Hi : -] 💚 I've been working on and off on this little comic for months; I'm happy its finally done. This is a first kiss/confession combo for my little Steve + Zombie story ! link, link.
(Yes I have heard that one zombie song and I've watched that one zombie romance movie, its ok.)
All dialogue under the cut!
Steve: Ah- fuck- did I misunderstand you? I'm- I didn't- I'm so sorry... I shouldn't have-
Zombie: You... Steve do you like me??
Steve: ... Uh. Yeah... I do
Zombie: [giggle] Ah... I... uhm... I didnt think that was possible...
Steve: Oh... Why?
Zombie: [sigh] because I'm dead, and an enemy of yours. I assumed you wouldn't like that.
Steve: You're not my enemy, and you're UNdead.
ah.. there's a lot of things I like about you.. y'know? for starters I think youre really cute, um. very handsome, and.. um.. looking at you kinda makes me lose my breath sometimes, and makes me feel like. floaty, or fluttery, if that makes sense.. and the way you act can be really odd, in a very endearing and charming way, you get excited over the weirdest little things.. it makes me wish i could look at the world through your eyes.. and I just love to talk with you, about anything and everything, its become like a highlight of our mining sessions..
if you've got the time and energy, would you mind sharing your thoughts on programs that turn photographs into pixel art? thank you!
honestly people have been using methods to posterize images into pixel art for a while. it has been an issue in the pixel art community before genAI was even a thing. mostly ppl would downscale/posterize a photo to ‘delegitimize’ pixel art by showing how easy it is to ‘achieve’ lol.
but generally it’s easy to tell when an image has been made that way, mostly because of colors blurring way too much, turning into color mud with no contrast and nothing being ‘readable’ (ie trees don’t look like trees just green blobs etc)
i personally do not have an issue with it if someone is doing it for personal usage or having fun. theres also no real program that CAN just turn a photograph into pixel art, generally they use a photoshop technique etc so at least they’re having some creative input? as long as their not using copyrighted photos etc
but the issue will always be disclosing it, if you’re trying to pass off downscaled photos/AI images as your own art that’s morally wrong and very disingenuous.
interesting that, of all the AI topics you could get mad at (deepfakes and revengeporn, people intentionally going out of their way to ignore wishes of artists who ask people not to use their art in it, whatever), tumblr users choose to instead become enraged over AI-generated cats and meme art.
straycatj is not personally ruining the lives of every artist alive by posting an AI made image (that she made for fun) one (1) time. it is not stealing from artists if you generate gay sex cats memes instead of paying someone irl to make it for you. AI discourse went from reasonable concerns to "if you ever generate an AI image, it is akin to letting artists starve in the street, and you are evil" really quick, and ignores, like, every previous "acceptable" AI trend on tumblr (since people now looooove to pretend that "early" AI generation wasn't popular, i fuckin guess).
( hi just a quick heads up - im not really adding people to the vocaloid-official masterpost anymore. its gotten really overwhelming to keep up with so. if you’ve asked me to add you and I haven’t done it it’s not personal it’s just kind of become A Lot so im gonna stop doing it I think. the current masterlist will stay up though!
also sorry for no funny posts in a while. ive been really busy with school and also not really in a good headspace to be cooking up Funney Jokes. im still alive and cool just busy with other stuff )