Thanks for breaking down the tools. It’s so weird as an artist it feels one hand you’ve got more tools than ever to create and that’s exciting! On the other hand it also feels like opportunities for paid work will massively decrease as a result of automation being so accessible. It won’t replace the artisan with cool ideas though, as upset as I was when midjourney dropped bcs it felt undeserved.. after all I had spent years learning to draw, why should someone be able to do it with just a prompt? It’s strange times we’re living in, adapting will be hard but better than putting one’s head in the sand and refuse to accept change
this is one of the reasons i retrained 7 years ago, just being a one trick horse, isn't good enough anymore. I have been 3d printing since it's inception but that made me learn welding, cnc and other processes, now i can design, make, sell what ever i want. I've adopted ai into my workflow, it's just speeds things up while i still do things the old school way as a means to chill and still love what i do. great video dude! When you came onto the scene, this old 3d guy realised he had to up his game! Take this as a shot across the bows people, adapt, adopt and passion will still push you forward.
People do not want to pay from your technical skills they want to pay you because your style and work is awesomely and professional. So try to embrace that and standout!
I would argue that being a generalist and keeping up to date with the new A.I. tools could make you a very competitive producer of content. There could be a transition from big corporations to smaller creators making more authentic, home made content. Who cares to watch an advert now a days? People much rather see something created and suggested by someone they like watching on a more one-to-one experience. If you do only one thing and then an A.I. starts doing that thing you are gone. If you know many things and you use the help of A.I. to do the ones you are not so strong at, maybe that can give you an edge.
the answer is plain yes. I used to create sountracks for advertisement as full time job, before technology in 10 years made all of us irrelevant, and fast enough i changed field. Beware, Ai is here to stay .
We are all out of job at some point. it is a matter of when, not if. But this is true for everyone, not just artists. Ultimately humans not needing to work is a good thing.. even if the transition will be filled with growing pains.
Thanks for the thoughtful video. My two cents... I kinda feel like we're all just beta testers for all this free software. Eventually theses small companies will be bought up or replicated by companies like Adobe and Autodesk and integrated into their flagship software. I'm not giving up on my 3D skills any time soon, or all of the other artistic tools I've collected over the course of my career. Clients ultimately want you to have a microscopic level of control over the final work. You can't really do that at this point without skills, knowledge, and experience. The level of work will just keep improving as great artists up their game to stay competitive. I started my career as a painter 34 years ago. I remember having a lot of the same thoughts and feeling around digital art. No doubt it's upsetting. I think just trying to keep up to date with the change, making great original work and try not to chase trends too hard is the best plan.
Worst case scenario: MANY clients may choose to use ai to create their content because it is cheaper, and they lack the budget. This leads to a huge saturation of ai generated media content from clients in all industries. Client's content no longer stands out from their competitors. So like you mentioned, REAL and complex human-created [animated] visuals will be of higher value, BUT it may be a bit harder to get jobs as many clients will feel they no longer need the services from people. EDIT: AND with all the money clients have saved from getting robot-made work for a while, they can afford the GREAT work talented people can make on certain projects lol. Still may be a reduced market though
Hello Arthur, great video! I think you raise many possibilities. Im very enthusiastic on starting my career as an animator, Im wondering what jobs in the field you think are likely to disappear?
To be honest, I don't think I will sell another Still Rendering except some product shots, when clients wouldnt upload their meshes into an AI cloud. In advertizing, the agencies completely stopped asking me - The Social Media Manager promts the picture and posts it. I am out. Luckily, Realtime 3D is for now far too complex for anyone but us experts. But this will be a question of time only. I expect AI to take over design work in most cases within a few years.
That list of AI tools pretty much wipes out my skill set. Fortunately for me I have retired from the gaming industry. Feel sorry for the next generation.
yeah, i feel like i have wasted the last 10 - 15 years of my life learning 3d. Im a traditional artist, drawing, painting, hand crafts, i have learned 3d modeling, texturing, sculpting, went to college and learned vfx for films so i can composit, photoshop the lot. Cant get a job and i see more and more ai programs doing what i spent so long learning how to. Its so disheartening. Im 33, unemployed and feel like giving up. Im currently looking into trade apprenticeships, but feel im too old now. Sucks.
Thank you for the video. I just finished my degree in communication and I was going to start a 3D master this september but I don't know if I should give up before it starts because of AI going to replace most people because only the most experienced ones will have a job by then.
You need to complete the 3d master and only because you will actually acquire analytical skills and programming skills you can then implement with AI . its not money wasted. Most "Prompters" wouldn't know how to correct a script and how to improve or even scale it. they just keep circling around intricate keywords and let the ai tools spit out stuff
Hey Arthur, I have been seeing your videos for a year something and i loves your conetent and mindset brother. I really appriciate, but i also understand that this takes a lot work. What if you got a person who can make product animation for you within a week and give you your desirable results. Will this be good? So as a brother i can help you with it. I will be happy to work with you together. Your brother - Aditya Singh
@@radishmiri3137 They also overheat and throttle back if you try to do any real work with them. That is what you are trading off. Portability for performance.
As you said it might replace those who only know how to do a one thing such as a concept artist / environmental artist / 3D modeller / Animator. We should learn all of these and get a strong portfolio as 3D generalists plus being aware of all the software products of AI and adapt with them. It sounds harder and lots of works are waiting for us but we have no other choices. Close you room’s door and spend most of your time learning new techniques everyday to develop yourself and be ready for the upcoming era.
Why don’t you make blender videos? It's been years now. A 3d artist can use 3ds max for arch viz, Maya for animation, substance painter for texturing, zbrush for sculpting, speedtree for vegetation, keyshot & marmoset for rendering, so wht not blender?
As an unsucceful ex 3d animator who couldn't find work, I get a sense of schadenfreude for my fellow 3d artists losing their jobs or being unfulfilled. Not too shabby.
nor for now, but 100% in a few years, when AI became powerfill enough to generate complete 3D scenes like midjourney is doing now with images, its pretty much game over.
Also note that AI can never "understand" anything. Only conscious living beings are able to "understand", and consciousness goes beyond the physical body (which is made up of 60% water + combinations of other elements of the periodic table). It took a conscious group of humans to write the algorithms for AI.
Thanks for breaking down the tools.
It’s so weird as an artist it feels one hand you’ve got more tools than ever to create and that’s exciting! On the other hand it also feels like opportunities for paid work will massively decrease as a result of automation being so accessible. It won’t replace the artisan with cool ideas though, as upset as I was when midjourney dropped bcs it felt undeserved.. after all I had spent years learning to draw, why should someone be able to do it with just a prompt? It’s strange times we’re living in, adapting will be hard but better than putting one’s head in the sand and refuse to accept change
this is one of the reasons i retrained 7 years ago, just being a one trick horse, isn't good enough anymore. I have been 3d printing since it's inception but that made me learn welding, cnc and other processes, now i can design, make, sell what ever i want. I've adopted ai into my workflow, it's just speeds things up while i still do things the old school way as a means to chill and still love what i do. great video dude! When you came onto the scene, this old 3d guy realised he had to up his game! Take this as a shot across the bows people, adapt, adopt and passion will still push you forward.
People do not want to pay from your technical skills they want to pay you because your style and work is awesomely and professional. So try to embrace that and standout!
The issue is though is that standing out is already frustratingly difficult.
I would argue that being a generalist and keeping up to date with the new A.I. tools could make you a very competitive producer of content.
There could be a transition from big corporations to smaller creators making more authentic, home made content.
Who cares to watch an advert now a days? People much rather see something created and suggested by someone they like watching on a more one-to-one experience.
If you do only one thing and then an A.I. starts doing that thing you are gone. If you know many things and you use the help of A.I. to do the ones you are not so strong at, maybe that can give you an edge.
That's a good point :)
@@ArthurWhitehead Cheers Good video. I learn about some A.I.s I haven't heard of before.
the answer is plain yes. I used to create sountracks for advertisement as full time job, before technology in 10 years made all of us irrelevant, and fast enough i changed field. Beware, Ai is here to stay .
We are all out of job at some point. it is a matter of when, not if. But this is true for everyone, not just artists. Ultimately humans not needing to work is a good thing.. even if the transition will be filled with growing pains.
Thanks for the thoughtful video. My two cents... I kinda feel like we're all just beta testers for all this free software. Eventually theses small companies will be bought up or replicated by companies like Adobe and Autodesk and integrated into their flagship software. I'm not giving up on my 3D skills any time soon, or all of the other artistic tools I've collected over the course of my career. Clients ultimately want you to have a microscopic level of control over the final work. You can't really do that at this point without skills, knowledge, and experience. The level of work will just keep improving as great artists up their game to stay competitive. I started my career as a painter 34 years ago. I remember having a lot of the same thoughts and feeling around digital art. No doubt it's upsetting. I think just trying to keep up to date with the change, making great original work and try not to chase trends too hard is the best plan.
Worst case scenario: MANY clients may choose to use ai to create their content because it is cheaper, and they lack the budget. This leads to a huge saturation of ai generated media content from clients in all industries.
Client's content no longer stands out from their competitors. So like you mentioned, REAL and complex human-created [animated] visuals will be of higher value, BUT it may be a bit harder to get jobs as many clients will feel they no longer need the services from people.
EDIT: AND with all the money clients have saved from getting robot-made work for a while, they can afford the GREAT work talented people can make on certain projects lol. Still may be a reduced market though
Hello Arthur, great video! I think you raise many possibilities. Im very enthusiastic on starting my career as an animator, Im wondering what jobs in the field you think are likely to disappear?
To be honest, I don't think I will sell another Still Rendering except some product shots, when clients wouldnt upload their meshes into an AI cloud.
In advertizing, the agencies completely stopped asking me - The Social Media Manager promts the picture and posts it. I am out.
Luckily, Realtime 3D is for now far too complex for anyone but us experts. But this will be a question of time only. I expect AI to take over design work in most cases within a few years.
That list of AI tools pretty much wipes out my skill set. Fortunately for me I have retired from the gaming industry. Feel sorry for the next generation.
yeah, i feel like i have wasted the last 10 - 15 years of my life learning 3d. Im a traditional artist, drawing, painting, hand crafts, i have learned 3d modeling, texturing, sculpting, went to college and learned vfx for films so i can composit, photoshop the lot. Cant get a job and i see more and more ai programs doing what i spent so long learning how to. Its so disheartening. Im 33, unemployed and feel like giving up. Im currently looking into trade apprenticeships, but feel im too old now. Sucks.
I Did 2D And multimedia at the age of 18, now I am 25 years old learning 3Ds Max and Maya, I'm so scared seeing all this now..😅
thank you!
Thank you for the video. I just finished my degree in communication and I was going to start a 3D master this september but I don't know if I should give up before it starts because of AI going to replace most people because only the most experienced ones will have a job by then.
You need to complete the 3d master and only because you will actually acquire analytical skills and programming skills you can then implement with AI . its not money wasted. Most "Prompters" wouldn't know how to correct a script and how to improve or even scale it. they just keep circling around intricate keywords and let the ai tools spit out stuff
@@PHlophe Thank you too much! That cheered me up a lot
Hey Arthur, I have been seeing your videos for a year something and i loves your conetent and mindset brother. I really appriciate, but i also understand that this takes a lot work. What if you got a person who can make product animation for you within a week and give you your desirable results. Will this be good? So as a brother i can help you with it. I will be happy to work with you together.
Your brother -
Aditya Singh
Hello, Arthur.
I have interest in being a 3d artist, having a GTX laptop makes 3d rendering work fast and effective?
Pls I need your feedback.
Laptops suck, sell it an buy a desktop.
@@BrentonWoods774 nowaday's laptops can work as hard as a desktop and it's literally easier to move
@@radishmiri3137 They also overheat and throttle back if you try to do any real work with them. That is what you are trading off. Portability for performance.
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As you said it might replace those who only know how to do a one thing such as a concept artist / environmental artist / 3D modeller / Animator. We should learn all of these and get a strong portfolio as 3D generalists plus being aware of all the software products of AI and adapt with them. It sounds harder and lots of works are waiting for us but we have no other choices. Close you room’s door and spend most of your time learning new techniques everyday to develop yourself and be ready for the upcoming era.
We are already overworked and underpaid and you solution is to spend even more time why even have a life at that point
Why don’t you make blender videos?
It's been years now. A 3d artist can use 3ds max for arch viz, Maya for animation, substance painter for texturing, zbrush for sculpting, speedtree for vegetation, keyshot & marmoset for rendering, so wht not blender?
Lazyness :) I speak about blender with students but haven't been too incentive to make RUclips videos for it.
@@ArthurWhitehead The amount of effort you give is tremendous. Same effort on blender videos would get double the views.
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As an unsucceful ex 3d animator who couldn't find work, I get a sense of schadenfreude for my fellow 3d artists losing their jobs or being unfulfilled. Not too shabby.
I am not best in English, so could someone tell me in short ~ are we doomed or not? :-)
Not doomed👍
nor for now, but 100% in a few years, when AI became powerfill enough to generate complete 3D scenes like midjourney is doing now with images, its pretty much game over.
@@3DBONFIRE :-) fewww
@@gobira26 after how long?
One thing that AI will never understand - Human meaning.
Also note that AI can never "understand" anything. Only conscious living beings are able to "understand", and consciousness goes beyond the physical body (which is made up of 60% water + combinations of other elements of the periodic table). It took a conscious group of humans to write the algorithms for AI.
*Promo SM* ☀️