If this is my last tweet then I'll leave you with Stephen Fry reading a letter from Nick Cave to two fans who asked him about Chat GPT.
"This impulse, this creative dance, that is now being so cynically undermined must be defended at all costs"
Look, I know most of you followed me because I drew castles for Game of Thrones, or something, and didn’t sign up for war news, but the only thing I care about right now is the survival of Ukrainian democracy. I try not to doomscroll or share too much, but you’ve been warned
I'm very proud to finally share the work I did together with our team at Karakter for
#HorizonForbbidenWest
! We have so much to share with you that we'll stagger it over a few days not to overwhelm Artstation ;). Enjoy the first burst:
@maciej_kuciara
me: /imagine Disney princess holding gun
midjourney: image of Disney princess holding gun with misshapen hands
me: "who holds the copyright to the Disney princess this way trained on?"
midjourney: "there really isn't a way to know where it came from"
I'm Floris, Art Director and Concept Artist working in the game and film industry. Worked on Game of Thrones, Horizon: Zero Dawn and Killzone.
I love building worlds and helping artists grow.
#nobodyartist
#NobodyArtistsClub
@germany_iam
Living in Berlin for 11 yrs my experience has been that people can’t mind their own business. One snowy winter day I was biking home with a banana plant (gift for a friend) and a stranger biked next to me yelling that it was too cold for the plant 🤷♂️
Here's a vista of Svartalfheim I made together with concept artist Jannis Mayr for
#GodofWarRagnarok
. I had the joy of being the Art Director of a team of awesome concept artists at Karakter. I'll be sharing some of my own work as well as that of the team.
@BoothSenior
I made good money painting and selling that picture while Musk took it as if it were public property for his shitty meme. It’s clear who is seething
@IlvesToomas
Let’s be honest, all that Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, etc military hardware that’s flowing into Ukraine now was bought with one purpose in mind, which is the same purpose it’s being used for now.
@ManMadeMoon
How weird and cool is it to see kid photos of yourself you had no idea existed later in life? We get used to seeing the same ones over and over and then *boom* "bet you don't remember THIS"
Feeling thankful for all the people who recently followed me. I know you're here for the eldritch cave paintings, but here's a painting of the Acropolis I did for my father-in-law who used to teach classics. Just imagine an unspeakable horror lurking underneath.
Kratos and Atreus explore the Vanaheim delta. Collaboration between Robert Simon and myself, made at Karakter Design Studio for
@SonySantaMonica
's
#GodofWarRagnarok
@SpaghettiKozak
It tells you they exclusively experience the world through “things” popping up on their phones without being aware of the actual world, with all its world historical forces and real things happening, being the ultimate source of the “content” they consume.
@oryxspioenkop
I’m pretty sure that’s Japan’s ambassador to Ukraine who at the start of the conflict instead of leaving ordered his family’s armor be shipped over
@ArtStationHQ
Ethical questions about AI training aside, If you allow this to run rampant on your site it will be unusable for me as an AD to hire artists
I first had the idea for this painting when I was messing around with Midjourney and asked it for cave paintings of Lovecraftian horrors. Not bad result but I prefer the human made version ;)
The Walls of Asgard, concept painting by me for
#GodofWarRagnarok
and the fully realized in-game environment by Timo Pihlajamaki of
@SonySantaMonica
. It's such a joy to do concepts for a studio where you know they will take your scribbles and turn them into awesome environments
@ianmcque
AD here and I can't picture and AI doing the work my concept artists are doing for a long time, or ever. I think illustrators may have more to worry about, but with concept art you really have to be aware of the problem you're trying to solve in the context of the game/film.
@oryxspioenkop
Actually looks like it IS the Ukrainian ambassador to Japan. I’m certain though it was reported the other way around back in February. Funny that
#GameofThrones
seems to be trending so might as well post some of my
#conceptart
of Season VII.
I created the island of Dragonstone from various location scans and then modeled the castle on top. 3D scans are ubiquitous now but in 2016 I figured out this approach by myself.
When I started out there was no YouTube or social media. No online video tutorials, just forums. I didn’t know about layers, masks, anything. Online art education since then has been hugely democratized. The idea of artists as an elite jealousy guarding their secrets is rubbish
@simonstalenhag
I’ve often felt like I have a certain number of bad drawings in my fingers that need to come out first. So might as well get through them.
It's actually pretty cool that a personal piece I made as a gift got a much bigger response than any of my work for Game of Thrones, Horizon, God of War, etc
Joining this protest not because I'm against the tech, but because the current models are unethically trained on the work of artists without their consent, and..
@artstationhq
Is
#HorizonForbiddenWest
trending yet? Here are some
#conceptart
paints I did a long time ago while helping to develop the
#HorizonZeroDawn
world. The idea was that a graveyard of advanced military planes had gradually turned into a jungle, lifting the planes up in place.
With a nod at the current art Twitter discourse here’s a periodic reminder that some of the best artists I’ve worked with are either not on Twitter or have low follower counts because their career simply doesn’t depend on it.
Kratos and Atreus exploring Vanaheim - a collaboration between Vilius Petrauskas and myself.
AD on behalf of Karakter: Floris Didden, for
#GodofWarRagnarok
@SonySantaMonica