Brent Patterson

@delanop.com

Artist and prof, of digital media | animation | open-source software | blender | art | cycling | stupid stuff | 🚫 no AI, NFTs | https://linktr.ee/delanop (profile by Aubs)

Watch how defensive Rep Faison gets 👇🏽when Jennifer states the obvious — you can’t separate race from the politics of stripping majority-Black MEMPHIS of representation. No matter how many family members you mention or how grossly you butcher the meaning of MLK’s words, this will still hold true.

JOB SEEKERS: We're going to have a Career Village for the very first time this year at BSides Buffalo - come join Russel Bassarath and Anthony Bray from Buffalo Center for Arts and Technology (BCAT) for a workshop and resume review!

Despite everything, I submitted a talk proposal to the Blender Conference in Austin. I have been fairly radicalized over the past ten years, so I doubt they'll accept it. We shall see if they want to hear 'Fight the Fascists with FOSS' ... in Texas. #blender

I've been living at St. Jude for the past few weeks while my son is in therapy. I met other synth dads whose kids are in proton radiation therapy and we've started jamming together. We named the group Proton Beam. We're awful and it's awesome. I mainly do the visuals. The lion was Oliver's idea.

I scrappy synthy setup.Hell yeah

I've been making new work from the spaces here at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital where we've been living while my son undergoes treatment. The full work will be at the upcoming faculty show at Czurles Nelson Gallery on Buffalo State's campus starting next week. It's also on my website.

RJ is absolutely right here, I would add that concept artists more often than not serve as the filter for reference going into the project. We build reference libraries and understandings of an exceptionally diverse range of information and how that relates to the project.

RJ Palmer 🔜 Dragon Con B9@rj-palmer.com · 8mo ago

The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out. This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.

Swen Vincke @LarAtLarian

Holy fuck guys we’re not "pushing hard" for or replacing concept artists with AI.

We have a team of 72 artists of which 23 are concept artists and we are hiring more. The art they create is original and I’m very proud of what they do.

I was asked explicitly about concept art and our use of Gen AI. I answered that we use it to explore things. I didn’t say we use it to develop concept art. The artists do that. And they are indeed world class artists.

We use AI tools to explore references, just like we use google and art books. At the very early ideation stages we use it as a rough outline for composition which we replace with original concept art. There is no comparison.

I talked about how we use ML here if you would like to know more:
https://gamespot.com/articles/baldurs-gate-3-dev-embraces-machine-learning-for-tasks-that-nobody-wants-to-do/1100-6531123/

We've hired creatives for their talent, not for their ability to do what a machine suggests, but they can experiment with these tools to make their lives easier.

Hi friends. My son, Oliver, is in surgery today to remove a brain tumor that has returned after six years. He needs your good hopes and well-wishes for a speedy recovery. Thank you.

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He doesn't let me take many pictures of him... My son Oliver is getting his next brain MRI at St. Judes in a few hours. If you all could send him positive energy for clear scans, I do appreciate it. Thanks.

Me, Oliver, and Elliot

Here’s 3 full minutes of @kaitlancollins trying to get @SpeakerJohnson to admit undocumented people can’t get federal health care, and Johnson repeating the lie over and over anyway. Republicans are kicking people off insurance then lying about who they’re doing it to.