were produced through a human-led process
How the fuck does anyone describe an artist generating game artwork as “human-led process”? You know what this rather sounds like? A “human” prompting image generation.
I feel like they did a shit job tryinf to defend themselves if this is the best example of steps taken:
Like, For Real, this is worthless. Show the messy work files, the unfinished sketches, isolate the layers in the 2D mockup to show lineart and color independent of each other, a gif of the 3D wireframes rotating.
This image they posted won’t convince anybody. It will vindicate critics.
100% AI slop. These people must think we were born yesterday.
This is pathetic. They could have just ai generated fake sketches but they didn’t even have the brain power to think of that.
Yeah, I really don’t want to falsely accuse anyone but… the human 3d-artist forgot to model one of the horns? That redraw has a very, let’s say, familiar style as well.
Says “process” in the title unlike the others, body is missing inside, flame jets are missing as well.
The theory on The Other Site is what I also agree with: They took #1, fed it into an AI 3D modeler to get #4, fed that image into a 2D style AI model to get #2, and then went back to #4 and used AI in-painting and lazy Photoshop to remove some elements to get #3.
oh yeah that makes sense, the little bubble window is literally just painted over.
i… these are literally all ai. like why would the render be missing a horn?
I’m gonna interject and say you generally model things one half at a time and then mirror for symmetrical objects.
Sure, but you wouldn’t just render one horn and add the other one in photoshop. That makes no sense at all. You would duplicate the horn before rendering it.
yeah but you generally also have a hierarchy of submodels so that mirroring a group mirrors everything in that group.
How is this not AI?! The redraw absolutely smacks of that style, not to mention the cannon arm is obviously meant to imitate a milk can which the redraw mangles. The rockets are supposed to be udders but the two we can see most clearly don’t match in construction and the other two seems to sprout off of another one. These errors carry over to the full render. The udders are a pixelated mangle of perspective in the original, but this point is absolutely missed.
Above the leg is also a weird split. You can see in the original this is a weird artifact of pixel shading, but it’s been rendered into an actual split in the material in the redraw and renders. This is a valid design choice I guess, but to me it’s an indication of how the AI misinterpreted intent and someone reviewing it didn’t catch or care about it.
This might be another case of the phenomenon where people which get exposed to a lot of AI text start using similar structure and speech elements themselves after a while.
The look is pretty much what Pixar and Disney have formalized decades ago - no shit it will look similar to what ImageGen would look like if you go that route. And in the end this boils down to he said/she said with a dash of witch hunt mixed in.
Why should they use some kind of filter to achieve the same fuzzy, plasticy look that bad AI art tends to have? It’s not like that magically appears when you make 3D art.
The process image makes it clear that they are lying. Step 3 is step 4 with bits crudely painted out. You can see it easily on the shoulder and chest. They are making up intermediary steps after the fact, which would be unnecessary if there were intermediary steps.
I really hate these ai which hunts. Like if an artist says it’s not ai and it’s just a doubt then I believe but.
But in this case like come onnnnnn. Unless you’re very painstakingly trying to mimic the ai generated lewk at every stage, complete with slopsign tells (and then why??) then I’m not buying it one bit.
It’s a hellscape, I’ve decided to retreat to Dead or Alive wAIfu’s from the early 2000’s due to concerns about the appeal of novel secret agent sexy fish.
First they came for the women of insta with filters and I did not speak out, now they are coming for the sexy fish I will make my stand.
