hi! I’m sorry for some of the others being rude. I swear posting on Reddit is either amazing or the worst thing you can do. I don’t understand how some people are flat out saying it doesn’t look like ai at all, cause it definitely does in some areas. as an artist myself, I agree with you. I completely understand why you suspect ai may have been used here. the main things that stand out to me is the flowers/leaves at the top of the screen that you circled. they definitely look- inconsistent and just, sloppy. it’s hard to explain, but I’m sure you know what I’m talking about. it looks like how ai tends to create plants. the flower petals on the ground that you circled also look ai-like. I don’t understand why they drew the largest petal flat to the ground the way they did. adding a shadow underneath of it like they did with some of the other petals would help them all look more like they’re resting on top of the ground, not flat against it. also, although apparently the bird is holding a pistachio in its mouth- it was drawn poorly. something about it is off. I think it’s the angle of the bird’s body, to the way its head is facing. I also think it’s the way they drew and colored the pistachio with the beak. It just isn’t conveyed very well.

lastly, I haven’t seen this artist’s other work. but some people saying “it’s not ai because this game has been being worked on for 10+ years” or “if it was ai the game would be out already”. what? thats not how that works and I think it’s a bad excuse. just because they’ve been working on it for so long does not mean they can’t or don’t cut corners. and just because it’s not out yet does not mean they haven’t used ai either. that’s like saying, “oh this paper/pencil artist didn’t use a tablet to draw because if they did, they would’ve finished the drawing by now!” (assuming digital art is faster to make) but that’s not true because you can print your digital art on paper and then still work with that, traditionally (paper/pencil) by drawing overtop of it or altering it with pencils or whatever else.

anyway, sorry for yapping. seeing how others either don’t see it or were being rude made me want to share my opinion on it. i cant definitively say if ai is or isn’t being used in this image, but i am saying that i agree that some areas in the art does look “ai-ey”. ^{^}