Seems i will have a PS4 by 27 Sept. A mate is selling me his office PS4, with killzone, the last of us,destiny and COD for 250. Boom

Im happy with it. Its lived in his marketing dept office for a large vg publisher.

Wot I Dun last week at work.

Brooks wrote:

Am moving out the digital space a but and learning the ways of airbrushing. Check yo'self Sorayama, your crown is mine.

I spent many years airbrushing and will endeavour to reboot in new place.  Unplanned abstract airbrushing is is satisfying and therepeutic.

Did a few more Earthbound mini guys tonight - 'Jeff' and 'Poo'

Dan, I am a vector whiz, hire me.

Skerret wrote:

I can't find the art thread thing but anyway I did a thing



It was for a beer label but they don't fancy it now.  Might knock a t-shirt together or something.

Nice!

Yeah, that's awesome, Sker. If that was on a beer I would proudly drink it with the label facing towards the rest of the bar so everyone could appreciate my fine taste.

Any creative type should check out this app: https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/

Amazed that this is produced by Serif.

£40 and you get a combined Photoshop/Illustrator killer.

Some great features, especially the zoom levels, the pixel editing within vectors, the ability to export slices by layer, by layer group at both normal size and retina. 

Only thing for some of you is it's Mac only, free trial too.

Been playing with it today. Everything is so much quicker and smoother than photoshop and illustrator. I tried to zoom in, got fed up at 1,000,000+% it's just fucking ridiculously good.

Adobe should be worried.

Every modification is in realtime. If you haven't id suggest you look at the tutorial videos some great stuff in there.

Does it open up photoshop/illustrator files?

Hmm, slightly worrying article here. At least, for anyone working in design. I know it's coming, but I can't help feeling it's going to be a real disaster to cut human imagination out of the loop.

Liveinadive wrote:

I don't worry too much about these things. Some companies will adopt them sure but most decent stuff will still require a human. It's like the Moon pig cards of graphic design.

I agree, at the moment it's at that stage. But give it a year or three and things will be much further down the line. I'm happy if it eliminates the crappy, lower end of the market; but when bigger companies start experimenting with this kind of thing it potentially devalues what we do in their eyes.

Time to retrain as a mechanic or a carpenter, methinks...

I met the guys from Field (who did that old GF Smith job headlining the article) the other week. Their main guy freely admitted that he got into generative art because he was a rubbish graphic designer.

Thing is, the stuff they do is good. But it’s often just a form of illustration or animation … something I’d commission just like I would a photographer or copywriter.

It’s an evolution of the things Joshua Davis was doing with Praystation back in the day, or The generative fonts Leterror used to make. Hell, it’s only a few technological leaps on from Spirograph drawings.

Just another tool in the box.

I feel more sorry for people wanting to join the sector. The shit jobs are where you cut your teeth.