I Tried MidJourney to create 2D Assets for Game in Unity

[@AlexNichiporchik]

6 years ago I was at a conference where people were saying "you'll be able to tell a plugin that you want a cat, in this style, animated to do these things, and have these parameters -- and then simply import it into your game scene". I thought it was crazy. Today is crazy. We are at a breaking point where lots of interactive development is going to be completely revolutionized. This is the industrial revolution of the digital age.

[@devm585]

and this is the best thing, because you can put more effort for inventiveness than developing knowledges

[@TheFormActually]

RIP game art and game artists.

[@Verttigo1982]

​@@TheFormActually Not at all. The output is impressive and AI is here to stay. But still, a bunch of pretty but disconnected elements. Character animation is poor. Think of AI as a very powerful tool.

[@Verttigo1982]

​@@TheFormActually Not at all. The output is impressive and AI is here to stay. But still, a bunch of pretty but disconnected elements. Character animation is poor. Think of AI as a very powerful tool.

[@eusougabriel2]

@@Verttigo1982 soon the IA will able to generate good animations too, search about the animation generator of nvidia

[@MoozeGuy]

I would love more videos on this! I want to try and use this for an ARPG game and have yet been successful on how to achieve this with midjourney, mainly having a problem getting a character into the game. Again would be awesome to see and im so happy to have found your channel!

[@TheIllusionRecords]

same! I've been trying so hard to get my ARPG to work using midjourney but I am struggling with characters

[@alexkukoba]

is there any news about ur game?

[@o.t.bharmonylimited1277]

Really I wanted to learn unity ,but the time I have is very little ,being jobless and age is very hurting and stress I go through is very high. I tried many tutorials ,and all I got in my recommendation was brackers , channels. It's very old video and that dude says things so difficult. I just came to know bing AI can create pictures so I played around . I have an idea on sprite but never understand it. Your 12:47 minutes of video is worth of gold. It's easy super easy. Simple. I know little bit of photos editing terminology. So i cleary now understand what sprite is and how actually make an game assets ,nobody every showed the Photoshop thing and also rigging part. Thankyou so much sir. You are wonderful

[@BinaryLunar]

You are most welcome, glad to hear it was useful.

[@rodrigoidalino9228]

As a lot of people said, it's good for prototyping... An art director would be needed at least, to blend all these assets in a cohesive composition, adding depth, adjusting rim lights, thinking about storytelling thru the art elements and so on.

[@phen-themoogle7651]

Until an art director AI exists (trained specifically for making games) or the technology gets more powerful and decides how to make things aesthetically pleasing for a great gaming experience based on other games. Kind of like how they are trying to implement AI into some of these game engines already… probably in less than a year or two you will be able to prompt full games , text to game. Like a professional level game…

[@npcEdwrd]

​@@phen-themoogle7651I think at that point,most jobs that aren't manual labor will be eradicated.

[@visuhall9298]

No , this is perfect and far more better than all the shit you ever did in your pseudo professionnal life.

[@Gunslinger353]

All of that is just basic shit in photoshop you can learn in a 2 minute video tutorial. When you rehash what redditors are saying it doesn't make you seem very intelligent.

[@dervlex4500]

I would recommend the color pick tool at images with this flat background. Then just select the background and mask it. Then mask the rest out. Way easier.

[@BinaryLunar]

Good idea 👍

[@impheris]

yes many coders and non artists are doing that thing for their games, you can also make realistic textures

[@ChristianIce]

The intro music reminds me of what Picards played on the xylophone in the episode with the empath who married the other guy :)

[@mohsenarshad1588]

This is insanely helpful for prototyping, thanks a lot man.🍻

[@BinaryLunar]

You are welcome ^^

[@TheAlienpope]

Definitely useful to quickly prototype something when you want to have a bit more visual fidelity other than simple shapes and colors. To be able to better feel what the game could look like.

[@BinaryLunar]

Exactly 💯

[@ap_po]

when you look at all these indie games which came out the recent years this is a step above the majority of em. i dont see why you cant use this option for a finished product.

[@scarm_rune]

@@ap_po because then "artists" will have to look for jobs

[@janci00019]

@@scarm_rune what is that "" supposed to mean? It is hard, dealing with reality that it alredy stole those jobs. That is why artists are in denial. Artists usually define themselves through their art. It is life style, life goal, expression, many years of hard exercises. Thus, the meaning of life for many. And now it means nothing.

[@ArchSchizo]

@@janci00019 Candlemakers when lightbulbs got invented felt the same way. Artists that see money as the only reason they draw shouldn't be artists, which is who see lashing out. Get that idealistic vision of "artist" out of your head. Same with journalists "always seeking the truth and adhering to their integrity", or politicians always having their voters in mind, or police always protecting us. They SAY that, doesn't mean its true or even common. I see artists on Twitter mock "sandwich-artists" and now they are getting the same philosophy of "what is REAL art?" thrown back at them. Get a real job, if art is your TRUE PASSION you will do it anyway, in your free time, for art's sake. If not, your passion might just be playing games, or watching movies, and nothing is wrong with that. I wash dishes, it's not my ~*~passion~*~ its my job. If I could get paid for something I was doing anyway, that would be a tempting scam.

[@arcclite1144]

"color to alpha" is the easiest way to remove a background IMO. It's a lot easier to fill back in, and handles some of the finer edges for hair/wispy art.

[@justahuman4862]

What about doing a levels adjustment? Desaturate the image and then do that levels adjustment so the white in the background is all white.

[@sicksharkx92]

color to alpha where is this option? has to be written in midjourney or photoshop?

[@PhilippLenssen]

Thanks for making this available! I also shared it on Twitter. Amazing results you got there!

[@BinaryLunar]

😎

[@gabriellamontez-np7nq]

This is incredible, you explained the process so well😄 Does it take long to generate? I wonder, can I create 2D assests for games in unity using BlueWillow? Please share a beginner friendly tutorial on this next. As a designer who just started using this new tool, I need all the help I can get

[@tomasmartins5009]

Midjourney takes 30sec to 1min to generate 4 examples and about 10 sec to upscale the one you choose

[@codewithguillaume]

very nice mate

[@BinaryLunar]

@codewithguillaume welcome 🙏

[@anthonygibbs9245]

it will be great when they can generate images with transparency

[@hellcat28]

This the video I've looking for all along! Great! That gives me Hope to make my projects

[@BinaryLunar]

Cool , we looking forward for that.

[@politickistav9750]

Amazing! Very well done mate. Thank you. Subbed. God bless you

[@BinaryLunar]

You are most welcome!

[@xs1l3n7x]

I need a tutorial of that running cycle, its of the utmost importance!.

[@atanako8655]

run animation is funny,,,love it

[@navya-s3v]

Pairing SmythOS with MidJourney produces exceptional results, boosting your AI-generated images with unparalleled clarity and flair.#SmythOS

[@random_precision_software]

I walk like that fella when I need a crap lol

[@cuentadeyoutube5903]

This is amazing. I wonder how would one use ai to create something with an original style. Something that was not seen before. Maybe iterating random changes around an idea. I think that’s going to be the next best thing. Content quantity is not going to be that much valued anymore, people will want originality

[@BinaryLunar]

You can start from the initial image that is drawn by you or your artist

[@itzdcx]

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WANT TO DO!!!!😮I want to create my own mobile game

[@BinaryLunar]

Cool, we waiting to see that :D

[@maxinewairimu6478]

You made the process so beginner friendly! I really enjoyed this. What are your views on BlueWillow? Can I use it in this process instead of Midjourney? I just started using the tool and I am interested in learning more about what i can do with it. Please please share an easy step by step tutorial on this new tool too. For this process of creating 2d assets for game in unity. You would be a lifesaver !

[@holdthetruthhostage]

The Future is coming just waiting for AInto pilot Unity

[@toomuchtomato]

I think audiences are going to quickly associate these AI art styles with low quality, asset-flip style games. Because of the ease of use, there will be a high volume of games and art that look like this made by devs who are taking cheap shortcuts in other areas. Devs that put in the hard work of creating appealing art or actually paying an artist will still stand out. Look at the recent game PIZZA TOWER. That shit has a real discernable human touch and it slaps. This raw AI output is kinda an embarrassing look, but that's just my opinion. Maybe other people think this is cool.

[@bidro6018]

You just need better Prompt then you can see magic

[@Walter5850]

Problem is that AI can create any style and it's getting incredibly difficult to differentiate between AI and human-made, at least without proper inspection. Even for an artist like me. There's no single particular style to be associated with this.

[@GarrettPetersen]

Oh yeah, there's going to be a lot of AI shovelware. You'll be able to spot it because every sprite and background will be really detailed and artistic but the parts won't fit together coherently. However, I think we're going to see some brilliant indie games from solo creators using AI art assets.

[@chickenmadness1732]

It literally looks better than the work real artists do. You're smoking lol.

[@lionessy_studios]

As a platformerd dev in middle of development it really scares me. Soon the value of one game with art will go nearly to zero. Well.. i hope i have at least some time until 10000000000 neuro art platformers will be uploaded to steam. It does not happen today, but probably only because of some lag in development and that other devs are normally already in some project. But once the wave will start, who knows how high it will be. I really hope to release until it happens.

[@Raynor666]

Now gameplay first. I`m tired from empty stylish games.

[@chickenmadness1732]

It's literally better than half the games on steam. I'm amazed.

[@BinaryLunar]

Kind of you!

[@BinaryLunar]

Kind of you!

[@legato3067]

Amazing tutorials and work.

[@BinaryLunar]

Kind of you!

[@МаксимПодорогин-п4ы]

very cool! thx

[@BinaryLunar]

Kind of you!

[@jackawaka]

pretty good results, I know they were probably quickly done just for the video but the animations made me laugh

[@mariusirgens5555]

It almost looks better than Rayman 😮 Not the animation maybe, but the trees and foliage looks amazing!

[@ddnguyen278]

Stylistically its too all over the place and too visually dense. In the case of AI art less is more, try pulling back on the over the top details. Also the animations lets it down, so that's something to work on.

[@LaikaBossGames]

The genie has been let out of the bottle. 2D Artists jobs - bye-bye ! 3D Artists - get ready, we are next ! =) Programmers - you still have a couple of years ! Also ! Musicians - you are doomed, sorry =) Composers\ Motion designers - they are coming for you.

[@BinaryLunar]

Scary advancements in a short time

[@willisthewise]

Could you link and example of how musicians are doomed?

[@highlystudio6201]

Photography editing. You'll take pictures with your phone and run them through AI to make them incredible.

[@willlienellson7451]

The marketing: "Eventually AI will take over all the unpleasant jobs and we'll all be free to be authors and musicians"! The product: AI has replaced all authors and musicians and you work at Taco Bell to try to make enough money to buy the latest AI video game.

[@kafel4796]

AI already know how to program, so programmers bye bye, and 3D artist also, new nvidia AI can model 3d objects of prompt text. But you need to know, that AI is generating Art inspired by real artist, so it can copy styles, but is not able to create a whole new style.

[@visualdosage234]

in midjourney u can use the command --tile for seamless textures

[@BinaryLunar]

True, by the date of recording the video, this feature wasn't available in Midjourney 4

[@visualdosage234]

@@BinaryLunar yeah ik :) just letting people know who now see this vid.

[@yokitosyosko]

How about a followup video? maybe AI improved in a way? great vid :)

[@lucasmoreira3237]

Awesome!

[@itplus7]

Thank you for your awesome tutorial. Could u please describe how did u animated the grass and environment?

[@BinaryLunar]

We have another tutorial about that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3zdhqauga9nibc

[@uthinkufree]

Wow awesome

[@burakakay6632]

very good video

[@kimfaiai]

be careful using ai for professional work, it is not protected under copyright

[@habababa123]

Have you tried to use --tile option in midjourney to generate seamless textures?

[@BinaryLunar]

Next video about that ;)

[@易水-w8s]

very good tutorial ,by the way how to make 2d pixel animation use AIGC?:)

[@BinaryLunar]

we have a tutorial about how to do that. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXinap16g6yoack

[@CrescentFreshAtBest]

I like how the AI generated the original stolen artist's signature

[@WhatBeDaPointMon]

It's pretty insane how good it's getting in such a short amount of time. It's difficult to even know at a first glance that it wasn't made by hand. I'm really excited for AI Art in the use of indie games and such, and hopefully the AI coding equivalent gets better too! The more people sharing their imaginative creations the better, really excited to see what people come up with.

[@joukeseinstra1127]

What part of AI is imaginative? That's like saying Steve Jobs is imaginative for telling his employees to make a phone and taking credit for it.

[@ProxCyde]

@@joukeseinstra1127 This argument bothers me because humans essentially do the same thing when they're being "creative". It's all a mix of past inputs.

[@joukeseinstra1127]

​@@ProxCyde There is a difference between chaos and creativity. Hoping for innovation by randomness appears dystopian from my view. Though, to be honest, I think we both knowcan agree that people cannot resist the temptation of a potential holy grail. Let's hope for the best.

[@ProxCyde]

@@joukeseinstra1127 Yeah. But that's where the models come in I suppose. To remove some of that chaos. Here's to hoping anyway, yeah!

[@alixhascour1715]

it s can be as good as humans doing, since it just does what you want. here it s rayman style, so any artist good ad D2 and rayman style could do the same, you also can regenerate and add any details on an already generated img to add more details, sometimes easier to get a base and move forward step by step

[@ksong5589]

wow awesome bro, Is it possible to do an octagonal sprites at the quarter view point like Starcraft 1 or Diablo 2?

[@BinaryLunar]

yes everything is possible

[@ksong5589]

@@BinaryLunar huh? it's real? I tried it but I didnt get the result. Could you make a video about this please?

[@colinhiers353]

Where can I find this version of Stable Diffusion you're using? Thank you for this video, btw!

[@artorius0101]

looks like a asset flip, but with much more steps

[@eqapo]

As an artist, the light source inconsistency really bothers me

[@512Squared]

That's why we still need artists for composition, layout, lighting, detailing, colouring and refining.

[@Raynor666]

@@512Squared Good games about gameplay. Vampire Survivors is a great example.

[@KalponicGames]

how did you animate the grass part of the sprite-shape? Where can I find out how to animate the grass part of the sprite-shape?

[@michelarendt7116]

You could just find a static asset you like and do a VERY simple shader to deform the grass. Probably can do it with 3-5 lines of shader code! I don't use Unity though, so can't help you with a specific shader. Can probably find something easily on asset store or tutorials.

[@defaultHandle1110]

Why not prompt it to make the background bright pink color so you can select it in photoshop?

[@BinaryLunar]

Good idea

[@陳俊宇-v6x]

I trying to use Midjourney in my game, this video is very useful

[@BinaryLunar]

You are welcome 😊

[@rcodev]

Fera demais

[@mayank4156]

I suck at art and A.I is the reason I got back into gamedev. An absolute game changer. 😁

[@Yagizino]

Youre still skilless sorry bub

[@512Squared]

​@@Yagizino clearly you've never tried to make a game - it takes considerable skill well beyond the artistic requirements.

[@insanidee]

@@512Squared Then hire a fucking artist lol

[@mayank4156]

​@@Yagizino Okay. I love you to the moon and back. ❤️

[@aktchungrabanio6467]

@@mayank4156 Love is not the answer.

[@haerulhaerl8446]

i want use stable diffusion too, but i dont how too install it, can you make a video about it, thanks

[@BinaryLunar]

I will consider that

[@Hongamuletindo]

Midjourney free generated image is limited , isnt it?

[@BinaryLunar]

Yes, it has subscriptions.

[@bambangprasetio827]

how do you access the website that makes your pattern seamless? i can't access it really cool video, by the way, I don't even really into game development but you make is so intriguing

[@BeginnerStudioGames]

could you teach move like this video ? making a 2d game with AI art. thanks.

[@BinaryLunar]

There is old video on our channel about that.

[@spider853]

We need an sd model for line art, or a different architecture altogether, sadly sd is not that good with lines..

[@geekpotion]

this is very interesting, and very scary. I'm not an artist and this can help alort, but this will probably help "developers" who want quick money, and create a hell of a lot of crappy games

[@TheRealPostpunker]

thought the same. We will see a renaissance of more trashy "mafia" and "fantasy" bullshit games. It won't ever create a cohesive game to art game as this has to fit together and is more complex than simple prompts. I could see this as a tool to help with creating a feeling. Like a sandbox mode in the beginning of development.

[@thethingthatshouldnotbe5994]

As it is, people already make lots of crappy games. The best games are created by artist that love games...A corporation like EA wont keep that in mind. We got bought off by EA when they were trying to expand their portfolio and they failed.

[@thomashaury6651]

very scary? Less work, more effective, lower barrier to entry = scary. Maybe scary for the tiny percent of dinosaur gameplay artists that refuse to adapt. As for the other 8,000,000,000 people on earth its great.

[@momentomori1747]

@@thomashaury6651 Not to mention the fact that there are so many free game art assets out there that you could create thousands of free games already without ever paying for an AI subscription.

[@clairvoyantcards29]

​@Thomas Haury I already can't consume all the games out there. This is going to cause more games, but so little money per game it won't be worth creating them anymore.

[@random_precision_software]

i dont get the same quality images as other people get, even tho ive type the same text in i got totally different images that wernt any good.. maybe do a tutorial video in AI Images? seems like it going to be big for Game Devs

[@rafaeldicker3644]

Hey, i've got the same issue as you, i rescale my image and its get blurry and pixelated in unity... Do you know how to fix that?

[@random_precision_software]

Not yet 😢

[@Allplussomeminus]

In the hayday of gaming, this wouldn't fly as the lighting is inconsistent across the assets. But nowadays, anything can pass.

[@mighty437]

Like how you get rid of the wired left "AI" hand, just because it is easier to animate now 🤣 i hate the current finger problems

[@ai-man212]

You need to rig a shadow for his feet so they move when he walks.

[@stevenpike7857]

The arms need to be fixed. When runing, when is left arm moves left, his right arm needs to be moving right, and vice versa.

[@BinaryLunar]

True, I did that in few mins just to test things , not for creating pro animation 😅

[@stevenpike7857]

@@BinaryLunar Thanks for the upload. I tried that site too, for pixel art.. it doesn't do too good w/ that.

[@FlotzOnYou]

Awesome video, thanks! Quick question - what is this version of stable diffusion? Can you help me figure it out? 😅

[@CuteGolden]

As a project manager was just curious. May I ask how many working hours you spent on this game?

[@BinaryLunar]

2 days

[@skyz3ra]

It’s not a game just a scene with 2D sprites and a moving character

[@BinaryLunar]

@@skyz3ra that is the definition of game 😃

[@skyz3ra]

@@BinaryLunar ok good luck with that :)

[@chickenmadness1732]

@@skyz3ra You described every 2D platformer lol.

[@orkun441]

share more ai stuff pls . im very interested in this. maybe you can show how to use stable diffusion more

[@BinaryLunar]

Sure might do that or create new channel only for ai topics

[@todorokiamv275]

if an AI does the assets, can't they be used only with a contract?

[@bananacomputer9351]

Why don't you use stable diffusion? I can be depolyed locally

[@BinaryLunar]

Midjourney provides better visual results

[@PreDopeTV]

PSB!? Welp, time to learn a new thing.

[@robertogirardi6861]

thx

[@artthera]

For fellow artists, It looks great. But I have to say this with all the fuss going around about the AI art. It's more like a coloring book for a child rather than a visual piece which communicates on a much subtler and deeper level ( which we used to know as art ). The AI process keeps you entangled and entertained much like an infant who colors a pretty picture. There's nothing wrong with it. Someone can start from there and keep improving themselves to become a real artist. But for all the people who say that AI is the future of art, You should pay more attention to how an artist goes about creating a masterpiece. It's the work of a lifetime. One odd looking brush stroke could inspire a whole genre of art ( Van gogh ) Which is the beauty of humanize touch. AI is just a party trick, Real magic always happen by individuals who commits to their crafts.

[@momentomori1747]

I may have agreed with you before Dada and the modern/contemporary art trends. One of the most famous works of art of the past 150 years or so is a urinal that someone turned on its side, with nothing else done to it. There are also a fair few artists I know whose art consists of literally throwing paint at a canvas. Art serves the purpose of the artist. Sometimes that's making a social or political point. Sometimes it serves as an emotional outlet. Sometimes it's getting an idea out of your head and into the world. Sometimes it's just there to help flesh out your game environment. For game art, AI is fine for creating assets - at least the ones that aren't at the forefront of the game or are just going to be used as placeholders anyway.

[@aktchungrabanio6467]

LMFAO!

[@legato3067]

lool he used chat GPT for that speech...tell the truth

[@yesss5773]

Creating usable Character Sprite Sheets is darn near impossible! Anyone figured out how to get the bot to do a real sprite sheet with separate arms, legs, head and torso so it can be properly rigged?

[@BinaryLunar]

Researching creating a consistent character with StableDiffusion and started reaching good results.

[@legendarydark]

if this is today, imagine the future.

[@picolife]

Dude there is AI in photoshop that can remove the background for you or sites like removebg if your asset is 512px or less

[@Brukrex]

The online background remover is much more efficient.

[@BinaryLunar]

True, I should have used test

[@lawrence9713]

I don't know man. These looking toooo good, almost like they are copied 1 by 1 over from whatever mid ourney was fed with

[@RottenSkull]

@SquaredCircle wrong. it meshes art together

[@RottenSkull]

@SquaredCircle sure. Keep on stealing and scraping from others

[@RottenSkull]

@SquaredCircle sure you do

[@afonsosandbox9236]

I cant see how anyone watches this and thinks it's a good looking game ... the lighting is a different direction on every tree and they all have extremely different shape language and feel to them... the character animation I wont even comment on it XD... only thing that looks nice is the ground and grass texture

[@BinaryLunar]

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[@teagueallen859]

are you running stable diffusion on your computer or from a site?

[@GerXiong-j2n]

Hi, just wonder will that movement script work on the spriteshape slope?

[@Moj206Pejo]

A new world is coming soon. I am sure that artificial intelligence will replace programmers and graphic designers.

[@Twelveoglock1]

Did you also animate the grass? Do you have a tutorial on it?

[@BinaryLunar]

Yes the tutorial in the description

[@twitterglobalarmy]

I tried Blue Willow recently. BW is the best free image generator AI at the moment to me. Fingers crossed that it'll be free to use for a very long time

[@zevan6147]

👀

[@BillyViBritannia]

As individual art pieces those are fine but as a composition this is a real mess. When these tools get good enough to be able to match lighting and mood between many unrelated pieces then we'll have something really useful in our hands.

[@JMacify]

How did you animate the tree in the background to do that slight movement?

[@BinaryLunar]

We used a shader to animate most of the sprites in the scene, you can check the tutorial link for that shader in the description.

[@andreisyroezhkin1178]

btw, is it legal?

[@MoRo1333]

Its insane to think this is legal. This is literally copying someone elses work.

[@seyisland]

Quick question: at 8:36 you are using some kind of self hosted / localhost MidJourney. Can you explain what is that? Anyway, amazing tutorial and a good example of what we can do with AI!!

[@BinaryLunar]

That is Stable Diffusion Web UI

[@seyisland]

@@BinaryLunar thanks! As far I see Stable diffusion alone is worse than Midjourney, but your approach makes a good use

[@sxrevived1087]

the character need to be cut to parts and reanimated 1:52 but it looks amazing i love it

[@BinaryLunar]

True, it was quick experiment

[@zeta_cube]

Awsome assets did you make. Can you share these prompts?

[@BinaryLunar]

The prompts already in the video.

[@KoongYe]

You are not allowed to copyright ai generated image or profit from them.

[@BinaryLunar]

Where is that mentioned ?

[@danver8433]

While he can't copyright the images,he can in fact profit from it,and the images being AI doesn't mean the copyright of the completed game would be void,just that the images created by ai wouldn't have copyright protection.

[@edenassos]

You don't know what you're talking about, byeongshin.

[@Goskaq]

@@BinaryLunar It's actually mentioned in copyright law. It's in Section 306: "The U.S. Copyright Office will register an original work of authorship, provided that the work was created by a human being." Now that's the fuzzy bit, did you create it or did the AI?. And then Did the AI create it, or did someone else with a copyright on that piece of work? This is where the courts will eventually need to decide overall about the state AI is currently in. I also believe the world will have to agree on copyright law(as what I referenced is clearly a U.S. Copyright law and I'm unsure of other countries laws)

[@Goskaq]

@@aratooki2593 You said it right there. "Studying". You didn't say it was stealing art from different artist and using their art in the generated art(the issue artist have about it.). To say studying and imitating a style is a human thing to do. You think all of anime look the same because it's done by 1 person? Or having a Disney style artwork is because only Disney draws that way? All the people copying Bob Ross paintings aren't human? Artist study other artist's style and imitate it if they want to. That's human. The fact the AI can "study" millions better doesn't mean anything. The issue with ai is that it is taking copyright work without permission and using those works in some capacity as "new" art. Not imitating. Now if someone who is apparently against ai art is saying studying and not blatantly copying /reusing copyrighted work, why should it be expected that someone who is for the AI art, or doesn't know much about it in the first place to say that it isn't studying these pieces of work that it is "copying" and imitating it? Besides that debating this online leads no where. Ai Creators are going to continue regardless of what I have to say about it. Only when it is decided in the courts of law will any kind of change take place to how the AI "study". I'm also against the whole AI art generator situation, until it can be shown to actually create things without copying something directly.

[@امحوتب-ش7ز]

حاسك مصري يا خويا😂💙

[@Ronyal]

Copyright?

[@outlander234]

I am kinda shocked how they are getting away with this... They are literally stealing work of artists and calling it their own. I know what are some of you going to say... "Oh its just using it to train itself, it spits out original stuff it creates with combination of all its learned..." Are you sure about that? Because they did testing and found alot of times would just spit out identical or near identical photo it had in its dataset which it learned from. I bet when it spits out really great looking stuff its almost always just slight variation of some artist's work which can hardly be called original. When it spits out mediocre stuff thats when it "creates" most by itself.

[@edenassos]

Cry about it.

[@WestCOLshorts]

Keep criying and stay poor ;)

[@aktchungrabanio6467]

Awwwww, cry me a river.

[@sunner222]

If the question is if its good enough to be released as a comercial game the answer is yes. I've seen my share of shitty games making some kind of comercial release. But the question should be: Is it correct? The answer would be no, it is not correct. These models have been trained on top of stolen art and the current model of AI art does nothing to help artists maintain themselves as artists. If we start "creating" stuff in Midjourney and sell it with the current model of copyright laws we will slowly, at first, destroy the living craft that it is to be an artist. This path leads to a future where nothing is ever new for an everlasting dumbed down society.

[@512Squared]

NOT theft. The AI learned about art the way EVERY artist did, by looking at many examples of other people's art and constructing an internally valid set of artistic constructs which are then used to spit out original works. Is it theft to look at art and to analyse it and learn from it? No. Your argument is nonsense.

[@512Squared]

When the piano and guitar were invented, did it put singers out of work? Did it devalue their contribution? No, it gave people often with crap voices the possibility to use a machine to create the sound instead? Cheating? No.

[@BillyViBritannia]

@@512Squared You are right about AI but your second argument is nonsense too, guitar and pianos never had the potential to replace human voice. Even the violin which was supposedly designed to sound like a human voice doesn't even come close. Yet AI art will definitely have the ability to replace artists in many roles. This doesn't mean however that artists will be useless. As an artist myself, what I have come to understand is that non-artists or amateurs don't even know what good art should look like. The amount of times a rookie showed me some instagram artist they admired and I thought to myself "that's middle school level shit" are innumerable. So yeah being good at art will still be useful in critical roles like art directors etc. If your dream was to churn out art like a machine for a living though you're out of luck.

[@512Squared]

@@BillyViBritannia Thanks for the comment Billy. I think it's subjective to say that we know for sure that instruments wouldn't replace singing, or even that it never had the potential. There is a huge genre of music that is purely instrumental. But yes, people like voices. And I think that point carries, people like being creative, and so that's why I see AI as another tool for being creative rather than simply replacing entirely previous forms of creativity. AI will be an artist. What it's capable of in terms of strict requirements imposed on artists in commercial work, we shall see how much it can function independently of artists with the skills to meet those requirements. I agree that doing art also teaches you to differentiate skills and even to have a deeper appreciation. That applies across all artistic disciplines. I take issue with you calling 'middle school level' as 'shit', since I see that as one of the problems of art, that it is ONLY about hitting some kind of height or skill level and 'shitting' on and failing to appreciate art at all levels, from complete beginner to stunning works of genius. Even a great like Picasso was trying to remove that snobbery from art by returning to naivism. We should appreciate creativity as a process, not simply as a set of goals. And for sure, appreciation for higher skill levels is understandably deeper, but it's what we do with our appreciation for 'lesser' skill levels that frustrates me. Criticise something for what it is, rather than what it isn't.

[@BillyViBritannia]

@@512Squared I used the unfortunate term "shit" in the general sense, same as I would say "that's some good shit". What I meant is just that amateurs, mistake other amateur art for professional art. Now I know some "amateur" art may be objectively - as objective as art can be - better than some "pro" art and I'm characterising them this way for the lack of a better word. Just saying since you seem to like to take words literally, as do I more often than not. Since we're on the topic though I found something you said interesting. "critisize something for what it is, rather than something it isn't"... If you really believe that then you can't ever criticise anything since everything is exactly what it is. I think you should criticise something for what it aims to be and 99,9% of amateur Instagram artists aim to be pros.

[@gamedragonify]

For when you're both too talentless to make your own art and too greedy to actually pay the artists these AIs steal form lol

[@insanidee]

​@@tom-no0k That's not progress. That's revolution. A revolution where all humans will become useless and extinct because AI will keep evolving until it develops into something humans can no longer control. I hope it does happen, so people like you would seize to exist. All you see is progress when you fail to see how this affects a chunk of the human population who dedicated their lives to master art. Now people like you can just watch tutorials overnight to learn how to type words into a machine and call yourself an artist, pathetic.

[@someoneanonymous6707]

Or too poor?!

[@user-rj2jx8sh9q]

You know many solo devs start their games as just side projects and dont really have the money to spend nor time to actually learn on how to make art, right? especially if you consider that game sprites can and probably *will* change many times so just saying everyone is "talentless and greedy" sounds like a reach

[@gamedragonify]

@@user-rj2jx8sh9q There are countless free to use assets out there.

[@Raynor666]

@@user-rj2jx8sh9q sounds like an artists without work)))

[@aiandblockchain]

Awesome. Soon whole games will be created by the AI which has been trained on thousands of games and can generate games based on best practices.

[@thomasgriffin9267]

Yes, completely cutting out the need for any human input at all into game creation, the AI will even be able to play the game itself, a computer game created by computes, for computers! Awesome.

[@lyndonjacobs5264]

@@thomasgriffin9267 haha! This is funny.

[@gundarsmiks4889]

This is gonna be the future of video games. Want it or not!

[@aktchungrabanio6467]

Yes!!