luckygirl88

For starters I'm not one for Ai Art and I generally believe it takes away from the human aspect that is art. However, as someone who art history in college and minored in Art History I'm looking at this from a different stand point. Art History educates us historians and artists on periods of the past. From this we learn what transpired and how art has evolved through the process. What started out as simply telling stories or educating the cave men on hunting and gathering quickly transpired into masterful imageries created by masterful artists. From this we learn that art evolves and changes to match with the current times. In fact by looking at different period pieces we learn how radical some artwork was and was a statement to go beyond expressionism into something new like abstract. Ai Art, for similar or different, is the same idea as those past examples. It's both new and radical and taking the approach of "what is art" and asking us how we can evolve it into a new form. Yet the difference with Ai Art comes down to legal representation and its usage or rather misusage. While it's fun to say what would X look like in X style if X was around today or the popular trend of HD Anime/Manga style, it still needs research to build up its foundation. Meaning its taking from other creatives in order to develop one piece of artwork. It's therefore not art, just rather imitation of something that existed or could exist. Now I'm not saying the creative prompts aren't creative. Ai Art has proved that with the right creative prompts in mind, a fantastical piece can and will come out. Where humans have limitations in what can be made, ai doesn't. So with the help of human intervention, anything is possible. This is where I'm decisive. Ai is a tool that can help people who are creative become creative, but at the risk of adopting and stealing from all artists. It takes away the human factor for something that is soul less. It looks pretty, but that's all it will ever be. You can't put a human emotion onto it. You could, but it wouldn't feel the same. With the way Ai is generally progressing as a whole, it's pushing the boundaries and needs intervention. Where is the line? At what point do we as a community say enough is enough? When it comes to this site, my problem is the number of volumes of sudden ai. DeviantArt started as a site for the creatives of every level. It has the wonderful and talented and the cringe and garbage. Most of us that are on this site originally joined in our youths and either progressed along with the site or moved away as we became more professionals. The ai art on this site is a mess and it seems the team no longer cares. The community seems split, majority leaning to "NO AI" in general. In all regards, ai doesn't belong here. It is not art, but just a tool. A tool that continues to be misused daily in ALL its forms (music, literature, art, ect). While ai can be creative and has shown creative usages, does it belong here? That's the real question and in my own personal opinion, no.

Hey guys. I haven't posted one of these journals in a while and I want to explain why I haven't made anything in MMD for years. I realize a majority of my watchers comes from this community. Simply put why I left, I grew bored and tired of people in the community not following rules. Firstly, I want to address this myself. In the past I made the same mistakes. Foxy, the model you see here, is that example. I was called out by the creator of a part and didn't read their rules. I apologized and should have just replaced the part, but never did. I can't call out the community without calling out myself first. To the creator of that part, I'm sorry and I regret my decision. In my opinion I still don't like this model and wish it was better on my part. However I was still learning and still struggling to make models "functional". Now that's out of the way, let me break down my biggest issues I had with the community. I don't know if this is still true, but the community likes to take, use and either credit or not credit at all. The community likes to use language barriers as an excuse to by pass everything and take things apart because "its pretty" and or "serves my purpose". Don't get me wrong, I love TDA as much as every other community member did. The original creator created such pretty models, but quickly everyone began to make bases and even went against the creator's original rules which at the time was no nude bases. Yet people still did it anyway. The MMD community police would sometimes attack on these base creators only leading to more problems. Thus the cycle continued. Other issues I saw within the community was fan models for shows or games and such becoming like a contest of who can create X first. Trust me I would know, I was one of them. I was always trying to make my own versions of FNAF or make popular new shows to be one of the "first". It's why I gained some popularity when I made semi accurate looking Equestria Girls models. Most people were making their fan versions of mlp, but I decided to base it off the movie at the time. I was somewhat genuinely proud even though there were issues with them and the community seemed receptive. Almost too receptive. While I still say the major issue was part stealing on the models (even though the parts I used were always listed and could be accessed), it was more the parts/textures people took because people were lazy. I was never the best with textures. I figured it out slowly and made it work. I knew exactly when someone stole a part/texture because I generally struggled and some of my "errors" sort of acted like trademarks. Meaning I knew it was mine. The second reason why they were taken down was largely due to a "death battle style copycat" who focused on more popular cartoons, tv shows, video games and animation in general. I saw one of the animators using my models in a segment in such a way that made me sick. At the time I said it was that I wanted to be credited like a lot of stolen/used mmd models being used in their "videos", but really it was down to how cringe and disgustingly used they were in that made me take them down. I had no issues prior till then other than that moment that made me say enough. Even when I made other models, Cat Noir and Ladybug specifically, I saw people taken the parts I actually made in meta and just re-using them on their own Cat Noir and Ladybug models when I said not to. Again lead to me taken at least one of them down. At this point I started to grow tired of model making. I knew whatever I made and put out was just going to scrapped down into parts for others to use. I wanted to learn how to make things into 3D. I had an interest because MMD brought me that interest, but the community slowly drained me from it. In the end I wanted to focus on what I felt mattered. I loved drawing and creating illustrations, but I felt I never focused enough. I would get constant artists block and get fed up when I couldn't draw something how I wanted it to look. So in my heart I knew I needed to work on being happy with what I could draw and it's paid off. My drawings, while not perfect, have evolved and started to look more to I envisioned. Yeah its not 100% anime/manga looking how I'd like, but its more in my style. This is a word I never would have used in the past, but I can say it more proudly. So to those watchers sticking around and hoping I'll make mmd content again, the chances are unlikely. At my age of 30 I'd rather focus and improve my artistic style and work towards making money off it. Someday I might return, but if I return it'd be for vtube only.