I was sick again (Update, Refunds and AI) (Patreon)
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Update:
Like the headline says I was sick again. Without getting deep into detail, I had a gastrointestinal virus.
I'm healthy now and I'm proceeding work on the Magic Gender Potion animation.
Refunds:
I want to offer refunds between the 16th of march and the 15th of April. This doesn't apply to first time pledges but everybody else is eligible.
If you want a refund, please just write a quick PM here on Patreon.
AI:
Some of you may know that I'm not a big AI fan because using it to it's maximum capacity is insulting to every artist.
I wanted to understand it more and perhaps even find use cases where it's not morally condemnable or where it undermines my own creativity and style but is simply a extension of my workflow to improve what I usually already do by myself. I don't think it's wise to completely ignore new technology because some people abuse it to a morally reprehensible degree.
There's people who never were artists, type in a prompt, press a button and then profit off of that work of others without having done anything besides adjusting some AI settings.
IF I want to use AI myself I set a few rules:
- I don't feed any AI model publicly, it's all locally on my PC
- I don't use it as a replacement but as a extension of my workflow
- I don't want to throw away my own already established style
- I won't blatantly copy other artists styles
I did a few tests and the results are quite impressive. It fixes some areas of my art I personally have issues with or it's just generally a improvement.
This is currently limited to pinups, sequences and comics of course.
I can't see AI being stable enough for animations in the near future to also use it for them and considering that the motion of the transformations is also my own more or less unique style makes it even more complicated.
I want to share some of these tests in a separate post and have a discussion what you think and what's your opinion.
Anyway, as always thank you for the support and back to work!