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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9376030" data-attributes="member: 4937">I think there is a lot of overhype about the current capabilities of AI.  Right now, I think AI offers something of a solution to producers that can't afford to pay for artwork, but that I can't even reliably use it to illustrate my own home campaign.  I can't imagine anyone with the money wanting to send out uncorrected AI content that a human illustrator hasn't touched up, and so that comes down to something like Disney's reuse of animation cells - is it harder to touch up animation than it is to draw completely new ones.  Ultimately, Disney found back in the day that tracing over animation cells had no cost savings compared to new animation.  Now, I do think that the writing is on the wall that the industry is going to change at some point and that these tools are extremely powerful in the hands of good designers and will only get more powerful - for example more or less perfectly drawing the cells between any two closely related cells is certainly going to be a thing in the medium term.  And certainly, if you are an artist you ought to be heavily investing in getting used to using these tools and learning how they work and how the train them for specific tasks.  If you are in college right now and some enterprising professor isn't teaching that, then you're going to have to take up the task yourself because it will become a thing.</blockquote>