I used AI to beat Nintendo's Pokémon designers?! 

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I love that you went so hard into trying to make an evolution line that makes sense whereas the Pokemon company *sometimes* doesn't even follow that!

You should 3d print these Pokémon and make more diorama cards for them

I was watching you develop those adorable grass starters, and it just ate away at me, so I gave them stats to turn them into something you would see in a Pokémon game. I am floored at how believable they turned out to be. So, here you go: the Pocotta evolution line. Pocotta, the Vase Pokémon. Type: Grass and Rock. Size: 1' 7" 26 lbs. Egg group: Grass and Mineral. Evolves at level 19. Exp yield: 102. Catch rate: 45 or 11.9%. Leveling rate: Medium slow. EV yield: 1 defense. Gender: 87.5 Male to 12.5 Female. Shiny color: White and blue. Abilities: Overgrow (Boosts Grass attacks if low hp) and Clay Barrier (Greatly reduces the power of physical attacks but doubles Fighting weakness). Stats: 60 HP, 60 Attack, 65 Defense, 45 Special Attack, 50 Special Defense, 20 Speed. Total of 300. Pocotta is an unusually friendly species of Pokemon that is rarely seen but is rumored to adorn the homes of the rich. Any plant grown inside of it will never suffer from poor soil as the cells of the Pokémon itself, when shed, act as fertilizer for the soil. Barely moving, it prefers to lounge all day and snooze but will actively yap at it's owner. In battle, it uses mainly defensive moves and will never lose hope. Plagro, the Mobile Pokémon. Type: Grass and Rock. Size: 5' 2" 47 lbs. Egg group: Grass and Mineral. Evolves at level 33. Exp yield: 159. Catch rate: 45 or 11.9%. Leveling rate: Medium slow. EV yield: 2 defenses. Gender: 87.5 Male to 12.5 Female. Shiny color: White and red. Abilities: Overgrow (Boosts Grass attacks if low hp) and Clay Barrier (Greatly reduces the power of physical attacks but doubles Fighting weakness). Stats: 70 HP, 60 Attack, 85 Defense, 50 Special Attack, 80 Special Defense, 70 Speed. Total of 415. Plagro are highly active Pokémon that have huge caring hearts. Able to hear the cries of another Pokémon from miles away through their roots in the ground, they will not hesitate to uproot themselves to run as fast as they can to see if there is anything wrong. When they aren't running around, they are usually seen in gardens tending to plants. Themselves being plants, they know the exact needs of any plant in the world and are experts of gardening. Their only downfall is being unable to communicate directly with humans, so pairing them with other Pokémon capable of speech with other Pokémon and humans such as Chatot is ideal. Viant, the Towering Pokémon. Type: Grass and Rock. Size: 17' 4" 891 lbs. Egg group: Grass and Mineral. Exp yield: 251. Catch rate: 3 or 1.6%. Leveling rate: Medium Slow to Slow. EV yield: 2 Defenses and 1 Speed. Gender: 87.5 Male to 12.5 Female. Shiny color: White red and gold. Abilities: Overgrow (Boosts Grass attacks if low hp) and Stone Tree (Increases Defense in Sandstorm and Sunlight by 1 stage every turn). Stats: 90 HP, 80 Attack, 120 Defense, 65 Special Attack, 80 Special Defense, 100 Speed. Total of 535. Viant, also known as the Viridian Giant, are masters of creation, seen sleeping in ancient flowerbeds of past civilizations with growing plants that have been rumored to be extinct. Apparently, they can use any trace amount of plant in the soil around their roots and graft them onto their flesh, changing the plants growing on their bodies. Some have been seen growing crops, others with hedges, and a few have been rumored to be buried in the earth with entire forests sprouting from themselves. The main difference between male and female Viant are the shapes of the darker patches on the ears and the leaves above the tail: males will have jagged leaflike shapes while females will have heart shapes. The insanely flexible hard outer flesh has been compared to ceramic pottery found in modern times, but to a much less brittle structure. This allows a Viant to gallop freely and with incredible speed. A motivated Viant can move for hours at a time full speed nonstop if it means it can satisfy those closest to it. However, if it senses something behind it is trying to remove its plants from itself, it will kick with its feet so hard that it could shatter the thickest of bones. Viant also has access to a unique move: Potted Pummel. A physical contact Rock attack with 140 base power, 85 accuracy, and 5 PP. Every time Viant uses this attack, it will have a much higher chance for critical hits, equivalent to using Focus Energy with Super Luck. However, this comes at a price: not only does it have a chance to miss, but every successful hit will lower Viant's Defense by 1 stage. "The user will glare at the target then leap into the air and land feet first onto their opponent's head, kicking wildly until its feet start to crack." Yes this took ages but I'm happy with this. If Jazza sees this, I hope he would be impressed. I feel like these guys could be real, and at the same time balanced as well.

Here's an idea for you Jazza, train your own AI using only your artwork. See if it can replace you.

That feel when he's basically asking for buizel(minus the water legs) but he doesn't know pokemon enough to know who buizel is. The first looked a lot like him!

Ai isn’t great with specifics but is good to get an over all feel for what you want to make, kinda like finding reference for a drawing

You dropped the ball not calling the fire egg “eggnite” or “eggnition” lol

If Fidough can be a name, so can Goodbuoy.

I really liked a lot of the interim creatures, too. Thanks a lot for demonstrating the process so much in depth!

I'm not anti-AI, but it definitely makes me nervous. Like you mentioned, people will no longer need to pay for commissioned art, and that is how nearly every artist I know broke in to the professional side of art. Without taking commissions, it will be MUCH harder for artists (myself included) to build a name for themselves, or to kickstart a career.

The big kicker with ai artwork is that you can't opt out of having your art used to train it, and if a big corporation wants your style and can use ai to get it, then that's what they're going to use instead of paying you.

I am not anti-ai, but as an aspiring artist myself I can’t help but worry what it means for the industry I hope to join. I think most people think that ai will take away jobs from artists, and I’m kinda worried about that too. At the same time though, I know that an ai will never to be able to create the same art that I will create, which gives my art some sort of value.

the ai just takes other people's art and compiles it into something "new". oftentimes against the artist's wishes of their art not being stolen and/or redistributed. it's not art, its borderline stealing and is taking jobs from actual artists who care about their craft enough not to use these shady ai sites.

Cool video! It was a great basic overview of how to create prompts and the results were awesome! 👍🏻

I see AI Art as an two sided sword. It is an wonderful tool and the power it has is phenomenal. It blow my mind as I saw this. I'm a little worried that some firms are shifting they work. Instead an Artist, you have an AI Prompt Employee. So you write the perfect sentence and look for the photo until you find a match. At least for me it's not fulfilling work.

the backgrounds these AI can come up with are so good I think it makes a lot of sense that many people will draw their main subject and then fill in a background with AI. I'm curious if you could use it to quickly get a base design for a character and then draw in the details you had in mind that the AI either missinterprettued or ignored.

It's cool, and they look great. I'm not exactly anti, but I just find myself thinking about history. Sewing is a good example. We invented sewing machines and they can do so much at a time, and work at a pace human hands can't keep up with. But the problem was that sewing machines couldn't do it all. So we lost a lot of techniques, and we lost the knowledge of how to make things. Like there's a whole deep dive there. The same thing goes for iron working. Machines can do so much with working with materials, but in handing the job over to them we lost so many techniques and so much knowledge. I can't help but to think the same is going to go for art. Why bother to learn to be an artist when you can just go to a generator to make art for you? Why buy $100s in art supplies, which have to be replaced over and over again, when say $25 gets you this? Why hire someone to make art when you can have a person who just makes these all day? Why commission when you can make your own vision? Also I can't help but to feel weary that AI seems to be taking over so many industries like art, music, writing, etc. There's a whole conversation to be had about how robots were theorized to be taking over menial labor, but instead seem to be taking over everything outside of that and pushing people into menial labor instead.

Jazza, I like to edit/Photoshop pictures for fun. I love your persistence when trying to get what you want when looking for a picture to use. When I edit I always try and have the mindset of getting exactly what I want onto the picture. It is like solving a problem, using all the tools from photoshop to get what I want. All that to say, keep up the good work, loved this video.

OMG!! this was my suggestion of a video in the last A.I video!!! love it

I have a feeling that because the last evolution walks around on terracotta pots they are constantly breaking them and has to find or get new ones!😂

I wonder if Jazza would look at AI generators differently if they'd been around when he was starting out as an artist.

Really loved this video! Can't wait for more AI stuff it's really cool!

“Your Opponent’s Active Pokemon is *no* Burned”

You have to admit: this could be disastrous for the freelancer. You just said it "I could have commissioned this for hundreds of dollars." Obviously, in this setting and context, it's not the case, but that's potentially hundreds of dollars that are not going to a freelance artist. Artists are now possibly facing a crisis similar to what's killed previous trades of the past: a much cheaper and more efficient alternative

I agree with most comments I saw about the AI. It's fascinating, yet devastating. I am an artist who already struggle to make a living out of my art and when I first saw that these AIs existed, I was super scared. What does it mean for the future of artists? Devaluation, minimizing our value and worth, going for AI instead of artists, scamming people using AIs and devaluing the profession with doing so are all real concerns and we are going there. I just hope it won't take too much space in the community...

Really love your work and I'd love to see you sculpt them.

AI art is really cool and it's so interesting to experiment with, but the fact that you even said in the video that A.I. could be an alternative to commissioning artists is exactly why A.I. art may not be the best path to go down. People who take commissions are already surviving on a freelance income which isn't very reliable and there are already so many people out there complaining that they have to pay for art at all. This could destroy a freelance artist's livelihood. Second, say people start faking the fact that they are an artist using A.I. art and people find out, those people would ruin any trust that people had in the art community and make finding willing commissioners even harder. I mean, AI art is cool and interesting, yet it is also dangerous and you as an artist can surely understand that some people who rely on commissions for income may feel uneasy about this. That being said, this video was great, again AI is really intersting. I don't think that anyone's feelings of uneasiness are invalid just because it's cool though

I found that for making Pokémon, out of Stable, Dall-E 2, and Nokemon, Stable was the best, Nokemon was really good, and Dall-E 2, was pretty good. Nokemon was especially interesting because I could input types instead of text, however, must of the designs look really weird so some people would probably not like it nearly as much as the others. Dall-E 2 consistently made mons that made sense but also looked like Pikachu but that may have been because I used the word Pokémon in the prompt. Lastly I've used Stable the most so I've become pretty accustomed to what it can and can't understand so it made the best for me. P.S. I used the website NightCafe for access to Dall-E 2 and stable and so I didn't have to input the style they have preset styles if you prefer that but it's not necessary.

I mean, maybe you'd get less angry people if you didn't deliberately point out that this would have killed a few commissions. I know this is happening, and we have to accept it, but that doesn't mean I have to _celebrate_ it. I'm sure you personally will never lose a job because of AI art, which is why it's so easy for you to be so happy with it, but the smaller artists will suffer a lot from this, and I find it really hard to get enthusiastic about it.

Ive been waiting for more pokemon vids!

Im gonna be honest, the grass pokemon def should have evolved into a chunky pokemon with terracotta armor pieces, attached together with vines.

Hey jazza, I've been watching since you first 3d pen videos and I was very young. I'm now turning 17 in two weeks and I wanna say I really love your content. Keep it up❤️

The current way AI functions depends on existing art. The whole thing feels a little like more of the same: artists create and innovate, and their work gets reworked (won't quite say stolen...) for someone else's benefit. Obviously not the same straight up fraud we saw in your Fiver commissions, but the world's artists taught AI how to art, and I imagine few received anything back for it. The technology is gorgeous and amazing. I agree it produces both humor and inspiration. I agree there will always be a place for artists, because many artist are artists for their own souls and AI can't replace an artist's soul. It's still discouraging. But novel things often are.

quite honestly, i think the way you did it worked really well where you used AI to get a base idea, then used your own artistic skills to build on top of that. This could easily just also be a tool to help an artist in a rut that just doesn't know where to start a project. A blend of AI and Reality this way I feel is great. Now...imagine if this could be done for VR/AR and combined with a program like Tilt Brush? I wonder how that would workout.

Jazza! Jazza! Jazza! I literally am so excited everyday to see if you upload

This art is neat but I fear it'll deter the actual artist who draws from ever trying to improve. Instead just type things out and boom the computer does it for you.

I really liked the third option at 10:35! That one is so fun!

Actually kind of like what Jazza ended up with his potted plant Pokémon, looks very cute and can see it fitting in the world. Can imagine the first two forms being found in gardens and green houses, posing as regular plants sitting on desks and hanging from archways. Can see the third being out on mansion grounds hiding among various foliagecovered sculptures and hedges, staying completely still, surprising unsuspecting trainers wandering too close thinking it a mere work of art. As for evolving, can see the first time being at a certain level, with the second time requiring a sun stone or something. So yeah, wouldn’t mind seeing this thing in the game, would definitely catch it.

You should’ve used OpenAI’s Playground text generator to come up with the names too. EDIT: describing your Pokémon, I tried it and got Pottle, Willywort and Vinegaroon. Oh, you should use the text generator to come up with the art prompts for a new video.

Just a reminder that after around your first 50 prompts from Dall-E, it cost $15 for more credits.

@Jazza hows it going? Been loving all of ur content recently. Just wanted to say i appreciate ur effort and stuff. Thx man!

It’s funny watching you and your brother, Shad, play with AI art. You both get pretty excited and amused by the results.

The only problematic thing i see here, and we at our school of arts and design are discussing, is prompting things „in the style of someone. When your style is your identity and the way you earn your living. I see it as very problematic that people just type in words to copy your style. Escpecially when you never gave the platform permission to use your art in the first place. 🤷🏻‍♂️ But i still love the idea of having AI as sort of some Idea generator. :)

These came out really cool! I'm a bit torn on the ai art subject. On one hand it's insanely cool what you can achieve and I think personally I might end up using it for inspiration or trying out compositions for my own artworks but on the other hand I feel like it might end up watering down the art community and degrade the worth of original art even more. What I mean by that is that in general people don't appreciate og art already when it comes to actually paying for a commission etc and with these tools you just need a few prompts and basically no money or effort. I also see a big problem coming up with scammers pretending they actually painted an ai piece themselves.

This was just so good and that's awesome

I could legit watch hours of this style of video Jazza. I was even able to get friends who don't care for art to check this out!

As a graphic designer and illustrator, I also feel inspired by AI's drawing/creative talents as I still believe our own human creativity is being utilised within the prompts given. I feel that there will always be a place for our own creativity to blossom and be admired.

This is so cool! Please make a fire line and a water line from your other mons!

Great video! Loved this.

I think the AI art is cool, I figure it'll be used for the type of art you buy at a chain store. I think there will always be a place for artists, especially when people want something that's truly one of a kind

Oh my gosh jazza! These are beautiful!! This is the turning point for me…. I have thought before the AI programs and art creation softwares were ok if not bad. But this has shown me a new world of possibilities and I just have to say I am excited for this even though there are implications and things that must be worked out. I think this was very eye opening and I am thankful! This light hearted video has changed my perspective wildly! Love your videos and the new channel is super cool I can’t wait to see where you go with all this ❤❤

omg i loved this!!! they're all so cute :D

YOLO jazz I love your stuff you inspired me to start drawing more

AI art will replace a big chunk of the clip art/stock image usage and also a considerable chunk of the market for professional illustrators. It will also be used as a tool for professional illustrators to reduce the time spent (and thereby the cost) creating art and the illustrator will use both text prompts and draw graphic prompts, and then retouch the AI produced images to fit the requirement better. There will be produced vastly more images specifically for one purpose, and by using AI combined with skills to adjust and fix the images, illustrators will still have quite a bit of work. AI will be integrated into art programs like Photoshop, both with text prompts, image prompts and as magic brushes/filters. I think that is a fairly short term prediction, and I don't think it is a wild prediction. How it will change longterm is harder to say, but it is obvious that AI art will also enter the video market.

Honestly, I appreciate your very pragmatic take here. It‘s happening… if we like it or not, but this stuff is the future. So, we better come to terms with it. I like these videos. I think it‘s great what you‘re doing and I‘m not angry or disappointed that you‘re doing this. I actually think it‘s a lot of fun! However: I also have to say that it‘s a development I don‘t like fully. What bothers me is that there are entire industries who will now simply stop using actual artists and just start using this stuff. Videogames and movies especially. There is just no point in hiring concept artists, when you can just use these tools. They give you hundreds of options that you can change and adjust, and all of it in a very short period of time and for cheap. You‘ll just be ham-stringing yourself, if you hire actual artists in the future, instead of just using these tools. And that really, really hurts. Again, I get that it‘s coming and we simply have to accept it. But it still kinda sucks…

Love this Concept!!

One point would be how much time is spent on the development of the concept sketch with AI and Traditional respectively. But also how to apply it when you work on something like a comic book or similar when you need a larger sense of consistency while still coming up with something new.

I kinda prefer it when you just draw stuff yourself , it’s more interesting for me.. not really bothered about what a computer can do

my motivation to make art dropped down to 0 lol

Hi I love your art it is very good. Keep up the good work 👍🏻👍🏻.

I think AI has its place. For the low-budget average person who wants to see their ideas visually represented but don't have the talent to draw themselves or have the money to commission someone, sure. But you demonstrated how professional artists will always have a place with how long you struggled to get what you were envisioning. AI prompts can only do so much, but talking and conversing with someone you can explain to will always win out. People will use commission artists to get exactly what they want and will be able to do minor tweaks to fit their vision. Studios and companies will still need professional artists for that one-on-one to get the product made in a timely manner . Whenever something goes digital or automated, there is always the backlash that it's going to take away jobs. But that isn't always the fact. The human factor is always needed and sometimes the human touch is what's needed to make something better. Apologies for the ramble.😉

It would be interesting to see what an artist you work with would come up with in the same amount of time with the basic prompts you had in the beginning.

I am a bit split on AI... yes, it is a great tool for creative people, it can help to fast visualize things that are in your head but you just need a bit more reference to shape them out. AI can help with that. Or if you are making up some media project just for fun and need illustrations for environment but you suck at drawing backgrounds - AI can help with that. I am fascinated of DALL-E2, it is fun. BUT: I see it as a big disruption and I would not mind if it was stopped for good. Why? Because it will kill the wages for creative jobs. For a lot of corporate nuts those AI images (even if they are just average) are good enough. Why paying a real human if AI does it for free? Then there is the problem that it just can emulate styles that are already there (Miyazaki, Picasso, etc.). Or at least people will make it do that. I wonder if we ever are going to see new art styles if everything is done by AI soon... The content recycling is already too bad - even with humans! Let's just think for a minute about the topic: WHY is this kind of AI even created? What is the purpose? Why are a ton of programmers busy building things like an art AI instead of something "more useful for humanity"? Art at its basic used to be a thing for people to express themselves. Do they want to stop that? Or is it just the good old "we want to save money by destroying or at least devalueing another job category"? I would like to see one of those programmers and ask: Really, what were you thinking??

thats insane! very creepy how easy it is now

This is just wonderful!

The takeaway I get from this is this: Regardless of the art being made with AI or by an actual artist, the weak point in the process is the person providing the prompt. If the commissioner doesn't word their prompt well, the AI results will be less than stellar. This is when the intuition of a skilled artist has a better chance of beating AI.

This absolutely isn't me watching Jazza before going to bed in Germany at 4:30am lol

I love how pocotta and plagro are both the exact same size and weight😂

"You opponent's Active Pokémon is no Burned."

That Pocotta should definitely have been called "Pottish" it's just a terracotta Oddish lol

the main issue I've seen with ai art that I actually agree with is not the risk of it putting artists out of business. I don't think that is going to happen. The big issue I see with it is that the images used for the training data were used without permission from the artists, when those artists are supposed to have control over how their images are used. because ai can then be used to imitate an artist's style, or even plagiarize their artworks in some cases, means that even though the exact piece might not be a pixel-for-pixel match with any existing piece of artwork, it could still be close enough to be passed off as such. there is a reason why counterfeit art is considered illegal, and ai art has the potential to run into those same sorts of issues.

Can you do more of this series with every single type of Pokémon, that would be great

10:34 third ai art from the left side going right, and also because it’s going by quickly I would also like to say it’s the last time he says prompt, that this is adorable

I would hate this new AI development if it wasn’t for you putting a good spin on it. These videos actually help me to have a more positive outlook on the future of art. Thank you.

So you spent how many hours trying to get these done? A skilled artist as you could've probably created something way more specific and beautiful if you had just spent those hours drawing.

Loved this video!!

I love this! I would pick your Pokémon as a starter.

It would be cool if most of these softwares weren´t using copyrighted work without permission... I mean the biggest red flag should be that it needs a specific style by a specific artist to emulate in order to work decently. I feel saddened to see that all this has done is bring out people who feel entitled to art but undervalue artists to the point of searching for ways of removing them from the equation. Hope the laws around this tech get updated. Raw Ai generated images should not be allowed to be used for profit.

im glad you help us make better prompts too

Cool results! I’m curious how many hours it took to create prompts for these. It looks like an involved process.

It would be cool to see you try to make evolution lines for the rest of your starter pokemon.

You accurately showed both the frustrating aspects of creating AI art as well as the satisfying part. Writing a good prompt is not always easy. And… a prompt that works well in one program often does not work well in another. Which leads to lots of frustration, especially if you are trying to match specifics that you have in mind. All those images looked really cool, but they were not matching your vision. It took you many generations, dealing with the inherent randomness of the process that is always working against your attempts a specificity. It was impressive that you were able to get something satisfying by using the inpainting and outpainting features and not pulling pieces and parts into Photoshop.

One thing that grinds my gear with Ai generated art is that it could be really good with a little bit of tweaking, like just taking the image to photoshop and correcting some of the details and mistakes the program got wrong and you could have a solid piece of art, but ppl that generate AI images and post them as their «art » (or even sell it on like stock pictures websites and such ) rarely go the extra mile and all of the thing they post are always janky and uncanny when you look closely

13:52 You *just* explained why so many struggling artists are afraid/sad about these AI art programs... Greedy companies everywhere will replace all art jobs with this AI as soon as they are able to.

Do a whole generation like this!! ❤🎉

Love you and your channel always 💕

"There will always be a space for artist" What space will that be? And how small will that space become? Will that space still feel rewarding? Still provide that spark of joy from showing someone an image you've created? Or will artist just become factory workers, pumping out pieces to feed into AI. AI is a Genie gorged on stolen work that non artist are all too happy to embrace, because it gets them what they want without any of the downsides. I think it is the duty of those artist with a voice to defend against this AI incursion, and not to down play it's very real impact. It is already crowding out artist in the commission and design field. You yourself used it to not have to pay a concept artist. Will it take someone making an AI art channel named Jazzai before you realize the dangers?

Jazza makes me relax a bit with the whole "AI is taking over" thing It should be used as a tool just the same as photoshop overlays/layer edits or specialty brushes (get Jazza's ULTIMATE BRUSH SET (not sponsored)). They're not cheats, they're tools; except this one is VERY powerful and we as artists shouldn't be afraid to adapt

Ignitch, ignition match pokemon. Names it "Ingitch."

Love your videos! Always a pleasure to watch💛

I like how everyone in the comments is in denial, trying to convince themselves that AI can’t take their jobs. I used to think AI could never be good enough to do that, but after seeing this, yeah no we’re done for. AI can do a better job than most of us, and most people don’t care about it being “human” when buying art, they just want it to look good. In fact, I just found out people called “prompt engineers” have been popping up, they’re professional prompt writers who are good at finding the best AI art for people, and they obviously work much faster than actual artists. Now tell me who you think customers would go to 😂

I have been working with a client on his website art for a week now and have invested a few hours into sketches and communication. Today he told me he has decided to use an AI to make his website art instead, because that is way cheaper. This stuff is scary. And I don‘t know what is gonna happen to us artists…

By the way, if you want to try this out then prepare to either wait for a really long time or spend a bunch of money, because you need credits in order to use the AI. You get 50 free credits when you start and 15 credits after every month. I haven't gotten the results I wanted because I thought it was all free, and I don't plan on buying credits any time soon, but I think I have several images for reference anyway.

these are somehow the best pokemon fan-names I've ever seen!!!

This is so cool! The names could use some AI help 🤣

The fact that you can change so much by just swapping the prompt makes me think of this as a novel art medium rather than as an artist replacement.

I love the you misspelled your own new Pokémon, Ignitch

Please do this again! Do it 10 more times! Do it 20! I don’t care I just want more this is so enjoyable to watch.

I'm honestly excited about AI art. I have a tough time drawing certain things, and having AI to do it for me is definitely helpful. Like backgrounds!