#2000s cgi

[of-fear-and-love]

My list of "movies that open on a CG shot of a satellite" so far includes Phone Booth (2002); Armageddon (1998); and Jerry Maguire (1996)

[erras-catgirl]

Immortel (ad vitam) (2004) - Dir. Enki Bilal

[coolmaycroft]

Coomaycrofy's method to tell AI art from human art:

1) six fingers, weird proportions and repetitive textures:

As we all know, Ai art tends to deform hands with extra or missing fingers, fingers that merge or twist in ways no one would depict. Hands are difficult for artists but in the end, they know how they articulate and move, so no one in their right mind would draw merged fingers or shade them in a way you can't discern how many there are.

Body proportions are similar in the sense that some Ai will output limbs that are bigger or smaller compared to the rest of the body. This is a mistake that newbie artists also make but it's rare to see in someone that's gotten good to the point of realistic illustration.

Backgrounds and environments are curious in Ai. looked at from the distance, they'll look convincing enough but one must only take their time watching them to notice the uncanny effect: textures repeat in the same way over and over.

The Ai will take a pattern and repeat it to fill debris, vegetation, markings, etc. However, real artists either can't have a perfect patterning because well, you're working with your hands or don't need to as the environment does not need such intricate detail.

 Gotten from Atarts

2) Uploads are done in a humanely impossible time (pun totally intended)

People that have been doing real art for a long time realize this after a while. It's better to output a few good works a week than to spam the feed daily. Your followers probably have other 10+ guys on their feed, uploading daily will annoy them. People crunching Ai, however seem oblivious to this fact. In a single day they'll output 4 to 10 pictures. So, you either look at a full gallery by the time you open their profile or you've seen them 3 times just by scrolling the feed. No one is that fast, no one that is human.

3) Ai is like CGI, it has a general look or feel.

Ai is trained on existing styles and looks. However, to create these datasets, you can't take all the art and put it on the meat grinder. You need to select what you want the network to imitate. This means that similar styles will be combined into familiar but not distinct styles. People with artistic inclination know what anime backgrounds look like, what professional illustration looks like, what modern sci-fi, retro sci fi looks like.

Afar a while, Ai art gest picked up by algorithms because it looks good but the indistinctive nature of itself exposes people to these general styles. People in turn become more familiar with them and learn to spot them. It's the same as what happened with CGI at the turn of the millennium. 2000's CGI looked convincing in its heyday but looking at it now, you can tell what is composited.

The more we're exposed at Ai art, the better we become at spotting it.

4) Ai artist galleries show a different type of evolution.

Looking at a digital artist's gallery you can see the best works are the newest while the oldest one shows their process of learning to color, shade, anatomy, etc. Not every picture is an artwork, there'll be sketches, memes, collabs, etc. all in different levels of skill:

Ai artist galleries show almost exclusively polished and professional looking artworks. No sketches, no unfinished artwork, no studies. Only pure, pristine art:

[ejgto]

[feldplaybackexperiment]

“Oasis” 3D screensaver by 7Arts (2008)

[thisisrealy2kok]

Joe Boyd Vigil - Toonami: Deep Space Bass (2001)

[ddddspup]

Kedamono Screen Saver 05 - Popee the Performer Carnival CD-ROM

[y2craze]

Y2K Music Video Morphing Effect Trend

I know this effect might seem a tad dated by today's standards but my god this looked pretty cool at the time, I think this was what gave music videos their flare back then especially since there was a CGI craze happening at the time too.

[shummthechumm]

WE OUTSIDE

dedication under the cut:

i originally started this just a few days before janice burgess passed away. if you have been following me for a while, you'd know that the backyardigans is still one of my all time favorite shows to this day: a major brainworm ive had since i was first popped out the womb.

she had such a huge hand in me and my siblings childhoods outside of backyardigans, as well, and i cant understate how much it means to me to see a black woman have such a major role in various popular animated franchises.

RIP to one of my greatest animation inspos, ESPECIALLY when it comes to children's entertainment. the fact that mrs. burgess passed on the day before my birthday hurts especially, so i dedicate this drawing to her! i would not be who i am w/o these goobers, so thank you

[ultra-nohai]

Devilpanda - Teknopouvoir (CD, 2024)

[laurabsantiago]

Available now at your local dollar store

[systemst91]

PS2 (HQ CGI Render)

from SCEE Press Information - Corporate & Hardware - Autumn 2002 (Europe)

[erras-catgirl]

Closing scene of The Gene Generation (2007) - Dir. Pearry Reginald Teo

[kaijugifs]

[ejgto]

Afterlife

[theactioneer]

Shira: The Vampire Samurai (Jeff & Simon Centauri, 2005)