Jonas De Ro

@TheMG3D Would have been better if they provided ready made assets (3d models,props,graphics,etc) Lowers the barrier of entry a lot but still allows intentional creative expression.

You shouldn’t be asking what the community wants when you fully know they don’t want AI to be part of this contest at all. Wanting to “lower the barrier” because they weren’t familiar with the tools to be able to compete is ridiculous. You should have encouraged people who don’t have the skills to learn and improve instead of using AI

@exphrasis @Rahll Damn, nice! This is a solo project? 😮 Ill stop hijacking this post now... sorry Reid.

@JonasDeRo @Rahll Yeeee check it out :D Curious what you're making! store.steampowered.com/app/1570840/Ti…

AI 'filmmaking' is a shortcut and a trap, especially when speed is used as some kind of positive, attention grabbing metric. In the mid-2000s, there was a trend called speedpainting that was popularized by extremely talented digital artists. They could whip up a nice painting in a very short amount of time, often 30 minutes to an hour, using custom brushes and workflows. A lot of green artists, myself included, misunderstood the concept, and thought it was a technique unto itself and pursued it. It seems so quick and easy, why spend so much time on a painting when you could do it FAST? It didn't take long to realize my work wasn't very good and I didn't know what I was doing. The bitter pill to swallow was that what I thought was a shortcut and quick ticket to success was in fact just highly skilled people working very quickly. They'd honed their abilities and process in a way to allow them to quicken the pace of certain types of work. But speed comes with skill, not the other way around, and sometimes you need to slow down to speed up. I see AI filmmakers, and AI creators in general, falling for the same trap. They think they've found a shortcut in the form of a new, accessible technique, but because they largely don't understand filmmaking, and are attempting to skip to the end result as quickly as possible, what you get is the same thing we got in the mid-2000s with digital art... a lot of mediocre to bad work with no real vision or understanding of the medium or fundamentals that are required to engage with it effectively. If you want to make movies and art, there is no magic button or shortcut, you actually have to put in some real effort. I knew an artist who didn't think they needed to learn perspective, they just used shortcuts and tricks, and it was always apparent that no matter how good their design or idea was, there were always blatant flaws across the image. Their refusal to learn essentially put them in artistic stasis, they never progressed past a certain point in that regard. AI isn't your friend or some great equalizer, it's designed to put you in stasis so you have to rent your abilities from a server somewhere and hope the model doesn't change or disappear or become too expensive some day. Invest in real skills, invest in yourself, reject the automation of creativity and reject speedslop. Good things come with time, effort, and intention, not from speeding through checkpoints as quickly as possible.

@exphrasis @Rahll Im not on social media since like 6 years or so, but once in a while its nice to doomscroll some ragebait and laughcry about the sad state of the world 😆 So youre an indiedev too now huh? Same here! Would love to see more!

@JonasDeRo @Rahll Damn dude I didn't even know you were on social medias still. We're old! :p The usual on my side, just working on my game 24/7 :D You ?

@Rahll @exphrasis Those werent speedpaints, those were 30min highly polished production ready concept art. Speedpaints are more like ... 5min Anyway lets catch up man, its a good way to get those cortisol levels down 😆

@JonasDeRo @exphrasis You know it's funny dude, every time I think of speedpainting, I think of you in London with a sandwich in one hand and stylus in the other cranking out a concept in 30 minutes during lunch, and it still pisses me off, lol. We gotta catch up soon.

@exphrasis @Rahll Im here for the speedpaint debate between Geoffrey and Reid. How you guys been?

@Rahll Lol NGL I was very scared of where this was going for a sec. I almost expected to read a "AI sucks but so does Speedpainting !"

@q8q7q8 @CountDankulaTV What treatment did you use? I've been getting auras since I was a teenager. Kinda gotten used to it, but they still pop up occasionally

@CountDankulaTV I used to experience these aura symptoms, followed by migraine headaches, occurring twice a month. It was very taxing on my mental health. However, I started a treatment that worked for me, and I have been free from these symptoms since 2018

Woke up today. Saw this. Went back to bed.

@JonasDigitalArt @IsThisA3DModel Damn, and we thought nfts were a low...

@IsThisA3DModel No judgement or anything but I wouldn't be surprised if he and many of these 3D influencers are getting a big check from certain AI companies to talk positively about gAI. I have gotten several offers as well and I can definitely see it being tempting.

Why does Andrew keep commenting on our tweets after blocking us. Why is he afraid to have a dialogue on the subject? We laughed at Meshy being removed because they are a scammy company that does false advertising It has absolutely nothing to do with what he's talking about.

@sstarkm Congrats Steve, looking forward to work together on some sets hopefully! 👏

Hello everyone, I’m very happy to announce that I just finished the first day in my new role as Art Director for Wizards of the Coast, specifically MtG. This is still all so surreal, but I couldn’t be happier to be here, and I’m so excited for what’s to come! #WOTCStaff

@andrewpprice Is there a point to this tweet?

Approximately 30% of Blender's Dev Fund budget come from companies actively developing AI LLMs, tools and technologies. If they cancelled, Blender would lose €852,000 per year in funding, and likely need to fire 1-in-3 developers.

@LizzieMarbach Weird. When I'm working too long or haven't made time to relax for a while my wife is always suggesting me to spend some time gaming. We game together too and have lots of fun memories of this. Neither of us are huge gamers, but there is no negative stigma around it whatsoever.

I know this is unpopular, but it will always be unattractive for a grown man to play video games. Some women might be understanding or pretend like they don’t care that you spend hours playing, but they do. It is extremely unattractive to women and will never not be. 🤷🏼‍♀️

@IkeSkelley @konrkonrkonr @djpain1 I've never had a job that wasnt doing art. I bought my house by making art, I've been feeding myself and paying for travel and life from art since I graduated over 15 years ago. Sure feels like a career to me... but what do I know

This is what Suno was meant to do, to make untalented losers—who don’t even like making music—feel special.

@andrewpprice @serhii_rieznik Ive scanned this exact tree. I recommend the scan.

@serhii_rieznik Absolutely. Accuracy isn't great, but often that's not important. Like if were making this tree, I'd generate then refine in sculpt.

The idea that professional artists will be able to resist AI workflows forever - on someone else's dime - is quite frankly, foolish. Consider how likely you would be to hire a plumber at 10x the price because they refuse to use a snake camera? I still sketch for fun. I still model when I could download, for fun. But for work? I use whatever tool is best for the goals of the project, in the least time. It's always been this way. I get no pleasure from saying this. But refusing the more efficient tool rarely ends well for professionals. My first car model on the left from 2007. And a generated version on the right. For a hero asset, the left approach still wins. For a background asset, the right is perfectly fine. Use what works.

@sainimatic Cool work! I shot these textures a couple of years ago, so it's really nice to see them used like this. For those interested you can get the source images here, they're 100% free! photobash.org/free#/tech-tun…

the wireframe the render 74 polys

@snakefrags @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN Yamato. It's a Japanese delivery service kinda like UPS. I guess conceptually they tie in with Death Stranding.

Building the game🎮

@arvalis @JoannaKobierska hater 🙃

@JoannaKobierska dogshit the entire lot of em

Is it safe place to say I never cared for any of the Jurassic movies.

@yos_compose It was a joy working on this project. I wore my ffxv production t-shirt today in commemoration.

8 years since FFXV was released. It was an honor to work with Shimomura-san, Shibata-san, and Aoki-san on this project. My favorite track is "Hellfire," made possible by interactive music. Thank you, Iwamoto! #FF15 #FFXV

@Rahll I've never seen or heard of this. It's on Netflix? Guess I'll need to VPN cause can't find it here

Absolutely heartbreaking, especially with such a beautiful teaser for what was to come. I really hope someone else picks it up, it would be a travesty if it ended at one season.

@arvalis @Tragedy_Andy Lol, spot on. 👌

@Tragedy_Andy From the interviews I’ve seen with her she seems exactly as stupid as he is. She is just less evil stupid and more benign stupid.

seriously what was she thinking when got with that man lmao

@zemotion You're doing great and people are spreading the word! Running a large website is a huge technical undertaking and I hope you can scale it to meet the new demand! ❤️ Do you have any monetization plans? Server costs are going to explode so crowdfunding will become unsustainable.

Fam I just woke up and we’re top 9 in App Store for social media???!!!! Welcome new people and I’m SO sorry if you can’t connect. We’re putting out fires as quickly as we can. Thanks to all your coffees, we are upgrading servers again now!! Appreciate your patience 🥹🙏🙏

@hiro76646081 Not at all, love it! ❤️

I hope you don't hate Japan.