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Dragon infinite loop thing almost done
🕑 Added 2023-04-17 08:36:25 +0000 UTCI've attached the final renders with compositing and everything. I had to do some tricker with the c[u]m though- my GPU keeps crashing while rendering and I think I've found out it's very likely not a hardware or software issue. Whenever I render with that material for the fluid, it crashes the GPU and I have to restart my computer (or force it to restart via power button). Like if I used anything higher than 24 samples when rendering (which is reeeeally low and the resulting image is full of denoising artifacts) with the fluid, it just crashes before finishing. I had to lower the samples even further for some specific frames.
It's really annoying so what I did to get around it was render the entire animation at 128 samples without fluid, rendered a mask of where the fluid is on screen (with motion blur and everything) then rendered the animation with very low sample count with the fluid, then composited the two together (so where the fluid is, the render with fluid is revealed and the rest is the render without fluid).
You can't really see the different in the images from the gif, but here's what I mean:
Even 128 samples is too low but it's good enough- as long as it looks okay enough in motion and with some compression artifacts.
Also, I want to talk about the sky- well, in this case, I thought AI image generation might be really useful. So I made (or rather, gave the computer words and the computer made) this tall sky card in Dall-E:
To be clear I don't think that AI imagery is necessarily a net good- no idea what's up with the white lines in that one part but it's awfully suspicious. But I do think that in cases such as background imagery, details on things far away or textures it's pretty useful. When it's used sparingly and the majority of the overall work isn't AI generated I think it's fine.
Idk though I don't claim ownership of that sky image so if you want to use it go on ahead.
Comments
Monocerus
I second this
Zaalmall
can you also post vids with no voice but with sub and sounds? i prefer my imagination to do the talking
Velocirection
I'm not saying that to cater to anyone- I have a lot of mixed feelings about AI art. Why I say I don't think AI imagery is a net good is that it's a sign of what's to come. We still don't know the full impact AI art will have on people who do art professionally but it's obvious that people will be replaced by AI art in some capacity or another. And there will be people who take joy in the "coping and seething" of people who lost jobs they think aren't important. That's where my reluctance about AI (and automation in general) come from. What does this mean for the future of humanity? The dream of what AI can do for humans is great. We can automate the things we don't like to do that we *need* to do so we can focus on the things we *want* to do. But I have a hard time seeing that ever becoming a reality because at the end of the day, people and politicians (in the US at least) hate regular, working class people. They especially hate people who work "low skill" jobs (which are the jobs that corporations jizz their pants over automating so they can get rid of the disgusting meat bags that want things like higher pay, a safe working environment or to not be treated like scum). But what happens when we automate millions of jobs? Huge swaths of the population unemployed because jobs at their skill level are all automated. How do you convince the public and politicians who despise the people that flip their burgers and stock their grocery store shelves that these people would deserve some sort of assistance with finding another, higher skill job? Or like, universal basic income? I have a huge amount of empathy for people who are stuck in a crappy, low paying job because I was one of those people. It wasn't until a couple years ago that I quit Walmart (after 11 years of unloading trucks and stocking shelves) because of the amazing support of you and all my other patrons. And I will say I phrased that in a way that I don't entirely agree with. I would say that at this point, it's *unclear* whether AI art is a net good or not. But I would like it to be. Like I want so much to live in an amazing AI utopia where the drudgeries of life are automated and everyone is free to pursue their passion. I just have a difficult time seeing it happen. I would love nothing more than to be proven wrong though.
Minus Underscore
You really don't need to add in a line like "I don't think that AI imagery is necessarily a net good" to cater to the panicked robophobes. I know they feel like the majority, but don't worry about the people you think will complain. Because you're making this for the people that won't complain. And we appreciate it! If AI helped, then AI art is obviously a net good.
william fordon
Dang rendering problems!
