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…
Well there are basically two layers to this : at the lowest level, there are the billions of images and artists (+ all the relevant metadata) that got scraped and potentially given some so-called "aesthetic rating" in Laion5B - all done and used without consent. A simply query through HaveIBeenTrained using any random…
I hope you're absolutely right with these words. I'm feeling a lot of anxiety these days. Like many other artists, I've put all my eggs in the basket of 3D art for audiovisual productions of any kind. If this way of making a living is compromised, I don't know if I'll be able to adapt to another field. A universal basic…
I hate this argument. Those are all grueling, menial jobs. 3D art is a life-affirming job even if it is often full of grunt work. It's the best thing that ever happened to me and made me a better person. Now instead of making people better we'll make machines better. A waste.
I can provide more insight on this business model, since I was with EA during its development. So for a game like FC 24 or rather the entirely of EA sports as a model, the whole development process is based on asset automation, clean up, revision and curation. EA works heavily with outsourcers and asset repurposing is…
I think the one advantage human artists will retain is the ability to leverage shape language, which is the seed of novelty in design. Not that AI can't comprehend it, but it's intangible enough that training for it will be difficult and integrating it into a prompt is nearly impossible. I don't see us getting any iconic…
I mean I agree. If you give a man a fish he just ask for another fish tomorrow. So a prompt engineer might "make" art for an entire career as a prompt artist without ever having even known what shape language means. But any time labor saving technology is introduced its not like the people who were laboring are now asked…
BTW you all - some of you may remember that Artsation initially came around because CGHub closed down, and people needed an alternative. Don't be lazy this time around - make sure that you have all your images backed up, and also keep in mind that creating a basic online portfolio only takes rudimentary web authoring…
This sounds about right to me. I mean even before AI art this is how I largely design my own 3d characters. just find a few things that I like and mix together. put a little bit of my own twist on it. I mean, everything that anybody could possibly imagine has already been designed a billion different ways, why should I…