Will there ever be a point where AI-generated art will put all the mainstream comic book artists out of a job?
Indie creators have already used AI assets for their books, board games and games.
Are comics next?
A megacorp like Disney could pay an AI to replicate the style of Darwyn Cooke or Jack Kirvy
There's too many people who will read a comic book solely for the art and I doubt they'll still want to pay money for an AI generated comic that copies the art style since it's not really the artist behind it
Despite what burnt out coomers who got burned on a bad commission might tell you artists have made a name for themselves, while an AI can copy the artists work you'd much rather have the artist come up with a new idea than some copy-and-pasted stuff from a computer.
Imagine if artists like Moebius or Giger during their time just stopped getting work because of an AI, you couldn't because their art is so unique to them that you'd get shitty work that pales in comparison if you just went with a computer. I'd rather get art made from the hands of Jack Kirby or Frank frazetta than a computer
Would Gustave Dore's work really matter if it became AI generated?
Anyway, AI stuff can't beat talent and new idea's an artist can come up with. You're gonna have a situation similar to the Writers strike where executives try to reproduce what the artist made but it's all gonna look like shit
It'll likely just be used in small doses if anything after the initial big boom use of it
the AI models that are being used by shit like Dall-e, as i understand them, work by tagging a shitload of images inside a database, and then attempting to weight those tags, so if you have 5 images of peter griffin in radically different art styles, it uses consistent elements in all of them in order to produce a new image if you were to prompt it with something like "Peter griffin but real", the problem with this is that the AI is only really capable of rearranging existing stuff within it's database (and inherently limited by the fact that a human has to make the prompt to it in the first place), the AI can't create a new style beyond tinkering with what it already has, in a market like animation and cartoons, people demand novelty, and while AI's are getting pretty decent at replicating existing art styles, they're also really bad at creating novelty.
There's an interesting philosophical argument here about whether art is just recombining and reimagining the works of the past, and whether any truly "new" art exists, but i'll leave that one to /his/
No matter how good it is AI generated art is inherently souless and thus worthless
What if comic book artists started tracing AI generated art
Yes. There will also come a point where AI puts every government out of a job, and eleutheromaniacs will shit themselves in abject terror on that day because that means there won't be a chance in hell your leadership will listen to your whining anymore.
I know this is a "gotcha" question but yes even that is better than just pure AI. At least with tracing over it the artist can add a bit of himself into the art
I'm more interested in the day when AI-generated story will put the hacks that pass for cape comic writers out of their jobs. It's probably closer than the artists getting replaced.
Who cares about "mainstream comic books"? Don't they only sell a couple of thousand books per month? I'm very excited though about what we will get once everyone can make ai art.
Hi industrycuck
Who?
It wasn't a gotcha, I was mostly joking. I was thinking of Greg land and Mitch Gerads
All it does it mash shit from google images together. It's good enough to replace clip art but that's really it.
Looks fine to me.
what app is this?
You know there's a bunch of artists who literally have been painting over AI art to make decent images. An artist can take stuff like a pile of fruits or even blurred colors and make a composition out of it.
Dall-e
Even though it's not very good with characters. Stable Diffusion is much better.
It'll put shitty artists out of business*
What would be the purpose of this though? Why would you need any of those images?
Album covers, Any Forums reaction images, ads, everything that just needs one picture. You could even make a sort-of comic book like The Electric State.