lolllllll this!

perfect response

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.

"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

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.

The entre video message in one sentence...

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.

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.

Where did u see it? Just curious

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

​@@precipitaion6296​I 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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

You're welcome. Hope it helps.

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…

😅thank you

no

Not necessarily, but a safe space for artists for sure

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