I don't know if I can badmouth AI here, but I fear that it's going to continue this trend and general decline even if I will say it's had it's upsides and I have had a lot of fun making pictures using SD and other tools.
I think that Gumball itself is usually added in because the main character is drawn that way, even if the show goes above and beyond with the number of art styles it uses.
Hell, I think the only real western animated show I have even considered watching in recent years is Miraculous Ladybug, and even then a portion of that is driven by curiosity as to how much further Thomas Astruc or someone else will screw it up (or not). I do like the movie, though, and might recommend it to people who haven't completely written off superhero shows. There might be a few others I have interest in like Primal, but those are far and few between.
AI Tools are a Pandora's box, because it is so powerful. It empowers people, which means that it makes it easier to do whatever they wanted to do.
Most of the time, what they wanted to do is work just hard enough to not get fired. This means they can be even lazier than before. I've seen teachers use AI tools for lesson planning, students use AI for writing their homework and the teachers use it for marking.
At the moment, big money from the top end of town is influencing the market. People are not getting to choose merit through the market. Disney can make flop after shitty flop because they don't care if they loose 300 million. Ubisoft and EA can make terrible games because they don't care if they sell or not.
Hopefully the shake-out of new technology will meet the accountability of a real market an we can have new companies making new entertainment and actually getting paid for it. We have seen some new independent projects launch pilots on YouTube, and then get funding.
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get better.
For the record, I don't hate AI; but I think that most people are selfish, willfully ignorant morons, who are empowered by AI tools. Outsourcing actual thinking to something (corporate managed) that has less neurons than a garden slug has the potential to be the worst thing that ever happened to civilization.
I don't know if I can badmouth AI here, but I fear that it's going to continue this trend and general decline even if I will say it's had it's upsides and I have had a lot of fun making pictures using SD and other tools.
I think that Gumball itself is usually added in because the main character is drawn that way, even if the show goes above and beyond with the number of art styles it uses.
Hell, I think the only real western animated show I have even considered watching in recent years is Miraculous Ladybug, and even then a portion of that is driven by curiosity as to how much further Thomas Astruc or someone else will screw it up (or not). I do like the movie, though, and might recommend it to people who haven't completely written off superhero shows. There might be a few others I have interest in like Primal, but those are far and few between.
AI Tools are a Pandora's box, because it is so powerful. It empowers people, which means that it makes it easier to do whatever they wanted to do.
Most of the time, what they wanted to do is work just hard enough to not get fired. This means they can be even lazier than before. I've seen teachers use AI tools for lesson planning, students use AI for writing their homework and the teachers use it for marking.
At the moment, big money from the top end of town is influencing the market. People are not getting to choose merit through the market. Disney can make flop after shitty flop because they don't care if they loose 300 million. Ubisoft and EA can make terrible games because they don't care if they sell or not.
Hopefully the shake-out of new technology will meet the accountability of a real market an we can have new companies making new entertainment and actually getting paid for it. We have seen some new independent projects launch pilots on YouTube, and then get funding.
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get better.
For the record, I don't hate AI; but I think that most people are selfish, willfully ignorant morons, who are empowered by AI tools. Outsourcing actual thinking to something (corporate managed) that has less neurons than a garden slug has the potential to be the worst thing that ever happened to civilization.