If you could currently be replaced by an anonymous outsource artist then yes, the robot will take your job and it'll probably happen in the next couple of years. In practice I strongly doubt that anyone currently employed will be directly replaced by a robot . Instead what will probably happen is that studios will rely…
About the SBI curator, I mentioned it since even that group seems to be against the current AAA approach, of course there's that whole DEI conspiracy which is their primary motivation but they too want to play games that are fun and don't break the bank. I liked the idea of a large AAA company promoting smaller more…
I did hear from colleagues at a number of studios, that they have started to incoporate AI tools like stable diffusion and midjourney into their pipelines. There is high priority in creating more proprietary AI tools in studio and this approach is influencing their retention policy when it comes to concept artists. Would…
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 keep hearing this argument and I don't agree. Sure, there are some similarities in how humans and AI learn but what makes humans different is that we can invent entirely new concepts out of nothing. There was a time in history when there was no art at all and then after many many years someone arranged rocks in a pretty…