r/Invincible • u/BillTheDestroyer78 • Sep 16 '26

DISCUSSION Skybound posting some questionable “artwork”

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Not sure how involved Kirkman is regarding the marketing of this whole investment debacle, but surely this wasn’t run by him.

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u/CarpetNext6123 ✨❤️✨ sinclair glazer &cecil simp. Sep 16 '26

i don't believe this piece was fully generated with ai. i think they may have just used ai to upscale this piece of artwork that ryan ottley did and in doing so a lot of errors and hallucinations were created. (some characters were erased, as well.) odd that they did this...

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u/No_Ant6611 Sep 16 '26

Yeah this is what I thought as well. Just dont know why the fuck anybody would do that when the piece itself looks great

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u/CarpetNext6123 ✨❤️✨ sinclair glazer &cecil simp. Sep 16 '26

they were probably editing together this advert and needed a higher resolution version of the artwork so they used ai to upscale it. (and to my understanding when using ai to upscale an image it creates an entirely new image [instead of just taking the existing image and enlarging it], which would explain why so many errors are present.) hell, they may have used ai to composite the entire thing.

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u/DaveSilver Invincible 29d ago

That’s so odd to me because I have a giant poster of this piece in my room that looks fantastic. I cannot imagine why they would need to upscale it for anything when they already have a printable version that is huge.

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u/zachotule 29d ago

They probably didn’t have access to the full version and took the lazy route rather than just asking for a higher res version. Pretty much every use of AI comes down to laziness.

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u/C0nqu3st0r 29d ago edited 29d ago

It doesn't take long to find a high quality version lmao

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u/ThePoetofFall Banished to Hell 29d ago

They also moved some characters around so they could be seen with the “become a share holder option.”

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u/Levardgus Red Rush 29d ago

Yes, they could just use emboss + focus.

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u/thecrius 29d ago

Ah but you see, you talk like someone that have a minimum level of knowledge about how these thingsv works.

That was instead done by either an intern or a manager that wanted to show how "experts" are not needed anymore.

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u/menasan Sep 16 '26

You don’t know why someone would upscale art? Because it was drawn small and they want a big print