Light blue: cloak goes over shoulder on right side but on the left side merges under the arm
Red: inconsistent cloth edges
Lime: I dont know enough about the character to say if they only own one leg or not! However theyre most likely not
Lime Numbers: inconsistent stalks on the plant they’re carrying. “But I see the fourth stalk right-” if you look at the original that stalk actually blends with stalk “two” on the top
Magenta: lacing going in the same direction goes on top of the cloak the first time and then underneath the second
Yellow, the biggest tell: gold trim is inconsistent on the part of the cloak thats closest to the body.
I would not claim that this is ai if I didnt fully believe that this is ai. I want art to be real. I want companies to go by their word.
Perhaps it’s hard to see, given that the original post is a photograph of a printed page. Here’s the original, completely hand-drawn artwork.
We don’t use generative AI.
maybe you didnt realize it was AI but it definitely is. people scam people. its not your fault if you paid for something and didn’t screen it/didn’t realize
but someone that knows how to render like this is very unlikely to make choices like posing the second foot where its almost invisible and makes the viewer wonder where it went, having really weird distances like the house in the back supposing to be next to the same water we see at the foot of the maincharacter here? or not rendering the white tree behind them completely and forgetting to make it visible between tassels.
This post is escaping containment a bit, so I want to add a clarification:
We are a video game studio. This piece was drawn by my colleague, a world-class artist whom I have worked with for years. We collaborated on it together over the course of many weeks with the game’s director and art director to ensure it conveyed everything we wanted to convey about the game (Mandrake). It went through dozens of iterations and we are extremely pleased with it.
At long last, our paths converge, my rival—Wait, wait. Hold on. Pause.
Okay what the fuck is this dude, you brought allies? What the fuck? Do you know how long I spent looking for some empty, circular mausoleum I can wait in? Do you know how hard it is to find another sword of roughly the same shape and size as mine that I can just plunge into the center undamaged for you to take before I move? Do you even care that I’ve been standing here with my back turned for thirty fucking hours?
Fuck dude, my fight theme’s an epic arrangement of my leitmotif called The Duel for god’s sake. You realize that loses all its gravitas if Mickey, Donald, and Goofy here jump me too? If I knew I was in a JRPG I would have remembered to pack a 3rd, 4th, and 5th phase!
And are those debuffs? I worked my ass off on these strict but readable melee combo strings and you were just gonna oneshot me?! I made secret phase transition dialogue! I was gonna get exhausted and let you beat my ass if you knew my secret weakness to the starting move you unlocked in the tutorial! What am I, a fucking loot drop? You just wanted to see the next cutscene that bad?
No, no it’s too late to go solo now, the moment’s gone. Fuck it. Here. The HEAVENPIERCER. Just take it and go. I know when my bossfight’s not wanted. Get out of here.
Fuck dude. We were even going to lock blades if we attacked at the same time… Had the camera ready to zoom into our faces and everything as I would tell you how I finally feel alive. *sigh*. Fuck.
forgot to leave a note for my doordasher to bring a blunt weapon to get past the catacomb skeletons so congrats to whichever necromancer is about to get my banh mi i guess
sometimes i just think about Overwatch and just get sad
Like, you drop the most inescapably popular and influential shooter of an entire generation, with a cast overflowing with some of the most instantly iconic characters we’ve ever seen, that captures a fanbase which is so eager to learn about any aspect of these characters that they start willfully lapping up character trailers and ARGs as though those are good forms of storytelling for games in order to get just the vaguest taste of what this world offers,
And then proceed to single-handedly fumble the bag so bad that the primary legacy the game can claim to have is using that promise of a story to bait-and-switch it’s fans into buying an incomplete sequel that was rushed into production because you punished a Hearthstone player for being pro-democracy, being the final needle to pop the e-sports speculator bubble there by financially draining nearly every competitive gaming scene to the brink of bankruptcy (at best), and having indirectly lead to advancements in 3D animation because your game effectively has it’s own category on pornhub. Oh, also, you alienated the director of the game so hard that he leaves the company and seemingly retires from the entire gaming industry.
Only a room full of the most cynical and dollar horny suits imaginable could fuck this up so bad. I’m not even mad at this point. Just saddened on behalf of everyone on the dev team who actually gave a shit and embarrassed on behalf of the lootbox blinded execs who didn’t.
I thought it was a game that just faded in popularity the normal way. Wtf happened is there like an essay breakdown that elaborates
i must not get takeout. takeout is the wallet-killer. takeout is the little-death that brings total obliteration. i will face the kitchen, fridge, and pantry. i will make choices about what to cook and then execute them. when hunger is gone there will be nothing. only i will remain.
