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The blood of an angel… #criticalrolespoilers #CriticalRoleCampaign4 #CriticalRoleArt

@selkiepoem I really like proteas. They come in a bunch of variations but generally I really like them.

what's your guys favourite flowers? o: im trying to do smth and i fear my flower knowledge is too vast bc of my job as a herbal/floral apothecary so i cant focus on any specifics and keep going too obscure

@zweiwalker89607 I’m halfway through

Children of Hurin is so good I need you all to read it and be devastated with me.

@CalderMoore_ @jadel4w

@jadel4w When your Entrails become Extrails

How it feels working in AAA sometimes

@anvixox Check out bugfish on yt. Their lore recap videos do the trick for me

It’s getting harder and harder to find a good yt video to eat to

Well then—I… I’ll *BEARDs your fjord* #themightynein

@fancyoverture @somewillwin 10 seasons and a movie! Let’s goooooooo!

@somewillwin For context, the Zadash job in the campaign was episode 12 I believe, out of 150 total episodes :)

FINALE?!? Didn’t this campaign lasted like 2 years???? How many episodes are out there??? 😭😭😭

@ValephoreVT I get what you’re saying, and I don’t think my issue is with the artists, but I don’t think the anger towards Larian is bad faith.

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.

Because you neither paid, nor credited, nor even acknowledged the artists whose work you're now implicitly using. This is pretty simple. If you go out and buy a bunch of art books and you look through those to get ideas, the people who made the art books get the money one-for-one for every studio that ever buys those books. If you go to someone's portfolio page on the internet and get some ideas, you now know who that person is and maybe you really like what they did. Maybe you might hire them to do concept art for your game someday. If you ask a generative AI to generate ideas for you, you pay Google, OpenAI, Midjourney, etc., and that's it. The artists who made everything that goes into it get nothing. They do not get money. They do not get exposure. They do not even get the bare minimum acknowledgement from you that they even existed. I am glad players are angry about generative AI. I hope they get even more angry. Artists that contribute art to a creative process deserve better treatment than this. If you like generative AI as a tool, advocate for a properly licensed, properly attributed version of it first. If instead you choose to use generative AI and ignore the ethical issues, you more than deserve the backlash.

NPC art that I did for my campaign. Instead of doing straight up BBEGs, I wrote 4 “Rooks” that serve as the cornerstones (get it?) of the world’s political landscape. Leave it up to the party who they antagonise… So without spoiling anything else, this fella’s name is Reikis

@wolfyaltwitch youtu.be/Z2irPi5UQZ8?si… There’s this one too…

This is me realizing that the amv I've been watching occasionally since I was 15 is about Caleb widogast

One of my favourite artist’s comic is out now ! And it’s freaking sick 🔥

UMBRAL CHAINS is OUT!! Written and drawn by me. Let me know what you think! Links are in replies.

My little pirate guy got kidnapped by a sea hag. #dungeonsanddragons #dndart #DnD #ocart #OC #fantasyart #bard #warlock Pose ref by @littleulvar

Just realised I’d finally hit 500 films logged on @letterboxd

@NikolaCizmesija The first thing that came to mind was the Vaesen TTRPG books. The core book is based in mostly Nordic folklore but then there’s expansion books as well and the art by Johan Egerkrans is gorgeous.

Friends! I need some help! I'm hunting for some monster art books. I recently got my hands on D&D's Monster manual and it's jawdropping. It got me thinking if there are other books that collect monster and creature art designs and concept art. Lore and story are just bonus

Cameo-ed in a friend’s campaign. So I jumped back into Hawke. So I had to draw them again. Deeply personal character to me. A beautiful reminder that now matter how the world perceives you, be free to live authentically. “Don’t deny the existence of that which beats within you.”