Here's an idea for an experiment - try creating a new portfolio under a fake name. Add some of your artworks that haven't been posted anywhere yet and try getting a job (or even an interview) as a talented but rookie artist without a brand behind him. Genuinely curious about the results.
With all do respect, this is coming from a place of exceptional privilege of being known, having a brand and a following. It takes time to get there. Most of us are working to attain that.
@@chiu-on-this Only 1% of content creators become known. It's not a very good odd to bet your future on. And although I appreciate this video as we need all the encouragement that we can get in those times, but i agree that the information here is not applicable for majority of artists.
@@chiu-on-this job security is working for other people, in the video I really expected how you can become indispensable to your employee than work for yourself. Sounds really out of touch or at least not knowing the market.
Obviously. But you realize Bobby also started with nothing. He doesn’t say everyone who tries will be successful but if you want to be an artist and have security from ai this is a very legitimate path. Is it easy? No. Will everyone who tries succeed? Of course not. But it’s something to work towards if you think this career could be good for you. Job security is not something you get just by wanting to have it. You either need to be incredibly skilled and diligent or plain lucky. In this video Bobby’s just showing you a path that can work and there’s nothing wrong with that. Just because not everyone will succeed doesn’t mean he shouldn’t say anything at all. Besides even if you don’t follow through with his plan you can still learn from this video and take what you want and apply it to your life. There’s no need for hate or saying he shouldn’t share this information because he’s successful himself. This is a man who became successful and is sharing what he knows about that path with us. It’s all in good will and there’s nothing wrong with him sharing
@@MrTom-li2gf This. No, I don't think AI is going to hurt ESTABLISHED Artists that have a following any time soon. HOWEVER, it's going to hurt people from getting known. My buddy is a professional illustrator, he's done concept art for movies, video games the list goes on, he has a sizeable insta and FB following, gets commissions all the time. He'll be fine. However, prior to that, he had to build his reputation, acquire clients and that often came from low hanging fruit, individuals that needed an artist for some creative endeavor. Doing art for kick starters whether they begrudgingly needed to pay an artist. Thats actually how my buddy "blew up" so to speak, was doing the artwork for a kickstarter table top RPG that got popular. Karen isn't gonna need an artist for her childrens book any more. It will be hard for artists to build a portfolio of paid work. There are so many art jobs that will go away. Hell those fake paintings you get at target or walmart that are ultimately just "prints" on a canvas made to look like a real painting. Ultimately a real artist did do the original, but now, why would these companies pay an artist for a painting AI can easily do? Art is going to turn into a luxury niche. i.e. if someone needs kitchen knives or a pocket knife, 99/100 they are gonna run to a big box store and get knives machined in a factory. Blacksmiths exist for people that want a hand crafted item, but it's not a space that could push out blacksmithing grads at colleges all over the world and have demand even remotely match the supply. The same will apply to art. I simply do not believe with the introduction of AI the supply of people that want to make money with art will simply be way to high. Hell I was one of the only one of my college friends that WASN'T majoring in an Art discipline and only ONE (the one I mentioned) actually has an art related job and we graduated well before AI art was considered a threat. It was already hard, now its just been compounded.
nah, I just want to be free, paint and be happy, i dont think you need to kneel to the big tech companies who want to dictate what we should or not do to be recognized, (reels for example)
Bobby , I'm a huge fan and took many Schoolism courses so I mean this with a lot of respect. First I appreciate the positivity and I know you mean well. It's nearly impossible to build a social media following these days unless your a top notch artist or at super luck and are one of first in your niche. I've even seen established artists with 100K+ followers try to bring followers to another platform only to find out less then 1% come along and can't get traction anymore. Social media 10 years ago was much more forgiving on up and comers and small artists. The field is too diluted with art from the top artists that have already made it and nobody really cares for an artists new journey when the art is just mediocre. Also , I'm a huge fan or AR/VR , but just like every art field it can easily be done by AI. AR/VR is just 3D assets (things people have been making for decades) placed in a world where the only difference is the perspective (the head unit). The process is still the same and just as vulnerable. Regardless , thanks for giving us some positivity!
"nobody really cares for an artists new journey when the art is just mediocre" - thats the whole point no?, You have to make them care. Why should anyone care? Do you care for mediocre artists and work? "....unless your a top notch artist or at super luck and are one of first in your niche." - I'm sorry but this sounds like an easy out excuse to me
Not to be negative but this video is only the top of top artists (famous artists), my conclusion for myself is to do art for myself and look for other job for living
Well that's also okay, but the threat of AI doesn't stop in arts, it threatens all jobs and will catch up eventually. People switching to different jobs don't realize this.
@@carlosquall15 I just can't imagine an AI taking over my current job : Even if they had a robot of some sort it would fail so hard because of all the mud , water and dirt , not to mention that its pattern recognition would be challenged to the max on a regular basis. So it would take Detroit Become Human androids to replace that job which is nowhere near current tech.
i have less than 2k followers but I make a decent living doing just art. You dont need to be "top/famous", you just need to find your niche and keep working!
@@oriconceptarts3233 People displaced by AI will move to jobs secure from it driving down the salaries in those industries. That security is also temporary until AI improves and has lower running costs enough to compete with human labour. The robotics element is only a hurdle from the perspective of humanoid type robot replacements but it's probably easier to change the way the job is done rather than adapting robots to the job in the way humans do it.
This is one of the first videos I’ve seen on this topic that helped my absolutely overwhelming existential crisis I’ve been having for about a year due to Ai art. I’ve been an artist for 20 years and I’m about to sell my second company because the brand is so recognizable. This gave me so much peace knowing that I’m a) doing the right thing, and b) that all is not lost in the art world. If you can hone a story (which is essentially a brand) then you’ll be okay in this world. Ai cannot have its own personality. (And for the record, I’m selling the company because I’m transitioning to a different genre of art and content. I simply explored everything I wanted to create long ago for that brand. Knowing how to exit a brand is also something small business owners should learn about!)
FZD design does a great video on this topic. Everyone here should watch it. AI scares people who do art that is easily replaceable. Job security doesn’t exist as long as you rely on others for your paycheck. This is why BRAND becomes so important. Especially as an artist, where art is a LUXURY not a necessity. Many here will bring down good advice because it isn’t what they want to hear. Welcome to reality. System disruptions like this have been happening for a very very long time. Best way to avoid them is to actually be valuable and continue to adapt to an ever changing environment. More artists than ever before are hyper successful. Bets are on you’re watching them. And at the end of the day nobody is watching you. Only you can change that. No better time than the present to do so. Or keep whining in chats about AI. Someone actually serious about doing art as a career will be happy to take your place.
Feng Zhu and others were part of a generation that was super lucky my friend. Feng worked on Star Wars when there were a handful of artists available to do that. These guys practically built the whole paradigm along with the bad conditions that followed. Listening to Feng’s out of touch advice on the matter is BS because Feng doesn’t have to follow it. It’s basically telling you to be a tech overlord yesman, chasing the digital algorithm god to “create a brand” to slap on products made with cheap labor overseas so you can sell to some idiot working a 9-5 who’s equally under threat of losing their job as you, and the big companies make their buck off the transaction regardless. In other words Feng is telling you to kiss ass, because that’s what he did. Only that when he did it it was easier. So the question is are you willing to be a bigger tool than he was, and is your dignity worth less than his was.
As a student who chose Game Art and Development as her degree, hearing your outlook on web 3.0 has really encouraged me. With all of the industry layoffs over the past two years (and right as I'm about to get my degree), a lot of my peers and professors have considered or actually changed careers to escape the job insecurity bloodbath. The skills are transferrable, of course. The government uses 3D artists and so do supply chains and there is a freelance market. But the current insecurity has completely transformed the playing field. Personally, I've felt that I did choose the right degree for myself and that there will be huge opportunities in the near future for game developers and artists, especially if they are familiar with world development and AR/VR like I am.
But then again, I have aged into literally every shitty socio-financial crisis since the turn of the millenia; started school around the '08 crash and my family fell into poverty, graduated high school in 2020 so no typical graduation or college experience (or jobs) and became homeless, and now graduating into an imploding industry... I'm used to everything being on fire at this point.
@@KomiklyArt Idk man, I was interested in Game Art but don't feel optimistic with how my skills are rn. Majoring in Illustration and Graphic design so might lean more into GD or get more into 3D stuff. I just feel the most at home with digital illustration
@@precipitaion6296I feel you there. The quality of my uni education has been terrible, honestly. I'm going to have to spend another year outside of school working on my portfolio atp. School isn't preparing me for a career. I also feel most comfortable with digital illustration. What's your niche, if any?
This is an optimistic outlook that I would like to participate in, but seeing Loish lose some work to AI causes me to have some pessimism about the subject
Now im glad i spent 7 years on learning to write, after art school. Brand thought is interesting, but people are less fickle on their favorite brands as is usually thought. Id say artists have to be money wise and invest all free money, live frugally, and never work from paycheck to paycheck. The hard truth is most artists will have to get a dayjob to support their art, but that doesnt make them a failure. Success is not the most important thing in life.
That being sad is based around your values. Success is superficial and overrated and not the reason for your happiness. i believe the goal is a happy life, art remaining a hobby can be a part of it. Because it has its perks, like total creative freedom, that most proffessionals only dream of. This perk is a true gift. Speaking as a comic book wannabe artist writer.
Still though there are huge intellectual property issues because all those Ai engines are trained on other peoples work, so that's why many studios try to avoid any future problems, we should talk about that a lot more because it's not something minimal, on the other hand there is one good thing that Ai should push artists to be better and more original than others, it may be harsh but only the strong survive on any field
Have you seen that AI influencer though? I agree that some art jobs are secure with AI, but we need to be realistic and understand only people with a management and structure profile will end up with work. A lot of artists will lose their jobs.
I think someone once said you only need 1000 people to want your art to make a living as an artist. I know the situation is different for everyone but it make sense to me. If you have 1000 that specifically like YOU and YOUR art and they want to collect your art or buy every other new artwork you make, then you should be set. The problem is getting those 1000 patrons to be interested in you and stay interested. I don’t think this counts as job security because, what if suddenly none of them want your art? On the other hand you could be getting new patrons at the same time 🤷♀️ I think a lot of people watching this video are hearing the whole “make a brand” part but not realising that it doesn’t have to be a big brand. One of my favourite artists is quite small, but she has about 900 patrons and she is making a living with that. I’m one of the people that would by her art because it’s HERS even though I could possibly use ai (it probably wouldn’t satisfy me)
It's the samething for every business starting out, my art business is a work in progress but I have worked in a few family businesses for most of my life and also created my own. One thing that is constant is that 90% of your sales are repeat customers. It takes time to build that up. When I started selling used games and electronics, it took a couple months to increase sales, though I was the only one doing this in my town. I was fortunate enough for it to expand through word of mouth. The family businesses I have worked in vary from supermarkets and wholesalers, liquor stores to ice cream franchise, cambios, and remittances. With the exception of supermarkets, everything has noticeably slower periods or days. You might have just a couple of customers coming in, so you are operating at a loss after salaries, utilities, rent, etc. These businesses have been around for decades. Fortunately, the good days significantly outnumber the bad. Either way, going into business, you need to be prepared to tackle the downs when they come. There will be ups as long as you keep grinding. Find your niche and serve them they will keep coming back and hopefully tell their friends.
Thanks bobby, your words and thoughts in this confusing times bring a sense of calm. In fact the only thing that actually feels scary is the un-ethic training of ai, but things like glaze make it less scary. Because AI along feels a bit mainstream, even people who modify AI content, at some point becomes somehow boring, a bit generic in that sense. Hopefully one day I can build up my honest brand and be less scared of the future uncertainty.
lol! I didnt notice until you mentioned it. Maybe provide a tactical distraction in the background that viewers can subconsciously focus on (i.e. skewed frame or mispositioned object)...that way they might not notice other errors.
I wouldn't worry about it, the information is more important. Honestly, I wouldn't have noticed if you did point it out. Thanks for sharing your insights, Bobby.
Is it smug? Artists who are confident about the future of art are just looking at prior data and extrapolating. We have too little historical data on AI to reliably predict what it will do to any industry. We don't know if its reliable for production pipelines, if audiences will respond positively towards it, or a dozen other factors. It appears to be quite smug to promote a new, untested, unsure emerging tech as the definitive near future for art bssed on just the little information we can draw from.
That "threat" is theoretical. In this theoretical scenario, if an AI can make it's own original art work fit enough for the art industry (you should think hard about what that entails), artists won't be the only ones affected. Or the least affected. In this theoretical scenario, ANY human job can be taken by AI. But it's not gonna happen, because at the end of the day, humans and society will put themselves first. So you should also consider that there is also the aspect of this spectrum of yours, where there are "smug artists", that there are also doomsdayers and pessimists. But you know what's not in there? Clairvoyants. No one knows the future. You may as well be panicking about when an asteroid could randomly hit Earth or the next pandemic. Just do what you can with what you have now. Besides, AI can't take away art. Because art is something that YOU like doing. If you're talking about jobs, well, the grass is always greener. And there are plenty of jobs to go around, whether it's in art or any other field.
I still essentially have an entire lifetime ahead of me, and having my whole life uprooted at 30 because my passion driven profession has been rendered obsolete after having paid thousands of dollars for an education, and devoting years of my time, isn’t a pleasant thought. I’d really like traditional for 2D animation/illustration to still be something that’s relevant :/
Dunno if you need to hear this or not, but I see a huge uptick in artists going back to traditional mediums. I think it's going to become a rarity and a highly sought after skill that people will want to see/have/be a part of. Not just traditional mediums either--I think your desire for 2D animation is going to gain relevancy as a response to this small era of AI (aka anti-art.) I know the feeling of having gone to school and put in a lot of work into a creative skillset. But i definitely don't regret it! I've gotten a lot out of it, even if a career hasn't worked out for me... but I hope you can find some happiness with your art and a career if they are separate or one in the same.
Title caught me one way, video was another nice hook! For branders and people trying their best to make themselves known with evolving times unless you don't already have thousands or millions of followers you can't have that privilege of just getting work and opportunities poured on you. You're running to catch up, because as you said, Power of your name, Status, Numbers, followers matters nowadays, OR hoping to make that one viral piece of art or video that you can use to make yourself known. But as an artist it takes TIME, YEARS, working your ass off in hopes to get noticed. Because you need as equal hard work to promote yourself that already took yourself long enough to do that art. Let alone trying to hire or commission people to help you work on your platform, It's harder also nowadays to get help because the person who chooses to work with you also cares about the status and numbers before making a decision. BECAUSE they are trying to achieve that same recognition to make a living in these times (these are the freelancers) That's why artists and branders run to AI to help with branding, virality, imaging, self promotion, most of all time!!
Thank you Bobby for giving us the pep talk. In this era where everything is transitioning, your video always giving us a hope for the future. Also, welcome back to RUclips. Right now youtube is very generous on their algorithm and i expect many more videos of you on the future.
If EVERY artist on the internet suddenly decided to became youtuber then there would be a lot of channels. I don't think there would be enough people to watch them :D. As for VR in the future. It is partly the reason why I am slowly learning more 3d and I bought VR headset to try things out.
Everyone taking this as "you need to be famous", that's not what having a brand needs to mean. You don't need millions or even thousands of followers. If you find the right niche, you can make it work. I have less than 2k followers on twitter but I'm able to make a decent living!
AI could do many things but there are jobs that are not as straightforward where it wouldn't be able to cut it , particularly jobs where the environment itself is in constant shift and requires adaptation.
There is HUGE opportunity ahead for artists. It creates an opportunity to create and own greater and bigger works. A youtube channel run by an artist putting out pixar quality shorts on their own? We are headed into a great time for art.
Wish I could add to the conversation about my experience with talking to ai-only artists, but I’ve been randomly blocked from commenting, and I’m not sure why 😅 This is my 2nd attempt to see if I can actually comment! If not then I’m giving up lol.
Wow looks like my comment actually posted! 😂 Well, all the AI only artists I’ve talked to are mostly people who never got to try being in the creative field before… now they suddenly have this tool that makes it possible for them to generate something on the level of actual artists. For them it’s like suddenly being able to use a superpower for the first time. They are just using the tool the universe has given them… it seems really unfair but that’s life, don’t we know that? We aren’t entitled to having our problems solved, we have to put in the effort to solve them. I think that’s what this video is trying to get across too… trying to find ways that could help artists move on and adapt. Maybe we can also discover a new superpower in areas of life we’ve never tried before…
The AR/VR bit at the end was what caught my attention. I’ve had a personal interest in spatial computing as I see it as a way to combine both my love for illustration, comics and my experience with IT - but for projects and stories I really care about. Even as I’ve had it rough in the optimism department as of late, I still want to believe that AI is only going to kill your career if you allow it to do so. We can’t afford to be one-trick ponies anymore. Those who open their minds to new knowledge are the ones that will survive. 🤞
Thanks bobby! Your conclusion really helps to motivate, it gave me the fuel to at least work hard for the next hour in my art skills. I will need to watch the video again tomorrow to keep the motivation going 😂
any beginner artist who knows art and AI can understand how far should they go to SELL their art...i.e. atleast years if you're exceptional and your art is unique af...for even an average artist, i'd say prepare your backup job, its only a matter of time before AI will have perfect art with proper theories of art...(not saying its a reason to give up art, be a businessman and marketer first lmao)
Because our jobs is to program, restructure and reform this country in its entirety. Humanity chose convenience and it has gotten us close to extinction. Coins are the only thing that can save us. Dollar bills are the root of all evil since they first existed.
technically it will replace the junior artist kind of level skills, but high level kind or art astyle direcitng and supervising will not be replaced. Artist is to stay, however the numbers will be decreased. Only brands or certain recognisable styles will unable to be replace if those art are for collection purposes by fans. If for creation work for branding or work purpose, majority will be replaced.
I'm so happy to have Ai because it unbiased and creates opertunitiy for me to achieve what I want to do. Ai is not preventing me from creating its enabling me to do more.
My understanding for combating AI is that you have to become a good problem solver instead focusing on visual technical skills. If the next big thing is world building, what is stopping AI from doing the visuals for you? Or are you saying that world building is a possible avenue we could take to help grow our own audience?
No disrespect intended, but you need to change that terrible intro beatboxing. It sounds so amateurish and just not very good, in technique or production quality....it kind of cheapens your videos, IMO.
Bobby: What happened in 2008?
Me: the housing crisis
Bobby: Iron Man
Me: oh
lolllllll this!
perfect response
Here's an idea for an experiment - try creating a new portfolio under a fake name. Add some of your artworks that haven't been posted anywhere yet and try getting a job (or even an interview) as a talented but rookie artist without a brand behind him.
Genuinely curious about the results.
With all do respect, this is coming from a place of exceptional privilege of being known, having a brand and a following. It takes time to get there. Most of us are working to attain that.
there's people becoming known everyday. It's not the easy answer but it's very much doable.
@@chiu-on-this Only 1% of content creators become known. It's not a very good odd to bet your future on. And although I appreciate this video as we need all the encouragement that we can get in those times, but i agree that the information here is not applicable for majority of artists.
@@chiu-on-this job security is working for other people, in the video I really expected how you can become indispensable to your employee than work for yourself. Sounds really out of touch or at least not knowing the market.
Obviously. But you realize Bobby also started with nothing. He doesn’t say everyone who tries will be successful but if you want to be an artist and have security from ai this is a very legitimate path. Is it easy? No. Will everyone who tries succeed? Of course not. But it’s something to work towards if you think this career could be good for you. Job security is not something you get just by wanting to have it. You either need to be incredibly skilled and diligent or plain lucky. In this video Bobby’s just showing you a path that can work and there’s nothing wrong with that. Just because not everyone will succeed doesn’t mean he shouldn’t say anything at all. Besides even if you don’t follow through with his plan you can still learn from this video and take what you want and apply it to your life. There’s no need for hate or saying he shouldn’t share this information because he’s successful himself. This is a man who became successful and is sharing what he knows about that path with us. It’s all in good will and there’s nothing wrong with him sharing
@@MrTom-li2gf This. No, I don't think AI is going to hurt ESTABLISHED Artists that have a following any time soon.
HOWEVER, it's going to hurt people from getting known. My buddy is a professional illustrator, he's done concept art for movies, video games the list goes on, he has a sizeable insta and FB following, gets commissions all the time. He'll be fine.
However, prior to that, he had to build his reputation, acquire clients and that often came from low hanging fruit, individuals that needed an artist for some creative endeavor. Doing art for kick starters whether they begrudgingly needed to pay an artist. Thats actually how my buddy "blew up" so to speak, was doing the artwork for a kickstarter table top RPG that got popular.
Karen isn't gonna need an artist for her childrens book any more. It will be hard for artists to build a portfolio of paid work. There are so many art jobs that will go away. Hell those fake paintings you get at target or walmart that are ultimately just "prints" on a canvas made to look like a real painting. Ultimately a real artist did do the original, but now, why would these companies pay an artist for a painting AI can easily do?
Art is going to turn into a luxury niche. i.e. if someone needs kitchen knives or a pocket knife, 99/100 they are gonna run to a big box store and get knives machined in a factory.
Blacksmiths exist for people that want a hand crafted item, but it's not a space that could push out blacksmithing grads at colleges all over the world and have demand even remotely match the supply.
The same will apply to art. I simply do not believe with the introduction of AI the supply of people that want to make money with art will simply be way to high. Hell I was one of the only one of my college friends that WASN'T majoring in an Art discipline and only ONE (the one I mentioned) actually has an art related job and we graduated well before AI art was considered a threat. It was already hard, now its just been compounded.
nah, I just want to be free, paint and be happy, i dont think you need to kneel to the big tech companies who want to dictate what we should or not do to be recognized, (reels for example)
Bobby , I'm a huge fan and took many Schoolism courses so I mean this with a lot of respect. First I appreciate the positivity and I know you mean well. It's nearly impossible to build a social media following these days unless your a top notch artist or at super luck and are one of first in your niche. I've even seen established artists with 100K+ followers try to bring followers to another platform only to find out less then 1% come along and can't get traction anymore. Social media 10 years ago was much more forgiving on up and comers and small artists. The field is too diluted with art from the top artists that have already made it and nobody really cares for an artists new journey when the art is just mediocre. Also , I'm a huge fan or AR/VR , but just like every art field it can easily be done by AI. AR/VR is just 3D assets (things people have been making for decades) placed in a world where the only difference is the perspective (the head unit). The process is still the same and just as vulnerable. Regardless , thanks for giving us some positivity!
"nobody really cares for an artists new journey when the art is just mediocre" - thats the whole point no?, You have to make them care. Why should anyone care? Do you care for mediocre artists and work? "....unless your a top notch artist or at super luck and are one of first in your niche." - I'm sorry but this sounds like an easy out excuse to me
This is good news for established artists, how about artists who aren't as established and known?
Not to be negative but this video is only the top of top artists (famous artists), my conclusion for myself is to do art for myself and look for other job for living
Well that's also okay, but the threat of AI doesn't stop in arts, it threatens all jobs and will catch up eventually. People switching to different jobs don't realize this.
@@carlosquall15 I just can't imagine an AI taking over my current job : Even if they had a robot of some sort it would fail so hard because of all the mud , water and dirt , not to mention that its pattern recognition would be challenged to the max on a regular basis. So it would take Detroit Become Human androids to replace that job which is nowhere near current tech.
i have less than 2k followers but I make a decent living doing just art. You dont need to be "top/famous", you just need to find your niche and keep working!
@@oriconceptarts3233 Just curious, what is your job?
@@oriconceptarts3233 People displaced by AI will move to jobs secure from it driving down the salaries in those industries. That security is also temporary until AI improves and has lower running costs enough to compete with human labour. The robotics element is only a hurdle from the perspective of humanoid type robot replacements but it's probably easier to change the way the job is done rather than adapting robots to the job in the way humans do it.
Just be famous guys. It's not that hard.
The entre video message in one sentence...
This is one of the first videos I’ve seen on this topic that helped my absolutely overwhelming existential crisis I’ve been having for about a year due to Ai art. I’ve been an artist for 20 years and I’m about to sell my second company because the brand is so recognizable. This gave me so much peace knowing that I’m a) doing the right thing, and b) that all is not lost in the art world.
If you can hone a story (which is essentially a brand) then you’ll be okay in this world. Ai cannot have its own personality.
(And for the record, I’m selling the company because I’m transitioning to a different genre of art and content. I simply explored everything I wanted to create long ago for that brand. Knowing how to exit a brand is also something small business owners should learn about!)
10 years from now:
- 'Your dad's a tinman!'
- 'Yeah, well at least my T-800 dad shows up to my softball games, your T-1000 dad is always drunk!'
FZD design does a great video on this topic. Everyone here should watch it. AI scares people who do art that is easily replaceable.
Job security doesn’t exist as long as you rely on others for your paycheck. This is why BRAND becomes so important. Especially as an artist, where art is a LUXURY not a necessity. Many here will bring down good advice because it isn’t what they want to hear. Welcome to reality. System disruptions like this have been happening for a very very long time. Best way to avoid them is to actually be valuable and continue to adapt to an ever changing environment. More artists than ever before are hyper successful. Bets are on you’re watching them. And at the end of the day nobody is watching you. Only you can change that. No better time than the present to do so. Or keep whining in chats about AI. Someone actually serious about doing art as a career will be happy to take your place.
Facts.
I needed this. Thank you very much. I’m gonna practice my art skills now ❤
Yo can you link that fzd design video please?
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Feng Zhu and others were part of a generation that was super lucky my friend. Feng worked on Star Wars when there were a handful of artists available to do that. These guys practically built the whole paradigm along with the bad conditions that followed.
Listening to Feng’s out of touch advice on the matter is BS because Feng doesn’t have to follow it. It’s basically telling you to be a tech overlord yesman, chasing the digital algorithm god to “create a brand” to slap on products made with cheap labor overseas so you can sell to some idiot working a 9-5 who’s equally under threat of losing their job as you, and the big companies make their buck off the transaction regardless.
In other words Feng is telling you to kiss ass, because that’s what he did. Only that when he did it it was easier. So the question is are you willing to be a bigger tool than he was, and is your dignity worth less than his was.
As a student who chose Game Art and Development as her degree, hearing your outlook on web 3.0 has really encouraged me. With all of the industry layoffs over the past two years (and right as I'm about to get my degree), a lot of my peers and professors have considered or actually changed careers to escape the job insecurity bloodbath. The skills are transferrable, of course. The government uses 3D artists and so do supply chains and there is a freelance market. But the current insecurity has completely transformed the playing field. Personally, I've felt that I did choose the right degree for myself and that there will be huge opportunities in the near future for game developers and artists, especially if they are familiar with world development and AR/VR like I am.
But then again, I have aged into literally every shitty socio-financial crisis since the turn of the millenia; started school around the '08 crash and my family fell into poverty, graduated high school in 2020 so no typical graduation or college experience (or jobs) and became homeless, and now graduating into an imploding industry... I'm used to everything being on fire at this point.
@@KomiklyArt Fellow 2020 hs graduate 🥲
@@precipitaion6296 How are you doing out there bro :')
@@KomiklyArt Idk man, I was interested in Game Art but don't feel optimistic with how my skills are rn. Majoring in Illustration and Graphic design so might lean more into GD or get more into 3D stuff. I just feel the most at home with digital illustration
@@precipitaion6296I feel you there. The quality of my uni education has been terrible, honestly. I'm going to have to spend another year outside of school working on my portfolio atp. School isn't preparing me for a career. I also feel most comfortable with digital illustration. What's your niche, if any?
This is an optimistic outlook that I would like to participate in, but seeing Loish lose some work to AI causes me to have some pessimism about the subject
Where did u see it? Just curious
"I'm sorry or you're welcome, depending on who you are."
Now im glad i spent 7 years on learning to write, after art school. Brand thought is interesting, but people are less fickle on their favorite brands as is usually thought. Id say artists have to be money wise and invest all free money, live frugally, and never work from paycheck to paycheck. The hard truth is most artists will have to get a dayjob to support their art, but that doesnt make them a failure. Success is not the most important thing in life.
Basically make it a hobby. Quite sad that people wont be able to sustain themselves from art.
That being sad is based around your values. Success is superficial and overrated and not the reason for your happiness. i believe the goal is a happy life, art remaining a hobby can be a part of it. Because it has its perks, like total creative freedom, that most proffessionals only dream of. This perk is a true gift. Speaking as a comic book wannabe artist writer.
Still though there are huge intellectual property issues because all those Ai engines are trained on other peoples work, so that's why many studios try to avoid any future problems, we should talk about that a lot more because it's not something minimal, on the other hand there is one good thing that Ai should push artists to be better and more original than others, it may be harsh but only the strong survive on any field
Have you seen that AI influencer though?
I agree that some art jobs are secure with AI, but we need to be realistic and understand only people with a management and structure profile will end up with work.
A lot of artists will lose their jobs.
I think someone once said you only need 1000 people to want your art to make a living as an artist. I know the situation is different for everyone but it make sense to me. If you have 1000 that specifically like YOU and YOUR art and they want to collect your art or buy every other new artwork you make, then you should be set.
The problem is getting those 1000 patrons to be interested in you and stay interested.
I don’t think this counts as job security because, what if suddenly none of them want your art? On the other hand you could be getting new patrons at the same time 🤷♀️
I think a lot of people watching this video are hearing the whole “make a brand” part but not realising that it doesn’t have to be a big brand.
One of my favourite artists is quite small, but she has about 900 patrons and she is making a living with that. I’m one of the people that would by her art because it’s HERS even though I could possibly use ai (it probably wouldn’t satisfy me)
It's the samething for every business starting out, my art business is a work in progress but I have worked in a few family businesses for most of my life and also created my own. One thing that is constant is that 90% of your sales are repeat customers. It takes time to build that up. When I started selling used games and electronics, it took a couple months to increase sales, though I was the only one doing this in my town. I was fortunate enough for it to expand through word of mouth. The family businesses I have worked in vary from supermarkets and wholesalers, liquor stores to ice cream franchise, cambios, and remittances. With the exception of supermarkets, everything has noticeably slower periods or days. You might have just a couple of customers coming in, so you are operating at a loss after salaries, utilities, rent, etc. These businesses have been around for decades. Fortunately, the good days significantly outnumber the bad. Either way, going into business, you need to be prepared to tackle the downs when they come. There will be ups as long as you keep grinding. Find your niche and serve them they will keep coming back and hopefully tell their friends.
Thanks bobby, your words and thoughts in this confusing times bring a sense of calm. In fact the only thing that actually feels scary is the un-ethic training of ai, but things like glaze make it less scary. Because AI along feels a bit mainstream, even people who modify AI content, at some point becomes somehow boring, a bit generic in that sense. Hopefully one day I can build up my honest brand and be less scared of the future uncertainty.
You're welcome. Hope it helps.
I can't stop looking at that little breadcrumb on my lip 😱 and the subtitling errors... Dang it...
The captions near settings helped a bit to match your speech. Thanks anyway. 😅
lol! I didnt notice until you mentioned it. Maybe provide a tactical distraction in the background that viewers can subconsciously focus on (i.e. skewed frame or mispositioned object)...that way they might not notice other errors.
i did not notice the bread crumbs till i saw this comment 😅
I ddin't notice any breadcrumb Bobby, also love the positive outlook on the future, the world needs more of it!
I wouldn't worry about it, the information is more important. Honestly, I wouldn't have noticed if you did point it out. Thanks for sharing your insights, Bobby.
I keep hearing smug hubris from content artists who dismiss the threat of Ai.
Is it smug? Artists who are confident about the future of art are just looking at prior data and extrapolating. We have too little historical data on AI to reliably predict what it will do to any industry. We don't know if its reliable for production pipelines, if audiences will respond positively towards it, or a dozen other factors. It appears to be quite smug to promote a new, untested, unsure emerging tech as the definitive near future for art bssed on just the little information we can draw from.
That "threat" is theoretical. In this theoretical scenario, if an AI can make it's own original art work fit enough for the art industry (you should think hard about what that entails), artists won't be the only ones affected. Or the least affected. In this theoretical scenario, ANY human job can be taken by AI. But it's not gonna happen, because at the end of the day, humans and society will put themselves first. So you should also consider that there is also the aspect of this spectrum of yours, where there are "smug artists", that there are also doomsdayers and pessimists. But you know what's not in there? Clairvoyants. No one knows the future. You may as well be panicking about when an asteroid could randomly hit Earth or the next pandemic. Just do what you can with what you have now. Besides, AI can't take away art. Because art is something that YOU like doing. If you're talking about jobs, well, the grass is always greener. And there are plenty of jobs to go around, whether it's in art or any other field.
I still essentially have an entire lifetime ahead of me, and having my whole life uprooted at 30 because my passion driven profession has been rendered obsolete after having paid thousands of dollars for an education, and devoting years of my time, isn’t a pleasant thought.
I’d really like traditional for 2D animation/illustration to still be something that’s relevant :/
Dunno if you need to hear this or not, but I see a huge uptick in artists going back to traditional mediums. I think it's going to become a rarity and a highly sought after skill that people will want to see/have/be a part of. Not just traditional mediums either--I think your desire for 2D animation is going to gain relevancy as a response to this small era of AI (aka anti-art.)
I know the feeling of having gone to school and put in a lot of work into a creative skillset. But i definitely don't regret it! I've gotten a lot out of it, even if a career hasn't worked out for me... but I hope you can find some happiness with your art and a career if they are separate or one in the same.
I think you should look into David Choe, his type of philosophy about self love and fearlessness in art is what we all need to hear right now
basically the Asian Gary Vee
Title caught me one way, video was another nice hook! For branders and people trying their best to make themselves known with evolving times unless you don't already have thousands or millions of followers you can't have that privilege of just getting work and opportunities poured on you. You're running to catch up, because as you said, Power of your name, Status, Numbers, followers matters nowadays, OR hoping to make that one viral piece of art or video that you can use to make yourself known. But as an artist it takes TIME, YEARS, working your ass off in hopes to get noticed. Because you need as equal hard work to promote yourself that already took yourself long enough to do that art. Let alone trying to hire or commission people to help you work on your platform, It's harder also nowadays to get help because the person who chooses to work with you also cares about the status and numbers before making a decision. BECAUSE they are trying to achieve that same recognition to make a living in these times (these are the freelancers) That's why artists and branders run to AI to help with branding, virality, imaging, self promotion, most of all time!!
Thank you Bobby for giving us the pep talk. In this era where everything is transitioning, your video always giving us a hope for the future.
Also, welcome back to RUclips. Right now youtube is very generous on their algorithm and i expect many more videos of you on the future.
I want to be useful and not only rely on people's will, who, I think are not sensitive to art in terms of "handmade", they only care for the results.
Eh, maybe because it's newish still, lightbox expo still needs some tinkering. 🤔 Especially how lines are formatted and portfolio review area. 😑
But will the future of a/r and v/r use GenAI or human artists?
If EVERY artist on the internet suddenly decided to became youtuber then there would be a lot of channels. I don't think there would be enough people to watch them :D.
As for VR in the future. It is partly the reason why I am slowly learning more 3d and I bought VR headset to try things out.
Wasn’t expecting a cowchop intro lol
Everyone taking this as "you need to be famous", that's not what having a brand needs to mean. You don't need millions or even thousands of followers. If you find the right niche, you can make it work. I have less than 2k followers on twitter but I'm able to make a decent living!
Yup it's about being smart is all
te subtitles drove me nute in this video lol
AI could do many things but there are jobs that are not as straightforward where it wouldn't be able to cut it , particularly jobs where the environment itself is in constant shift and requires adaptation.
very interesting points . thank you for this video.
I'm just changing job. I knew deep down it wasn't going to work out anyway.
Another needed and encouraging video! Thanks Bobby
There is HUGE opportunity ahead for artists. It creates an opportunity to create and own greater and bigger works. A youtube channel run by an artist putting out pixar quality shorts on their own? We are headed into a great time for art.
Wish I could add to the conversation about my experience with talking to ai-only artists, but I’ve been randomly blocked from commenting, and I’m not sure why 😅 This is my 2nd attempt to see if I can actually comment! If not then I’m giving up lol.
Wow looks like my comment actually posted! 😂 Well, all the AI only artists I’ve talked to are mostly people who never got to try being in the creative field before… now they suddenly have this tool that makes it possible for them to generate something on the level of actual artists. For them it’s like suddenly being able to use a superpower for the first time. They are just using the tool the universe has given them… it seems really unfair but that’s life, don’t we know that? We aren’t entitled to having our problems solved, we have to put in the effort to solve them. I think that’s what this video is trying to get across too… trying to find ways that could help artists move on and adapt. Maybe we can also discover a new superpower in areas of life we’ve never tried before…
The AR/VR bit at the end was what caught my attention. I’ve had a personal interest in spatial computing as I see it as a way to combine both my love for illustration, comics and my experience with IT - but for projects and stories I really care about. Even as I’ve had it rough in the optimism department as of late, I still want to believe that AI is only going to kill your career if you allow it to do so. We can’t afford to be one-trick ponies anymore. Those who open their minds to new knowledge are the ones that will survive. 🤞
Thanks bobby! Your conclusion really helps to motivate, it gave me the fuel to at least work hard for the next hour in my art skills. I will need to watch the video again tomorrow to keep the motivation going 😂
any beginner artist who knows art and AI can understand how far should they go to SELL their art...i.e. atleast years if you're exceptional and your art is unique af...for even an average artist, i'd say prepare your backup job, its only a matter of time before AI will have perfect art with proper theories of art...(not saying its a reason to give up art, be a businessman and marketer first lmao)
pursuing*
*PURSUING
😅thank you
Because our jobs is to program, restructure and reform this country in its entirety.
Humanity chose convenience and it has gotten us close to extinction.
Coins are the only thing that can save us. Dollar bills are the root of all evil since they first existed.
How tactless... It amazes me how hypocritical you are being speaking from the privilege of a few renowned artists.
technically it will replace the junior artist kind of level skills, but high level kind or art astyle direcitng and supervising will not be replaced. Artist is to stay, however the numbers will be decreased.
Only brands or certain recognisable styles will unable to be replace if those art are for collection purposes by fans. If for creation work for branding or work purpose, majority will be replaced.
Cara? The future of social media possibly?
no
Not necessarily, but a safe space for artists for sure
I'm so happy to have Ai because it unbiased and creates opertunitiy for me to achieve what I want to do. Ai is not preventing me from creating its enabling me to do more.
My understanding for combating AI is that you have to become a good problem solver instead focusing on visual technical skills. If the next big thing is world building, what is stopping AI from doing the visuals for you? Or are you saying that world building is a possible avenue we could take to help grow our own audience?
No disrespect intended, but you need to change that terrible intro beatboxing. It sounds so amateurish and just not very good, in technique or production quality....it kind of cheapens your videos, IMO.
Well if you create your own thing and make something out of it like James Gurney you won’t need to worry about AI
how many peeople have the skill and knowledge of Gurney? I bet it is a minority.
@@canobenitezonly those who invest time and money learning fundamentals and build up their skills like gurney deserve to survive ai tbh
@@sugarplums885 damn.. what's left for the rest, mediocre folks? do you realize that's the bulk of the population?
@@canobenitez i have feelings and sympathy for those people but ai and corporates don’t . Entry level artists are finished lmao
@@canobenitez the only people surviving mass lay offs and ai are the top dogs industry artists or people with mass followings