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A thread about the platforms I'm on if you ever notice I'm not hanging around the corpse of Twitter anymore ๐งต
Gammatrap
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Gammatrap
@BrandonMcCamey
Freelance illustrator // game dev // human made // [email protected] // commissions: link below
- This was 5 years ago. I'm a prophetHow people think digital art works
00:00 - Games aren't becoming "more woke". You're just more sensitive and easily offended by shit you didn't care about at all "back in the day". Metroid came out in 86. If it came out today would the main character being a blonde bad bitch with big shoulders upset you?
- I'm a game dev. I didn't know how to code so I learned. I didn't know how to write music so I learned. When I didn't know how to animate, I learned. If someone thinks they need to resort to using generative ai to bring a vision to life it didn't deserve to live
- Whereโs the โAi democratizes creativityโ crowd? A box of pencils cost $3 and lasts for months! An affordable drawing tablet is $30 ONCE and there are tons of free art programs to use it on. WE WANT YOU TO MAKE COOL STUFF! YOUโRE GETTING SCAMMED!!
- I'm a programmer and although I can't speak for all of the various LLM I have actually discovered the miracle solution in regards to generative ai in the creative field ๐งต
- It's not: -"Artists are mad you didn't commission an artist." It's: -"Artists are mad you think it's cool to use stolen artwork cause it's trendy and encourages these companies to keep doing that."
- Ah, looks like they made it past the "Fuck around" phase. Let's see how they proceed to the next encounter
- It's happened. All those years of painting Destiny in the grimdark style has been noticed. I will soon be painting official art for Warhammer40k.
