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im a simple man in my ideal world working full time should pay enough that you can quit and take several months off to do non work things if you wanna. save up and write a novel or go travelling with no consequence. and doing this doesn't fuck up your resume because it would be normal and healthy.
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For all its faults Tumblr has truly ruined all other social media for me because my friends all have Instagram and are all trying to get me on Instagram more but every time I open Instagram there are like fifteen things screaming for my attention and when I get over myself long enough to start scrolling it's like. Where is my chronological dash. Where is the following-only option. Who are these people. Why are there so many videos. Everyone is screaming at me. And then before I know it I'm thirty minutes into scrolling and I haven't seen a single thing that I actually care about. At least on Tumblr when I see stuff I don't care about I know someone I follow has found a new interest.
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At least on Tumblr when I see stuff I don't care about I know someone I follow has found a new interest.
They tried to execute me yesterday but my ass was too fat to fit in the electric chair so they just told me to promise I'd stop posting stupid shit. Which I obviously did not agree to.
The cover art for Kingdom Hearts Collection I-III is AI generated.
Here is the image in question:
I'm going to focus on the parts that are very obviously AI generated. I've seen accusations that the character illustrations are also AI, and I'm not fully convinced by those accusations, but I also don't personally know enough about these character designs and prior box art to make a sound judgement.
I will say this: if the characters were AI generated, they almost certainly had to be heavily cleaned up by an artist. There are too many repeating elements such as zippers, chains, fingers, and soles of boots, which AI by itself would have unmistakably fudged. Best case scenario, the illustrations look a little rushed.
But let's take a look at the background elements, which I can say with confidence were definitely AI generated:
The clock tower to the lower right of Goofy drew my attention immediately.
Seemingly unrelated fun fact time! I am a quilter and I work at a sewing shop. As of recently we've seen a surge in popularity of steampunk themed fabric prints... and a LOT of it has been AI generated garbage. Steampunk tends to feature a lot of clockwork and mechanical components and things like that, which AI struggles immensely with.
Here's are some examples from a real fabric panel that I have seen with my own two eyes in real life. Focus on the gears. See how their spokes are all over the place, and screw holes are just placed willy-nilly:
The giraffe is a particularly egregious example.
AI is good at making things look sensible from a distance, but once you get close up, you start seeing things that no real artist in their right mind would accept in their own work. Look for elements that should be symmetrical or have repeating patterns. AI consistently sucks at depicting them.
Another thing that AI is notoriously bad at is preventing its lines from melting into hot sludge. On the left side of the KH Collection cover art we see this in action:
Wtf is that on the left? Are those crates? Are they supposed to be bricks? The siding of a building? I literally can't even tell. Not to mention whatever is going on with the railing of the staircase, and the way the lamps(?) are melting into the surrounding elements.
Sometimes AI is conveniently obvious like this. It makes our lives easier by making it simple to avoid. But other times it can be a little trickier. At first glance, this strange castle in the top right looks intentionally designed, with its towers pointing in many different directions:
But upon closer inspection we see the same issues as before. Lines melting together, vague structures, and nonsense geometry. Again, things that a real artist wouldn't do deliberately, especially not for the cover art of a highly acclaimed series.
For comparison, even M.C. Escher's busiest and most warped sketches are well defined. The drawings follow a clear set of geometrical rules. You can easily make out the edges of all buildings/structures, even down to the tiniest details such as the windows:
I feel really truly awful for Kingdom Hearts fans who have been waiting for huge news for so long, only to get served a side of AI slop.
The worst part about it all is that even if the character illustrations are legit, they are always going to be called into question now. There's a saying that goes something like "the gallery as a whole is only as good as its worst piece." I think this box art exemplifies that saying. So long as the background is AI generated, we can only assume that everything else is as well.
I do hope that Square Enix feels a nasty backlash from this, because I do NOT want AI in the art that I enjoy, whether it's in video games, art, music, writing, movies, and on and on and on.
I hope that this post can at least help people learn how to spot AI art with greater confidence. Feel free to point out more evidence in the notes, it's a great exercise!
So, uh, the lines boil into sludge in a way that's characteristic of AI, but that doesn't mean the whole thing was generated by AI. They probably did use an AI model for this but the sludge is a result of bad upscaling.
See what famously happens to, say, Pixel art when put through an upscaling process to make it wow so retro upscaled HD wow~
Like, the details you point to as being obvious nonsense, clear tells? That's just what the Twilight Town clocktower looks like. Bar the finer details being lost to pixel noise.
When you ask what that part of the dark tower is even supposed to be, it's a PS2-era rendering of a neon cityscape with skyscrapers, is what it is. The weird shelves and blocky edges are kinda just what it looks like.
And all the details you circled as weird on the mixed up castle - that's Castle Oblivion, it looks like that. It looks like ass on the cover because of the shitty upscaling, not because the design itself was AI generated.
Thank you for the information!! I am so damn sorry. Let this be a lesson for me to stay in my own lane. I'm not a KH fan and I wasn't aware of some of the designs just being like that. I'm gonna take down the original post before it spirals into more of a mess.
Actually it looks like OP is not 100% wrong!
It appears that there was an original drawing by Nomura. But for whatever reason, Square Enix wanted to move where characters were in the original illustration, and used ai to do so.
So it’s a bit of column A and B!
Read more here:
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This goose fucking rocks and had a crazy life!
I really just have to summarize Thomas's entire life:
He was in a committed relationship with a male swan named Henry for 18-24 years before a female swan named Henrietta showed up and mated with Henry.
Thomas was initially jealous of the pair and attacked them, breaking 2 of the 5 eggs Henrietta had laid. However, once the remaining eggs hatched, Thomas warmed up to them and helped raise them.
Henry couldn't fly because of an injured wing, so Thomas taught the cygnets how to fly.
When they needed to reduce the goose population in the pond where Thomas and the swans lived, they dyed Thomas's feathers red so he wouldn't be separated from Henry.
Henry, Henrietta, and Thomas remained in their happy throuple for years and raised 68 cygnets before Henry died in 2009. After Henry's death, Henrietta found another swan and flew away, leaving Thomas alone.
Thomas finally met and mated with a female goose in 2011 and had his own babies. However, another goose named George stole them and raised them himself.
As Thomas grew elderly and blind, he was relocated to a wildlife center where he raised orphaned cygnets.
His caretaker at the center described him as "pretty high maintenance."
Thomas died in 2018 at the age of around 40. He had a funeral that included a small coffin and a procession that was led by a bagpiper. He was buried under the stone where Henry was buried, the two finally reunited in death.
Before and after his death, Thomas has been celebrated as an icon of the LGBTQ+ community for obvious reasons.
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I realise i neve rposted it but my artpuece for thr local yuri and yaoi exhibit lolll
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So excited to announce and soft launch my graphic novel I’ve been working on! The character of Neuro was originally invented for a TTRPG back in 2020 and has since been reincarnated into a separate narrative that I wanted to tell for quite some time. Animation work has kept it on the back burner, but I’ve been slowly chipping away at it! I’ll soon be launching a new Patreon dedicated to the project and will keep you all updated once that’s ready! I’m so excited! 🌱🤖
First image is some of the new character designs and all other images are from 2020-2022 💚
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The Chainsaw Man movie was so good I was inspired to touch up this old Angel Devil print 👼😈