I’m an illustrator and graphic designer. I’m excited for Ai. We designers are already curators. At my current job, I use shutterstock to find images that I need. Shutterstock helps me finish a collection in 1 week vs. 4 weeks if I had to illustrate everything myself. Hence, I can easily see a designer using Ai to generate images to help them finish the job. Unfortunately, this is going to consolidate the designer jobs out there even more. When I use an image on shutterstock, the artist gets paid. With Ai, nobody gets paid. Ai is inevitable, so we have to start brainstorming now

@DaveConrey

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Brilliant perspective.

Let's have a conversation about this, but please be respectful of others' opinions. I'm eager to hear what you think.

Hah, my dad was a typesetter in his teens. When that job went away he became a tech for a TV station starting with the giant analogue machines and eventually leaning the computerized systems. From typesetter to digital signals he was always in the news business which was his true passion. For myself, I intend to embrace this new tool, learn what they can't do and then see if I can go beyond what it churns out.

@DaveConrey

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Agreed, I've always dabbled in new tech just so I can stay relatively aware and conscious of what's coming... and the tech is growing so fast right now, it's almost hard to keep up.

I think it has it's limited place. As a musician, I like to use it as temporary placeholder album art when I'm exporting an mp3 of a work in progress or sharing with a friend. For a real release, I'd make my own art for it, but its nice for a quick fix so the mp3 isn't visually blank.

@DaveConrey

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👍👍👍

I gotta admit I was on board the hating train at first. until I got accepted into the midijourney beta. I was in a massive art block for months. But than I can see tools like this help people who are into art blocks. It actually helped gained me ideas to losely get ideas from and now I'm back into making my own pieces yet again. I also can think these new tools can help speed up process for stuff like films in the art-concept department. In order to speed up the process a bit.

@DaveConrey

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Yeah, I agree. It's great for generating new ideas to implement in other places.

I can relate to your typesetter reference Dave and it was exciting to grow and move into computer g/design. I think while AI tools are exciting there is a more significant element to creating art - intuition, creating from your heart/within. To me it's not only our brain/thinking/intelligence and the tools. The intuitive element is what makes our art unique and it's easily overshadowed by all else - especially today. I also think we must be mindful not to lose sight of the real world we live in and remember how wonderful it is to experience it through all our senses.

@DaveConrey

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For the sake of due diligence, I've been experimenting more with it and I think I want to do a video about that deeper dive and how I think about the process as an artist and designer.

I have found it to be really useful for getting ideas for say visuals when sketching plus cutting elements of the image and using in photoshop. You can never hold back technology and it only ever gets better so you might as well embrace it.

@DaveConrey

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Same here.

I think it will be a great new tool to add to our list of tools, like Canva, Kittl, Creative Market, Gimp, Inkscape, Affinity. Without us, it ain't creatin nothin. You can use it to create all or part of your work. Where ever you might need help. It's a TOOL folks.

@DaveConrey

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Agreed.

AI...I think it can be used to benefit or enhance your designs. Might seem like a strange concept but it is sort of like how I use Canva to quickly generate some quick design ideas. Then if I like what I come up with I spend more time on concepts I like and want to use. Changing images, making it my own. This part of my design flow. I think AI for the time being is a great way to experiment quickly or enhance ideas you already have. But similar to what Dave said in his video, I believe the creative behind the work is what gives the art soul, not the software or tools you use. A master craftsman is well a master because of the work they do.

@DaveConrey

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I agree. I've used some elements to add to my work just because they can generate a visual element quicker and better than I can, but I still manipulate them extensively.

I was wondering where you had been and here you are bringing up the latest on how the starving art is fearing the worse. It is interesting but I wonder if the AI wouldn't also bring up, 'someone else already produced this' pop up and what about copy laws? When I go over to Europe I see all these street art sellers and they all are selling printed copies of photoshop images claiming to be theirs and selling them at a premium so I see this just as adding to that. Looking forward to seeing the effects of it next year, 3yrs and 5yrs from now.

@DaveConrey

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I had a video for last week... except there was zero audio. So I scrapped it. I think it will be some time before the laws catch up to what's happening now with A.I., but I do anticipate some legislation happening in the future that will but some constraint on it. However, that will depend on the country where the "artist" is located.

@l0rdcroissant

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@@DaveConrey NOOOOOOOOO falls to his knees, NOOOO AUDIO lol. true and especially the countries too. it will be interesting how they will handle this.

I mean what is the difference between this and using Photoshop actions? It's just using another tool to make art. And in the end the artist using it still has to fine tune or choose options to make the art work in a proper way.

@DaveConrey

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that's a fair way to look at it.

Excellent thoughts. a small example of computer “getting smarter” I remember being a wiz with the pen tool in illustrator - vectorizing mad man. Then auto tracing came along a gets better every year. I still use my pen tool everyday but I had to broaden my toolset as an illustrator and a designer. Hello motion. Hello 3D

@DaveConrey

Жыл бұрын

I was talking with someone this weekend about a project that Meta just announced, yet to be published, and it's going to change how video art is made. It's bananananananananas!

My use case for this thing would be... More accurate stock images!

@DaveConrey

Жыл бұрын

That’s a decent idea.

Midjourney is fabulously fun. :) However, as you said it's not "perfect" so it's more of a tool than a replacement. It's super helpful for creating textures, and useful for underpaintings for illustrations, or a good jumping point for photoshop.

@DaveConrey

Жыл бұрын

I agree. I do know they are about to release a new render engine soon, so things make get significantly better soon. We'll see.

Dunno. Clip and stock art has always been around too.

@DaveConrey

Жыл бұрын

But clip art and stock doesn’t get smarter over time.

Great video. I wholeheartedly agree. Its a great tool, it's inevitable, and it doesn't have to replace our own human artistry. We humans will find a million inventive ways to use it thanks to our own style and imagination.

@DaveConrey

Жыл бұрын

I agree, thanks for watching.

idk I just feel it will oversaturate it's own market due to the little effort it takes to make it

@DaveConrey

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I think this is true to an extent, and there will be some imagery homogenization. I already see it happening, where compositions from different yet similar prompts tend to look the same. It takes a lot of work to stick with the process and generate something unique, but I can see it being used to support other work as an add-on, or something built upon after the fact.

I think AI is cool. But I think you hit it on the head with using it to inspire your own art and style. Right now it feels very AI and a little redundant. I can’t wait to see how people use it in the future though.

@DaveConrey

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I've been using it to build elements that I assemble to make something even cooler.

It's using a stolen content, including mine, yours and everyone else who's images are published on the internet.

@DaveConrey

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Some would say it's adaptation, like Warhol's interpretation of Marilyn Monroe or Elvis Presley.

@Plrang

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@@DaveConrey I don't think you'd like your work created for a specific market - adapted, and used to take over your payout. I see my COMMERCIAL illustrations used by those bots, I see that in their data sets, and can easily recognize in the "finished" piece. No one asked me, no one paid.

@Beyondarmonia

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Fair use