Since people need receipts…
Look; I did try to be gracious as far as realistic artist mistakes and what looks like AI. But here are a few of the most glaring “this isn’t Right” details for me:
Digory has 6 fingers. I literally do not understand how people look at this and say he doesn’t have 6 fingers. He absolutely, 100%, without question has an extra appendage sticking out between two of his fingers. Additionally, while it may just be an issue of angle, Susan, Peter, and Shasta all appear to be missing a finger on their covers.
2. Clothing details. I don’t believe Jadis’ body is turned enough to account for the difference in width of her dress straps. Lucy’s collar appears to be on backwards. And, if you look closely at Peter’s crown, it doesn’t follow a clear symmetrical pattern; the parts jut out in different shapes and spread unevenly apart.
3. Disconnected lines. The tension of Susan’s bow leads to her palm; this soldier has a random line sticking out of his back; there are random disconnected lines between the mast and the ropes; and, most strangely, Edmund appears to either be holding a weapon in an entirely ineffective way, or he’s pulling a rope which ends mere inches above his hand.
4. Incongruent design decisions. The Narnian lion symbol appears in two different designs on the LWW cover. Puddleglum’s right hand is clearly a hand while his left hand is some sort of swamp creature appendage. Tash has a different number of talons/fingers on each limb.
5. Nonsensical background shapes? (The last one is supposed to be the door to a tomb.)
6. And, literally the most grievous: nonsensical background shapes which clearly gave up on being the actual items they were supposed to represent. (If you can look at those flowers on the left and still say they weren’t created by AI, then I can only assume you’ve never seen AI in action.)
7. One more, just because I think it best mimics the way AI tends to lose track of patterns. Notice how the centre left ray is in between two shorter, wavy rays. The one on the right is a) above centre and b) bordered by two straight rays. Could this be a purposeful design choice? Sure. I guess. But it’s also very reminiscent of AI’s loss of details.
I really wanted to give the artist the benefit of the doubt. And I know people who apparently know him have commented on various posts on other social medias insisting that he did all this work himself! I would love to believe them!
However, there are simply too many ai-like details that he’d have to explain. Only some of this can be chalked up to human error, and that’s incredibly disappointing as someone who loves the books and wants to see them done justice in all creative endeavours. If the artist can prove he made every detail himself (even the strange, off-putting, most AI ones), then I welcome the chance to be proved wrong! But, unless that happens, I also can’t support AI taking the place of real artists.
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