>I think a lot of artists who take commercial art/design type jobs to pay the bills are going to be out of work soon, and that's a serious problem that we should be looking to get ahead of as a society.
They can learn this new tools and be 100x more productive and make more money. The AI tool will not replace the artistic taste and creativity , some boring low quality work will be automated but artists can be more productive with this new tools and say finish the artwork for a novel or game much faster, so making more money.
Yeah but if you make artists 100x more productive the natural consequence is that there will be far fewer employed artists.
The senior ones will probably be ok (as you say, they might even get a payrise, given how much impact a single individual will be able to have) but people just joining the industry now are likely screwed.
Say I would like to make a Visual novel but it will take an artist 100 hours to illustrate it, if he can do it 10x faster then I can have him illustrate 10 of my novels with the same money. Nobody loses and my VN readers can enjoy 10x more content.
Btw this AI tools work a lot better if you sketch something first, so I can see a very productive artist doing a rough sketch then using AI then manually touching stuff after.
Also an artist could train the AI with his style and with his characters and keep the model private and use it over and over again.
I think it could mean games have the same art budget but make 100x the art content to compete with studios that use the innovation to slash their headcount..
Automation and better technology massively reduced the fraction of the population that works in farming, whilst simultaneously we ended up with a food surplus. Machine translation definitely had an impact on the human translation industry. Seems likely that this is what will happen for art.
The majority of that work is today already outsourced to art “sweatshops” in cheap cost of living countries. You have one art director telling them to create 100 of this armor and 30 of this creature. The biggest impact will be at the bottom of the ladder
>The majority of that work is today already outsourced to art “sweatshops” in cheap cost of living countries. You have one art director telling them to create 100 of this armor and 30 of this creature. The biggest impact will be at the bottom of the ladder
Do you think that in future the art director will do the work himself using AI? Or he will hire the same people but instead of 100 armors he will ask for 10k armors, more armors more chances to sell them to players.
Seems like unless something changes you’ll still need some people with “taste” going through the hundreds of iterations looking for the right fit. Probably not the director. Still I think the team size will be cut down fairly drastically
I don't think drastically.
Have yu tried the AI tools?
It is not like you can just describe what is in your mind and it will appear, from what I read in people workflow description it is a more involved work, including training a model (I seen someone trained a model for RPG fantasy characters for example), then creating some starting sketch, generating many images, selecting good candidates, then use in-painting to fix out of place stuff, then use photoshop/krita to fix stuff .
I think it is like with programming, we have higher level languages and libraries and the number of developer increased because we can do a lot more stuff then just starting each time from assembly. So in this case the same artists will just produce more, we will not have to wait 6 months for a visual novel to have an update, we will not need to wait years for some indie game to be done , but yeah it is possible that some patt of the money that goes to art will end up for a short period of time in the pockets of soem art director , but competition would fix that.
I'll take you at 1:1 odds that the salary of even the highest paid 10% of art directors in the United States, as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, does not see even a 10 times increase in their salary over 5 years (that is to say, in 2027.m01.08, the BLS reports below 10*$194,130). Loser gives the winner one Snickers bar.
They can learn this new tools and be 100x more productive and make more money. The AI tool will not replace the artistic taste and creativity , some boring low quality work will be automated but artists can be more productive with this new tools and say finish the artwork for a novel or game much faster, so making more money.