Iโm not gonna delete anything here. Wouldnโt be fair to lose all the memories I made.
This upcoming year Iโm exclusively posting on Bluesky all my finished art and requests.
Gonna try and build the platoon up, take requests, drop some YCH ๐คโจ
Welp thatโs sad news to come to on Christmas Eve.
Sorry guys. But from now on Iโm never posting art on here again. Only Bluesky.
Iโll update you on links to the art but I seriously recommend you move there. Iโm not shadow banned there and everything is easier to look through
@LarAtLarian No. Just honestly no and shame on you for thinking any of the words you threw together in this post are okay. Generative AI is an immoral model as a whole for what it does to the environment and what it steals from ACTUAL creators. Shame, and may it hurt when the bubble pops.
Itโs been a week since we announced Divinity, our next RPG, and a lot has become lost in translation.
Larianโs DNA is agency. Everything we work towards is to the benefit of our teams, games, and players. A better work day, and a better game. Our successes come from empowering people to work in their own way and bring the best out of their skill & craft, so that we can make the best RPGs we can possibly make.
In that context, it would be irresponsible for us not to evaluate new technologies. However, our processes are always evolving, and where they are not efficient or fail to align with who we are, we will make changes.
To give you more insight, weโll do an AMA featuring our different departments after the holiday break, in which youโll get the opportunity to ask us any questions you have about Divinity and our dev process directly.
Weโll announce the date in the new year. In the meantime, I wish you all happy holidays!
@LarAtLarian Shame on you for using trash ai for any type of exploration. Thank you for showing your arse and saying you don't care about the impact on the enviroment and the social impact about using ai for ANY type of creation- concept, pre-concept, etc. Never funding or supporting Larian
Holy fuck guys weโre 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 Iโm 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 didnโt 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/balduโฆ
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.
@brangeddon I don't get to reach out to you and podge very often but you guys are genuinely some of the coolest people I've ever met and yes, you're directly responsible for some of the joy I have in my life๐๐ so thank you very much for the laughs and smiles
Happy Oshi Day.
I don't need to be your Oshi by any means. But I do hope I at the very least bring you a form of joy.
We need more joy in these times. I love to make people smile. Call it trauma, call it the class clown in me. But I hope at some point I've brought you a smile. Through shitpost, goofypost, or my stream antics.
Hold onto that light inside that wants to spread happiness despite the ugliness we're exposed to. Hold onto hope.
I mean-
Uh, bow down to me immediately mortals. I am your salvation. Deliver unto me your souls.
Hello friends! I bit the bullet and finally invested in a pc!
But Iโm sad to say due to financial implications and current affairs in U.S.A.
Iโm struggling to finish setting up. If you would like to support me via ko-fi! Id be super grateful ๐ค