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I'm a CG character artist in the game industry, Though it's still not a big of deal like 2D, but it's getting more serious day by day and advancements in the related tools is super fast, one day in a very near future AI will be able to create full production ready 3d models be it characters, environments, object etc, from scratch just by a few prompts, I've spend many years gain mastery in my art and create a career out of it and the last year was the shitiest year in terms of aboubdance of projects. you could see so many studios that did lots of lay-offs. Any thoughts and advices into this other than corporating AI tools into my workflow?

@Leo Gura are you still in the video game industry? Do you make your own games?

i see that all around me and in my life too and i dont think its AI fault lol I'm aware of that, but you can't say it has nothing to do with the rise of AI.

Think about it, in a future AI can easily analyse a 3d asset like a character and based on a few guides texture the whole character and you might just tweak a few things around, so it'll take much less time and effort to make production ready characters as the foundations and basic technical asspests also being handled by AI like UV, and also the need for texture artists will be gone or just one lead texture artist that oversee the consistency of the quality of all assets.

The problem is AI shows to be super super creative when it comes to creative parts too, yes if it was just technical aspects you'd say just learn the new tools adapt and go with the flow. But just compare what the midjourney was capable to create just in the last year versus it's todays outputs, it's unbelievable.

Yes I can see that this is a possibility of a near future concidering how fast AI is advancing.

@Leo Gura Are you aware of the reasons why studios begin to shrink down one by one from the past year and continue? Isn't a big part of it related to AI? I've spoken to some other veteran artists and all of them confirmed that they're receiving much much less job offers, I guess there's some AI advancements that we still aren't aware of their existence and probably studios are utilizing them, thou you are right that AI doesn't have enough raw data to train with in public, but giant corporations like Ubisoft, EA, Sony etc can easily provide game asset data's from their own past productions to train their own AI with.

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@zurew Did you follow the discussion @UnbornTao and I had with @Carl-Richard from the beginning of this discussion? If yes, let me know what you think. I'm not interested to repeat this whole discussion again. Specially my answers were very clear to you about the nature of beliefs.

Again I'm not sure how talking about me personally would help you or anyone following this discussion. If you've read my responces in this thread carefully then you already should have ideas about where I'm stand in my path. Yes I did meditate, Self-inquery, and experminted with the spiritual practices and methods in the past.

Please read my responses again, It's not about having beliefs or being completely agnostic, the relegious beliefs does have their own unique kind weight, scope and consequences to them. Why you don't compare the relegious beliefs to a scientists beliefs for example? Or to any other beliefs people have about anything else in life?

You can form beliefs about anything in life.

These kind of beliefs doesn't have relegious beliefs kind of weight, consequences, scope, and isn' certainly equal at all. You can have no beliefs at all and just come and expermint with it with an open mind. It's like saying you have to have faith that drinking water will quench your thurst! Yes and no right? Again not similar to relegious beliefs. You don't need to have any faiths, but you are curious and have an open mind, you directly going to experiment with the methods and verify them for yourself without necessary holding any beliefs that these methods will get you what you want. Exactly, same thing can be said that applies for spirituality.

Are you indirectly asking then who am I?! No

I know that because I went through the process and experienced it for myself. Thats where you are wrong, You came to me, asked for help, I gave you some techniques that worked on me and might have work on you, I didn't ask you to believe it, you can expermint with it, if it resonates with you, you can continue if not you welcome to leave. As simple as that. Based on what logic this looks like a relegion to you and @Carl-Richard God knows. See it this way, You wanna learn how to draw, you go to a master and ask him to help you in anyway (teach you, giving you techniques etc) is the master a relegious figure by doing this and you are joining his relegion??!! This is ridiculous guys.

Emmitting from their eyes?

I don't practice at all, why would I want to practice, to achieve what?

No it wasn't about me, not even partially lol, why would I want to have a discussion about myself? Also I didn't say I'm spiritual, did I? If you call me a spiritual individual then I'm not awake, If I'm awake then I must have broke through the bottle of spirituality to achieve that. But the discussion was about your idea that in truth spirituality = relegion with just minor differences but the very same thing in the core which is totally wrong based on the precise definitions of spirituality and relegion.

No it's not random, And a meditation technique won't directly produce an awakening, basically all the techniques is just to help control the wandering mind, once the mind is controled then the practices should be droped (cause as long as you are doing something the mind is in operative state and in order to see the reality behind the mind which is awakening, all doings should be droped), a real meditation begins here when you totally drop all the techniques to realize you are meditation in your nature, you see the light of awareness which is you behind all the experiences, you become conscious of your self for the first time ever and awakening as deep as this causes the structure of the ego-mind to collapse, you see something you've never seen before, your absolute true self as "The Reality", "Awarness", "Consciousness", "The Self".

Why making so much assumtions about me when you don't know me at all?! 😃 Is the discussion about me???!!! If you wanna keep doing this, I'm really no longer interested to continue the discussion. If you have any personal questions about me, please just ask in another post and stop all these assumptions which almost all of them are wrong! I don't even meditate! And you keep talking about my mysticism, relegion, meditations etc 😃

Why not? 😎 Sadhguru looks even more badass than Neo with that snake crawling his arm!

True, But you are not "searching" as a relegious individual like spiritual one. The definitions needs to be more precise, a relegious person is not in a state of seeking or searching the same he defind spiritual the same way "search for sacred".

If you are searching, If you are a seeker, are you spiritual or relegious?

I see your point here, Obviously those group people who you mentioned also call themselves spiritual, but are they really?? Well, I'd say the answer is probably no. If I say to me spirituality is just this or that you come and say hey then what about these people? And you're right, I agree with you on this that a large chunk of today's so called spiritual people will be seen as relegious in future, but that doesn't mean spirituality = religion. Forget about the word "mysticism" or "direct experience", lets go to the core of what spirituality is, If you know that you don't know anything at all, like if we look at our hand we don't know what it is in nature, and it's actually true, we have ideas, thoughts about what it might be, but its all just concepts being poured into our minds by others, society, but we actually don't know what it is in it's nature. A true genuine seeker knows he doesn't know anything, and this is all he knows, this is not something he believes in, this is not a desire to go to heaven or nirvana, this is not worshiping etc. This is spirituality. You're spiritual when you know that you absolutely know nothing about anything including yourself and seek to know. If you say this is not scientific definition, then it isn't, if you say then what about a large portion of people who call themselves spiritual that cant be put in this definition, then maybe they're not spiritual, I don't know and that's not my business to categorize them. You said "search for sacred" If you are in a state of searching or seeking you are not a believer, a believer have faith that believing the system or religion he believes in will get him rewarded at the end (redemption, nirvana, etc). Someone who searches, means he doesn't know, and doesn't believe in anything (cause he is searching right? ) and want to know by searching, exploring everything.