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Mike-Amir El Frangi

@mike-amir.bsky.social

Lead Character Artist @Quantic Dream https://www.artstation.com/mike-amir

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Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be.

The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with.

The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization.

In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. 

You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how itโ€™s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.

06.07.2025 17:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10948    ๐Ÿ” 5258    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 126    ๐Ÿ“Œ 156
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playing around on the costume design~ about to conclude the whole vis of this character. comms WIP~

02.05.2025 18:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 708    ๐Ÿ” 99    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Hey! I decided to make a short tutorial how to polish your sculpt , I hope you will find it helpful๐Ÿซก

28.04.2025 17:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 260    ๐Ÿ” 55    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

So many details, I love it!!

07.02.2025 23:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Commission: Michael Moorcockโ€™s Elric!

07.02.2025 10:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1685    ๐Ÿ” 299    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 32    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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I made these two guys that are coming in the next patch! Yayyy!

12.12.2024 03:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Another one from a while back, this was based on an @ianmcque.bsky.social sketch, sculpted in #zbrush.

29.11.2024 10:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 245    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Dreams on a Pillow - a videogame experience about theย 1948ย Nakba, based onย aย trueย story | LaunchGood A pseudo-3D stealth adventure game about a land full of people being made into a people without land

After years away from game dev, I couldnโ€™t stay silent about my peopleโ€™s dehumanization. I made Dreams on a Pillow ๐Ÿ‰a game inspired by a famous Palestinian folktale about the 1948 Nakba.

Iโ€™m crowdfunding it nowโ€”please back & share!
๐Ÿ”— launchgood.com/1948

28.11.2024 14:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4043    ๐Ÿ” 3116    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 54    ๐Ÿ“Œ 133
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Hi everyone! My name is Colleen Larson, Iโ€™m a Senior Character Artist at Naughty Dog. Been in the games industry for 8 years now, and had the privilege of shipping The Last of Us Part I and II among others. Jumping to this platform and see if itโ€™s a little more friendly than some other apps. Cheers!

22.11.2024 15:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 462    ๐Ÿ” 83    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 25    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Damn man, love your stuff!

18.11.2024 16:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hi There๐Ÿ˜I'm Marco, an Italian Character artist working at Forge Studios
artstation.com/taffuz

18.11.2024 09:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 140    ๐Ÿ” 36    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Older ghoulish doodles ๐Ÿฆ‡

18.10.2024 14:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 188    ๐Ÿ” 43    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Here is a step by step tutorial on how I painted a fur material! โœจ Works in any software that has gradient maps & only requires default brushes.
Feel free to share around!

Breakdowns for 10 different materials, FREE on my stores, link in bio!

#painting #2Dart #illustration #material #tutorial #art

05.11.2024 23:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 144    ๐Ÿ” 37    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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A message to creatives. ๐Ÿค

15.11.2024 14:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 98    ๐Ÿ” 19    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Shetches part 4

Shetches part 4

Sketches part 4 #characterdesign

08.11.2024 17:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2925    ๐Ÿ” 214    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 24    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

You are my favorite dude

03.11.2024 21:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hi all! I'm Han, I do 3D Character art by day and some 2d art and other shenanigans by night! I'm currently working as an artist at Airship Syndicate ๐ŸŒผ #3dart

30.10.2024 20:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 197    ๐Ÿ” 46    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
beetle creature - concept art by Dave Greco

beetle creature - concept art by Dave Greco

mudskipper creature - concept art by Kaylee Gifford

mudskipper creature - concept art by Kaylee Gifford

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Hi there! Here is some of the stuff I did for WoW The War Within! You can see more on my artstation, link in bio!
#handpainted #warcraft #stylizedart

20.10.2024 16:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 118    ๐Ÿ” 28    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I uploaded more of my work for Wayfinder! I had to make a set of Farm houses for our area called "Frostmarch", both intact and destroyed. With that came some R&D for chunky hay roofs.
You can see more variations of these houses in my breakdown:

www.artstation.com/artwork/Gvv56B

18.10.2024 14:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 401    ๐Ÿ” 87    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Winter drink ๐Ÿฆ‹โœจ

03.01.2024 07:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 196    ๐Ÿ” 50    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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shirou savage print done~

03.11.2023 15:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 106    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congrats king!

31.10.2023 05:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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RAGE

30.10.2023 20:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 46    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
An imp and a pumpkin head character meeting a conjoined long bee in a bright hive.

An imp and a pumpkin head character meeting a conjoined long bee in a bright hive.

Spare a spoon of honey?

#art

27.09.2023 12:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 106    ๐Ÿ” 22    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Cut-Cut-Cut-Cut

28.10.2023 17:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Le boss est lร ๐Ÿ˜Ž

28.10.2023 20:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Bonjour madame

28.10.2023 10:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hey Bluesky, I realized I didn't post here yet! Here's a glimpse of what you can find in my portfolio โœŒ๏ธ

27.10.2023 23:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Painting of Teemo from League of Legends

Painting of Teemo from League of Legends

Painting of Lissandra from League of Legends

Painting of Lissandra from League of Legends

Fan Art of Ahri from League of Legends

Fan Art of Ahri from League of Legends

Fan Art of Ekko and Jinx from League of Legends

Fan Art of Ekko and Jinx from League of Legends

Hi, I am Kuya Jaypi.
I am always looking for work (illustration, concept art or art direction).

Previously working on: League of Legends, VALORANT, Overwatch 2, Apex Legends, Clash Royale, PUBG, Barbie

20.10.2023 06:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 239    ๐Ÿ” 68    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My work on Mirage is finally out! :)

www.artstation.com/artwork/lDnrrG
www.artstation.com/artwork/RyZLLW
www.artstation.com/artwork/6N2dd6

26.10.2023 17:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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