This is the product of the time. I'm old enough to remember digital painting, 3D CGI, and digital matte painting/photobashing being fought and ridiculed as cheating or impure. Not old enough to remember this about cameras, audio recording, and synths, but you can be sure they also were met with this.
> I recently started learning Blender, texturing, drawing
You make the end result, not the tool. Your message and rigorous execution is what matters. Of course you'll need the skill in visual arts and enough discipline for the attention to detail to be able to make something worthy, the tool alone won't supply all that for you, but diving into the established area helps a lot. As well as having the message to tell.
And of course you won't be able to create anything interesting using AI alone, just yet - it doesn't pass the quality bar, you'll be using it as a shortcut in certain steps.
> This is the product of the time. I'm old enough to remember digital painting, 3D CGI, and digital matte painting/photobashing being fought and ridiculed as cheating or impure. Not old enough to remember this about cameras, audio recording, and synths, but you can be sure they also were met with this.
Very good point, thanks. I need to think on this more.
This is the product of the time. I'm old enough to remember digital painting, 3D CGI, and digital matte painting/photobashing being fought and ridiculed as cheating or impure. Not old enough to remember this about cameras, audio recording, and synths, but you can be sure they also were met with this.
> I recently started learning Blender, texturing, drawing
You make the end result, not the tool. Your message and rigorous execution is what matters. Of course you'll need the skill in visual arts and enough discipline for the attention to detail to be able to make something worthy, the tool alone won't supply all that for you, but diving into the established area helps a lot. As well as having the message to tell.
And of course you won't be able to create anything interesting using AI alone, just yet - it doesn't pass the quality bar, you'll be using it as a shortcut in certain steps.