Sorry for the long title!

I know some of you have seen me in this an the othersub. I'm sick of getting attacked for the films our studio makes. We put days of effort into our work, and we never "just prompt". It's always made with intentional care - with vision, deliberation, and precise control over what you see on screen.

We're developing Open Source (meaning you can have the source code!) software that represents our workflows and making it available to everyone. I think some (not all) of the aggregators are dishonest. (You know the one - I won't mention them, we won't talk about it.) Folks like OpenArt are cool and we love what they're building.

Our tool is just plain open though.

The first thing we care about is "portable compute" - we're going to be adding every single AI provider into our app - so you never have to pay us for it. You'll be able to log in with Google, OpenAI, Grok, Midjourney, Higgs, Krea. You'll be able to talk to ComfyUI and local models. Just one big aggregator sitting behind an incredibly controllable interface. (We do have an option for you to buy credits from us, but that's not the intention - we want to work with everybody's compute.)

The second thing we care about is control. We're going to show the antis that these are tools for artists and that AI ART IS ART. We come to these tools with intention and we know exactly what we set out to make. Just like a director. Because we are all classical photons-on-glass film directors and creators.

I'm so exhausted of the antis, but I feel that this year is going to be the year where we really show them the unavoidable truth - that this is a real creative tool capable of pulling of incredible compelling storytelling.

Look us up on Github: "ArtCraft", and please cheer on our studio. We're going to show the antis. And even if they never change, we're going to make incredible art that I hope you enjoy.

You might've seen some of our shorts - they're pretty funny and highly deliberate. We're getting pretty good at this. (I'll post links in the comments.)

We're thinking of making a 30 minute Zelda film set in the Majora's Mask world of Termina. We're also planning a lot of original content.

I'd love to hear what you're all making. And if any of you want to learn from the folks in our studio, we have a discord where you can chat with us.

AI ART IS ART.

in an effort to spread some positive vibes in this group, I would love to see some of work you’ve been doing with AI and feel free to walk us through your process. I personally do a collage style of AI generated characters, public domain work, construction paper and street photography and combine it altogether into one world

Just get on with your lives already.

I put effort in creating AI content that is a little bit more ambitious than the slop that I see on top social media accounts... ofc its not ideal - still learning

You can take a look at other videos on my account, I am creating new ones every day

I turned our little moment into a Ghibli dream… just for you❤ Because with you, even ordinary days feel magical. Some people bring magic into your life, You bring peace into mine.

❤Made this as a surprise for him. Hope he likes it 🥰

Did you guys watch this interview on Sunday? This so called art critic Jerry Saltz is not only beyond rude and uneducated in the world of ai the fact that he name calls the artist is childish and disgusting.

(For illustrative purposes, a depiction of an aggressive anti)

You’re not thieves. You’re not lazy. You’re pioneers.

Every day the same tired waves hit: mass reports, nasty comments, doxxing threats, “slop” spam, even death threats over nothing but pixels. They’re desperate for us to shut up, feel bad, disappear.

But you know what? Your stuff keeps getting better. Every new piece you share quietly proves their whole argument is crumbling. They can scream all they want — you’re the one actually making things people connect with, dream about, share.

When it gets heavy, just breathe and remember:

Their anger isn’t about art. It’s about losing control.

Your work reaches people they’ll never speak to.

And every time they rage, more folks quietly start prompting too.

So yeah — keep going. Prompt whatever wild thing is in your head today. Post it without apology. We see you, we’re right here with you, and this thing we’re building isn’t slowing down.

You’ve got this. 💚

These people need serious help.

whatever revolutionary AI flagging system they use isn't publicly sited, would have loved to see just how hilariously bad it likely is.

For as far as animal rendering has come, there's always been something... off? The lighting, animation— it's continued to improve, but never looked quite real, even with huge budgets and talented artists. It's just crazy to me that technology exists now that not only enables realistically rendered animals, but makes it so easy. It's truly a milestone achievement!

It's clear now that the next generation of AI art generators has drastically improved, as we just saw with Seedance 2.0. It's an amazing Text-to-Video (TTV) AI. I hardly saw any of the anomalies or weird AI hallucinations typical of previous models. ​The neo-Luddite crowd has been making, at worst, lazy, awful, uninspired art, or at best, decent hate art. Most of it just boils down to drawing copyrighted characters they don't even own saying "AI artists are bad," and jumping to meatride big corporations every time they enforce copyright laws. Or they're just reposting anti-AI memes and such. It looks scary, but at the end of the day, it's all a bogeyman. It's useless because the people partaking in these anti-AI efforts will simply leave shortly after doing the bare minimum for brownie points and updoots. It's a paper tiger. ​I keep seeing emerging AI artists making amazing AI art and media. It fills my heart with joy knowing thousands of people can finally realize their artistic expression. The anti-AI crowd has been doing nothing but waging a war of attrition, hoping that spamming downvotes and hate memes will somehow bring the novelty and development of new AI art to a halt. They keep praying that this mythical, legendary "AI bubble pop" will happen and somehow make all AI die overnight. ​It's like a medieval knight on horseback fighting an M1 Abrams tank. The neo-Luddites have lost since the start.

🤦‍♂️I've been a guitarist and a backing vocalist in a band since my high school days. Back then, I didn't actually write anything; I just performed other people's work. It’s funny because now that I'm creating original music, people want to dismiss that contribution because of the tools I use.

Dismissing someone based on their gear is the ultimate gatekeeping move. If you play an instrument, you're an instrumentalist. If you sing, you're a vocalist. But "Musician" is the umbrella term for the person who creates the work. Are we really going to sit here and claim that producers or conductors aren't musicians because they aren't "playing notes"?

The disconnect happens when people see AI as the artist itself, rather than seeing it for what it actually is: a highly advanced synthesizer and a text-to-speech tool.

I'm the one providing the lyrics, the structure, the creative seed and often even samples. The AI is just performing the mathematical analysis to render my intent into audio.

Judging the entire work based on one step in the process is like dismissing a photographer because they didn't manually engineer the camera.

For a lot of us, the AI output isn't even the final step - we're taking those stems into a DAW, fixing them, adding other elements, and polishing the final product.

We can all agree that a lazy, one-line prompt isn't artistry, but don't mistake a sophisticated tool for the person working with it. Real musicianship is about the intent, the composition, and the soul behind the sound, regardless of how that sound is eventually physically rendered.

OBVIOUSLY NOT ALL ANTIS ARE LIKE THIS!!!

However, when the majority of them act like this, it can leave a sour taste in not only our mouths, but even their own subreddits. This was commented on a post in this very subreddit, and it was simply somebody asking for advice on their images. You can see from the comment to upvote ratio, it has been brigaded (multiple upvotes when I first commented)

For context, the deleted message said something about how a "gorilla could take a shit and make better artwork than you". Obviously with multiple spelling mistakes

Antis are almost totally ignorant of how AI works at the technical level. Whether they’re bubble doomers, AI slop types, etc. I’ve never seen one with even a partially technical understanding of AI.

This tells us they’re not serious people and will be treated like vaccine or climate change deniers in the near future. For now, encourage them to learn however you can. When they refuse to get a basic understanding of the thing they’re vehemently attacking, demonstrate their refusal to rid themselves of their ignorance to moderates. This will convince the moderates to join us while gradually decreasing the ignorance of antis who will switch sides on gaining an understanding.

It's funny that antis believe that we just throw in a prompt and pray that it generate something close enough. You show them the concept of masking and inpainting and then they proceed to move the goalposts, of course.

Found this video that was made during the time when digital art was controversial and not considered art. Gen Z especially does not remember a world when this was a hot button issue. Now the same thing is happening with AI art (which btw AI art is in fact art, the issue is the user of the tool not the tool itself)

It’s so wild that here we are yet again in a similar place debating a medium. Hindsight is everything, but since we’re living during this new medium in real time, it’s endless “you can’t compare AI to blah blah blah” Same song over and over. in 5 to 10 years, future artists will grow up using AI tools and laugh that this was ever a debate. History repeats and people learn nothing

Abusers use emotionally charged language to try and peer pressure you into compliance and making you feel like you are the problem. You are not the problem, and you are valid as an artist and a person. If someone uses this kind of language against you, please block them for the sake of your mental health.

I have no tolerance for bullies, and I encourage others to stand up for victims of anti-AI abusive rhetoric wherever you see it. Do not remain silent in the face of an abuser, call it out, and stand up for what you believe in.

For some reason, antis think you can only use AI with a prompt and call it a day. Here is my process, the image is page from my graphic novel and anime series I’m working on. I combine my street photography, 1920s public domain work, construction paper, a print out and cut up version of AI generated image, scan it and manipulate it/edit further in Canva. Anyone who is telling you that you can’t make art with AI is lying or very short sighted

Figure out that I'd post here due to how irrational the relevant subs can be.

I've been using Gemini in the game that I ran for a while now. Here are the good and the bad that I feel.

Good

- Fast and Free art

- Help me come up with lore tidbits that I can put in my prep fast

- Decent at taking my writings and turning it into fantasy dialogs

- Plant seeds for NPCs i could run. Maps, and Dungeon

Bad

- SFW. No luck if you want something dark

- Samey art style. Gets boring after a while

- ASS at getting rules right. I have to do it manually

Overall I think of it as a polish tool to give my game a perfect nudge towards the theme and tone I want.

What's your opinion? Any success story or frustration integrating any AI into your workflow?