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Revisited an old ogre concept as a pre-production visualization exercise. Built key images in Photoshop, brought them into motion in Firefly Boards, added facial animation from my own performance. A great way to see ideas move earlier and better inform what comes next.

57,331 views • 9 months ago •via X (Twitter)

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RJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637's profile picture
RJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 6379 months ago

Its so disappointing that you're all in on this genAI shit now. Major loss for the culture, I hope adobe's money was worth it.

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Gio Nakpil9 months ago

To each our own RJ. I’m “in on this” just like I’m also into sculpting, cinematography, photography, study of textures. I use it as a tool on top of what I do. I know we won’t see eye to eye on this but I just wanted to say my piece.

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Aliyah 👑9 months ago

@arvalis Are you not embarrassed to see that like ratio? Would certainly make me rethink my choices

Gio Nakpil's profile picture
Gio Nakpil9 months ago

@arvalis If I worried too much about what people think I might actually be. But to tell you the truth, I’m perfectly fine :)

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𝑳𝑮9 months ago

one of these days you’ll realize the years of life you wasted on this tacky and tasteless bullshit

Gio Nakpil's profile picture
Gio Nakpil9 months ago

I’m 200% confident I won’t look back with any sense of regret. I never do, I approach this like everything else I’ve done: with confidence. Unless you’re some kind of seer who can see my future and speak with that level of certainty about me? Do you have future-vision powers? 🫣

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𝑳𝑮9 months ago

you’re just a predictable hack and your ilk tends to follow the same path, and if you’re lucky you get to have a moment of realization and that’s when you ultimately get to benefit and learn from the very normal human emotion of regret

Gio Nakpil's profile picture
Gio Nakpil9 months ago

The creature above on this post is more of an ogre-like fantasy creature. Maybe when I create a troll video next time, feel free to keep writing your thoughts there, as it’ll be made in your honor :)

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Boogeyman9 months ago

pretty bad

Gio Nakpil's profile picture
Gio Nakpil9 months ago

Blunt but honest. I like that.

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Miles Greb9 months ago

You're better than silicon slop.

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Sami Sadek9 months ago

Congratulations, it just looks like dogshit.

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meghan mancain x9 months ago

looks like shit

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Offline659 months ago

I seen hobby animators make more belivable motion in Blender.

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Devin_Art (Rosychuk)9 months ago

This looks really bad and if you can't see that, then I'm very concerned for you.

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tot tot9 months ago

What a bummer :(

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ami9 months ago

what useful information can you get out of these stiff, uncanny movements? there's no information in here that'd help with posing, rigging, even modeling bc its just standing around and twitching. id send you back to draw a proper ref sheet instead if wasting man-hours on this.

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Gio Nakpil9 months ago

First off, in 3D art, what are the alternatives? A turntable render of the critter in a T-pose? As mentioned, this is a pre-production workflow…showing how an existing design can be placed into context, like visualizing how it might read in a specific environment.

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ami9 months ago

that already has a lot more use in production than this. this has no more value than a 2D preprod concept art and it could also be deceptive bc ai cant be trusted with anatomy and proper animation, let alone production lvl consistency. pls just take the adobe money a go.

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OS'TA9 months ago

Cool, now you can master something on the same level as shrimp jesus, facebook boomers will be pleased with this downgrade from 3d to genAI slop

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Aglæcwif9 months ago

waiting for the day when AI video isn't immediately recognizable as AI so it might, theoretically, be moderately useful for actual production. Alas, not this day.

Eric Bailey's profile picture
Eric Bailey9 months ago

slop

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Kacharava Art (OPEN TO WORK)9 months ago

Garbage

Fred Lixman's profile picture
Fred Lixman9 months ago

It genuinely sucks. You can bullshit all you want it's just generic ai slop.

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pizzaRollbug9 months ago

Why does this look so off?

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Chronomad @ RDC269 months ago

I think the most frustrating thing about AI discourse is how pretentious those vehemently in support of the technology tend to come off, especially as it still produces questionable results.

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Pr0t0! Who's Drill will Pierce The Heavens9 months ago

And this is why you are *formally* at valve.

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Adamska9 months ago

What precisely did you learn from this?

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SaoryEmanoelle | OKAMI 2 REAAAAL9 months ago

Ewwwwwwwww

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Vaal Hazak's Strongest Soldier9 months ago

looks like shit

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ChingChiangDongKang 🇸🇬9 months ago

This seems like a waste of time. This feels like circling around the solution when you're supposed to be taking steps towards it.

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Damian0303039 months ago

Stop littering.

J's profile picture
J9 months ago

horrible garbage. shameful.

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Gio Nakpil9 months ago

Can you expand on this a bit? Beyond the, I would guess, “because it’s AI,” reason, what specifically do you find lacking or problematic? Genuinely asking so I (and possibly others) can learn from it.

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DreamStarter9 months ago

Very cool! I made the mistake to also look at the comments 😩

Gio Nakpil's profile picture
Gio Nakpil9 months ago

Thank you! Lol yeah. It’s to be expected.

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Fischer Ron9 months ago

I find this use of AI to be perfectly good and smart. Those who have a problem dont need to use it.

Gio Nakpil's profile picture
Gio Nakpil9 months ago

Thank you. Yeah, they don’t have to use it. But (looks at the other person who replied to your comment), they sure as hell will be childish about disagreeing lol

Fischer Ron's profile picture
Fischer Ron9 months ago

They dont worth the time and energy.

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CrocB29 months ago

FUCK AI!

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