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'AI' websites are already ruining the internet
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Less LLM articles but “AI” shit has made finding art reference material so annoying. Search results are 50% sponsored ad links and a good 10% are shitty stable diffusion prompts. Even worse if you’re looking for generic scifi fantasy bs, then it feels like 70% of results are peoples ai robo waifus sometimes
Sci Fi art has gone downhill. Now it's gray powersuits with a little neon blue lights thrown in. It's so corprate and stale.
Mass effect esque generic corpo scifi aesthetic is so dreary. There was a glut of it even before “AI” was a thing, now it can be even more easily mass produced 😒
Now for where it’s really at, I hope to emulate even 1% of the style and inspired design of Jean Giraud/Moebius. He also was a big influence on Tom Parkinson Morgan/Abaddon, a current fantasy & scifi artist with a hugely unique style I love.
I miss the prog rock style airbrushed fantasy art
You should check out Ten Earth Shattering Blows. Abaddon broadcast it on Twitter some time ago. Weird fantasy, Moebius inspiration in the artwork
Halo aesthetics are dismal, too. It's more of than plus some more military bootlicking.
Big covenant aesthetic fan though. Iridescent purple everywhere
They were loaded with post-9/11 scratched liberal fear-of-religious-foreigners vibes, but that also made them neat.
Oh the “scary foreigner” coding vibes around the covenant? It’s bad, folks. The visual design of halo 2/3/reach covenant though? Some of my earliest motivation to pick up art. Always cared way more about the aliens than the ubiquitous jingoistic humans anyway.
What if glowing computer waifu?
For old sci fi stuff, have you ever gone to a used book store and looked at the old sci fi covers? A lot of interesting art ended up on the covers of cheap pulp sf back in the day.
I can't even look up relaxing music compilations without most of them having slop generated robo waifu cover pictures.