#in the INDUSTRY. NOT IN GENERAL

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

oh boy i wish i felt confident in the fact that i have a future!!!!!!

[cozylittleartblog]

"content creator" is a corporate word.

we are artists.

[ayeforscotland]

NVIDIA announced their 5000 series graphics card which are able to do something they’re calling Neural Faces. Neural Faces is a feature that uses Generative AI to create ‘photorealistic’ faces based off an initial 3D model.

Initial model on the left. ‘Upscaled’ model on the right.

To be clear, that’s supposed to be the same character. And Neural Faces has yassified the hell out of it - it’s smoothed out everything, changes the eyes, nose, lips into something distinctly more vaguely European.

I hate the term, but this is pretty problematic for a number of reasons.

Also NVIDIA have basically created the incel filter.

[10001gecs]

one 100 word email written with ai costs roughly one bottle of water to produce. the discussion of whether or not using ai for work is lazy becomes a non issue when you understand there is no ethical way to use it regardless of your intentions or your personal capabilities for the task at hand

with all due respect, this isnt true. *training* generative ai takes a ton of power, but actually using it takes about as much energy as a google search (with image generation being slightly more expensive). we can talk about resource costs when averaged over the amount of work that any model does, but its unhelpful to put a smokescreen over that fact. when you approach it like an issue of scale (i.e. "training ai is bad for the environment, we should think better about where we deploy it/boycott it/otherwise organize abt this) it has power as a movement. but otherwise it becomes a personal choice, moralizing "you personally are harming the environment by using chatgpt" which is not really effective messaging. and that in turn drives the sort of "you are stupid/evil for using ai" rhetoric that i hate. my point is not whether or not using ai is immoral (i mean, i dont think it is, but beyond that). its that the most common arguments against it from ostensible progressives end up just being reactionary

i like this quote a little more- its perfectly fine to have reservations about the current state of gen ai, but its not just going to go away.

[authenticcadence18]

SWAMPY MARSH YOU LEGEND!!!!!!!!

[twelveskidneys]

steven moffat really said alright how many aspects of modern society can i criticise in the one (1) episode i’m writing for this season

[kropotkindersurprise]

June 26, 2024 - Bolivia's union confederation has announced an indefinite general strike against the coup, effective immediately. The Central Obrera Boliviana, which contains all workers and peasant unions is also mobilizing workers and social movements to descend on the capital, La Paz, to repel the coup. [source]

edit: Coup attempt seems to have been defeated already (via @komsomolka [link] / [news source])

[meruz]

been seeing a lot of posting on twitter/ig but not much here. if ur in the socal/LA area and ur free for an hour or two this weekend u should definitely come to the animation rally. build hype and show support for the upcoming negotions.. if the rally has a strong turnout, it will make union negotiations for a better animation contract with the big studios easier...! friends, family, fans r all welcome - open to all!

more info here, eventbrite rsvps are sold out but dont worry abt that, it was just capped to get a headcount u dont need an rsvp to attend

(and if u cant make it rbs are appreciated lol ❤️)

[tea-knight]

[bixels]

I think 90% of my gripes with how modern anime looks comes down to flat color design/palettes.

Non-cohesive, washed-out color palettes can destroy lineart quality. I see this all the time when comparing an anime's lineart/layout to its colored/post-processed final product and it's heartbreaking. Compare this pre-color vs. final frame from Dungeon Meshi's OP.

So much sharpness and detail and weight gets washed out and flattened by 'meh' color design. I LOVE the flow and thickness and shadows in the fabrics on the left. The white against pastel really brings it out. Check out all the detail in their hair, the highlights in Rin's, the different hues to denote hair color, the blue tint in the clothes' shadows, and how all of that just gets... lost. It works, but it's not particularly good and does a disservice to the line-artist.

I'm using Dungeon Meshi as an example not because it's bad, I'm just especially disappointed because this is Studio Trigger we're talking about. The character animation is fantastic, but the color design is usually much more exciting. We're not seeing Trigger at their full potential, so I'm focusing on them.

Here's a very quick and messy color correct. Not meant to be taken seriously, just to provide comparison to see why colors can feel "washed out." Top is edit, bottom is original.

You can really see how desaturated and "white fluorescent lighting" the original color palettes are.

[Remember: the easiest way to make your colors more lively is to choose a warm or cool tint. From there, you can play around with bringing out complementary colors for a cohesive palette (I warmed Marcille's skintone and hair but made sure to bring out her deep blue clothes). Avoid using too many blend mode layers; hand-picking colors will really help you build your innate color sense and find a color style. Try using saturated colors in unexpected places! If you're coloring a night scene, try using deep blues or greens or magentas. You see these deep colors used all the time in older anime because they couldn't rely on a lightness scale to make colors darker, they had to use darker paints with specific hues. Don't overthink it, simpler is better!]

[watermelonlicker]

i referenced in this post that simon is the devil and never hid it. this is why he wants to get rid of as many larries as he can, particularly the veterans. all day i was thinking at work where tf did i remember him saying that and i did a little digging thanks to this iconic video masterpost (please preserve this as well omg) and i was able to find the receipt to back up my claim. simon said on candid fucking camera what he is and you can audibly hear cheryl cole saying “speak for yourself” and you can see (if you’re not willfully blind) how uncomfortable the boys looked from THE BEGINNING.

this is what we’re talking about when we say be frustrated but please take a second to breathe. i get you haven’t had to deal with louis and a stunt for a long time and you felt comfort in a come out but please remember why we are here. this is more than just a ship. larry is not fan fiction. they are real people in a long battle we have only scratched the scope of.

syco & its minions need the larries who remember this stuff GONE and for us to delete all the evidence we’ve created in anger. i deleted my goddamn twitter in 2015 and wish i hadn’t. i’m speaking from experience. you cannot let yourself be blind sided by emotion especially not at this stage. make your jokes etc but please dear GOD do not fucking delete your blogs/ your twitters/your big docs of everything etc. if you have to leave please give them over to someone else who can preserve them for you in your absence do not delete the evidence. we CANNOT lose anymore media.

UNDERSTAND THEY WANT US TO BE UPSET AT LOUIS. THEY THINK IT’S ENTERTAINMENT. and if some of the larries on twitter are right and zara is actually fighting against syco with katie waissel (another person who was on 1d’s season speaking out recently) this could be a giant smear campaign that we’re playing into and they are BANKING on larries hating zara. please please do not let it continue.

the cycle has to be broken. something huge is brewing and we have to tighten the reigns like it’s 2015 and prepare for war if need be.

link to whoever wants to archive the full video

[ayeforscotland]

Certain people in the Games industry have been talking up Generative AI for a while now, promising advancements like never before and how AI can do the role of multiple team members.

But when it's actually deployed in a commercial setting, nobody wants to take responsibility for it.

This is the trailer.

Here is the response.

[marisashorror]

💡

[vaguely-concerned]

sometimes you come across a character that makes you go 'I love you so much that it's teaching me how to forgive myself' and then you just have to live with it

[creampuffqueen]

“don’t blame peoples’ individual choices of using ai for climate change, blame the big corporations!!”

i’m gonna hold your hand when i say this. generative ai is the big corporation, and this product only continues to exist because of peoples’ individual choices to use it

[kottkrig]

Really into electro-industrial music nowadays so I wanted to make a dead guy inspired by it

His design is still a WIP but it has to be a rugged post-apocalyptic DIY vibe