Maeve | Ithiliel

♑ l 30 l INFJ-T l Dutch l Gamer l RP | D&D l Fantasy l Elves l 80s music l LGBT+🌈

[Maeve | Ithiliel @Mithiliel]

@Pen_Toad @LunethD You should up your prices! You are underselling your art ❤️

[Nay.Tesseract @brittnaynay3]

This is your sign to get a bubble tube for your gamingsetup 🪸🐟🌌🤣

[Maeve | Ithiliel @Mithiliel]

The little idle animation of the face from the Haranir brings me so much joy. Just to see the slight ear twitches is so cute.

#Worldofwarcraft #Midnight #Haranir

[Maeve | Ithiliel @Mithiliel]

They got me.

Astalor Bloodswoon - I mean Bloodsworn.

#WarcraftMidnight

[Typerighter @Typerighting]

CLOCK THAT LOSER

[Maeve | Ithiliel @Mithiliel]

I have only played about an hour of Midnight so far. Holy shit.

The music is fantastic.
Silvermoon is beyond beautiful.
As an alliance character you really feel the hostility from the horde. Especially with Turalyon and Lor'themar.
Arator 🙏

I'm loving it.

#Midnight @Warcraft

[Maeve | Ithiliel @Mithiliel]

My favourite type of pokemon?

Queens 👑

[Maeve | Ithiliel @Mithiliel]

どんな #ポケモン会えるかな ？

#ポケモン30周年 #PR @poke_times

[Maeve | Ithiliel @Mithiliel]

@minnie_meyer_ It is literally the best when a commissioner does this!

Love your work🩷

[Floverale-Hellewen 🌺 @floverale]

I cannot express how much I love landscapes with something giant in the distance

[Maeve | Ithiliel @Mithiliel]

I'm honestly so excited for the next pokemon gen. The island system really breaks up the huge open world issue I had with scarlet & violet. #Pokemon

[Maeve | Ithiliel @Mithiliel]

@gmltony 🩷

[Maeve | Ithiliel @Mithiliel]

There is a person in my D&D group that traces her artwork and brags about how fast she is. The worst part is she does commissions.

What shall I do? Confront her? Warn my players? Let it slide?

[Maeve | Ithiliel @Mithiliel]

I am losing more interest in Pokemon Unite due to the amount of legendaries & megas added. I just want to play as normal pokemon :( #Pokemonunite

[Maeve | Ithiliel @Mithiliel]

It is my balloon day 🩷🎈

[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.

[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.

[Maeve | Ithiliel @Mithiliel]

@KourraVT

[Maeve | Ithiliel @Mithiliel]

When everyone says: she's so strong.

But no one sees the girl struggling behind the mask to just make it through another day.

[Maeve | Ithiliel @Mithiliel]

I just want to disappear.