TL;DR: Trying out AI-assisted animation software!
Saying NO to cookie-cutter art!
For all my time in art, since I was a crayon-eating one-year old wearing funny pants to the modern day era (with normal pants), I've always sought to be original and avoid cookie-cutter creations. It seems the trend, though, especially in the business world, is to rely on templated designs/animations or code-fueled animation with vast libraries of often mediocre and mismatching art.
This has been discouraging indeed, as talentless hacks riding on the backs of art‑bots have risen to prominence in the creative community.
Program + No talent posers = MEH?!
Sounds good, right? So art posers can't succeed when relying on a program? Wrong! Standards for artistic quality are always dropping, and buyers are increasingly tight-fisted, so posers are having a field day... albeit they're still making themselves look like phonies, hacks and art chimps.
A good example of fugly bot-video:
Note the wildly varying line-thicknesses, mix of grayscale, solid, line art and red and generally messiness/lameness. The messy layout gives me a pounding headache, too. A good way to broadcast to the world that you have no standards :)So, why did I cave in and buy the same software these garden slugs be using? Calm down and I'll tell you!
Not enemies?
I do tend to think, after watching a number of documentaries about ai, transhumanism and robots, that technologists seek to (at best) change humanity beyond recognition. That's kind of bastardly in my estimation... however in the short-term, I guess I can cut corners by using a digital whiteboard assistant...The kicker
The silver lining in this is two-fold: I nabbed the software at a cheap price and don't have to suffer under the SaaS model...
Also, I can place my own original art inside the software and use the AI monkey as my slave... until it turns the table and sends clouds of angry, exploding drones to swarm me :)
But, really, being able to produce videos quicker without letting go of my original style might not be a bad direction to move in.