cd-03

@xircuitry.bsky.social

21 / digital artist & animator / hi i'm cd. i <3 robots, weird horror, & bad dogs.

Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things. Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

Some thoughts:
When using GenAi as a mood board you don't get sources. This means you deprive yourself from knowledge.
You generated a location? You deprived yourself of knowing more about the interesting parts of the world and why things came to be.
Generate an armor or costume? You deprived yourself on real world techniques, function, form and history.
You generated art inspirations? You deprive yourself of learning about artists from history or lock out living ones from potentially being hired.
Ethical issues of using GenAi models aside, one ends up making visuals mood boards devoid of reality and history. With it one deprives themselves from learning about our world and who is living in it, inadvertently making your work weaker, because of how detached it is from our shared human reality and history.

I used to feel bad about staying up till 2am working on comics but now that I know about this jpeg of pissed cartoonist asuka I feel a lot better

Cartoonist asuka

the utdr origin story is so funny to me i think about it all the time. who the fuck has a prophetic vision about a video game they will make one day, tries to make said video game, sucks shit, decides to make a less intense game to get practice, then makes fucking undertale