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@Hey_A_Cubed
Character Art & Concept || Freelance
Katılım Mayıs 2015
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Just a little winded reading that it doesn't matter where art is sourced anymore. It does. It always has.
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Death of the artist/author
It is an argument whether you prefer experiencing art intrinsicly or extrinsicly. Are you simply projecting an image of yourself onto everything you consume? Or are you trying to empathize and gain perspective and experience outside of your own.
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Daniel, I second that. My fiancé died 6 weeks after his 3rd Covid infection from heart attacks. Please, folks, stay safe! XOXO
Daniel Park@Daniel_E_Park
Quick personal note. A close friend recently died from a heart attack a week after COVID. COVID increases risk of cardiac events. It may have faded from the news cycle, but COVID continues to take people from their families. Please take it seriously.
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WIP, portrait of an AI artist.
Any resemblance to a fat tick is of course purely coincidental.
GIF
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Navigate ZBrush for iPad quicker than ever with the new Quicksearch function!
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this moment is art so I turned it into a painting
"collision with reality", 2025
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twitch.tv/maxonzbrush
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@MaxonZBrush/streams" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@MaxonZBrush/s…
Going to be streaming on Maxon's ZBrush Live channel tonight at 6-10PM EST, drop on by for some creature sculpting!
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Yes, exactly. Furthermore, using GenAi as references is all about deprivation.
Here’s what I mean 👇
☆.｡.:* t0m0ko .｡.:*☆@mootsheep
“We use AI tools to explore references, just like we use google and art books.“ Google and art books work just fine. This has never been an issue. Countless legendary games, films, etc were made without any AI tools whatsoever.
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Just sucks as a concept artist to get an AI moodboard before you even started. It puts those useless images in your head and taints the creative process from the beginning. There's so much movies, games, paintings, photos. It just comes across like the leads have no inspiration.
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: gamespot.com/articles/baldu… 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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The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out.
This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.
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: gamespot.com/articles/baldu… 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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It's called the Hellstone. We're all ncreasingly divorced from physicality, so we wanted to build a monument for not only our international teams to gather around, but for the rest of the gaming community to rally around. We wanted people to get excited for the next big game on their list, and we wanted to do it in a way that employed skill & craft, by hand, to drive people outside to see it, and to talk about it. So many people assumed it was AI, or even a "UE5 render." Expectations are understandably low.
We saw by the reaction, however, that excitement is at an all-time high. We hope that your favourite game is announced, whatever it may be. We hope that the people making it feel empowered enough to go out and talk to you about it. We hope that the physical world still plays a large role in the adventure that is the video games industry. We at Larian will continue to invest in ways to be tangible, and present, and open with what is clearly an excited and engaged audience.
The level of skill & craftsmanship in creative spaces has never been higher, and I hope we can all make time to go out into the world and appreciate it when we see it. That physicality between the process and audience is that maintains a necessary level of mutual respect. It is very much ok to be excited about video games, and we can't wait to see you in person, when we're ready, on the road to Divinity. Oh and thanks for not setting it on fire.
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