Rachael Ann - met Neil Newbon!

MC ‘19, RT(R)(M) certified. A nerd in the body of a poptart; brittle on the outside, sweet on the inside.

[Bella Goth 🌻🐞 @hiiisteph]

So apparently when air quality is this bad you’re not even supposed to commute to work. You’re supposed to seal up your home and stay inside.

No one was going to mention that???

[Clouds 🌧️ @cloudysprinkles]

u know the fail grade was approved by the other staff too right? so why is it just the trans teacher getting fired?

[Valephore 🌙♦️ @ValephoreVT]

Concept Artist here, the "AI hate" directed at Larian Studio is 100% ignorant and bad faith virtue-signaling.

Artists are NOT against AI usage as a tool, we're against Generative AI that was trained on real artworks and mass-produced "slops" that imitated our hard work and then marketed as our replacement.

In pre-production, the art team would grab random pics off the internet and other games to create a general mood board for aesthetics and "vibe" that fit the art direction (There are more nuances than this, I'm describing this in the most simplified way possible)

A mood board of a character may include several pictures of other videogames or anime shows, dozens of object with "texture references" for parts of their attire, multiple reference pictures of relevant objects such as animals or historical weapons or even other character artwork made for other games; ALL of which are randomly drawn from the internet and put together for the purpose of creating an overall aesthetic for a design that will become original in its own way inspired by its references and the artist's own creativity and originality to visualize it when they create the design by doing ART.

Larian Studio mentioned using AI to streamline this process; an actively menial labor of "looking for relavant and cool pics on the internet" in essence.

There is zero reason why AI speeding up this process is a bad thing; it is essentially the same as someone asking Grok for facts they could have spent a few hours reading through Wikipedia pages.

None of the pictures grabbed by either the AI or the art team in this process are being exploited for any monetary gain since they're simply inspiration and visual direction, this has been standard practice in the industry for decades.

[Swen Vincke @where? @LarAtLarian]

Holy fuck guys we’re not "pushing hard" for or replacing concept artists with AI.

We have a team of 72 artists of which 23 are concept artists and we are hiring more. The art they create is original and I’m very proud of what they do.

I was asked explicitly about concept art and our use of Gen AI. I answered that we use it to explore things. I didn’t say we use it to develop concept art. The artists do that. And they are indeed world class artists.

We use AI tools to explore references, just like we use google and art books. At the very early ideation stages we use it as a rough outline for composition which we replace with original concept art. There is no comparison.

I talked about how we use ML here if you would like to know more:
https://t.co/41KPNjaqI7

We've hired creatives for their talent, not for their ability to do what a machine suggests, but they can experiment with these tools to make their lives easier.

[Puri🤍 @Purilly]

This is literally what it feels like to get your nails removed btw

[b @wwxwashere]

ao3 is turning 16years old omg everyone say happy birthday

[Pop Base @PopBase]

The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn same-sex marriage rights in the U.S.

[Yisuno ⚝ | SKARM BELIEVER @TheYisusOne]

Pokemon Emerald's plot be like:

[cory @smonkerino]

im so fucking tired man. The fact that the majority of this country is too fucking stupid to realize how evil this nigga is irks my soul.

[hal 🕸️🕸️ @haliwriteswords]

vanilla is pansexual former sex worker what did they think she was gonna say about this 😭

[Faerghast \|/ @ghaaast]

so proud of u :,)

[Rachael Ann - met Neil Newbon! @lernsey]

@starsalts The gasp i gusped!

[Rachael Ann - met Neil Newbon! @lernsey]

@LadyZephyra The frog is so silly and friendly looking! I love them a!!!

[CT Dem 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @CTDemocrat8]

The person who actually looks exactly like Zelda

[Rachael Ann - met Neil Newbon! @lernsey]

@SablingArt I would die for a Hoenn Tarot deck, your art is stunning

[JerryRigEverything @ZacksJerryRig]

why not just erase the lines on the road while we are at it?

[R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts]

🚨#BREAKING: Los Angeles police, dressed in riot gear, are in a standoff as thousands of protesters march against ICE deportations

📌#LosAngeles | #California

The Los Angeles Police Department are currently in a standoff in riot gear with thousands of protesters, as activists and demonstrators have taken over parts of downtown Los Angeles. The protesters, many of whom are anti-ICE activists, are marching through the streets to oppose Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportations. These deportations were carried out under executive orders signed into law by President Donald Trump. Some demonstrations have escalated, with protesters shutting down major highways, as nationwide protests continue to unfold across the country.

[purr.in.ink @purrinink]

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