Emps

Beginner Artist. I do 3D animation and modeling. (Follow does not equal endorsement.)

[Emps @Emps_rex]

I'm hoping I'll get faster as I get better. I'm chalking up a lot of the time here to me still not having the muscle memory and intuition beaten into my head yet.

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Update on my animation. A bit more action for you. Gottah say I heavily underestimated the time it'd take to finish this but I think it's coming along well so far. I just want to get through the blocking stage so I can get to making it look pretty.#Blender #Animation #WIPㅤㅤㅤ

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The Millennials in the gaming industry continue to be entirely dethatched from and contemptuous of the average gamer. No one wants quirk chungus dialogue and no want wants to play as a homely 45 year old woman in an action game from a series called "God of War". Nothing about this is appealing. Like the creator of God of War said, it looks uninspired and dull.

In spite of constant flops and failures of games that follow this direction, they continue to go down this path either out of stubborness or spite. They can't accept that people just do not want want their selling and want to foist it on everyone anyway. And they will never change, they can only go bankrupt.

The games industry needs a complete reset.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Official cover art for ‘GOD OF WAR - LAUFEY’.

Coming soon to PS5.

[Emps @Emps_rex]

@goodbye_denpa Being a neet is only as good as the vidya. Without good video games, your only option for NEEThood is being a monk or insane artisan craftsman of some kind. Doing shit like cataloguing mushroom specimens or inscribing a translation of the bible into cuneiform.

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@JadeAtrophis There is literally nothing wrong with this outfit. People are so fucking cooked.

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@evil_scott No it wasn't. You know so little about the setting you tried to use Iron warriors as a mouth piece for your politics. Go actually read any of the books or material and tell me where the satire is. The narratives are completely played straight. You also bot your likes.

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@bby_7689 @GodNatto I'd like to think in fantasy worlds you can create unique races of people that don't map onto our real world people's.

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@mattforney This made me depressed.

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@spaceshark23 They should have made an Emperor model for the Horus Heresy to go with the last book. Missed opportunity.

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@RaminNasibov The jimmy neutron PC game.

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@TallRomanStatue I'm unironically for this. If I was supreme emperor I'd mandate every building look like this. Even the McDonald's.

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@zennyyyplus Same. I'm more worried about surveillance and a permanent underclass forming because of it. It's less about artists losing jobs and more about everyone losing jobs.

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I know a lot of people won't see this, but I think I'll just post this so my stance on AI is clear for future reference.

I'm generally heavily against generative AI and AI in general. I think it's either over hyped or if it does work cause mass Unemployment and mass surveillance.

In the creative process I think it's generally very bad. People who talk about using it as a tool seem to ignore that generative AI makes most of the process of creating something redundant. "You can use it for backgrounds! You can use it to color!", okay but it can do everything. It's not really a tool if it automates the entire process and makes creative decisions for you. It can do like 90% of the work for you. Ultimately having it take care of any singular part of the process is an arbitrary decision as it can make a finished piece. Where does the artist come in? Prompting an AI model to generate an image is the equivalent of being a commissioner. The AI is the artist, not you, just like when you commission something the artist is the artist, not you. I think if you have a granular and specific enough prompt, like really nitty gritty, you can claim ownership of a character or concept you have an AI draw for you, especially if you provide a drawing to an AI as a reference for it to make pictures of. That's the equivalent of getting a real artist to draw your OC for you. You own the character you created, but that individual piece of art is not yours and you didn't make it. Just like when you get someone to draw you OC.

I think there are uses for AI the creative process that I don't think compromise the integrity of the artist, but it requires the artist to be arbitrary with what they use AI for.

I think using AI for shitposts or memes is fine. I think if you're using AI for personal use I can't find too much fault with that. Like if you just want an image for something for a DnD campaign. Where I think it crosses the line is when you try and sell and monetize gen AI content.

I think that using AI for things like mood boarding is mostly fine. If you're using it to try and help visualize things you have in your head I can understand that. But it requires discipline to not rely too much on AI. It's very easy to try and use AI to help you visualize your character and fall into having the AI design your character for you. So you have to use your own discretion. Don't have AI design things for you.

I've personally experimented and used AI for certain things. One thing is that it's good for is trouble shooting. I used to have to hunt through tons of tutorials online to try and figure out how to do things, but asking Claude of chat GPT how to fix something that's broken on my rig or how to make a certain kind of texture saves me a significant amount of time in searching for the information. What I'm doing here is using AI to teach me how to do something versus having it do it for me. It's essentially an advanced form of training wheels.

I've used AI to help with certain tasks. My primary goal is to be an animator. I have to learn how to write, 3D model, animate, texture, edit, do sound, ECT. It's a lot. So when I'm designing my OC Crimsa and I'm having a hard time deciding on what hairstyle I like I'll have chat GPT take one of my drawings and put different hairstyles on her so I don't have to draw her hair 30 times. I'm bad at proportions and construction, so I'll draw a pose, and I've had chat GPT draw me a blank manaquin with fixed proportions in the pose I want that I can trace over. My goal here is to design the character, not make an illustration I'm selling. I'm taking shortcuts because my time is limited and I need to focus on animation not being a concept artist. I recognize that I'm not as artistically skilled as someone who can properly draw proportions, I won't pretend I am. I can do faces well. I'm cheating a bit. One day I'd like to not use AI for these steps at all. I try and make sure I touch every single part of the final.

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Now I've railed hard against AI and gotten into heated debates. Some would call me hypocritical to even touch the tools at all. And maybe I am a little bit. I'm sure people might say I'm splitting hairs by okaying certain specific uses while condemning others, or that I'm engaging in special pleading. But when I have chat GPT try a new hairstyle on my OC I know that I didn't draw that. I'm not going to pass off that drawing as mine. It's not. I'm just trying to see how the hairstyle looks. To make it mine I would draw out the whole drawing again myself from scratch. I think even having an AI correct the proportions on a figure I drew and then tracing over the blank mannequin is pretty borderline. It's totally cheating. But my goal isn't to go "look how good I am at character drawing" it's "this is my character." Then hopefully get a real human to make a character turnaround for me so I can model it and animate it.

I'll restate, I think generative AI is mostly bad. Trying to use it in the process, especially any form of generative AI, requires a lot of restraint. It very easily goes from being a tool to a crutch to automating the entire thing. I would recommend using AI as little as possible in your creative works. I'm not going to say that even touching it poison everything, but it is like a toxic material you're working with that needs to be handled carefully so it doesn't contaminate your work. It's on you to do so.

I do not believe prompting makes you an artist.

My most controversial take is honestly that I think AI doing in betweens for 2D animation is actually fine and useful. I liken it to interpolation in 3D programs. I think if the labor cost for 2D animation could actually be cut down where a 2D animator can key frame things and let the program do the interpolation but 2D that would be a boon for independent animation. But again, you can just as easily generate a complete product that makes key framing redundant.

I think you need to be as transparent and honest about where you use AI in your process. Use it as little as possible, and make sure it doesn't make any creative decisions for you. The less you use it the better. Preferably don't use it at all. Maybe I've softened my stance slightly, but if these tools disappeared tomorrow I think it would be overall much better for the creatives and humanity. I'd say make sure your work is 90% human, I'm not going to crucify someone over that 10% as long as they're honest about it.

But again, prompting doesn't make you an artist. Don't sell or monetize any AI generated output. It's not yours. Pressing the "Robot make me a pizza" button does not make you a chef even if you specify toppings.

So yeah, if I ever make it big some day I just want these posts to exist to make my stances on AI clear so I don't get called a hypocrite. I side mostly with the anti-ai crowd despite using it in specific ways. If anyone ever wants to grill me in the future just refer back to these posts. I'm going to stick to my internal principles on this.

[Emps @Emps_rex]

Sometimes I really wish I had a close creative partner to work with on projects like how Flashgitz do.

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@interesting_aIl How much did Big Kimchi pay for this study?

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Still working on this animation. I think I may have over-keyed this part. Still in rough blocking but I'm hoping the end result will look much smoother. I really want the fighting to look good and snappy. #Blender #Animation #WIPㅤㅤㅤ

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@peppertama @kisaragi9a Awesome work.

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I'm arguing specifically against the point in the tweet saying that property tax isn't that bad. I'm not arguing a hypothetical just the idea that property tax doesn't fuck people over too. That doesn't mean I'm defending boomers or the proposal. The OP's tweet was specifically talking about property tax in general not just the proposal.

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@cosmicwizardguy @revenant_MMXX Well I'm not defending the proposal, just the fact that property tax is actually bad in response to OP.