i gotta stop scrolling through the palworld tumblr/twitter search holy shit my brain is rotting.
Palworld did not use AI in it's designs oh my god. the initial trailer for the game dropped in 2021, before AI art generation really kicked off into high-gear, and you can see many designs there that are finalized for the final game. You can look at the original trailer here. No doubt that many other creature designs were also finalized during this time.
Additionally, lets also look at what AI pokemon actually DID look like at the time:
... these look absolutely nothing like palworld designs. palworld designs are very deliberate "pokemon but legally distinct" or "two pokemon mashed together", wheras these are an amalgamation of all the pokemon available at the time. if anyone remembers the melty surreal AI of the time, you know there's no way to ask it to give you a "normal type lycanroc" and have it produce direhowl's design.
I also feel like this whole discourse around accusing the team of using AI for their monster designs does a disservice to the completely original designs in the game? because believe it or not, there are a lot of wholly unique designs in this game! my personal favorites so far being Tombat, Swee, and Caprity.
if it turns out that everything truly was AI generated then that's egg on my face. you're allowed to have your opinions on the plagiarism of palworld's monster designs, but don't go around spreading false information you read online just because it sounds true and makes the game look worse.
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I Know What You Are...
You Are Mega Man!
The differences between each Mega is something I love and appreciate, plus it's also fun to compare them side-by-side for it.
I think it's really amusing how they start with robots that slowly reach near-human traits, and then there's a straight-up human. Albeit, he is merged with a non-human being.
And then there's Volnutt. I know he could probably be narrowed down to an "artificial human", but I like the idea of tying him to his celestial origins as Trigger that are still half a mystery.
Such is my running-joke with him. He is just... Volnutt (currently).
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Vampire Atem and Fae Yugi designs based on @hikariandyamiblog ‘s Amaranthine fic
An enemies to lovers, arranged marriage AU. And of course, with vampires and fae. I’m super excited for this story, go check it out if you haven’t already 🙏🏼✨
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Here she is!!! As she was originally supposed to be honestly! Haha! Her name is a play on the quote "Every Cloud has a silver lining".... IDK WHY I MADE HER A BUNNY she originally was a cloud!! If you look far enough back you'll see! Her old design looks a lot like Lucy and that's because I was starting to miss OG Silvie and thought making a character that payed tribute to it would satisfy me, but I was wrong lol
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