Heartsteel Discord Group call part 14

How to make Kayn stop swearing:

No, I don’t think I will

A poster series for all mainline Windows Touhou games.

This was my final project in college.

The theme was "adaptation". The project was about finding balance between what to translate and what to leave as is to preserve the themes of the original but still make it so the target audience understands them.

The titles use the Hungarian translation's titles and they were made in the style of '60's, '70's and '80's Hungarian posters and some elements were changed for understandability.

original tweet by Pitosh2137

are u mad at me moodboard

This is tapping into a primal part of my brain

really glad the character remake item in ffxiv is portrayed as catgirl HRT

ClipDrop Relight allows you to change the lighting of images (including artworks) for free with their AI lighting tool

This could be super useful for artists if you want to play around with potential lighting/colours! I tested it out a bit and it seems to work with both portraits and sceneries, however it doesn't look like it works with flat sketches. Still really impressive though!

Right, I'm just going to go over this once then not talk about this app again because I really didn't think much of it when I posted this, and I don't have the time or willpower to start discoursing on a dozen different esoteric questions about the implications of tools like this because it's exhausting.

I've been running this blog for almost a decade, which is wild actually, and I think I could count about a dozen times when a random art app or website got popular followed by a mass panic about art theft.

(Spoiler: it doesn't, I checked)

So we're at this stage, again. Every single time some art related app or website trends someone misunderstands the terms and conditions of one of these websites, it starts getting passed along and abstracted/exaggerated further with each person that quotes the last, then it goes to the most extreme possible outcome (aka how information generally works on the internet)

Every single website that you upload media is going to say in the terms that you're giving permissions for them to physically host the image on their website, that's needed for websites and apps to work. This website has an AI so yeah, it's going to learn from your image too when you upload it. Within the context of this particular AI we can assume it learns to relight images better over time.

It does not however, mean that you're forfeiting your copyright over the image and that they now have unlimited license to use your work for commercial purposes indefinitely and that you forfeit all right to pursue legal action over this. Obviously if it said that it would be massive cause for concern, but it doesn't and not one of the websites I've seen that people freaked out about actually did in the end iirc.

(Just as a general rule I don't think I've ever actually genuinely seen such thing as a sneaky website that instantly gains complete legal control over your work as soon as it's uploaded onto their servers.)

Now people are saying that because one developer on the project has done other things related to NFTs, that now means every image uploaded will be made into some kind of NFT? Why is that a given?

Even if it turns out that one of the developers likes to create NFTs in his free time, that doesn't mean he has permission to just start stealing data from the users of a website he works for. That also doesn't mean he has intent to do this, or even personally finds it ethical to steal art (two of the co-founders worked for Google Arts)

Edit: They've now confirmed exactly this:

Edit: Also as I was drafting this post I just saw this under my own post:

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Wow that sounds really alarming! Machine learning to help photographers and small businesses! It must mash up our artworks and make free art for businesses to sell since that's the only thing AI does 😱

Let's look up the app mentioned in this website they linked...

It's a background remover. It removes backgrounds using AI. I don't mean to be rude because I'm sure they had good intentions, but why did you add this massive red lettering and go as far as to link the website when you didn't even look at it yourself?

It doesn't look like this company even makes any kind of generated images, it's all image editing tools - where did anyone even get the idea that they're in the business of making generated content other than because they heard the word AI?

Anyway I've seen this happen with every website or app ever that's recommended to artists and I wanted to point this out. It's good to want to protect your art, but please stop listening to people writing in big capital letters going "omg guys X website is going to steal your art" without looking into it yourself and actually digesting the information in front of you.

I just want to boost this one more time because one of the people spreading this rumor just outright blocked me when I sent them a DM asking to give my post a read:

Just one final TL;DR - the website uses your image to keep training the same AI to relight images better - there's no NFTs, they confirmed they don't have any intention of making NFTs, the company doing this isn't even in the business of making AI generated art, and there's zero indication that they want to start making generated art and this is literally all rumor

Software developers aren't all nefarious art thieves trying to trick you into uploading your art to their website, please give it a rest guys

Follow up to that one AU comic I did

it doesn't matter if you have a pretty face and flowery language if you're still a FUKKIN DWEEB

one of those "what type of villain are you" quizzes that I have finally completed after a few months of making it. hope you like it <3

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The extremely rare 6th stage of grief.

I feel like adhd bored is different than neurotypical bored because like. You don’t understand. I have a billion things I could be doing. I turn on the tv. I stare at the Netflix screen for five minutes. Flip through shows and movies for the next thirty minutes. Nothing looks good. I put in a video game. Play for two minutes. Not feeling it. I load up YouTube. Watch half a video before closing the app. Maybe I’ll read a book? I stare at my giant bookshelf. The thought of starting a new book seems too hard. I lay in bed and play phone games for six hours. Nothing has gotten done. Still bored.

I feel like a better term for this experience is “restless.” 

Sometimes nothing sounds good; I have a specific experiential craving or itch that needs to be scratched but I don’t know what it is or how to placate it so I will rapidly cycle through activities in search of something that will provide the level/type of stimulation I crave. Like a tiger pacing in the zoo. 

It’s a really bad, unbearably vibratey itchy feeling. A craving for relief that takes too great a mental effort to overcome.

It can be physical too…sometimes if I don’t walk/pace it feels like my bones are squiggly and it’s as unpleasant as it sounds

made it more accurate 👍

you could have just put the pixels on there, you didnt need to add something under it

I also could've just added it without the pixels, so maybe don't be an ungrateful bitch about it

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WOZWALD theory post

A comprehensive explanation post on the vocaloid song WOZWALD by Niru Kajitsu ft. v_flower, a song about the evils of humanity, the definition of happiness, and possibly Walt Disney.

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