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you’re a fucking loser for using ai lmao

I get a sizeable amount of questions on how ai informs my practice so now I'll share exactly when and where I use ai and to what extent.

Most of my work is uninfluenced by ai, I have been using 3d rendering software to realise my visions before ai was even in the cultural zeitgeist. To add, none of my video works have been influenced by ai at all, that's all my manual work.

I enjoy using ai as a tool to aid the creation of my renders in the same way that I use kitbasing or photoshop, ai is one of many references I pull from. But I would be, and have been, fine without its existence.

I guess I will use this question as an opportunity to go further into the creation of my art so you can understand how ai mutates my art.

Here is the finished rendering I made for a client:

Here is an unrendered version of the 3d scene, the background is a mix of various 3d premade assets, for me to execute this specific vision it didn't feel necessary to create each item from scratch, instead mixing and editing assets together was the most efficient way to realise my vision. I compare it to how most painters buy their paints, brushes, and canvas, instead of making each from scratch.

I start with a premade base human model and reference photos of my friend to create an avatar of them. This process includes sampling the textures from the reference images and sculpting a base to increase the likeness. This is a very tedious manual process. The dress was an asset I created myself to match the actual dress for the campaign I was working on.

Now this is how it looks after I render and after some non-ai tweaks in Photoshop, mainly to do with colour. I overlay some highlighted parts ontop to give the render a slight painterly feel. As you can see it's really similar to the final version. I have not used ai up to here.

Then, I use an ai image upscaler which makes the final image of a higher quality without changing much of the integrity of the image. The only areas where you can see some difference is the body, as I overlay the ai upscaled version over the non-ai version, and feather in/out where I want the ai influence to be.

What irks me is the lack of understanding of how these tools work or to what degree they influence the final product. To me, ai is like a weird experimental drug that isn't necessarily good or bad, it's an incredibly powerful tool if used correctly.

I am enamoured by the power of the future, to deny the existence of ai and not merge it with my practice would be a self-sabotage when the robots take over anyway. My work covers themes of transhumanism and a cyborg future so of course ai will inspire me like if u get it u get it if you don't them im sorry for you bc babez the robots and ai will fucking take over so you just gotta be its friend and not yearn and lament and throw a bitchfit any time ai is used even when it's so slight. Dms are open dont be shy anon! < 3

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