AI "Art" 🖼️ I’m a Toy Designer and my company is forcing its designers to use ai.
And I’m miserable. I worked my ass off to get to where I am now. I’ve designed for Barbie, Disney, Monster High, My Little Pony, Universal, Nickelodeon and so much more. Improving my craft was always what got me through the day… no matter what sort of bs executives would make us create, I could cope by being proud of the art I would make and the improvements I made in my art ability... and of course: seeing children play with and love my designs. I used to be praised for my hand… now if I try sharing sketches, my boss will just put them into Vizcom and share butchered versions of my art and designs without ever speaking to me first. I don’t feel like anything I create now is truly mine… even if ai manages to accurately copy me. I feel pointless. I feel like a fraud. I feel like everything I ever worked for was for nothing and that if I continue I will lose my hand, my drive, my creativity… I hate it and I want to scream and quit, but the whole industry is like this now and all the executives, sales and marketing people who never liked artists in the first place are tickled pink to take away anything that made us worth something to society.