Snapai's Lair

Sketched out my faun in Blender last night, while chatting with friends on Discord.

Last night I was able to finally present my #dnd5e group with this intro to their fight with one Agdon Longscarf! Storyboard by me, I also sang most of it, though Aishia is voiced by her player, @fundz64​ for the one line. Karaoke backing track from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F14v3tlm-8c Lyrics adapted from https://www.reddit.com/r/wildbeyondwitchlight/comments/tr9rv9/want_even_more_song_lyrics_for_agdon_longscarf/ by by u/alientonx. Also, here’s the handout of all 9 brigands, in full color. Agdon’s based on the illustration from the book (though redrawn by me), Esgar’s based on the “default harengon” art, and the rest are my designs.

Last night I was able to finally present my #dnd5e group with this intro to their fight with one Agdon Longscarf! Storyboard by me, I also sang most of it, though Aishia is voiced by her player, @fundz64​ for the one line. Karaoke backing track from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F14v3tlm-8c Lyrics adapted from https://www.reddit.com/r/wildbeyondwitchlight/comments/tr9rv9/want_even_more_song_lyrics_for_agdon_longscarf/ by by u/alientonx. Also, here’s the handout of all 9 brigands, in full color. Agdon’s based on the illustration from the book (though redrawn by me), Esgar’s based on the “default harengon” art, and the rest are my designs.

❝ Brazilian singer Taty Girl left her fans speechless during a concert when she made an unexpected decision: she suspended the fireworks show she had planned to protect a homeless dog who was attending the show. While singing, Taty noticed the presence of a dog she named “Caramelo,” who was calmly watching from a distance. Without hesitation, she told her audience: “We will not launch any more fireworks, Caramelo does not like them. Out of respect for him, we will not use them. You can see that he is there quietly, enjoying the show.” Taty’s gesture was applauded by the audience, who not only admired her sensitivity, but also suggested that she adopt the dog. According to reports, the singer listened to the voices of her fans and decided to take Caramelo home, ensuring him a life full of love and care. ❞ Vía 🎥 tt/tatygirloficial”

What matters most is that you are making art for you. Maybe utilize the few followers you have. Talk to them, befriend them and other artists, too! Make a small community for yourself.

It's always just been about digging in and making your own stuff that you personally value. Then at least one person finds value in it from the start. Turns out that means other people might like it too. All the other "strategies" might work briefly but it's just churn to make money for the host site.

I had my most popular post on Mastodon the other week just because I had an idea for a shirt and doodled it to amuse myself, and shared it. Turns out a lot of others thought it was funny enough to share too.

the reason art with ai at the creative helm will never get traction in any long term or meaningful trot is because art is more than what is in the text of the book, or notes of the song, or runtime of the movie. art is whats OUTSIDE of the medium, a performance piece between creator and experiencer

i say this all the time and i think most buckaroos think im off in the clouds as eccentric ART WEIRDO (theyre NOT WRONG) but in a practical BUSINESS sense what i am saying is true. folks want to pretend art is in some lab where art and artist and viewer are separate things. but they never will be

art exists outside of a vacuum. it is not static. it grows and lives and evolves based on culture its in and who is experiencing it. whether you know it or not, what you LIKE or DISLIKE has just as much to do with the story AROUND the art than the art itself.

you carry what you know about me to my tinglers, you carry what you know about the beatles to the beatles, you even carry what you DONT KNOW to artists and THAT changes your experience. the STORY outside of the art is unavoidable because the lack of a story is still a story

so what does this have to do with ai art? my point is, the STORY of ai generated art is potentially interesting when it FIRST happens, or when its a one of one, but when it is co-opted by corporations to make slop, or when you consider the ethics of data scraping and theft, the story becomes sour

in other words, REGARDLESS OF WHAT AI GENERATED ART ‘MAKES’, the STORY outside of the story is derivative and unethical. what is even more important, and the greatest problem of all, is that its very very BORING. ‘oh wonderful someone made a painting from a prompt CANT WAIT to dive into this world’

so fundamentally these projects from tech goofs only serve to show that they have absolutely no understanding of art in the first place. the starry night is not just a painting, it is a three point tether between van gogh, the painting and us, which is constantly breathing and moving and living