Everywhere...
Transcript:
A comic in four panels:
Panel 1. The Gothic Sorceress sits alone at the university of magic's cafeteria, without her Avian Intelligence (AI) Parrot. However, something feels off: she's surrounded by Avian Intelligence ads everywhere, big posters and marketing object "AI Next", "Go AI", "Join AI", "AI Win", "Use AI", "AI Now" etc... and many users around with their AI Parrots. She thinks out loud.
Gothic Sorceress: Ugh, can't escape it.
Panel 2. She runs down a staircase filled with the same AI ads everywhere, even large statues of parrots are here.
Gothic Sorceress: sighs Everywhere...
Panel 3. In a corridor with still many ads, she runs and push the door of the toilets.
Gothic Girl: Get me out! Somewhere, anywhere!
Panel 4. She sits on the toilet, looking exasperated, still fully dressed. The toilet paper, wall poster, and even the wallpaper all feature the same AI ads.
Gothic Girl: Seriously?... Even here?...
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davidrevoy
🎨 📹 Timelapse/Making-of video: https://www.peppercarrot.com/0_sources/miniFantasyTheater/making-of/038.mp4
It's not often that I paint directly from scratch with no sketch or line art, so I wanted to share this one. It's a risky technique, and I'm even eyeballing all the perspective, no grids here. I also avoid blending and smoothing, showing the brushstrokes on the canvas more clearly. I'm doing this to incorporate 'errors made naturally by humans', and I like it. It feels closer to the spontaneous style I like in my ballpoint pen sketches.
153 ★realtegan@wandering.shop
★I feel this comic so much.
ginaintheburg@mastodon.world
@realtegan
Ditto! Ever so ditto...
★wakame@tech.lgbt
At least on the toilet paper it makes sense...
2 ★landelare@mastodon.gamedev.place
To be fair, the last panel (and related plumbing) is the most appropriate location for it 🙃
★Archivist@social.linux.pizza
We will fight the avian intelligence with all our wingless might
★andre@fedi.jaenis.ch
@Archivist ✊
★stefan@akko.lightnovel-dungeon.de
you are still really traumatized by AI aren't you?
yuki2501@masto.hackers.town
@stefan I don't mind 😁
stefan@akko.lightnovel-dungeon.de
@yuki2501 Don't get me wrong I enjoy Mini Fantasy Theater as well. ★
davidrevoy
@stefan @yuki2501 About the trauma.
Yes... and No.
It feels more and more to me that I'm beating here a dead horse with this theme.
3 ★Often my radar feel that when Firefox starts get code ready in prod for a technobro trend. I interpret that as if I was watching the last wagon of the AI trend train in tech... the last ripple of influence... and it might mean it's already dead somewhere. Just a personal intuition.
eltheanine@the.teabag.ninja
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org @stefan@akko.lightnovel-dungeon.de @yuki2501@masto.hackers.town yes I see this too!
Bredroll@mas.to
@stefan @yuki2501 my opinion of the AI(LLM) situation is that there has been irreversible damage done, the laws on copyright were intentionally circumvented and governments all star struk by tech-bros let them have a "copyright law doesn't apply to you, you must be free to steal to succeed" exception. It is not the technology that is a threat, it is the lawless application of it.
Genuine creativity itself is hugely devalued by the art theft.
★ChrisMcZork@metalhead.club
was at a tech conference today. Same vibes. So many booths that presented the same slop.
★mkj@social.mkj.earth
I feel this one so much!
#miniFantasyTheater
★jimfl@hachyderm.io
I did in fact see an ad for an AI powered “clever commode” this morning, so, it’s happening
★leah@chaos.social
I feel it sooooooo much! Thanks for putting the feeling in a comic!
★gekitsu@toot.cat
oof, this one is so real, it hurts…
★brazmogu@mastodon.gamedev.place
at least it's a place you can say it deserves to be in
*really* in
★VANTABlack2000@mastodon.gamedev.place
At this rate AI in the bathroom wouldn't surprise me since everything must be smart now and every smart thing must contain :sparkle: AI :sparkle:
★GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai
The coin op company that handles the washing machines in my apartment building has left a little announcement that in some short amount of time, they will no longer accept cards or coins, and everyone using those machines has to install their app to use them.
The other level to this is you need an app to get access to the toilet paper in a bathroom stall
★capergrrl@mstdn.ca
@GhostOnTheHalfShell Please don't give them anymore ideas... heh
★benroyce@mastodon.social
but i like Weird Al Yanovic
(/s)
try this:
imagine every "AI" you see is "Al" and you can turn it into a game of "who is this Al everyone keeps talking about? he seems important, but I don't know this Al. Could it be Weird Al? Al Pacino? Al Green? Al Gore? ...Wait! It's Al Roker!"
★Dianora@ottawa.place
Be sure to have the AI controlled app so you can get the toilet dispenser to work.
★capergrrl@mstdn.ca
@Dianora Oi don't encourage them...
Dianora@ottawa.place
@capergrrl I'm just irritated today. I have a parcel coming today and the damn company wanted me to download an app to track the delivery. Fuck that.
★Bredroll@mas.to
AI is eating itself, I can imagine a blue cannibal parrot already
davidrevoy
@Bredroll :blobthinkingeyes: Oh, that's a brillant idea. Thank you for sharing, I'll see if I can do something with it. I'll keep it in a corner of my brain.
6 ★f@ieji.de
Investors and private equity usually turns products into a mess that fails to serve the user well. "We suck more, and that's guaranteed"
pantaRhei@freiburg.social
in the last panel she's misunderstanding the intention of the Avian Intelligence.
It's surely meant to remind her: Aw, 💩 - oh, by the way … 🤪
SCNR
★cryptax@mastodon.social
amazing! But I'm surprised you put in the text first, image after! I do it the other way, but I'm a real amateur, so maybe actually what I do is stupid!
thematic@mastodon.green
@cryptax This had me think of printing text and only text, then penciling.
★davidrevoy
@thematic @cryptax I took this habit after applying this (gold) tutorial, that was an in-house comic 'tips and tricks' at Disney: https://www.tumblr.com/fundz64/150897623108/aapstra-disneys-comic-strip-artists-kit-by (page 1 shows the problems, page two the solution).
The max area size of the panel is rarely what we can fully use to express the art, character and acting. The space occupied/eaten by the text speechbubbles substracts to the full area of the panel (and usually goes on the top). That's why I prefer now to place it first.
16 ★cryptax@mastodon.social
@thematic thanks! Very interesting!
cryptax@mastodon.social
@thematic this is gold mine!!!
★Pixlar@mastodon.social
wow!
★Leah@macaw.social
Thank you! That's awesome. Your talent is truly impressive.
★davidrevoy
@Leah
Thank you!
★ArneBab@rollenspiel.social
If you hadn’t written that, I wouldn’t have realized it.
(the only thing that feels a bit off is the toilet seat)
EDIT: loos ⇒ feels ← strange typos I do as of late …
★runevision@mastodon.gamedev.place
This comic looks quite different to me than your others (also before I read your description). Less traditional cartoon-like and more painterly. Somehow even the facial features and expressions seem quite affected. Both styles are nice, but there’s a certain charm and expressiveness to this one here.
★davidrevoy
@runevision Thank you
★Moss_the_TeXie@rheinneckar.social
@runevision
+1
★… and in both styles it’s the details. Here: that parro…, I mean AI-shaped paper holder in the last panel got me giggling.
edgarej@sunny.garden
nice, i love it.
★rainaraven73@masto.es
impressive
★rival@mastodon.social
I have a couple of illustrators in my family (partner, nephew) and I'm always insisting in that, to my humble taste, the more artistic, expressive, interesting, poetic, etc., version of their draws, is that which they call drafts, sketches, etc. I understand the ideas of clean and polished, but for me the magic is mostly in that primitive or improvised phase, where the creative search is still an uncut gem, let's say... I guess, tastes. But for me, seems like live music, let's say. ❤️
davidrevoy
@rival 💜 Thank you. I sort of learn more and more to appreciate this small "built-in' mistakes that I have hard time to correct while sketching or painting directly (eg. Like on this ballpoint pen sketch on my sketchbook). Those 'honnest mistakes' due to the process itself and skill is a good "human made" signature in our times. When I post fix my art too much, I get comment suspicious that I used AIgen now anyway. 😆
rival@mastodon.social
I really love this. Really beautiful work. ♥️ 👏 I guess is in general the aesthetics of preference to me. But this illustration in particular is awesome. 🤗
★ifixcoinops@retro.social
this is beautiful and fascinating to watch, like a dream coming into focus, the opposite way round to how I've been trying to draw
(is this video on your website?)
davidrevoy
@ifixcoinops Thank you! Yes, it approach the scene with big blocks of sort of Nintendo64 low poly resolution ( a pass named 'blocking' ), then directly on the top a paint-over with smaller brush, and layers of glazing to adjust the tones, light and shadows.
Yes, it's on my server, but I don't have yet a front-end php/html/css page to list the making-of (on my TODO!). The directory is here:
https://www.peppercarrot.com/0_sources/miniFantasyTheater/making-of/
5 ★kevingranade@mastodon.gamedev.place
I watched the video before reading your comment so I was already thinking along the lines of, "oh wow sketching with blobs of color, I wonder what the tradeoffs are vs line art".
Now I'm really curious how many different traditions of... for lack of vocabulary, "order of operations" for constructing a piece of art there are.
I would guess a lot but I'm very ignorant in this area.
davidrevoy
@kevingranade Thank you. Your intuition is right: a lot! But the main family branches are (imho):
- Sketches/line colored then optionally painted over (the colored drawing workflow)
- Greyscale painting then recolored (the grisaille)
- Direct painting ('Alla prima' family), the one here.
I started painting this way 11 years ago ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93lMLEuxSLk ) but I went back to colored drawing because I couldn't paint perspective, anatomy and pose.
Maybe now, with more skill, I can revisit.
2 ★fell@ma.fellr.net
I like that you can see the brushstrokes in the final image.
★davidrevoy
@fell Thank you! I'll try to keep this economy of brush stroke. It's more difficult than smoothing all surfaces, but on the pro side, it is slightly faster, and the result feels more human and spontaneous, so I have motivation to train this ability and continue.
★ArneBab@rollenspiel.social
Your process seems almost as if your molding clay, refining the forms until they fit, but instead of clay you mold color.
yuki2501@masto.hackers.town
BTW I would appreciate more misc. comics. Even in parodies AI gets tiring 😅
2 ★Stellar@mk.absturztau.be
@yuki2501@masto.hackers.town @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org pick up a pencil and make it happen :ablobcatcaramelldansen:
davidrevoy
@yuki2501 Yes! Same, bear with me a little bit more. For me too it starts to be redudent to focus on this series while MiniFantasyTheater should be broader and explore many situations.
The next one, episode 039 might be a conclusion to the mini series for now.
As you can see, I suggest the gothic sorceress already put her Avian Intelligence in the garbage on previous episode.
★matt@mastodon.nz
advertising on the toilet paper haha that's dark (don't give the industry ideas 😬)
★stereo4x4@techhub.social
@matt I got a roll with QR codes somewhere. Of course they all lead to dead webpages / http404 / server not found etc. as all of those rolls except this one were flushed down the drain many moons ago and apparently nobody thinks long term anymore. This toilet paper roll turned into a parody of itself somehow...
#enshittification
gmarcosanti@mastodon.uno
"Wipe your ass with our AI Toilet Paper™ today, for an enchanted user experience"
★daniel@masto.doserver.top
Well, at least AI is in its rightful place in the last frame
★mcpinson@mas.to
3 ★Report reason:
[✔️] I'm in this comic and i dont like it
hj@shigusegubu.club
i need that AI TP, i need it for wiping my AI (ass interface) after i take my AI Slop (doomp)
pdragos@todon.eu
Took a shuttle today to the airport, and it was playing art deco retro-futuristic slop reels alongside (presumably) slop jazz.
It was bizarre. Playing ads at least makes sense?
csolisr@hub.azkware.net
Well, at least they already know what they think about them, as they handily put their logo straight in the toilet paper so people join the dots
globcoco@mamot.fr
well... as toilet paper (PQ), c'est plutôt bien trouvé
2 ★ken_fallon@mastodon.sdf.org
★Feels like that yes.
sindarina@ngmx.com
I love this whole series 😄
davidrevoy
@sindarina :blobaww: awww! Thank you!
★hellomiakoda@pdx.social
Of course it's in the bathroom. The toilet flushes directly in to the AI so it can generate "new ideas".
★lp0_on_fire@social.linux.pizza
@hellomiakoda , no bathroom there that I can see…
★sigsegv@hachyderm.io
@lp0_on_fire that’s a water closet in the last frame.
★dontony@hachyderm.io
my coworkers have started generating their reponses to me with AI, they overuse emojis and it’s making me tear my nonexistent hair out.
★davidrevoy
@dontony I totally understand. Since I read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing , my AI style radar went super sensitive to many things more than the em-dash and emojis in lists: Rule of three, Elegant variation, False ranges "from ... to", and more... It's everywhere, esp, companies communications/blog now.
5 ★crow@irlqt.net
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org where else would you expect to find piss colored shit
normjess@tech.lgbt
last year one of the top 'culture shocks' for people visiting the US from the UK was apparently 'screens on urinals showing ads'
so this isn't a joke, its just our grim late stage capitalism/consumerism reality
davidrevoy
@normjess 'screens on urinals showing ads' really feels like some cyberpunk dystopian stuff. Oh yes, late stage capitalism, I'm sure they'll show us how they can dig deeper and deeper to new 'innovations'.
3 ★lispi314@udongein.xyz
@normjess It's a bad idea because it also makes a target outside the urinal.
It'll get gross if people don't just sharpie over them.
normjess@tech.lgbt
@lispi314
yeah, it begs to be broken or vandalized, or urinated on if you can aim high enough
but I expect they'll adapt and get the harder to break glass from phones and such
the relentless crawl of shitty invasive consumerist tech
★normjess@tech.lgbt
@lispi314
this was the video I saw it on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWIFJk2JUdY
to be fair, Netherlands has similar
but society is getting so transactional... so invasive... there's no kindness/charity... no free space/third spaces/community space... yuck
🖼️ 33209605dbcaae6b.png ★lasse@social.tchncs.de
✅ Toilet Paper Over
★ColesStreetPothole@weatherishappening.network
★https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUfbdSnSNno
PersistentDreamer@mastodon.gamedev.place
This. This comic right here. Nominate this for comic of the year or something. This is exactly how it is.
Stem
J'avoue, ça serait tellement jouissif de se torcher avec l'IA.
davidrevoy
@Stem 😆 😆 hehe. Je crois que c'était mon point de départ au niveau écriture: "comment avoir du PQ en case final avec IA marqué dessus?" :D
★TheNovemberMan@bookstodon.com
👍💯👍
★sam@break3.social
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org I know right, I've had to call so many people out on there 'creation' of there 'art' through simply generating it on a stupid prompt.
★AI is not Art, AI is Slop.
Great Web Comic, Thank you.
Rowena@mathstodon.xyz
Progress.
Two years ago...
🖼️ e933950f41aa2709.jpg ★DifferentDrummer@syzito.xyz
Wipe your arse on 'AI'. Don't mind if I do.
That toilet roll would sell almost as well as US flag toilet roll.
★kDelta@privacysafe.social
My work added an “AI” thing to our work schedule app so I asked it how to bake a cake and would I have time to do it in my lunch break. It said it couldn’t answer it. As much use as a chocolate teapot then! In fact even in basic questions it should have known about it wasn’t helpful either 🤷♂️
★eliasebner@mastodon.social
ugh i hate how AI is being shoved down our throats so forcefully 😭
★dereel@mastodon.social
Here!
A way out!
https://github.com/Stevoisiak/Stevos-GenAI-Blocklist/
davidrevoy
@dereel Yes, these type of list are precious. 💜 Thanks for showing solutions like that on this thread.
I recently saw that the uBlock team added "EasyList - AI Widgets' on the Dashboard settings, an optional one (it require user to activate it in "Annoyance" section) but a good one!
For a long time I had this one: https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist but for the needs of my mini series and my research on the topic I temporarily deactivated it since November.
★Sau_Wolf@equestria.social
Everything is so bad that for a long time there have been puzzles, notebooks, notebooks and other things on sale, where the image created by AI is applied, and low-quality
★davidrevoy
@Sau_Wolf Yes, and they are so easy to spot. Recently, I saw a poster for a festival in my city, another poster for a DJ/Dancing event, and a "pet toileting/grooming salon"(sorry, I miss vocabulary for this type of shop) with a AIgen logo...
Sau_Wolf@equestria.social
There are literally a bunch of calendars, notebooks, and so on, and all this using some nameless Ai models that have nothing but the sinister valley effect, and they buy this slag.
★apzpins@mstdn.games
But hey, in the last panel you can at least wipe with an AI ad!
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