Recent content by jwlovell

Don’t get me wrong, just because I advocate for AI as a tool, I have no delusions about how dangerous a tool it can be now and with no apocalyptic fictional exaggeration - how dangerous it will be in just a few years. The true magnitude of just how dangerous, how jobs and society as a whole can...

Yes, but you are putting the brakes on everything that touches on AI, for example - even if it is implemented soley as an assist after the fact - on what starts as a human created work, it is not allowed. Yet, while still leveraging it yourselves to assist or speed up some aspects of your...

This is where the implementation of AI is really cheating on your part, because here you are using AI-generated art - you are using AI to create what image you want your artist to then manually re-create. How much human originality is only being used to implement a style by hand - effectively...

And here is where the disconnect happens, every time. As I pointed out to Matt: “Ironically, your example is the best argument against a blanket ban, you are acknowledging real value from AI in the workflow: your artists use it to explore compositions faster, then produce a human-crafted final...

OK so what do you feel about an artist who uses AI to generate comps to show concepts and styles, then pic one to create the end result from scratch before submission?

I Exactly. I know I tried to post it in one group that has a lot of Traveller members, but I think since the post was about AI it was blocked.

Come on Terry, 70 people participated in that poll.

Matt, thanks for laying this out. I waited a beat to respond because I also wanted to be able to suggest things that may prove helpful in preserving that Traveller-shaped island. Ironically, your example is the best argument against a blanket ban, you are acknowledging real value from AI in...

Well, as a CGI illustrator who enjoys creating with it, and hopes to eventuay supplement retirement income with publishing for game companies; being able to create an entire product myself and who - like Mongoose - prefers to make custom images that bring visual impact to the work vs stock art -...

Twinmotion is free on the Epic / Unreal platform, and creates phenomenally realistic landscape and architectural renders and animations - cinematic, photorealistic, and in realtime.

I have about 16 TB of 3D assets purchased over the years, my first commercially contracted images for cover art for Iron Crown Enterprises were renders using Vue and DAZ3D with the Reality path tracing render plugin; and those were the first time I started learning 3D software tools I hurried up...

Hi Matt, Thanks again for taking the time to engage on this. I really appreciate the thought you’ve put into defending Traveller’s creative identity—and I hope you will continue to allow constructive dialogue on the topic I wanted to follow up on one particular angle that I don’t think is...

If we’re going to condemn technology based on its origins, we better be ready to log off Facebook, ditch the internet, and abandon smartphones too. Otherwise, it’s just selective outrage. Yes, the early development of generative AI involved large-scale scraping without proper consent. That’s a...

Well, if mixed use is against the rules for Commercial TAS work, does this apply to mainstream Mongoose publications as well? Like the comics?