Oh, I am absolutely not saying that Cara is *the* solution - as a matter of fact I am not planning to join it anytime soon since I have my own self-hosted folio anyways. But I think it is well worth keeping an eye on, and the mere fact that 700 000 artists ditched IG for it in a matter of days says a lot about how quickly…
So when an illustrator has developed his/her style in secret (completely offline to avoid being scanned and incorporated into a number of random data bases) they should make an appearance on stage to the commercial world, what, by postal dove? Still probably be scanned in and misused. A brilliant learning, promotional and…
The hypothesis I was working towards was that this tech or rather a more consistent perfected ethical version could become the closest to a star trek like holodeck. Anyone regardless of their race or ethnicity can portray anybody. The focus then would be on telling stories and being creative. Aleast that's what the more…
that graph is about on point with my experience using chatgpt. as a tool it is pretty handy for a few things but it's not in the ballpark of a game changer for me. I still easily forget to use it a lot of times where it might be handy. I don't find enough value to pay the subscription except for on and off - like if I am…
"People will not become dumber because the tool does more work that used to be human done" Well ... https://twitter.com/Rahll/status/1724532529875562684 If anything, the only new thing that is likely to happen ... is Art Directors flat out refusing to hire anyone using "generative AI" in their process - because they know…
An informed and well-reasoned article on Lawfare about the copyright implications, and an argument for granting copyright only to human-generated works. If we allow computers to make new copyrights, we should expect an AI-generated version of every melody and chord change possible to be authored and copyrighted, followed…
That's not really true though. AI bros who don't have visual skills will just pump out the same old stuff. Which may look great to the average person on an Instagram feed. But once you need specific results that work within the constraints of an actual game production context, their "skills" will never translate. When we…
As a slow-meat-fellow traditional portraitist via another life, I'm utterly gobsmacked in just a brief period of time how far this algorithm contagion has spread. Personally, I don't see those scraped 'remastered' pretty online pic's as visual creativity in the truest sense but rather nothing other than two bit knockoffs…
How much time do we have left to have the real possibility of earning income and being able to continue working in CGI, video games, design, and any other trade where the creative process of 2D/3D/texturing is involved? I have discovered some tools that frighten me and add to the list of things that threaten our work and…
See, this is what separates the wheat from the chaff among designers: people put too much emphasis on the nouns and adjectives of a concept (i.e. "A [red] [car] that looks like a [bumblebee]") while overlooking all the principles like shape, rhythm and balance that account for the quality of the design. The former domain…