I sadly agree with you.
It saddens me even more to see that some 3D work environments
(no name) haven’t realized that the new generations of artificial intelligence make uncompetitive these 3d environments, now not only outdated but useless .
In short, a 3D setup I bought for a fortune last year is now worthless, but the same manufacturer or distributor (no name) doesn’t realize that keeping prices so high will only hasten its now inevitable commercial failure.
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The level of emotional denial, about the emergence of this paradigm shifting technology is astounding to witness in many of the traditional 3D communities.
Much credit to Reallusion for at least trying to leverage and implement this new technology.
I posted this video
( that I made in under an hour, start to finish.), in the forums over at Renderhub.com where I used to be very active as a vendor selling animation products for the Daz Genesis figures before I retired.
These are original character Designs from my current graphic novel project, imagined as Daz genesis figures by Grok AI
Many of the Daz enthusiasts and sellers of secondary Genesis content literally called this video “Evil."
One woman over there
Literally told me that I would “never know what it is was like to wake up and feel and be a human.”
meanwhile her only commercial “products” are pre-teen girl Character morphs for the Daz genesis figures
and 98 percent of the Anti AI daz users
just buy and render pre-made Daz content
but call us “Evil” for using a different (much more versatile) AI software to create our images and animation.
So bizzare.
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Which is kind of funny because DAZ and its users embraced NFTs for a while (I don’t know where that went), which I wouldn’t call “evil” but certainly vaporware.
I started this thread to report on my own AI journey and the contributions by others makes this even more fun. I wake up everyday and I haven’t heard my wife complain yet that I lost my humanity. She actually likes my work so that’s gratifying.
I stay out of AI discussions mostly, because it seems a waste of time.
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It truly is a waste thats why started my own strictly moderated, private Facebook group for people using AI to Make Comics and Graphic Novels.
What I do find particularly sad ,in the “traditional 3D/CG communities, are people like the guy who posted this.
He clearly is interested in experimenting and having his own" foray into AI. "
Yet he is so terrified of the anti-AI activists, in the Daz community ,that He’s literally begging strangers on the internet for some sort of special exception waiver to use AI to enhance his own , Daz studio content, Iray renders.
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I have a lot of empathy for people who have lost their jobs because of AI, and for anyone else who has been negatively affected by these changes.
But saying it’s a bad or outright evil thing that small creators have tools to realize their vision - without a big budget or having to distort their vision to big studio executives - is absurd to me. How is this a bad thing? Should small creators reject every new tool and fall even further behind big studios, which will use these tools anyway no matter what small artists do?
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I am more than certain that the majority of the people who buy Daz prefabricated models and figures make still renders and post them in online galleries are not making a full-time living doing so.
How can they be?
Just go and have a look at any Daz gallery.
No one was paying them for this stuff ,even before the age of AI.
Why does a Daz content “artist”, Who doesn’t even actually draw or paint anything ,Think they are somehow making some special contribution to culture and society by regurgitating the same mass-produced models from the Daz content store as everybody else who shops there?
And honestly not to brag, but at least. I actually know how to create my own original models and rig them for animation.
Yet the moment I dared touch, this forbidden technology, All of my past accomplishments instantly become nullified, in the eyes of the so-called “artists” for I have become an agent of “evil.”
I’ve seen videos posted by professional children’s book illustrators who have stated that their clients have told them outright , that they’re using AI from now on and while I do have some sympathy for such talented, people , I am old enough to remember when there was no such thing as digital photography.
Being a chemical engineer at Eastman Kodak was solid and viable career for decades.
Yet I can guarantee you that the majority of these angry people calling my AI animations " evil," are probably a walking around with a 4K digital video camera.
( In their phones.) Without a single thought about What happened to those hard-working former chemical engineers at Eastman Kodak.
Sorry for the rant Job
.Here are all the final cover candidates for my current AI generated graphic novel which is looking to finish out at about eighty pages
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