"Animation is solved. This is like Pixar level quality." posts absolute low grade slop (old.reddit.com)

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Finally, someone has made a computer that can produce dogshit CGI renders at an even higher cost.

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I can draw well cause I did it for like 5 hours a day from age 3 to 14, that is because it's what I liked doing.

This is exactly what I'm trying to get across. The "talent" people apply to any of these arts is actually the product of hundreds if not thousands of hours spent practicing and improving at it.

it's because I practice and enjoy practicing this stuff that im good at it

I am convinced people do realise that this is the case but that making talent into some innate thing is a coping mechanism for feelings of inadequacy surrounding not being able to motivate themselves to do the same. The thing is that I don't think anyone should feel inadequate about this. I am a literal god when it comes to Smash Bros, playing at an extremely high genuine competition level. I have this ability because I have motivation for it, I can sit and practice it and feel motivated to do that. But even at times I'm like "cba" when it comes to the sheer number of hours I'd need to put in just to beat 1 more person who is above me. My progress in this skill and whether I could ever reach top 100 is ultimately hampered by motivation, even at this level. It's all practice. None of it is innate talent. I probably won't reach that level, but I fully understand and take responsibility for the fact that it's because I won't put the practice in, my motivation wall has likely been met. The point is that this is no different for sports, or music, or arts.

I'd quite like to have the motivation to draw, I am reasonably good at it having learned several techniques when younger. But I don't have anywhere near the motivation I do for competitive fighting games. Same story really. Motivation.

But that's ok. It doesn't make us inadequate and I'm not calling anyone inadequate for it. We all have different interests.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

Do you have any smash footage online? I losr my music gundam models and art sll the time and i agree a good game of smash is an art. I cant do competitive smash but I know what is happening when I watch it. Id love to see how you play. I appreciate good smash

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yes but it would 110% dox me instantly because of events.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

Womp womp.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I love Melee and got it with a game.ecuve when it came out, it was the first thing I had saved up serious allowance money to buy as a kid. I didn't touch my 5 bucks a week for 2 years, my parents handled the rest cause they game as well. I never got tournament gud, im just at that barrier. I would love to be really good at smash cause I love the game but practicing it never really clicked with me and id rather spend my time elsewhere, so to this day I wish I was better at smash but also know I dont wanna put the work in. As a result I have gotten comfortable with only ever being okay at it. That's fine. There is no shame in not wanting to put the work into getting really good at something but its sour grapes to say someone is just a natural talent. I follow speedrunners and like to bear personal bests on games I play, but I know ill never be able to compete cause i just don't like doing it quite as much as the people who are really good. Thats fine. People latch onto different things amd almost everyone wishes they were better at something theyre bad at. You wither gotta try to get better or accept mediocrity, and mediocrity is perfectly okay. Id rather people do stuff they like doing and suck at it then be good at something they hate. AI ignores all of this because it is only art because my definition of art literally anything produced that doesnt serve a purely utilitarian function. So even a hammer is art if it has a colored handle or something. AI does technically cross thst criteria, I hate to call it art but if it does barely cross that line. But it is bad art. Awful art. The worst art I could conceive of and that is no matter how nice it may look. Its bad art because of the medium. The medium is the message. It is useless, its bad and it stinks

https://youtu.be/qYA5CFrNBLE