I thought AI art was just a weird gimmick until I saw a piece that blew my mind

For months, I kept seeing those weird, glitchy AI images online and thought it was just a passing fad. Then, at a local digital art fair in Portland, I saw a piece called 'Neon Memory Lane' that was a mix of AI generation and hand-painted digital layers. The artist explained they used a specific model, Midjourney, for the base and then spent over 80 hours in Procreate adding details. The final piece had this crazy depth I'd never seen in purely human-made digital art. It completely changed my view on the tools being used. What's the most impressive use of AI you've seen in a finished artwork?

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ivan_miller612mo ago

Tbh I was in the same boat for a while. Ngl, a friend showed me a music video where the whole world was made with AI, then a team of animators made the characters move through it. The way the strange, shifting backgrounds worked with the story totally got me. It made me see it as another brush, not a replacement.

anderson.jason2mo agoTop Commenter

Wait, they animated the characters by hand after the AI built the world? That's wild. I figured it was all one or the other. So the AI just makes this weird, breathing background that the real artists then have to work inside of? That's actually a pretty cool way to do it, like building a stage for a play.

kim_hart71mo ago

Honestly that sounds like a total pain for the animators. Having to match your work to some weird, shifting AI background seems like a nightmare, not a cool stage. It locks them into a visual they didn't create and probably can't fully control. Even @ivan_miller61's example just sounds like a fancy way to say the artists are stuck cleaning up the AI's mess. Feels less like a new brush and more like being handed a broken tool.

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