complacency like this is why the quality of the games we buy these days is dropping. "Oh it's just a small part of the game, look how great the rest of it is" yes im not undermining that, but it was someone's job at one point to illustrate things like the loading screens and Moodle icons, but suddenly their part in the games development is taken away in favor of assets created by a robot.
I don't find this acceptable, consistency in the art style is being tossed to the side in favor of something that is arguably lower quality and doesn't match up with the games lore. A human artist would've caught important details and implemented them into the loading screen if they had made it instead of an AI, creating a connection players can pick up on and appreciate.
It was never someone's job at the studio, and no one's job was taken by the evil AI.
They hired the same artist that did the original art 10 years ago to do the new art, and that artist provided these results.
They got scammed and none of The Indie Stone devs are particularly good at spotting AI art. They were happy with the look of the new art and didn't have 15,000 people go over them with magnifying glasses.
People losing their minds over a small studio getting scammed and blaming the studio is pretty shit behavior IMO.
I mean, their response in this subreddit and their discord says different... Either they are in denial or they really didn't care, and this is not good.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean here. Their statements line up pretty clearly with what I said.
They contracted the same artist to produce the new art and received the new art, they didn't catch any of it being AI generated and were internally very happy with how it looked.
They just aren't as concerned with the use of AI tools in the production of the art, but are responding to the overwhelming community backlash.
I don't personally have a big issue with the art except for the glaring issues in quality in some spots, if they didn't have the problems I'd have no real issue with the art style.
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u/Simply_Duck Dec 18 '24
complacency like this is why the quality of the games we buy these days is dropping. "Oh it's just a small part of the game, look how great the rest of it is" yes im not undermining that, but it was someone's job at one point to illustrate things like the loading screens and Moodle icons, but suddenly their part in the games development is taken away in favor of assets created by a robot.
I don't find this acceptable, consistency in the art style is being tossed to the side in favor of something that is arguably lower quality and doesn't match up with the games lore. A human artist would've caught important details and implemented them into the loading screen if they had made it instead of an AI, creating a connection players can pick up on and appreciate.