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A young woman is stalked by an evil entity in the underground metro...💀 Excited to share LÍNEA 17, my first personal animated short. #2danimation #Mexico Espero les guste :) youtu.be/UwbdMwc2UeA

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Don't fear making a 2 week game. Those 8 months will be the most fulfilling 2 years of your life!

Wip adopt for new year activity. Inspired by old motherboards.

Love means never leaving your co-op partner behind... even when something is chasing you. Happy Valentine's Day! And we hope you can #ShareTheScare with a special one!

Jester pt.2

Hard to say when the Phantom Taxman first appeared, sightings of her first took place weeks after the sinking of the USS Indianapolis. Conflicting sightings pin the creature in multiple locations all at once, making many researchers suggesting it being metaphysical in nature.

Can we stop with all this bs propaganda pretending like there wasn't a world of kids making flash animations, game mods, indies, writing short stories & fan fics, making home movies, sketching in their notepad in the classroom. AI has never been needed for creativity.

So here’s my 2c I’ve said before that people need to get off Pinterest and Artstation when collecting reference. So many games look “generic” because concept art has become self referencing and inbred. I always advocate for finding your own primary reference. So back to AI. I hate seeing AI in mood boards. It’s of no value to me. There’s no culture, no consideration, no material reference. If I go to a museum, I see objects that expand my understanding of human creativity and production. AI can’t even get wood knurling right. Concept artists get shit for looking at other artists. But when we do that we can understand the other artist and their work. There’s a story behind the craft. We can see the individual ingredients and adopt only what we need. With AI we see only mush. As an extreme example I design guns. AI does not understand how guns work. How they’re machined. The details are lost. What it provides is nothing I can learn more about. To someone who knows nothing about guns you might be fooled enough into believe it’s correct. Your knowledge is now tainted. It’s a poor facsimile and it’s disappointing to see AI being used this way. I actually think using it to render concept is more acceptable than this, as at least the important part, the idea, is human. Whereas rendering could just also be done with photo bashing or whatever. Either way Larian communicated this poorly.

I have to add my voice to the chorus: there is nothing more insulting, disempowering, or a surer sign that you’re working with hacks (& there are many, wedged into middle management in AAA) than receiving an AI moodboard as a concept artist, and I need to talk about it

Who’s gonna take it!??🏎️🏁 #F1 #AbuDhabiGP #b3d

Recently finished The Great Circle and had the itch to draw Indy🤠🐍 #digitalart

I find what's being unsaid here disturbing: the reason removing em-dashes from ChatGPT responses is a "win" that is worthy of an announcement is that em-dashes are primarily used to sniff out if a published work was written by ChatGPT. What purpose does this serve except to more covertly pass off AI writing as human writing? If people didn't care that an article etc was AI generated, why would this sort of thing be worthy of a dedicated announcement? An argument I've seen is that writers who frequently use em-dashes in their work are wrongly being accused of using ChatGPT, and this is a step toward mitigating that. But this is a smokescreen that functions on the assumption that people are only upset when they can see the cracks and are otherwise indifferent to AI writing if they can't tell the difference. The truth of this sneakily insidious announcement is that it is a declaration not only that ChatGPT's designers are aware that people do not want to read things written by AI, but also that ChatGPT functions better as a product when it deceptively hides its fingerprints. Were AI designers fine with laws or industry standards requiring disclosure around the use of AI, this seemingly innocuous fix wouldn't have even crossed Mr. Altman's mind to announce. In fact, if disclosure was a standard, writers would not be accused of using AI in the first place; the simple omission of "written using AI" from their work would be enough.

being an artist means having to relearn how to draw every few months

He looks like he spent a year driving for Ferrari

🌊🐶painting study

🙃To explain how accurate @maximilian_ is about how big studios sometimes slow game development down (compared to @expedition33's small scale) here’s what it CAN take to add simple change to a main character at a mega studio: 1. Art Director requests new shoulder pad and half cape on main character, after I finish her. 2. Meeting with Rigging to check skeleton compatibility. They ask me to make a proxy model. 3. Animation team flags issues with existing animations - now keyframes need tweaking or re-baking to fit new shoulder pad. Meeting to discuss. 4. Tech Anim request a meeting. need to reschedule new time to add cloth sim, and make it work across future skins. 5. Design request a pause. New shoulder pad means new hitbox collisions needed for melee. Eventually they agree its okay in meeting. 6. QA has to regression test the whole thing across gameplay and cutscenes. Make sure it doesn't look stupid from all scenarios. 7. Cinematics request meeting with me and Art Director. They're worried it’ll block the character’s face in key scenes. Ask me to make it smaller. 8. Narrative/Localization double-check if any lines reference the old outfit. 9. I finally finish the cape and shoulder pad - looks good. Cloth simulation and everything. 10. Marketing BLOCKS IT - because not enough time to get it into the upcoming pre-rendered Game Awards trailer. 👉Shoulder Pad & Cape: created & cut.

turning my camera on when they ask if I have anything to add to the meeting #Severance

Hope the guys making this thing are recording a bunch of increasingly ominous audio logs about the process onto individual USB sticks and scattering them around the facility