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NEWS: Square Enix Announces Kingdom Hearts IV Game's Switch 2 Release With Trailer; Kingdom Hearts C

I want to be excired, but pandora's box has just been opened. The I-III promo image is AI art, and unmistakably so. I... do not feel good about it. At all. Any hype I've had for KHIV since KHIII has been mushed into this pool of anxiety I have over AI art. It's not a pleasant feeling when it hits one of your favorite stories.

Just so everybody knows: it's not "unmistakably" AI art, that's just people jumping the gun for something that could be as simple as "a junior artist got lazy with the backgrounds and traced over game screenshots"

EmeraldSaucer wrote:

Just so everybody knows: it's not "unmistakably" AI art, that's just people jumping the gun for something that could be as simple as "a junior artist got lazy with the backgrounds and traced over game screenshots"

-Looks at SqEx messing around with the Slop Factory as of late-

I mean, it could also be "junior artist got lazy and used AI." Not just the background either, Donald has different numbers of fingers for each hand his beak looks weird.

And an unfortunate part of AI is that paranoia surrounding it has led people with little to no understanding of art to see what could easily be basic human error (or just stylistic choices) and go "this must be the work of AI because it vaguely looks 'weird' to me". Same way as people cried and moaned about the Sekiro anime being AI because they saw in-betweens for the first time in their lives

The art in question looks consistent with Nomura's contemporary line work, or the work of junior artists emulating his style like in Duellum. And it takes more than "vibes are off" to make a definitive claim otherwise

EmeraldSaucer wrote:

And an unfortunate part of AI is that paranoia surrounding it has led people with little to no understanding of art to see what could easily be basic human error (or just stylistic choices) and go "this must be the work of AI because it vaguely looks 'weird' to me". Same way as people cried and moaned about the Sekiro anime being AI because they saw in-betweens for the first time in their lives The art in question looks consistent with Nomura's contemporary line work, or the work of junior artists emulating his style like in Duellum. And it takes more than "vibes are off" to make a definitive claim otherwise

I have had plenty of actual artists break it down (like this thread: https://bsky.app/profile/kahene.bsky.social/post/3mnuxjmnles2q) and the consensus is "not entirely AI, but clearly AI assisted in order to switch around character positions from the original art." It's why you have weird inconsistencies like with Donald's hands. So Shame on SqEx

Also, I can imagine Sony and Geoff Keighley wailing in despair over that announcement. Sony because, yes, Nintendo is going to be treated as seriously as the PS5. And Keighley because he not only had this announcement not at his show, but Nintendo did it to show that, yes, they will not return his calls.

Pretty sure they’re not especially since Kingdom Hearts hasn’t been a Sony exclusive since Chain Of Memories dropped on the Gameboy Advance.