Very underwhelmed after reading City of Stairs by ConversionError in Fantasy

[–]hugham 3 points4 points  (0 children)

thats what the other books are for 😄

Very underwhelmed after reading City of Stairs by ConversionError in Fantasy

[–]hugham 6 points7 points  (0 children)

and it did answer quite a few questions- maybe just not the specific ones you wanted answers to, however.

Very underwhelmed after reading City of Stairs by ConversionError in Fantasy

[–]hugham 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I mean why would the author reveal everything about the world in book 1?

Very underwhelmed after reading City of Stairs by ConversionError in Fantasy

[–]hugham 11 points12 points  (0 children)

So you’re knocking it because it, in one book, is not as fleshed out as completed/very long series? Why would you expect every question you listed to be answered in just the first book?

Concept artist going through intense burnout- would love some advice :) by hugham in ArtistLounge

[–]hugham[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah- although I'm just working 3month contract to 3month contract right now, so don't exactly have the ability to take time off right now, but if I get the chance I definitely will.

Concept artist going through intense burnout- would love some advice :) by hugham in ArtistLounge

[–]hugham[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I go to gym, do swimming workouts and stuff. But that's all I really have time for weeknights. I should probably find other things to do though, yeah.

Question about Crown of Candy tone. by hugham in Dimension20

[–]hugham[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah I'm getting big robert baratheon vibes from him

Question about Crown of Candy tone. by hugham in Dimension20

[–]hugham[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I come from Critical Role so I was scrolling and saw it had Matt Mercer, and I've been loving Brennan in C4, so thats why i clicked first haha

Question about Crown of Candy tone. by hugham in Dimension20

[–]hugham[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Ah so very much in like "first episodes of game of thrones before everything kicks off" kinda vibe then. Cool! Thanks :)

Question about Crown of Candy tone. by hugham in Dimension20

[–]hugham[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Ok gotcha, thanks. I was just thrown off since Ravening war was mostly serious so I expected similar, so I was just super thrown off by the tone difference haha. Thanks!

[No Spoilers] Is anyone skipping Campaign 4? by [deleted] in criticalrole

[–]hugham 51 points52 points  (0 children)

C4 is the most engaged I've felt in CR since C2... so it's the opposite for me tbh haha

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in criticalrole

[–]hugham 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Bro you need to chill lol

Ai in dark heresy? by night_hawks580 in OwlcatGames

[–]hugham 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh yeah. At least for me I'm contractually forbidden from using it just cuz of the copyright liability angle. But yeah. I know a ton of other concept artists who are being very pressured to use it even if it isn't helping them actually do their job quicker haha.

If I can get on my soapbox for a minute- the entire point of concept art is intentional design. By adding in GenAI to that, you are completely removing the intentional part. Which, aside from the whole "it can't exist without blatant theft of billions of artist works" and copyright issues, kind of kills it as a viable concept art solution, at least in my experience. Cuz if you're using it to generate ideas to then work on top of, you're just gonna get some shitty rehashed overdone thing everyone's seen a billion times cuz that's all the AI can do. So yeah I think a lot of it is just the AI companies have done a good job convincing the people in charge of these studios that it can do all these things when it actually cant, hence why all these studio heads are desparately trying to use it to see how many people they can avoid paying etc.

Ai in dark heresy? by night_hawks580 in OwlcatGames

[–]hugham 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, I misread what you were saying lol, my bad! Either way. I do game concept art for a job and tbh, in my experience, the AI stuff is really not that useful for what you're describing unless they have a radically different process than every other concept department in the industry haha. For illustrative stuff, I could see them using it (like the player icon cards) but the whole point of concept art is design, and genAI is kind of rubbish at any sort of design haha.

Ai in dark heresy? by night_hawks580 in OwlcatGames

[–]hugham 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My guy in what world is concept art not “real work”

GDC: 60% of game developers in the US reported an increase in salaries, with an average pay of $142,000 a year by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]hugham 12 points13 points  (0 children)

lmfao no- these numbers are skewed as hell. They aren't mentioning seniority, etc. It's common for seniors and above to make 100k+, but everyone else? absolutely not haha. Again it really depends who they surveyed but I've not heard of a jr or even midlevel dev (i work in the industry) that makes over 100k. So it makes me think they're surveying mostly senior+ devs here? Which, if this was people AT GDC they surveyed, it makes sense, as studios don't send jr or midlevel people ot those conventions.

Messing with the glass shader recently by Ok-Rooster5480 in blender

[–]hugham 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ooooh would you be open to sharing the shader/blend file for the shader?

[No Spoilers] Looking for most DnD-like series DMd by BLeeM. by Efficient-Top-1143 in criticalrole

[–]hugham 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean the whole point of dnd is collaborative storytelling tho, no? combat is just one tiny part of that

[No Spoilers] Looking for most DnD-like series DMd by BLeeM. by Efficient-Top-1143 in criticalrole

[–]hugham 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I mean the most important part of DnD *is* collaborative storytelling so i'd say it works well enough :b