defined menial things, but I think people will realize it just doesn't get the job done well enough to replace skilled human beings.
Now, thirty years from now, who can say. But if a brand created a website today using only AI, I'd be offended by their choice, AND the website would suck. I could see AI improving squarespace type tools greatly, though, going forward. But even those need a person in the driver's seat.
In fact I'd argue anything worth anything needs someone in the driver's seat.
So my next most important question would be about making a quick buck. Look, even if i consistently make 100 bucks a month that would be a big win for me. Is that something that is possible? I have started learning around late August, is that possible by end September?
niche is going to be product modeling at the start and medical visualization later to get the big buck.
Yeah that's what i was thinking too. Replacing what a bottom rung intern does
While that can (and does work) pretty well a lot of the time it's not sustainable (wait a year or so and see what happens to the AI bros who've been screwing over investors since 2022)
It's also shitty behaviour - but moral relativism is king so who am I to judger?
You won't get anywhere in business or a legit trade without working hard - because business is hard.
If you want money fast, go day trading. Seems to work well enough for my eldest kid
For programmers who make web things that have been made a thousand times before - yes, the robot is certainly useful.
The robot is also useful if you're making a one-shot app to rinse some money out of an investor
For those of us who write new things that haven't been made before, work within a larger system or are interested in their code being maintainable a decade from now - not so much.
I fall into the latter category (despite not being a real programmer)
You can't dismiss the robot entirely though - they can save a lot of time on trawling documentation, particularly if you're not quite sure what you're searching for - or other 'fancy autocomplete' type tasks.