Lia

Hello #PortfolioDay 🤍 I’m Lia, a concept artist & illustrator with a background in video games. Now, as an art instructor, I focus on teaching and sharing what I’ve learned to help other artists. Today, I’m sharing a little love for my OCs: Saskia & Marisol 🫶🏻

@heruwath Also you’re wrong, as references are very much directly used in the creation process. But you seem to know more about my job than I do so … 🤣

Are you for real trying to explain to me what a reference is? 😭😭😭 Ok, I will make it very simple for you. Intention matters. When I pick my references, I know those are accurate to the real world, and can be used to portray something believable. AI simply cannot do that, it doesn’t understand those things, and never will. If I tell it to give me a reference for something like a traditional clothing item, it won’t give me a result that can be used the same. By the time I fix all of the AI's mistakes using my own research (which will also still require finding REAL images), I could have just skipped that part and simply used one of the real images mentioned prior in a fraction of the time. 🤷🏼‍♀️ Orrrrr I could just skip the research part so it’s quicker and create a cheap, meaningless slop final image. Your pick.

The most important aspect of concept art is gathering information, references and letting your creativity flow through creating your own iterations BY HAND. I can tell a lot of the times when someone used an AI reference in their process. It still poisons the process. On top of that, the time it takes to correct the shitty references AI outputs could’ve been used towards actually doing it yourself from scratch and it also would’ve turned out better. It’s pointless.

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@heruwath You can’t think, can you?

This makes no logical sense. "Most important aspect is to gather REFERENCE and let your creativity flow through creating your own iterations" But when using AI as REFERENCE it's poison? If reference is poisoning the process, any reference can do that. A reference isn't corrected, because it's a reference, only there to inspire you.

@B0nesss02 @nullp0ster Respectfully, I’m as open minded as one can be regarding this situation, no recruiter will have a different opinion on that.

@bleeding_sun @nullp0ster I’m glad to hear there will be more opportunities in the future of course but i definitely would appreciate a more open minded view on some others situation if that makes sense <3

I’m hiring multiple artists for my upcoming outsourcing studio 🐴 In an industry currently impacted by AI restructuring and a focus on "resource management," I want Steedcrest to take a different approach. I am launching a new outsourcing studio dedicated to supporting both the creative needs of game developers and the ones of the artists who make those projects possible. Interested? Apply here: steedcrest.com/careers

Submissions are now closed! Thank you everyone who applied, we'll go over them in the coming week and submit our responses soon. 🫶🏻

@azulsun_ happy birthday wife 😚😚

i turn 24049282 years old today✨ here’s some of my art🩵

Thank you all for the support on this! I will have to close applications soon as we got way more than I was expecting, with each position receiving over 200, even 300+ submissions. I will be going through all of them and we will submit our responses in the coming week. 🫶🏻 Stay tuned, I hope you’ll follow us in our journey, and I will be posting again when we have more openings available 🫡 Until then, you still have some time left to submit your portfolios!

@Lady_Kinaii No plans for that at the moment, as there are many other things that need to be in order first. We’ll see!

@bleeding_sun Hi, will you be open for internship application in the future as well?

@Thatsky_Dragon @bouncytuna No idea at the moment, we’ll see what the future holds 😅

@bleeding_sun @bouncytuna How often are you opening such positions? In my current state I might take a while to refine my portfolio as I'm managing a 9 to 5 job

@B0nesss02 @nullp0ster The portfolio is the most important part, and if someone doesn’t have the time to make one it’s also fair for me to assume they wouldn’t even have time for such a job- but there will always be more opportunities in the future. :)

@nullp0ster @bleeding_sun I’m in the same position, I’m a game development student on the art side don’t have the time for making a portfolio atm 😭😭💀

There is no specific art style set as clients will demand different things based on the projects, however we’re not looking for highly stylized cartoon or anime style drawings at the moment (maybe in the future!). Some good examples would be based on realism, semi-realism, some degree of stylization or unique art styles that our clients may want.

@bleeding_sun I have a question, what type of art style are you looking for?

@scoutfreak If companies demand that from us in the future it’s something we’ll take into consideration 😊

@bleeding_sun What about tech artists? 👀

@nullp0ster Having a solid portfolio is a must, but there is always time to try when we will hire again in the future!

@bleeding_sun Is there any chance you guys are hiring entry level environment / prop concept artists? I don't have a portfolio but I do have a series of sketches (college has been very rough)

@ratparty_ @Misfortuneee If the portfolio fits the requirements for those positions, sure! Though usually if someone applies for eg. character concept art but I feel like they may suit the company more as an illustrator, I would reach out to them asking if they would consider that instead.

@bleeding_sun @Misfortuneee Can we apply to multiple positions?

@rasancte Thank you 😊

@bleeding_sun Mis mejores deseos para que prospere tu empresa, hacen falta este tipo de iniciativas.

@rpm_rpm17 I don’t have plans for a 3D team at the moment, as I would like to focus first on 2D since that’s where my expertise comes from - however it is definitely something we’d be open to doing in the future if things work out and there is demand. 😊

@bleeding_sun Will be any entry level opportunities for, 3D environment artist, or prop artist?