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So I tried IA and found out it isn’t for me. Here is wh...
2 years ago
So I tried IA and found out it isn’t for me. I really want to bring life to my characters and for what I could gather, it's not possible with IA.
In a previous journal (that I erased for being embarrassed, you know, people who didn’t liked I ever mention IA art) I mentioned I wanted to quit doing 3d to move to IA art since one can do art at a much faster pace.
So, I tried it. Used stable diffusion and even trained some with Dreambooth. I couldn’t quite master it but the more I used it the more I keep having a weird feeling.
Sure, one can create beautiful art with it in only a fraction of time of what it’s required to do the same in “traditional” art. And setting the whole ethical things aside I keep having a feeling that it’s just… isn’t the same. I mean, almost nobody out there really cares about how much effort an artist spend in drawing something or how many hours someone spend creating a 3d character.
But for me, when I managed to create a nice piece of art I wanted to do something else than just post a still image of a character or a setting. I wanted to do something else with these images.
For what I could see in Deviantart IA can create stunning cool characters (seems NovelAI it’s more suited for that) but then I keep thinking “hey, this character it’s cool, what might be his/her/hir story? What about it’s personality? How it would talk?”
I guess I really want to bring life to these characters, and despite how cool IA art might seem, it’s not possible to do it (At least at the moment?).
Now, I know 3d/digital art it’s closely related to IA art. But I really believe that when I work in these 3d models (mainly Renamon and Mirra Kerzdath) I feel that by working on them I do more than just move pixels around. Sometimes I feel that I’m really “inyect” my energy on them in every step. When I create them from just a sphere, or prepare the UV layout, texturize, do rigging. It’s like taking care of a creature and watching it grow and get stronger.
Kinda like when I do maintenance on my pcs (I should write about that) I feel like at some degree the care I give to them somehow it’s “felt”… Despite being just machines.
And with the AI art that is just not possible… At least for me.
I still believe AI it’s a cool tool. Heck, I used IA back in 2019 / 2020, waaay before AI art was possible (for instance the G’kar bronze bust animation I created https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMnqu7S9hHg used IA in After effects, the “content aware fill” Even I can’t really tell the exact places where I used that option!)
Also the Renamon porcelain doll animation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm3AnacHqL8) had IA in every single frame (rendered in Blender with Radeon pro render, with IA noise filtering)
So, I prefer to stick with 3d art, and try to bring these characters to life. That’s why I’m rebuilding my OC character Mirra Kerzdath using everything I learned from building my Renamon model. At some point I really wish to make her feel like she is real!
In a previous journal (that I erased for being embarrassed, you know, people who didn’t liked I ever mention IA art) I mentioned I wanted to quit doing 3d to move to IA art since one can do art at a much faster pace.
So, I tried it. Used stable diffusion and even trained some with Dreambooth. I couldn’t quite master it but the more I used it the more I keep having a weird feeling.
Sure, one can create beautiful art with it in only a fraction of time of what it’s required to do the same in “traditional” art. And setting the whole ethical things aside I keep having a feeling that it’s just… isn’t the same. I mean, almost nobody out there really cares about how much effort an artist spend in drawing something or how many hours someone spend creating a 3d character.
But for me, when I managed to create a nice piece of art I wanted to do something else than just post a still image of a character or a setting. I wanted to do something else with these images.
For what I could see in Deviantart IA can create stunning cool characters (seems NovelAI it’s more suited for that) but then I keep thinking “hey, this character it’s cool, what might be his/her/hir story? What about it’s personality? How it would talk?”
I guess I really want to bring life to these characters, and despite how cool IA art might seem, it’s not possible to do it (At least at the moment?).
Now, I know 3d/digital art it’s closely related to IA art. But I really believe that when I work in these 3d models (mainly Renamon and Mirra Kerzdath) I feel that by working on them I do more than just move pixels around. Sometimes I feel that I’m really “inyect” my energy on them in every step. When I create them from just a sphere, or prepare the UV layout, texturize, do rigging. It’s like taking care of a creature and watching it grow and get stronger.
Kinda like when I do maintenance on my pcs (I should write about that) I feel like at some degree the care I give to them somehow it’s “felt”… Despite being just machines.
And with the AI art that is just not possible… At least for me.
I still believe AI it’s a cool tool. Heck, I used IA back in 2019 / 2020, waaay before AI art was possible (for instance the G’kar bronze bust animation I created https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMnqu7S9hHg used IA in After effects, the “content aware fill” Even I can’t really tell the exact places where I used that option!)
Also the Renamon porcelain doll animation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm3AnacHqL8) had IA in every single frame (rendered in Blender with Radeon pro render, with IA noise filtering)
So, I prefer to stick with 3d art, and try to bring these characters to life. That’s why I’m rebuilding my OC character Mirra Kerzdath using everything I learned from building my Renamon model. At some point I really wish to make her feel like she is real!
I bid you good luck on you furthering your 3D modeling skills and whatever endeavors you try out with it.
There is a funny thing about the whole "feeling" thing. The Renamon Ying-yang moon image (The one I have at top of my page atm) originally started as a IA image. I was *about* to include it in the final image, it was a pretty good scene, and I'm pretty sure nobody would notice it was an IA generated pic.
However something didn't felt quite right. There was something which I couldn't pinpoint, I wanted to change some small things and despite knowing that you can fix small details from an already generated image (inpainting for instance) I went against that idea and just created the background scene as well in Blender. The textures were mainly created with Substance designer. And I really liked the "feeling" of the final image. Despite spending like 3 or 4 extra days