Starting Pixel Art ... when you're almost 40
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ค. 2024
- Why bother? There's probably an AI for that.
If you try to learn something new these days, you're always confronted with AI. Because apparently, it's not actually necessary to learn something new because an AI will just do it for you.
Here's why that's probably true and why I decided to learn Pixel Art anyway.
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This video is part of the #AlphabetSuperset by @struthless "Y is for y?"
#pixelart #creativity #ai
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Background Music by Marllon Silva (a.k.a) xDeviruchi xdeviruchi.itch.io/8-bit-fant...
Outro Music: kl-peach-game-over-ii-135684 (Pixabay)
Sound FX: from Pixabay - บันเทิง
im 40 this year, and im right were you are :P but replace pixel art with stop motion animation
Millennials and their wacky hobbies, am I right?
@@lucky-jacob yep yep :)
I think for us all its important to be always learning new things and be curious and creative. I’m in my mid thirties and Im making also a pixel art point and click game on my freetime, mainly to counter balance my engineering job. I feel healthier using both sides of the brain so to speak.
Agreed. Even though I have a "creative" job, real creativity happens outside of it.
I'm twice younger than you, but this video inspired me greatly to start trying out some ideas, that for now exist only in my head. Hopefully I'll get to actually creating something soon.
Thank you for sharing and have a nice day. Freue mich auf deine nächste Video!
HaHa, Danke! Just start creating AND share your work, it helped me a lot and keeps me going!
I'm turning 35 this year, and I too have chosen this as another millenial project to start! My goal is to make a pixel art comic by 40 years old. I'll see if I can sprinkle in a second language as well.
That's awesome! I knew there must be more of us :D Best of luck!!!
@@lucky-jacob I'd race you, but your journey has already begun! Im glad to be watching
Maybe share some of your creations. Would love to see some :-)
AI can be a tool for rapid prototyping, to learn the vocabulary of the medium you like, but that's it. For something meaningful you gotta stay human.
Good luck on your learning journey! I'm also learning a lot, and I think that my decision to only use AI as google image on steroids is the right one for me. I don't want to crap out stuff that I have zero input in.
Yeah, I do that too at times. Simply to get a fresh perspective.
I find it extremely frustrating when ai is used as a solution for most things as I feel it takes away from the soul of the work
agreed!
I’m 41 and just started indie game development with my wife. She hopes this game will make a bunch of money but I agree with you that I’m just doing it for my own pleasure of creating something. I’ll be happy if we sell one copy in the end.
I think you do things differently depending on whether you take a business or creative approach. For me, it's difficult to wear both hats. More importantly, there's less room for failure if you're just aiming to do something creative. I think part of me always thinks, "What if I could make some moneyz from that?" but I think it would throw me off track if I followed that line of thinking. Especially with TH-cam and stuff. All hail the algoithm! xD
(But, I guess it's good to have a partner in the business seat! So best of luck to you two!!!)
I'm not far past 40 but also just recently started learning art in general. I'm much better with 3D and I can't really draw from imagination yet. But using references, I've been able to recreate pokemon in 3D and some characters that were 2D only in 3D. Initially, I thought, I'll use AI to generate the artwork for my games I want to develop, but I found that I'm very particular with the art and it still requires a lot of cleanup after and it takes just as much time, if not more than doing it from scratch. AI can be helpful for doing tedious tasks, but I agree that it can take away from learning and understanding depending on how it is used by the individuals.
Two aspects I haven't even touched on are that AI results don't feel as earned and that they also don't meet my need for ... "self expression" might be the best word. It feels good to put in the work if something is personal to you.
@lucky-jacob I agree 100%. It's a completely different feeling when it's your creation. I really enjoy your content, thanks for sharing your journey.
I love your videos... They are so calming and a great story ☺️
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@@lucky-jacob please make more! Your journey is amazing.
Learning new skills is very good for your brain-age health. Even if you didnt show it on youtube, you would help your brain make better and stronger connections. So, to sum up: learning new skills while getting older = should be the gold standard, and make u happy.
No sad allowed
no sad felt ... just your basic weltschmerz, I guess.
which languages do you speak?
just the two, .. so English and German. Also a little French, but I would not count that.
just use AI is also a great idea XD... ok AI can to very nice stories and fiction... Let an AI write scripts is especially stupid - yesterday i discussed with chatgpt why it wannted to tell me repeatedly that 512 is smaller than 64. It wanted to tell me that 8292 is a a power of 2 (which it basicly accepted after i reasoned that each next number is a power of 2 and accidental hat a typo while writing the numbers).
My Test with GPT4 went like that yesterday and i hope it wont try to diagnose cancer on me. Even with obvious Errors AI does neither reject wrong statements nor did it ever create working code that does whatever it thinks the code would do - like hey this code outputs the numbers from one to ten, you run the code it does nothing or runs infinite - so you tell him and it says Oh i am soooo sorry you are right here is the corrected code that actually does the same thing. And we are not talking about some complex stuff we are talking about 3 variables and a simple loop.
True, there is still a large gap between advertisment and the actual results. But we should assume that AI will meet this objective sooner rather than later.