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It looks like AI generated art will be a huge boon for the indie games. Midjourney can definitely lower concept art costs by 5% to 20% as it stands. Neverthele

It looks like AI generated art will be a huge boon for the indie games. Midjourney can definitely lower concept art costs by 5% to 20% as it stands. Nevertheless, AI generated art currently can’t fully eliminate real concept artists.

hackernewds 4y ago
the obvious disconnect to me has been that we compare DALLE and midjourney results to what we human-generated art used to look like on earlier Unreal Engine. This is what human generated art looks like now: https://youtu.be/JXrWPLNp9tw https://youtu.be/JXrWPLNp9tw
- hombre_fatal 4y ago
  Well, as TFA and the comment you replied to point out, the bar for AI-generated art isn't to compete with top-tier human talent. There are many other use-cases. Seems like you meant to reply to a comment that claimed otherwise.
- ZeroGravitas 4y ago
  Ed Catmull made this animated hand in 1972: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAhyBfLFyNA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAhyBfLFyNA Would anyone in 1972, even Ed Catmull himself, be able to imagine the Youtube video you linked, broadcast globally, for free. I think these tools are going to be big, but I feel the whole AI thing actually detracts from it. I'd rather think of it like tracing paper or photography than as a replacement for artists.
nmfisher 4y ago
> Midjourney can definitely lower concept art costs by 5% to 20% as it stands. I'm not sure that's even true either. After playing with Midjourney myself, it feels like the most aesthetically pleasing outputs regularly fall within a certain range of styles/prompts/hues ("hyper-realistic", "sci-fi", saturated neon orange/blue/red, etc). Getting consistency across prompts is also a big problem. If everyone's using Midjourney to generate concept art, everyone's concept art ends up looking the same. At that point, you're presumably back to human artists (though maybe using generated art for inspiration).
- astrange 4y ago
  Midjourney has a very strong house style they apply to all images - it always looks vaguely cyberpunk and more or less only has one face. You can change it by turning down their style parameter and then forcing it off to another part of latent space with the right prompt words, and it kind of helps. The aspect ratio flexibility then makes it more interesting than other models currently out there.

hackernewds 4y ago

the obvious disconnect to me has been that we compare DALLE and midjourney results to what we human-generated art used to look like on earlier Unreal Engine. This is what human generated art looks like now: https://youtu.be/JXrWPLNp9tw https://youtu.be/JXrWPLNp9tw

hombre_fatal 4y ago
Well, as TFA and the comment you replied to point out, the bar for AI-generated art isn't to compete with top-tier human talent. There are many other use-cases. Seems like you meant to reply to a comment that claimed otherwise.
ZeroGravitas 4y ago
Ed Catmull made this animated hand in 1972: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAhyBfLFyNA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAhyBfLFyNA Would anyone in 1972, even Ed Catmull himself, be able to imagine the Youtube video you linked, broadcast globally, for free. I think these tools are going to be big, but I feel the whole AI thing actually detracts from it. I'd rather think of it like tracing paper or photography than as a replacement for artists.

nmfisher 4y ago

> Midjourney can definitely lower concept art costs by 5% to 20% as it stands. I'm not sure that's even true either. After playing with Midjourney myself, it feels like the most aesthetically pleasing outputs regularly fall within a certain range of styles/prompts/hues ("hyper-realistic", "sci-fi", saturated neon orange/blue/red, etc). Getting consistency across prompts is also a big problem. If everyone's using Midjourney to generate concept art, everyone's concept art ends up looking the same. At that point, you're presumably back to human artists (though maybe using generated art for inspiration).

astrange 4y ago
Midjourney has a very strong house style they apply to all images - it always looks vaguely cyberpunk and more or less only has one face. You can change it by turning down their style parameter and then forcing it off to another part of latent space with the right prompt words, and it kind of helps. The aspect ratio flexibility then makes it more interesting than other models currently out there.