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'Site owner'? You mean Thornton James, the CEO of Tafi? As far as I know he's still in charge, trying to it worth a trillion bucks before selling it off just before it collapses. He's an equity dealer and makes his living by artificially pumping stock prices up then selling the company off. This is all information I've gotten from another forum so take it with a HUGE saltshaker.
I'm not convinced that AI is going to bulldoze 3D or any other artform like music or film. Right now it's a flash in the pan with (mostly) equity firms making HUGE investments and expectations. I'm sure that a lot of it will collapse leaving some excellent software that will become an aid to creativity, science, medicine and many other ventures. I've been working with (ok....experimenting) photogrammetry and now gaussian splatting and can see the possibilities, but oh my snot! does it have a long way to go and does it ever need baby sitting. The results are still something of a mess but it'll get there as we learn it and train it.
Playing with dolls in Studio or Blender will never get old, just like playing with Lego is still a hoot at any age. It's not the result that's so much fun, it's the process...the journey.
I was talking about Hunter. I assumed he was in charge of this domain name. Was I mistaken? If Zonegfx is worth 1 trillion, I'd suggest selling it now.
I guess I was somehow mislead with all the artists complaining their work is being used to train AI and basically plagiarized or "pirated" without their permission and receiving 0 reimbursement.
You must not have visited many art forums lately if you think this is a passing fad.
I have a pile of legos in my daughter's room. She'd rather bang pots together and while we occasionally play with them, I'd rather play Mario Kart. Ive not opened Daz in months. Mostly playing Wizard101 to kill time.
I enjoy shooting. I own several black powder guns. You would think people would have stopped making them but you can still buy them. You would have thought Poser would have folded by now but there are people who still use it.
20 years from now if I'm still alive, I will still enjoy Mario Kart. It makes none of them relevant to the next version of Glock or GTA. Both which have arguably change the industry expectations.AI will/has changed everything. Pretending otherwise is denial or delusion. Once its fed all accessible human knowledge only physical aspects that robots haven't been created to do yet will be a viable job with possibly some exceptions. While it might not be tomorrow, it will happen.
Tutorial included. 4 competent people at $100 each a month could probably kick out a couple full length films per year without the need for anyone else.
A huge corporation like Disney could easily downscale. Video games corporations like Rockstar wouldn't need to overwhelm programmers if they only need 4.@d0gg0d While you are not wrong on many of your points, you are forgetting one of the most important factors in the equation: Customers.
While there are those who will gladly swallow AI-slop, there is a significant number of people who will not. Plenty of people are going to demand real movies made by real people with real actors, real music made by real musicians etc. This market is not going to disappear, just like printed books and other physical media is not going anywhere either. If anything, there is now a trend among younger people to go back to physical, 'old-fashioned' media, because they are getting _tired_ of the digital, always online world. Young people are picking up real instruments because it gives them reprieve from the digital hell they grew up in. I work in a public library, and I can assure you, young people are definitely reading real books.
And yea, I'm one of those 'hopelessly left behind' Poser users, and I use Poser because I _enjoy_ it! I don't _care_ if other software or AI could make a 'better' result than what I can produce with Poser, for me it's more about the journey than the destination. And there are a lot of people like me out there.
(And who the hell would work for 100$ a month??)
I believe you're partial right. I put off getting a smart phone for a long while. I hate using email and text messaging. Hate video meetings.
Hate having to download games instead of having a physical copy.Yet here I am.
I hate tons of CGI. Movies like The Thing relying on old school makeup still are amazing but Ironman was great.
Almost everything I despise I have either been forced to accept or willingly accepted.
You will have no choice or slowly come to accept it. Resistance is futile.
Once AI merges with robots seamlessly and becomes as popular as having a car, the end game will be near.
90% of actors are overrated, overpaid and obnoxious. There are few worth actual admiration so I might not oppose AI actors since I'm not particularly fond of most real ones.
I have a smartphone but don't have data enabled (or paid for). I have all kinds of programs on it for photogrammetry, a sound level meter and analyzer, a program that plugs into the new-ish engine management system on my 58 year old vintage car (sorry about that @d0gg0d) so that I can adjust the timing and mixture on the fly. I use open street map for a GPS.
I find that mixing the new and old can yield excellent results.
Any time there's something new, there will always be some people who say they will refuse to adapt or accept the new technology. But eventually, they always do, and the "old" is always still there in the background, there if you need it. The old stuff usually never goes away, but eventually most people see the value in the newer stuff. I remember when digital cameras were first hitting the scene, and people hated it and swore they'd never use it, and preferred film, and so on. Now, most see the value of digital cameras and appreciate its benefits, such as instant images without waiting for film developing, plus easy editing, etc.
I spent a few years working in a photo lab for aerial surveillance and mapping. We had two Kodak Versamats and went through litres of chemistry a day. Even with silver recovery I hate to think of the shit that went down the drain. Film and paper prints where slow, stinky, expensive, slow and just a huge pain in the ass. When we dumped the monster of a film camera and went digital, it was like the sun coming up. We got prints out almost instantly and the local fisheries folks loved us. The ships flushing their bilges off the coastlines hated us.
The only problem was the amount of storage space needed since we have to keep EVERYTHING! Even tape can pile up.Film is mostly dead. Ive heard more younglings are printing out pictures. Ive not printed a pic in a long while. I miss holding photo albums.
I found an old cellphone and add an extra line because its somehow cheaper on my plan to have 5 phones instead of 4. YouTube wont run on it because its so old and the connection is a little slower.
I have several old video games but my new PC doesnt have a cd drive and the new software probably wont run it anyway without an emulator. Im just going to have to hook up the old PC or grab the old laptop.
Ive always wanted a late 60s Vette with a futuristic interior.
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