Bots of a Bygone Era

AI is lazy, and a lot of the times, it’s used by people who don’t understand art or the principles that go into design and illustration to know why it truly looks terrible. They certainly have no clue why the human element is important within art as well. Art is an expression of the human experience. Take that away, and it becomes soulless.

This fandom does not have an artist scarcity. I love all the artists here, because I love seeing everyone’s unique ways of interpreting my favorite characters.

I’m a professional designer myself. I work somewhere that appreciates artists and at the moment, AI cannot do what I do, and I don’t think it ever will. Everything I do is by hand, my own and my team’s ideas, I put a little bit of me into every project I work on.

Best of all, my work will be some random kid’s nostalgic memory one day. That’s important to me, to give them something to look back at with fondness, not to look back at some half-assed garbage that had not an ounce of humanity in it.

Why do people fall in love with older franchises? Because there is a human element in it, whether they even know that’s why or not. The Rock-afire was created in a time where everything had to be done by an actual person. Every single bit of it was done by people. That’s why we like it.

I am fed up with people and companies who have more money than they know what to do with, cheaping out on hiring a professional. Makes all your marketing and business look unofficial.