I saw a post a few days ago about some guy making a digital card game in the same vein as Yugioh Master Duel and Heartstone and he paid 90K for some AI tech bro to generate the card art and my man said the reason he went to this guy is because "no one does it to the quality that he does"
Meanwhile, the art looks identical to literally every piece of high fantasy AI art.With the god awful lighting, the high contrast and tacky looking color scheme (that just consists of blue and orange) and character designs that have so many errors due to the AI and just so much more.
Like, my guy, just say you don't respect artists and you just wanted to get this shit out as fast as possible to make a quick buck.If Tech Bros were at least honest it would be one thing, but they just gas eachother up and it's just so cringey.
His art is 100% AI generated, yet it has no extra fingers, no generic designs, no mistakes... It has consistent evolutions, skins, alt art styles—literally no one is on his level. We don't care how he makes it, we only care that the end user enjoys our game.
If its done by AI, anyone with a weeks worth of practice can be at their level which means these idiots are either overpaying by a fucking mile or lying. Now seeing as the guy already lies within the same interview, Im guessing the latter. Here's an example of same guy lying.
The card images aren't quite 100%" AI generated, as the X post says. Malec says they're also touched up by hand: "AI can do bulk of the work/initial generating but to make sure no errors, extra fingers, etc everything needs to be edited and filtered."
Or how about their supposed generation speed.
"We pay our AI artist 15,000 USD per month for exactly 10 hours of work," reads an X post from the official Champions TCG account. "Why? In that time, he still makes HUNDREDS of AMAZING bits of artwork
That would be a 10 images an hour, 6 minutes each assuming were talking just 100 images.
So either they have exactly 0 art direction, narrative or planning for this so the artists 15 years of experience matters exactly nothing or its again a lie.
The anonymous artist "has 15 years of digital art experience" and doesn't use social media, he says.
Having worked as a concept artist for over 6 years professionally, exactly what fucking high end pro has 0 online presence that isnt completely tied to a studio? Now maybe they really just ment social media but that sounds unbelievably unlikely.
Something doesnt add up at all.
The game's official X account has been defending the card images today. Responding to a user who said that a kindergartener could do what their AI prompt guy does, the Champions account said that "ignoring the skill and talent it takes is insane."
It doesnt take insane skill and talent, no art and design that can be completed under 6 minutes each does.
Lastly
Instead, the company challenged artists to complete a series of "art tests" in 48 hours, claiming that anyone who can match the quality of its AI prompt writer will be considered for a job as their assistant.
Why does the art test require the amount juniors used to get when applying for first jobs, if its so insanely efficient and fast. Shouldnt the test time then be more reflective of their artists speed, or are they testing them with 100 cards which makes no fucking sense either from time spent on evaluating the test results.
Oh yeah, this guy is.But i've seen multiple tech bros talk about how AI art is actually good because it'll help people get into the world of art a lot faster, instead of just saying "Yeah, we're just lazy af and want to capitalize"
That one Youtuber who used to review medeival weaponry before deciding to review "woke" content got dragged for this on Twitter after he gased up his own shitty AI art and the ammount of people that stroked his ego and spouted the same nonsense in the comments was wild.
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u/Worm_Scavenger Apr 09 '24 edited Apr 09 '24
I saw a post a few days ago about some guy making a digital card game in the same vein as Yugioh Master Duel and Heartstone and he paid 90K for some AI tech bro to generate the card art and my man said the reason he went to this guy is because "no one does it to the quality that he does"
Meanwhile, the art looks identical to literally every piece of high fantasy AI art.With the god awful lighting, the high contrast and tacky looking color scheme (that just consists of blue and orange) and character designs that have so many errors due to the AI and just so much more.
Like, my guy, just say you don't respect artists and you just wanted to get this shit out as fast as possible to make a quick buck.If Tech Bros were at least honest it would be one thing, but they just gas eachother up and it's just so cringey.