>Job gets taken by immigrant

Haha, dumb yokels losing their jobs because they don't have real skills.

>Job gets taken by beta software

Noooo, corporate America is exploiting us and robbing us of our life's purpose

>I am now able to create, rig and animate a character thats spit out from MJ in 2-3 days. Before, it took us several weeks in 3D ... For my boss its just a huge time/money saver. ... Results are better than my work. ... I am between grief and anger.

Pls reddit I want to do things worse, more expensive, and longer but by boss won't let me wtf help.

I mean it's the same thing that happened when digital art came about in the 90s, and I definitely remember people responding to it in about this same way. Adapt, and use the cowtools you are given, or someone else will. Thats where we are now.

Downmarseyd

Imagine your dream job gets turned into a soulless office task

I am now able to create, rig and animate a character thats spit out from MJ in 2-3 days. Before, it took us several weeks in 3D. The difference is: I care, he does not. For my boss its just a huge time/money saver.

In other words, the employer is doing employer things, the employee is dramatically moralizing.

I am angry. My 3D colleague is completely fine with it. He promps all day, shows and gets praise. The thing is, we both were not at the same level, quality-wise. My work was always a tad better, in shape and texture, rendering… I always was very sure I wouldn’t loose my job, because I produce slightly better quality. This advantage is gone, and so is my hope for using my own creative energy to create.

Ah, so this isn't really about AI taking over his jerb. AI just level the playing field and he's mad about it.

In a society that judges a persons worth purely on their economic contribution it's going to be a disaster.

Skill issue, git gud.

>3D artist -> professional prompter

We are making mobile games.

already sold his soul to satan

Artists are weird about this.

A direct comparison with something in what I do is that SQL Server 2019 made it piss easy to connect to Oracle databases directly and do away with 70% of the cases in which I'd normally have to deploy annoying SSIS packages.

Did I piss and shit and whine about it or was I grateful that a bunch of time has been freed up from doing pointless busywork?

Complaining about stuff that makes the process quicker is a sign of laziness.

Only the truly deranged actually enjoy using 3D modelling software. The local hooker population should be on red alert now that this guy is losing his 'creative' outlet

I never knew there was anyone who enjoyed the endless long hours in a dark room doing this shit.

Oh wait

That's really fricking sad. It'll come for music next I guess.

>Be artist who uses computer software to make art

>Get mad that some uses a different piece of computer software to make their art

>We are making mobile games.

Deserved.

Neighbor had plenty of warning this was coming, should be prepared

Our Art team is 2 people, we make 3D models, just to render them and get 2D sprites for the engine, which are more easy to handle than 3D. We are making mobile games.

Lol what a loser, making borderline placeholder art for mobile games

My Job is different now since Midjourney v5 came out last week. I am not an artist anymore, nor a 3D artist. Rn all I do is prompting, photoshopping and implementing good looking pictures.

So art?

The reason I went to be a 3D artist in the first place is gone. I wanted to create form In 3D space, sculpt, create. With my own creativity. With my own hands.

Then why are in front of a computer at all? Go get some clay and wire

It came over night for me. I had no choice. And my boss also had no choice. I am now able to create, rig and animate a character thats spit out from MJ in 2-3 days. Before, it took us several weeks in 3D. The difference is: I care, he does not. For my boss its just a huge time/money saver.

Why would it be anything else to him?

I don’t want to make “art” that is the result of scraped internet content, from artists, that were not asked. However its hard to see, results are better than my work.

Then quit whiny

I am angry. My 3D colleague is completely fine with it. He promps all day, shows and gets praise. The thing is, we both were not at the same level, quality-wise. My work was always a tad better, in shape and texture, rendering… I always was very sure I wouldn’t loose my job, because I produce slightly better quality. This advantage is gone, and so is my hope for using my own creative energy to create.

How shall this artist go on, where shall he find his well of power if not his creative energy?!

Getting a job in the game industry is already hard.

Because it's a bullshit field that is widely over saturated. I mean how many angry bird clones do we really need?

if you have been replaced by AI art your art was either shit, bland, or not valued

Then learn to use prompts and use your "better skills" to touch up what the AI might leave out.

Adaptability is better than any strength or intelligence.

So am I wrong or has nothing fundamentally changed about the field of AI in the last 10 years? Why are all these advancements coming now? Did the nerds just start trying?

Can AI now actually make models, I thought it was just texturing? If so, I'm opening my own company, employees: 1.

We are making mobile games.

Lol

AI are time traveling immigrants and I support open borders

Your perspective needs adjustment.

You are an employee for a company that wants to make money. They hired you as a technical expert to help achieve their goals. You do that by the most cost efficient, time efficient way possible.

You get your joy at work from pleasing your employers, and getting paid.

If you want joy, you need to get that with side projects and self-lead learning.

Never put your expectations in your employed work, you will forever feels used, disrespected, and empty.

This has always always been the case. You're just learning it now.

Based af

As someone who's been a codecel since back in the days of C with a little assembler mixed in here and there, I get this. I like low-level programming. I would enjoy my job more if I could do that instead, but it's just not as productive, and we're here to make money, not for kicks and giggles. And I like getting paid twice as much as I did back then, due to the higher productivity.

Not sure how LLMs are going to affect things. Might get better, might get worse. Might get thrown out on the street. Good thing I have about twenty years worth of living expenses saved up.

On what planet is Midjourney pumping out 3D models that you can rig and animate in two days? Or is it just making the concepts? Story doesn't add up.

keep yourself safe

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