🦕 Musculoskeletal biologist & vertebrate palaeontologist
🏛️ PhD'd with the University of Liverpool and the Natural History Museum, London
🎓 University of Manchester graduate
🖊️ Sci-illustrator
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https://www.mattdempseydinosaurs.com
Dr Matt Dempsey
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I'm still not fully sure what they were going for with this moment, and it's all the better for it. It still gives me the chills.
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Most of the models from last year's convention, including the skeletons, micro Triceratops, Stegosaurus, and small walking/sitting Tyrannosaurus, will be available too!
These will also be available both unpainted and painted.
Here's a little CGI mockup of the available range:
Preparing for DinoCon means that I don't exactly have a ton of desk space left at the moment...
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So, regardless of any "final assets are human made" disclaimer, usage of genAI at the concept stage has still inherently replaced part of the actual creative process that makes things interesting to engage with. I think you need to have a really poor understanding of art/design to not see that.
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If I were to draw a pre-existing game character referencing official artwork, that character doesn't suddenly become my design, even if it's my drawing. By that same logic, even a human made 3D model that referenced a genAI concept is still a genAI design. The process is tainted.
Also (and this is a personal point of pride), the big Tyrannosaur models can solidly hold their own weight on two feet without needing a stand or tail prop. They are also quite heavy...
Man, everything about this whole sequence just rules.
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Saw Disclosure Day. I thought it was an extremely dramatically compelling and well crafted film, even though I don't really buy the uncynical worldview it gestures towards.
Personally I wasn't disappointed, but I also suspect it will be very divisive, for many valid reasons.
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Even putting where you stand on the ethics of this type of workflow aside for a moment, the final result is ultimately just less artistically interesting. No matter what angle you come at this from, something valuable has been lost.
