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- d_gitale2
Signs your getting old?
I just bought myself a hedge trimmer.
- Krassy5
- yeah. none better.
just perfect._niko - +Krassy
- Welllllll yessss... but for me this is second to 550 spyderprophetone
- gimme a lancia aurelia b24 over this any dayhans_glib
- I’m going to out myself: I don’t get the Porsche hype. They are good and iconic in design. But so many douches drive them just because others drive them.Longcopylover
- yeah. none better.
- Krassy8
- this is the sort of stuff ai should be used for not selling me Thai chi workouts every ad_niko
- +Krassy
- I did something like this for LG a few month ago, what's this from?GuyFawkes
- ^ show us!Krassy
- No idea what this is from; ffffound it on TumblrKrassy
- it was concepts for what happens when you walk by their TV when it's in screensaver mode. We never published anything, it wasn't a spot or anythingGuyFawkes
- but yeah I worked on a beach scene very similar to this (but more beach), and effects like this was exactly what we were deliveringGuyFawkes
- But the motion they wanted was a lot more subtle + depending on the current weather or season (in reality) the animation would be differentGuyFawkes
- looks aimilfhunter
- Yeah, but Good AI.Nairn
- renderedred3
Font of the Day
ShieldFont is an open-source creative technology project that offers a practical opt-out from unauthorized AI training and disrupts what is collected when that choice is ignored. It swaps 45.8% of content words (around 24.4% of all words) in a page’s source code for other (partially) random words, while the font restores the original text on screen.
- also AI thread...renderedred
- Say what?canoe
- sounds like gluten-free shampooMrT
- Nice. Problem is that I imagine that you just need to add another AI instance to correctly process this get-around.
This is the problem with AI.Nairn
- kingsteven7
The Guitar Thread
i have no need for more guitars but after a few drinks yesterday this looked like fun project
picked it up from the auction house this morning, gave it a quick clean and re-string, plays better than expected and sounds absolutely incredible.
was expecting it may need a neck reset but think i'll get away with gluing some cracks and binding, leveling the fretboard and a refret!
- I’m currently restoring a 30’s epiphone archtop. Fun guitarsGnash
- oh very nice!kingsteven
- Well done!stoplying
- canoe6
blog
I know most of us have been at it for 25+ years... do you still get the, "oh shit how am I going to do this?" nerves when you start new projects...
My copywriter friend says he goes through that just the same although he's a veteran too.
It's not very strong for me any longer, but it's still there, that blank canvas anxiety.
- I now exclusively seek out opportunities that give me this feeling, love talking myself into new gigs that terrify me b/c of a lack of industry experience.whatthefunk
- Power to the Funk!canoe
- Coincidentally one of the samples addresses this...
https://www.youworkf…canoe - Love it! https://www.scribd.c…whatthefunk
- I hardly feel that fear anymore, and I’m the sort of person who gets into trouble... I don’t know if I have it under control or if I’ve become reckless.OBBTKN
- Not as bad. Even for the ones that would make me shit my pants I might lose sleep a night but quickly trust my process and that I’ve never not delivered. Ever.monospaced
- We do the best we can. We aren’t saving lives. Client deadlines can magically shift when they need to. Amazing.monospaced
- Every. Fucking. Time.
I wish I could be more relaxed but I also know that I need the pressure to be happy with the result after.Longcopylover - It's true... you're right. It may just come from our own high standards.canoe
- Good point Long. The pressure brings out the best. Such a paradox.monospaced
- Design-adjacent, but - I know what I can do, and what I can't. Inbetween lie dreams and I've just got to spend a half hour working out accomplish them.Nairn
- And by dreams I mean 'hallucinations' not aspirations.Nairn
- * if I can accomplish them.
Fucking spastic trying to edit to the notes lettercount.Nairn - So you take to the brink and then reel yourself back in... that's one way of handling it!canoe
- GuyFawkes4
- Michael Winterbottom's excellent movie Code 46 involves humans using viruses for enhancement, like adding empathy.evilpeacock
- Seems like there's no way it could cure cancer without also presenting a threat like this.yuekit
- However these are only bacteria viruses, creating a unique virus that can infect humans is much more difficult.yuekit
- covAId 19neverscared
- Now that what I call Covid 26mort_
- https://media.tenor.…autoflavour
- yuekit-4
Europe is Fucked
In Europe RN, walking down the street and saw this...how mad does this make you guys on scale of 1 to 10?
- 0? Looks like the McDowells of wherever that is and they managed to ai logo ripoff both kfc and Burger King, bravo!_niko
- Maybe he's referring to the "Halal"NBQ00
- But they’re shooting themselves in the foot and catering to a specific demographic further isolating and not assimilating and not welcoming_niko
- Yes I was referring to the Halal aspect, not the McDowells rip off.yuekit
- whofuckingcares.gifhans_glib
- I know it's about halal, These are all over Toronto too, nobody cares, I tend to avoid them for the same reason I avoid Chick-Fil -a or any kosher places_niko
- ultimately it just means that they take care in their food prep not to cross-contaminate anything and is probably a healthier way to go_niko
- Why would it make us mad? Is it not the same as establishments that advertise Kosher food?Morning_star
- IDK, I thought some people in this thread very concerned about Islamic immigration!yuekit
- I suspect successful chicken shops wouldn't be the focus of their venom.
I hope you're enjoying Europe.Morning_star - If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. Tolkienneverscared - In Europe right now and all I see here is a purple box & Content not viewable in your region.webazoot
- Couldn't care less.Continuity
- @webazoot. There are browser plug-ins that allow you to see imgur images in Europe. Search 'imgur unblocker'.Morning_star
- Is halal low in saturated and trans fats?Nairn
- Wait - is there a Dutch company called 'Rochdale'?
https://rochdale.nl/…Nairn - halli galli chicken is would submit tooneverscared
- Could you do the opposite in a muslim country, I doubt it?ApeRobot
- At least it's clearly labelled.zardoz
- @m_s - as i understand it, strictly kosher food, especially beef, is waaay worse than halal - no stunning allowed. Most halal is pre-stunned before slaughter.Nairn
- I learnt that a couple of years back, after checking, and then said as much to a friend outside a new local burger joint, completely forgetting she's vegan, lolNairn
- Sorry - a new local *halal* burger joint.
Sadly, their burgers were shite, halal, kosher, horse meat or otherwise.Nairn - If it's not Israeli I'm down.GuyFawkes
- I wouldn't think twice walking by this besides the $5 branding and curb appeal would make me think the kitchen is dirty.canoe
- i buy halal meat at grocery store. cuz some how it's cheaper. otherwise there's no difference to me.pango
- Is the patio dog friendly?FawnDog
- The Burger King brand meets Chick-fil-A brand meets KFC brand.utopian
- This would only make an ignorant bigot upset.monospaced
- Why you care what meals people are eating and what religion they are is beyond me. All religion is stupid af.monospaced
- ^^ that's exactly what he was trying to do.pango
- Speaking for myself, they had me at their logo.Continuity
- https://sv.wikipedia…
they've been around for decades in sweden :DArchitectofFate - Well, seeing that Sweden surrendered to full sharia law and is a bona fide Islamic state that persecutes white Christians, I’d say this racist bigot is rightmonospaced
- mono is BACK in full stride!canoe
- https://i.makeagif.c…pango
- love you guys, no patience for bigotsmonospaced
- amsterdam huhmilfhunter
- U.S.A fat fucks with their fatty burger overconsumption and praying in the white house...neverscared
- CyBrainX5
Show some recent work
On July 16, I was scolded by Athanasios Pozantzis aka Noseman from Maxon's Training Team for making him go down a rabbit hole, researching the answer to one of my questions during a livestream. I submitted a question about a camera distortion effect. He gave a very well explained method to achieve the effect. There were some follow-up questions such as would it work with an image sequence instead of just a still graphic. He gave me the assignment to experiment. This video is the result of my experimenting over the last two weeks.
- whatthefunk13
- LOL 100%. I've seen some people creating AI flyers for their own small businesses, and for bar-based music "festivals" and they are total trash.mg33
- Has it been any better when people got Comic Sans and ClipartNBQ00
- The big problem is it's across borders, there are now design niches, everything looks the same no matter where you go or where you're from.robthelad
- *NO NICHES. NONE.robthelad
- It's because generative AI inevitably converges towards common styles and motifs, just like with writing.yuekit
- But, weirdly, the AI aesthetic that this sort of stuff is, is definitely its own. It's actually not regurgitative, strictly. It's novel shite.Nairn
- helvetica?neverscared
- It's a novel average of all the data its been trained on.yuekit
- The way a ML engineer described it to me, the ability to generate coherent imagery can't really be separated from the convergence around commonyuekit
- look/aesthetic.yuekit
- @robthelad, youre completely right ive just got back from Rio were every single bar and street shack had Ai menus. i't got really tiring.woowahesque
- All of them over complicated and in pretty much the same stylewoowahesque
- I think that's what he was saying.
I know that my hometown's FB feed is filled with the shite too, as a lot of the south of spain.Nairn - Novel Shite, best way to put it. And fuck clients that want to save a buck on menus... idiots are now dealing with having no unique brand/positioncanoe
- MrT2
quote of the day
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realise half of them are stupider than that.”
George Carlin
- i think at least 90% of people are average stoopidneverscared
- And often due to no fault of their own. Education inequality is REAL. I feel like calling people stupid will soon be the next 'you can't say that' scenario.Ianbolton
- true... its incomplete anyhow... if u high intel and low on emotion .. that makes bad aesthetics and vice versa... good humanhood aesthetics is based on thatneverscared
- balance of those two.neverscared
- I thought the shonky maths might get called out, but yes ian you’re probably right. Although I hope not. Forever stupid.MrT
- Haha. Me too buddy. Let's embrace human stupidity. Just try to be kind to one and other. Remember when people used to buy cigarettes with Asbestos filters? LOLIanbolton
- Gabriel12
- My morning read has now shifted to old dusty books. This thread is a "signs you're getting old" Trojan Horse.garbage
- There was a piece he did that had a bridge in it, I can never find that one. I can find the planes, the subways, the escalators, but I never can find the bridgecanoe
- Nike Enjoy the Weather, my fav websiteprophetone
- I downloaded it lolprophetone
- getting old for sure → https://www.youtube.…Gabriel
- 2 hours and 20 minutes. Wow.CyBrainX
- I loved - and still love - this stylestoplying
- What's the name for this style?yuekit
- 2 advanced_niko
- was he part of the "techno" movement/style?canoe
- Yeah it reminds me a bit of Designgraphik, Cubadust and other early 2000s techno-influenced web design.yuekit
- Yah very Designers Republic®canoe
- gah, the internet and design held such promise back then.. anything was possible.autoflavour
- now everything looks the sameautoflavour
- So many great sites back then... so much eye candy... now everything is a digital magazine...canoe
- Gardener2
- I would still pork her_niko
- You did this, Gardy?NBQ00
- I wouldn't, I'm marriedGardener
- i dont know why i suddenly camoron comes to mind...neverscared
- pigs in zencanoe
- "I'm not fucking a pig. Page one, that's not happening."mort_
- These Hooves Are Made for Walkin'...And that's just what they'll do...One of these days these hooves are gonna walk all over you...utopian
- The one thing smoking does cure.Fax_Benson
- Smoked Pork is delicious!fooler
- https://i.haasie.com…Akagiyama
- Sidney Swiney_niko
- He's not going to pork her Rusty!sab
- TOP OF THE POPSkingsteven
- The live action muppets movie looks shit.
Still wood_niko - fucking hell, fax.Nairn
- It cant be AI!Danish
- mg333
Artificial Intelligence
Don't overlook the power of using ChatGPT or Claude to write scripts to use in Photoshop that go 1,000,000 beyond what an PS Action could do.
I picked up the Rizzcraft PS bushes from True Grit Texture Supply last week for my son's iPad, and got to exploring them in PS on desktop a few days ago. The brushes emulate Risograph printing and have weights of 10% to 100%. Also comes with a 79 color swatch library.
I manually created some sample color fills, 10"x10" at 300 dpi to use in my code-based art application I built over the past couple of years. Realized it would be great to have individual sets of all 79 colors at all weights.
Yeah, that would take forever manually, whether I reapplied the brush each time, or did a color replace.
Brainstormed with ChatGPT and it wrote a script that I can run in PS that takes the PSD I have open with the brush used to fill a transparent layer, gives me a dialog box to specify the weight to be used in a custom file name - Rizzo_[weight]_COLOR NAME.png - imports the swatches from an .aco file, and lets me choose the output folder.
It cycles through a color replace for all 79 colors, saves as transparent PNG files, and completely bypasses any manual save interactions in PS.
Took two minutes to do that to 79 colors. All I have to do is clear the layer, apply the next weight brush, and run the script again. Ultimately I end up with 790 individual PNGs comprised of each of the weights offered in the brushes. Won't take me more than 30 minutes I'd estimate. Doing it manually would take me more than a day of time I absolutely don't have.
THIS is how you use AI to speed things up and reduce the tedious time it takes to do so many things. It just take a little imagination and ability to explain what you want to do.
- Here's the RizzCraft brushes and colors:
https://www.truegrit…mg33 - Here's a quick example from a couple nights ago where I used these instead of solid fill layers and paper textures. https://www.instagra…mg33
- Thats awesomeinstrmntl
- https://vk.ru/wall-1…robthelad
- What about having AI add support for .aco files to your art app? Then you don’t need the intermediate png files.pusherbot
- Also, Graintouch has some nice ideas for Riso emulation. https://iorama.subst…pusherbot
- pusherbot - Interesting idea. My app uses hex colors grouped as palettes, all stored in a DB. They render as solid color fills. This approach is a bit differentmg33
- To get the color interaction through different weights of the brushes, I kind of need those colors as images.mg33
- But... if it were possible to save a 10x10 svg of the applied brush - 1 image per all 10 weights - I can apply hex colors to that svg and not need the 790 imgs.mg33
- The only catch is... images get inserted into shapes, and I've got a full library of svgs, squares, triangle, etc. etc. I'd need to think through a major updatemg33
- that would let me choose svg patterns to fill shapes with, and apply the color from a palette. Will have to put some thought into this. Thx for the idea!mg33
- I don't use photoshop and don't understand all of this text, but I love how we can have great inputs and get inspiration on qbn again. Thanks.Longcopylover
- Here's the RizzCraft brushes and colors:
- jagara3
Europe is Fucked
I'm in Budapest. It's 40 C. But its dry heat, so it doesn't bother me. I'm fine. It's fine. We're all going to... be fine.
- *sips lemon-pear radler*jagara
- finestneverscared
- Say "sup" to goat boy for us.GuyFawkes
- Ah fuck wrong country NVMGuyFawkes
- Plenty of goats in Budapestutopian
- every city will be cooper pedyneverscared
- Haha @GuyFawkes that's literally the mistake the goatboy would lose his mind overpseud
- I hope he reads your comment :Ppseud
