u/Jamey4

Another one of Ruby. 🔪

Veloran, Owl God of Direction, guides you to a house after getting lost in the woods. 🦉

My newest character! 🦉

While Arthur fills up the truck on the surface, Charlotte goes down into the caverns of Carlsbad Caverns National Park. 🌾

Just something I threw together to show the five stages that I’ve seen consistently, plus the bonus stage.

For me personally, I jumped to the bonus stage of Integration a while ago. It’s a tool like any other that I’ve added to my portfolio as a professional artist of many different tools.

I find that so many folks out there are stuck on stage two though. I feel like that stage lasts longer than any of the other ones for some reason. I find it fascinating. Anyone else feel the same way that stage two tends to overstay it’s welcome?

Credit to u/Amethystea for Arthur. c:

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This one was a fun one to do! I took one of the screenshots I took during the very early years of the game, March 2017 if memory serves. I gave it an older vintage look with the art deco design on the sides, and put in the quote at the bottom. Usually, I would go and correct some of the imperfections with the generated art deco design, but I feel like it works for this one to make it look more worn down.

The original was a little bit more saturated in color so I produced that down to give it a more vintage look considering that the screenshot is almost 10 years old now.

It’s not much, but I like how it turned out. 😄

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This piece is based on another screenshot I took a long time ago. I converted it into an Art Deco-style poster with a lot of decorative line work around the edges. I had to manually add some of the details and fix a few symmetry issues. Overall, I think this one turned out pretty well. I’ve always loved sunsets in this game, and wanted to expand upon it with something like this. 🌅

Again, I wish that this sub had a tag for art. The closest thing I think is location, so that’s what I set it to. 😅

I told myself I wasn’t gonna do art on my vacation, but I can’t help myself sometimes. 🤪

Been on a cruise since Saturday, so I’ll be mostly offline art-wise until at least the 11th. 😅

Put this together for Scarfang while I’m out here, but that’s gonna be it for now. I’m taking a little break. 😜

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I decided to make an old looking art deco poster this time of an older image I took back in 2018, back during the days of Atlas Rises.

Hedema is another lush (or was) planet in my home system I’ve been in since 2017. Descala, and its moon Zunaka are in the distance. (Zunaka was red back then instead of green like it is now)

Hedema today is actually no longer a lush planet, it’s a swamp planet now. So my older screenshot is a curious piece of history now, so I felt like the old worn theme should reflect that.

It’s not much but, I like it. 😊

Honestly, this feels a bit like an overreach with how they phrased certain parts. There’s been a ton of passionate fan work created in DDLC fandoms with these tools for years now, and for a lot of people, AI is what enabled them to participate in the first place.

I understand protecting monetization and official assets to an extent, but trying to shut down fan creativity this broadly feels out of touch with how the technology is actually being used.

Truth be told, I’ve seen other game companies take the opposite approach, giving fans a space to share AI-assisted work, and it leads to an explosion of creativity rather than shutting it down. I also feel like giving your fans a thumbs up when they create fanart, no matter how it’s made, builds a good faith between the company and the gamers themselves. Which I think counts for a lot these days.

Curious what others think. What do you think is the best approach/stance for a game company to take these days on this issue?