I Lost My 3D Artist Job Through Midjourney

In today's video, we are going to do something different. We are going to be reacting to a Reddit post that talks about a situation of a 3D artist.

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[jensenraylight]

basically all jobs on earth will be like being a McDonald cashier or Walmart greeter.
we outsourced our critical thinking and all we got in the end is a soul crushing job

forcing a bird to swim and fish to fly is the most devastating thing to force on people.

[mind_of_a_darkhorse]

Anyone with a brain would realize that companies don't mind ripping off other artists as long as they can do it to create a profit! Corporations are salivating believing they have a solution to get rid of paying the creatives and garner more profits for themselves. Eventually, this will cause their collapse! Nothing new will be created and it will all become a rehash of what has already been done!

[stonbax]

I don't understand how Ai in the creative field is being focused so much on the prompting and the culture of "doing nothing and get something" while it could be developed for so much better purposes such as automating repetitive processes like retopology in 3d or just, for the 2d part, an ai that would automatically color your character, instead of creating the whole character based on the combination of millions of others... I mean, an Ai that actually understands drawing and can help you achieve faster exactly what you picture in your brain, not some stupid mixture of other artists work. If the ai was focused on things like this, it would be even better as it would still be a huge time saver while leaving the creative process for humans.

[qull]

This is exactly what's been happening to blue collar workers for the last century. Back before industrialization, blue collar workers took several years of apprenticeship to become experts at their fields. Whether it's "handmade" cloths or blacksmithing or paper making. Then automation came, and all of that apprenticeship system was abolished in favor of pure automation. Now blue collar workers simply "direct" the machine manufacturing process.

I believe we're seeing the same phenomenon here, but for white collar workers. As the automation evolves, we no longer need to "handmake" our products, such as creative writing, or drawing, or sculpting. We simply "direct" the creative process to achieve the final result we want. Of course, latent diffusion model still have long way to go. I'm not really positive with prompt system, because it lacks a lot of control. Perhaps, there'll be better interface for automation in the near future.

PS: For reference, in medieval period, it took 7 years to become a master blacksmith. Then it took 1-2 days to make a cheap sword but more than a week or more for high quality sword. In Japan, it took a year to make one katana. I can see correlation between that and 3D art which can take 5+ years to master. Now with help of machine, we don't to invest in years of training anymore. Just to cap this off, nowadays swords are made in less 6 hours.

[GodIsADog]

The government needs to step in on a serious level for the artists work that was built upon the even created any Ai art generators like Midjourney and others. Its sad that any artists are being used again, as an artist I hope art dies as a profession because its over as a passion/feed your family type of deal.

[kingalysterianlion]

Thanks for the video. Not everyone is moving to ai and the necessity of 3D artists isn’t going anywhere. For starters let’s be real here, the MASS MAJORITY of successful companies aren’t switching to ai because it would trigger a trend of class action lawsuits for theft. I know things seem to be dark but in all honesty ai isn’t taking over the industry the way people think it is. There was a similar trend in music mixing and mastering and for a few years everyone thought that mixing and mastering would be taken over by ai… Mastering and mixing engineers are STILL in high demand and the ai platforms aren’t dominating anything lol. My advice? Stop allowing a computer or someone else’s greed to dictate your future. Yes this person had a bad experience at the tiny company he was working for. But he has to decide if he is going to just give up or move forward. Why let someone else’s decisions take away your passion and joy for something. I understand his pain but he could get a job else where or even do his own thing. But to just buy a casket and say goodbye is not the solution at all. Anything worth doing will have difficulties.

His situation does not reflect what going on everywhere. Not even remotely close. I understand that people are afraid but if you consume a lot of content that is only talking about how ai is “going to take over the creative industry” (which it won’t) then it will become a self-fulfilling prophesy for you. Let’s face reality everyone. Big studios are not replacing people with only ai because you don’t have complete control over the resulting asset. In this life we have two choice we can either lay down and die because a bucket of bolts can make an image based on a bunch of content it stole or we can choose to move forward. What ai HAS done is forced us to become better at our craft. I’m a computer program and I KNOW ai isn’t taking over. It’s just getting a lot of publicity. I’m also a 3D artist and I always have work. Not all companies are evil and focused on money. Thats an extremely biased statement that just isn’t true. And everyone here is better than that. The narrator of the video use the word hope several times in the video. Instead of condemning the planets population by making statements as though we know everyone’s mind and heart perhaps we should just be hopeful too. To think that everyone is only focused on money is discrimination. Haven’t we seen enough of that over the years? Let’s choose to have hope. There is a place for ai to handle some tasks for artists. I would love a procedural ai node that could handle complex re topology for me and provide CAD level precision. That would make me a better artist. The future isn’t dark so we all should stop making it that way or assuming that the creative industry will get that way when none of us are in the future. I hope everyone has a good weekend and finds a reason to have hope because being negative and only thinking the worst is easy. I would rather not let a bunch of 1s and 0s not dictate my future. Because my future is super bright. Adversity is the gatekeeper to innovation. But the choice is yours. If you want to be a 3D artist then be one and don’t let anything stop you.

[Gelonyrum]

Just give 3d artists some AI retopology tool which will be creating lowpoly and UVs instead of us)
I personally already use a lot of AI tools and they are awesome in case you need to generate PBR material from single image or make nice and cool looking model from protogrammetry when customer send you it with 1k textures but wants it to be 4k) then you can extremely easy make it look great.

[TheSuperStroker]

He didn't lose his job - he left his job because he doesn't like prompting.

[TheTrumanZoo]

you can now spend 1, 5 weeks on modeling the details.

[Damian_DH]

should i work on my portfolio ?. Im getting close to end my career (3 exams left )im currently an artist but i know how to code in c++ and c# but for me it would be so heartbreaking if i cant find anything related to 3D and forced to do code which i hate with passion. This is all so chaotic right now i dont know what to do.

[kalleskit]

I feel like the title of this video and the title of the Reddit post are saying quite different things..?

[sirslim]

I personally believe some of these ai tools are better suited for an artist. The majority of ai slop I’ve seen just doesn’t invoke anything to the viewer except how pretty it looks. The prompters can’t explained what they’ve generated because nothing was expressed onto the image but the words they gave the machine in its attempt to interpret what the user wants.

It may be a machine learning tool but it’s still a tool, better suited for people who can wield it properly.

[dna]

Thought starter: is there a graphic, artistic style that ai is unlikely to ever be able to generate? Because that will be what people in the future will crave, and so if you’re good at that style, you’ll be in-demand as an artist.

[marsmotion]

yes time is money but its not everything. having happy creative people working on your project is also a thing thats going to affect it. personally if the bar is as fast and as cheap as possible well thats not a place with a high standard its more a sweatshop mentality. the only thing you can do is find a place to work thats not just about the money grabbing but actually creating fun engaging and creative work that will ALSO do well in the market place with a nice margin.

the indie on the shoestring i maybe can see needing to cut every corner, maybe but even then if your an indie and only about the money you wont last long that route takes passion and desire and perseverance not just the chase to brutal efficiency. work for someone with a bigger perspective i suggest.

no one knows what ai's true impact will be anyone telling you at this moment is full of sh@#$%t!

[MrMadvillan]

1:32 how does “rig and animate a character from MJ” even work?! There’s no continuity or pose estimation. That’s a v suspect workflow and post.

[mr.viktory]

I am not sure what to make of the post, it’s Redit. I just know on the net you usually only get a 1/4 of the story and not the full story. Especially on Redit.

I will give my opinion on Ai. I seen the switch from analog to digital with photoshop first came out, people were saying the same thing until artists adapted. People are still making traditional art. I think people are so afraid of Ai because it is moving in a pace like no other, and people haven’t learned how the best to use it yet.

Ai generated work should never be your end piece, it should be a tool of inspiration, a starting point. You can as I am learning to do, create your own dataset with your personal work, and work off it. But it’s hard to keep up with this light speed rate of this technology.

That’s my two cents though. Cheers…

[REE-Animation]

Listen man. Making games is all about the result, and NOT about the journey. So it makes 100% sense to use ai art if it can speed up the production. It’s as simple as that really.

Artists need to learn how to use ai art as a tool, and not see it as competition. Get it i to your workflow, and you will produce good content much faster..
It makes absolute no sense to spend days or weeks on making concept art that an ai can do in seconds.. Use it as a tool, and then fine tune it with your skills afterward, to reach the desired result..

Making art for the love of the process, is something you can do at home as a hobby, or if you have your own business.. A production company is interested in the result, and not the progress.

I have worked in the gaming industry (also AAA) for 20+ years now. And ai art is here to stay, and it makes 100% sense to me. There’s SO much time to save. And I have seen ai art which is much better than what some artists with high salaries in the AAA business can produce.

It’s here to stay, we just have to learn how to implement it into our workflow.

[alexdanilaart]

Same thing is happening at my mobile games job.

[MrKezives]

Good video format! I hope there is more on future

[muajin]

How do you use midjourney to make games?