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Well, I am here to chew bubblegum and irritate the anti-AI troglodytes. And I am all out of bubblegum.
Recently, I saw someone post how people who use AI to make images are no talent morons. Fair enough. I accept that title. Mainly because...I dgaf what you think of me. However, I am always challenging this hot take.
I recently purchased Meshy to try to learn to make mesh. Yesterday, I tackled it in earnest. I had several AI apps create some images - Night Cafe, MidJourney, CoPilot, Designer. Part of a portal series I have worked on.
I asked CoPilot to alpha some of these for me. I only recently discovered it will do that. I have been doing it myself. Honestly, 90% of the time, CoPilot does a better job. I have just had to learn to talk to it.
I took one of these images and pulled it into Meshy. It is an AI image going into an AI mesh app. Meshy created a model of my portal. I pulled it down as a Blender compatible file and imported into Blender. I exported as collada.
It was a learning process. In the end, I took my original image, brightened and sharpened it, before creating the model. After I put it into blender, I got the texture map and brightened and sharpened that one, then put on that texture after upload. Attached is the portal/elemental gate I ended up with.
I used an AI image and uploaded into an AI app to do most of the editing. I changed the shading, vibrance, and sharpness in Corel. I used Blender to import /export.
I guess I am a no talent moron, not an artist. ;)
My point is: The anti-AI stance is gatekeeping of the highest form. It's absurd. Photography wasn't considered art until it was. Digital art was the same.
I really don't care if you ever consider what I do as art. Feel free not to look. And the gatekeeper is what keeps people from being creators more than anything else.
Many many thanks to Jimmy Olsen and Lavia Lavine for your coaching, patience, and teaching. Many thanks to Contessa LaCombe for her coaching and knowledge regarding texturing mesh. Many thanks to Lone Wolf for making that video that took away much of the fear of trying for me. It takes a community. Many thanks to everyone who encourages me to keep trying, failing, and trying again.
Recently, I saw someone post how people who use AI to make images are no talent morons. Fair enough. I accept that title. Mainly because...I dgaf what you think of me. However, I am always challenging this hot take.
I recently purchased Meshy to try to learn to make mesh. Yesterday, I tackled it in earnest. I had several AI apps create some images - Night Cafe, MidJourney, CoPilot, Designer. Part of a portal series I have worked on.
I asked CoPilot to alpha some of these for me. I only recently discovered it will do that. I have been doing it myself. Honestly, 90% of the time, CoPilot does a better job. I have just had to learn to talk to it.
I took one of these images and pulled it into Meshy. It is an AI image going into an AI mesh app. Meshy created a model of my portal. I pulled it down as a Blender compatible file and imported into Blender. I exported as collada.
It was a learning process. In the end, I took my original image, brightened and sharpened it, before creating the model. After I put it into blender, I got the texture map and brightened and sharpened that one, then put on that texture after upload. Attached is the portal/elemental gate I ended up with.
I used an AI image and uploaded into an AI app to do most of the editing. I changed the shading, vibrance, and sharpness in Corel. I used Blender to import /export.
I guess I am a no talent moron, not an artist. ;)
My point is: The anti-AI stance is gatekeeping of the highest form. It's absurd. Photography wasn't considered art until it was. Digital art was the same.
I really don't care if you ever consider what I do as art. Feel free not to look. And the gatekeeper is what keeps people from being creators more than anything else.
Many many thanks to Jimmy Olsen and Lavia Lavine for your coaching, patience, and teaching. Many thanks to Contessa LaCombe for her coaching and knowledge regarding texturing mesh. Many thanks to Lone Wolf for making that video that took away much of the fear of trying for me. It takes a community. Many thanks to everyone who encourages me to keep trying, failing, and trying again.
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I've heard and experienced some of the same BS in every artistic endeavor I've tried in life, here's a few of the slings I've been told in my life (among many):
"Solid state amps suck, get a tube amp!" (said by some guitar tube amp dudes who boost their stuff with solid state drive boxes, and mod their amps with solid state components)
"Film has better latitude vs digital" (might be plausible, but the overall methods are the same, so what?)
bla bla bla...
Good for you for being open minded and persistent about your art, while trying different methods!
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"Solid state amps suck, get a tube amp!" (said by some guitar tube amp dudes who boost their stuff with solid state drive boxes, and mod their amps with solid state components)
"Film has better latitude vs digital" (might be plausible, but the overall methods are the same, so what?)
bla bla bla...
Good for you for being open minded and persistent about your art, while trying different methods!
They didn't harass me personally. They were actually trying to harass someone else, but made it about all AI folks. :D But it is a prevalent sentiment.
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It takes a great deal of imagination and considerable effort to get AI to create what you want. If all you are doing is putting in a prompt and then being happy with whatever it gives you, well, that is why people say it is easy and anyone can do it. Then there are people like me who push AI until it finally gives me what I want. It may take numerous adjustments to the prompt and many tries, but when it finally works, it is amazing. Who is to say what makes an artist? You are an artist, Xenon. I know these things. :)
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I love working with Meshy AI and my Magic Studio AI art generator, I have created some awesome textures and all kinds of products in it that have turned out beautiful. Other's not so much! But art is art is art. Great job Xenon! Keep up the good work.
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I`ve heard also many times people saying AI will replace one`s imagination or creativity: I totally disagree: my weather system, recently released, was fully mod by CHATGPT (from a script a friend had made for me, completely different, few features and with technical boring info instead - so chatgpt made it more complex but easier to use. My point is: AI don`t replace creativity or imagination - it enhances them!
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YES! It is a TOOL!!! It only diminishes critical thinking if you refuse to use it to do more critical thinking! And ty, Jimmy, for all your encouragement, support, and taking the time to show me things between picking at me. ;p
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