🌈hi im ethan! 22yr old artist, mostly
United States
Joined May 2017
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ruh roh! retweeted
They made adobe illustrator to torture art majors taking digital arts classes in college
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There they are, my favourite pirates... #jrwi
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this is why i can never get behind gen ai bc how could u see an incredible process like this and think "how can i skip this process and generate soulless dogshit instead"
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He's not used to having a friend around when he first got pretzel
#jrwifanart #jrwiriptide
ruh roh! retweeted
It did. Absolutely developed a ML/AI program to discern frame to frame movement of animated characters and how the lighting/shading should follow along. "KLaS".
Developed in 2015. A full 7 years before Midjourney V1 dropped. 6 years before DALL-E dropped.
That software generated bezier curves to control the lighting/shading. Then the curves were reviewed and massaged frame by frame by artists.
It's important to distinguish the difference between that form of ML/AI and the exploitative abusive and harmful general AI generative software we're pushing back on right now. Machine Learning has been useful for decades. Nuance is key.
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This BTS video is actually from 7 years ago that WIRED posted on Youtube.
It's technically older bespoke tech pre-genAI that uses machine learning and artists to interpolate 2d handdrawn lines. Like a smarter Blender Grease Pencil.
teapawt.org/EiratheIntern/status/2…
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THIS IS GOOD AI
- Only used for tedious work
- Doesn't affect creative integrity
- Uses completely localised data
- Not from a data center
- Localised programs aren't bad for the environment in the same scale
- Data was taken with consent to the artists
0 problems here
