Is AI the END of Blender 3D Artists? 

A major source of employment in the USA is truck driving. Now they're developing driverless trucks. Those truck drivers, like coal miners, will be getting told 'learn to code'. Then AI will render coders obsolete. See the metaphor? One podcast team I follow used an artist each week to produce the issue art for Spotify etc and now they're using AI generated art and have ditched the artist because it's way cheaper to use the AI. It's incredibly naïve to think the people pushing this are doing it for your benefit. They're not and they don't care about the impact on the rest of us. Every disruptive technology has displaced often large numbers of people from their jobs. But there was always the room to adapt and for new types of jobs to be created. That is NOT what the intent is here. The intent is to replace, not augment. *And with the advent of AI, new types of jobs won't be created because if we allow it, AI will ultimately occupy ALL jobs.* Of course people like me who say this get called regressive, technophobes, choose the insult. Nobody wants to hear it. They think it's just the conspiracy theory of luddites. And yet here we are, at a time when attempts are being made to replicate human creativity, with very few people asking why. The answers are smoke screens or self-deception. As more and more of human ability is being replaced, the explanations require more and more pretzel logic to justify. It's part of this weird idea that all 'progress' is good. It really isn't. This is a society with knowledge yet no wisdom. So many said "Oh AI won't ever be able to do art." And now? Yeah right now it sourcing human's art, but in another ten years or far sooner, when it can create its own? When everything can be done better and faster by AI, will the fools come and tell you how progress is always good? The creator of this video clip just told you he thinks concept artists will soon be gone. The rich will benefit from this, not us, as is always the case and always the trajectory we've been on.

I have used AI, but the more I look into it and hear about them the less I think these are created with artist in mind. They seem to view art purely as a Product rather than a process, as the emphasis has always been about the final render rather than stream lining the overall process. Plus with their method of scrapping the internet for their 'tools' as opposed to an opt in approach that has been warranted to musician. It really speaks volumes to how the developers view the value of Artists works. So although I have no problem with say upscaling tools or ai framerate interpolation for example. The image generators, although could and should have been limited as reference tools, do not serve artists but are a clear attempt to replace.

There's a certain type of artist that will lose a lot of money because of this stuff. Like ones who create logos for small business websites. They're toast - not because it can replace them - but because people will have a very cheap option, which puts a significant dent in the market. Blender artists have nothing to worry about. Animators will be top job in 3D industry.

I want AI do the retopology and basic textures for me. Turn texture seamless or blend well on the seams of the character. All that chore like task that I think most artists would not miss as a job. Id also love to see AI help with accurate programming, making suggestions so I wouldn't have to go online spending weeks to find the right formula/script

I just use these ai generators for inspirations, beyond that feels wrong for me

I think AI is great for getting certain references or ideas, or just for fun. But you can't necessarily be specific about poses and all angles, to my knowledge. I also don't want to see the majority of artisans become "art directors".

Could you make a tutorial for your wood material that you use in your characters

Imo, there will ALWAYS be a market for almost anything human-made. Including art and models.

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Any musician that looks at what music is in the charts at the moment has seen how sampling took over and the amount of what is popular today is recycled and reused. Seems like art is going a similar direction. If it’s easier and quicker then it will take some business but not all of it.

Indeed the creatives have absolutely nothing to fear because they do not depend on any precise technique! People who use the tools in a purely technical way or who "rest" on a technique without evolving it can worry about their future in the graphic and visual field. It's been like this since the dawn of time ;-) There will therefore always be people who are worried because they know the limits of their imagination and competence. It is recognized that the older you are, the more difficult it is to evolve because you have settled into exploiting a niche of work that you master. It is true that the evolution of techniques allows this less and less and that we find ourselves having to constantly evolve. This is an important parameter to consider which is part of the new era that we are beginning where the generations who have known the traumas of the last two world wars believed they were building a new sustainable world frozen in a relative comfort of linear global evolution. A large majority of us have inherited this state of mind and are not ready to profoundly revolutionize the way we operate and live! Between the wars (sudden and uncomfortable evolutions) financial, political, technical, ideological and cultural which arrive, it will be necessary to show great capacities of adaptations ;-)

That's a cute moth. Do you have a tutorial on it?

AI art is obviously a tough discussion because no one can know for sure what will happen. However, I want to assure people that 3D Art and human art in general will never go away as long as we exist. If you find what you do fulfilling, continue to practice it. I personally have little to no interest in using AI to outsource all my creativity. Of course, it can be very useful in specific use cases where I would have been downloading other peoples stock textures or images, but when it’s used to generate the entire scene, what is the point anymore? So from a career perspective, if you feel the same as I do, we’re going to have to consider whether the new roles will be fulfilling enough for us. If yes, bless your soul. If not, maybe consider a different career and practice your art on the side. I will note that digital artists with years of experience still have quite the advantage over newbies. You can sense when something is wrong and manually fix it, or add insane manual edits to AI in the software you’re familiar with. So while the noobs with AI image gens may flood the field, the most sought after Artists will still be those who know how to correct and add to AI art in both objective and creative ways.

As someone who makes 3d short films with little to no budget, these AI tools will be and to some extent already have been a game changer for me. I think the more these tools evolve, the more people like me will be able to tell more complex and interesting stories through their RU-vid channels. I'm really excited for the near future 😃

The Art AI is now an 'artist' and those who use it are the clients. Strictly speaking, those who use Art AI fully and not just for reference are clients or customers. I think there is enough room for both.

I am a 2D artist and with recent events, I thought I should enter the 3D field. There seems to be different specialties and I don't know what to chose and learn.

Sadly big companies find a sweetspot for the quality that general public finds acceptable and after that it's not about investing more resources into making the final product better but to increase the profits either by more aggressive sales or lay offs of staff. AI will benefit more indie developers so they make more for less but it will also oversaturate the market and in case of indie games these small projects will be competing in a oversaturated market for time of players that would rather spend that time playing a AAA game than look for a indie game with potential. In a different case, if AAA companies keep their current staff and focus on producing more games faster the indie games would be overshadowed and the higher influx of indie games wouldn't matter. This tech gives more possibilites to small companies but in the end big Tech wins.

What a great video! ❤

I pivoted and accepted a new tool in to my pipeline; now I'm in the Emergency Room and the staff are trying not to giggle.

I think the main question we should be asking is, How does this affect Lebron's legacy?

I'm sure you're on a nice vacation right now and let AI generate this video for us 😅😅

I love your content Shotty, but I think you missed the mark here. I'm stealing this example here, but let's think about horses. Horses, back in the 19th century, were a very commonly used way to get around. Several technological innovations made horses less likely needed in certain industries (think about how trains made the pony express obsolete). But when the first cars came out, the population of horses rapidly decreased, because there really wasn't a need for them anymore. I think that's what this AI art revolution is going to do to just that to all art professions as a whole. These tools aren't marketed as an enhancement to the artist or a tool that they can use, it's marketed as a replacement. One that doesn't take as much time, or needs sleep or time to brain storm, just one that performs the exact job that you want it to do. I understand the perspective that humans are better at telling stories, but as many people have said, art we make and stories we tell are more often then not amalgamations of things we've perceived in our lives combined with a few good chemical reactions inside the brain. And even if AI can't simulate genuine creativity, it can definitely simulate chemical reactions inside the brain and spit out an image that has some kind of meaning. I know that this comment is a bit of a downer, but I think that we really should be A LOT more cautious of this new technology then we currently are.

One exchange comes with opportunity?

GREAT VIDEO! love what you said! very optimistic :) #subscribed

Blender is rendering a picture file of 5040x1200 as a movie in version 2.83. I tried rendering in different versions 2.93 - 3.3 but it didn't work. I hope this part will be delivered to the developing team. It's rendered at 2.9 but not at 5040 this resolution.

Why everyone just stuck to the 3d not other fields

What about now?

Its all about improvising then.

There's a great video by *Steven Zapata* on this topic too. 🙌🏾 Highly recommended it

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The question is: are clients willing to take a risk and use art based on copyrighted images? To me it smells like a huge headache...

AI is a clunky, inferior version of a powerful tool you already process: your mind. 🤔 Creative imagination is light years ahead. Feed it with the images & ideas that you love, let them sink in, stir the stew once in a while…and doodle like crazy. Good things will pop out sooner or later, and you will refine them into a work of genius. The greatest fringe benefit is that you will be an artist…rather than merely a clever machine operator. The machine is in your head. (Hippy wisdom from an old man.) ✌️☕️🎩🎩🎩

You use the example of an editor being threatened by new digital editing but that's not comparable to us because although the way they worked changed they still had work. AI is designed to end the work for artist. FYI I think that if AI could do a job better than an artist than all means do it. At the end of the day. AI will allow more people to be able to do art and if you spend decades learning Blender that sucks but in general good for everyone else.

Any time new tools have become available to make art creation easier the result has been more art and more jobs, not less.

At some point a film will by possible by suggesting a prompt, pushing a button, making a cup of tea, and then watching the movie. Movies will have an audience of 1 or 2 or however many friends decide to throw out the prompt to the ai and then sit back and watch. When do we think the ai companies will be required by law to create ai consumers to buy surplus ai content to justify the oversaturated market of everything ai will create? If there's an audience of paying ai bots, then those couch potatoes who 'made' the movie can make royalties! What an odd economy that would be!

I think the flaw in this argument is that in the past when a technology made someone obsolete then the new technology employed humans, the problem with ai is there is no human involvement. ( unless you count typing in a few words) .

These are fun tools for now but within five years creativity will be obsolete and infinite amount of high fidelity art will be created