Sometimes people throw around terms like "industry legend" to describe famous game developers, but Vince Zampella was genuinely legendary.
Most people have no idea how influential the man was. Director on Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. Co-creator of Call of Duty. Then he shipped the iconic first two Modern Warfare games. If he had ONLY done all that, he would be an "industry legend."
And then Act 2 of his career was arguably even crazier. He flipped the bird to Activision after they tried to wriggle out of a contractually-owed bonus, started Respawn (taking with him a huge chunk of the MW2 team in the process!) and then shipped Titanfall 1 & 2, Apex Legends, and two of the best Star Wars games ever.
That we won't get to see Act 3 of Vince Zampella's career is a tragedy. Pray for his family.
I actually do agree that the end result of this will not be less AI use, but less public discussion about AI use. I mean, that's already happening, and if Larian of all places can touch a stove like this, you're going to rarely see this brought up many places, if ever
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.
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And it'd be much appreciated if you could RT or share this with your friends & family who might be interested
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