i gotta stop scrolling through the palworld tumblr/twitter search holy shit my brain is rotting.
Palworld did not use AI in it's designs oh my god. the initial trailer for the game dropped in 2021, before AI art generation really kicked off into high-gear, and you can see many designs there that are finalized for the final game. You can look at the original trailer here. No doubt that many other creature designs were also finalized during this time.
Additionally, lets also look at what AI pokemon actually DID look like at the time:
... these look absolutely nothing like palworld designs. palworld designs are very deliberate "pokemon but legally distinct" or "two pokemon mashed together", wheras these are an amalgamation of all the pokemon available at the time. if anyone remembers the melty surreal AI of the time, you know there's no way to ask it to give you a "normal type lycanroc" and have it produce direhowl's design.
I also feel like this whole discourse around accusing the team of using AI for their monster designs does a disservice to the completely original designs in the game? because believe it or not, there are a lot of wholly unique designs in this game! my personal favorites so far being Tombat, Swee, and Caprity.
if it turns out that everything truly was AI generated then that's egg on my face. you're allowed to have your opinions on the plagiarism of palworld's monster designs, but don't go around spreading false information you read online just because it sounds true and makes the game look worse.
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Y'all ocs are so freaking cool I wantta collab with 'em sm!!2₫:7jwjeuxijwiwiw
But lemme finish all my ocs design first gah it will take me very very long time,, anyway here are 6/16 first! I will post the others as soon as I finish 'em :]
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I've wanted to do a grown up! Hotshot for a while but I was a little nervous about it, BUT I THINK HE TURNED OUT PRETTY GREAT and it was real sweet practice <3 I'm thinking of doing Wedge soon so I can make some cute stuff with their designs
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Archangel Gabriel, Trickster, Loki, many names for possibly the funniest guy I know. He can shapeshift not just his form but also his cutie mark if he so chooses to have one! The god Loki is a deer in this world, so Gabe took on some more fawn like traits to add to his prettiest face. Despite still having pony traits, this half-assed disguise still worked for a long period before he eventually got captured.
Also he didn’t die in season 13 to me, he is living in Australia with several other supernatural folks whom the plot forgot in the hunter protection program. (Jesse, Anna, Missouri, Henriksen, to name a few others)
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Outfit ref for da little bunny Mariana! I revamped her design slightly but kept the basics and I gotta say she’s never looked better 💖💖💖💖
Bonus ref for her tattoos below
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