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I keep thinking about the crossover of pro-GenAI leadership and nightmare commissioners. You know, the clients who expect you to draw exactly what is in their head like you are a human printer. Half of the job then ends up being you having to explain how art works constantly to them. Maddening.

I'm a principal AAA concept artist and while I don't like generative ai I have a hard time seeing how it wont be part of game development in the future. Its very, very hard to convince suits how we should do our jobs best.

“here make it look like this” and it’s just a skinny anime girl with big boobs and long hair

good stuff, appreciate you guys taking time for this

This is a fantastic article. Bravo.

This is why I won’t use it to make a music video

Amazing article, thank you for your work!

Pretends to be shocked

I spotted that two!

Happy to be a subscriber for content like this!

AI making artists' jobs harder? Shocking. Who knew creativity wasn't just algorithms?

The irony of people that dont understand art, can't be bothered to learn the skills, bitching we artists they STOLE FROM dont understand the technology

No need to apologize of course i totally understand ! I expressed myself badly. I didn't meant to make you feel guilty or anything.

it's sad that quality work is deemed old fashioned by people satisfied with "eh, good enough" and we all have to roll in the slop with them. And even as a shortcut for some workflows it rarely works without major babysitting and reiterations

Amazing article, thank you for the great work!

I always loved watching concept art for the games I love. I may barely be able to draw a recognizable stick figure man, but I really appreciate the talent other people have 😅

I also highly recommend this podcast episode as a tangentially related topic. The concept of 'promiscuous curiosity' is particularly relevant here IMO.

However, that doesn't mean we should go around demonizing some that find it useful or want to stay current with their personal or professional goals. It's a reality.

Fuck AI and fuck anyone pushing that shit!

This was a really good article. It's a good habit when people claim what other people think to actually just ask them.

Why does your website scroll hijack 😭

Based af @kim-hu.com

Don't forget Nightshade and Glaze! Destroy the machine!

I'm not good at drawing, so I look for references when writing. Just a few days ago, I found an artwork that perfectly matched what I was looking for, and I contacted the artist in hopes of commissioning from them. That artist has a job offer because I refuse to use AI

The bubble can't burst fucking soon enough for me! And I genuinely hope every business exec who thought AI would save him a bunch of money on salaries and the like will lose everything they own!

The lack of intent is the biggest reason I don’t like AI “art”. Even commercial art is a very intentional thing.

Such cultish behavior is what kills an online movement. Narcissism at its peak.

Remember this?! www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

Gonna be real fucking funny to set all this AI bullshit up in the work environment and projects and then dismantling them when it's not "hot" anymore. Oh and legacy code having clanker vomit all over the place. Woweeeee

serious concept artists as references, AI doesn't know what anatomy is, what color theory is, what light and shadow are, what proportions, pose, perspective are. The only thing AI knows are numbers, like any other computer.

@brickyo8.bsky.social apologies for the tag but this article may be related to your recently released video.

thinking about the time I was sent an AI mockup as reference, and it was set in the wrong time period. The AI image was sci-fi, the setting was Victorian...

They either don't see a difference between what an artist who cares can do and what an AI spits out, or they don't care. If only a small percentage of people with a trained eye will notice a flaw and not buy because of it, they'd rather take the hit than spend more money to ensure it's *good.*

cc @pennythegoblin.bsky.social

I can recognize Kim Hu's art anywhere!

"They are more or less OK with it" - Vincke

Jack Kirby Crosby an amazing name to have as an artist

Thank you for putting this together! A truly cathartic experience.

If I were to ask an AI to get a "noble vampire lady", I'd likely get a pale woman with withe hair in a black and red dress. Nowhere in this thing 17 century fashion crossed my path. Maybe that's worth looking into different styles? From Different regions of the world? All Inspiration is being lost.

Love the cognitive dissonance of SkillUp quoting this article where professionals are saying "yeah, this shit sucks, it just straight up sucks" in-between talking about how reactions to Larian using AI are knee-jerk and reactionary, please give the little CEO some grace.

But but but the LARIAN guy said it's fiiiiiine! /s

A key takeaway from “The Mythical Man Month” is that the time software developers waste on doing nothing is critical to the success of the project. It takes time, thought, and research for humans to suss out the golden central kernel of a problem space…and that’s where true efficiency lays.

This article is really good, and I was thinking about how Beastieball sharing their design process for some really accentuates several points in this article of how much actually exploring ideas instead of having AI regurgitate things really brings designs together. greglobanov.substack.com/s/567