hello. i am fairly new to blender i started 3 months ago and i invest 6 hours a day learning blender
i am a bit skeptical learning blender and investing so much of time there due to the rapid advance learning of AI. my question is simple but its not easy to comprehend so would you please elucidate.
will it replace 3d artist?
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Did the camera replace painters?
Ai may reduce the market size for unspecific images, where anything quick and simple is good enough. I doubt the ai will be making top film, animation or game stuff. If a company want an image of it’s product, it has to be an accurate representation. Not made up by ai from what it has seen in the past. So there will always be some need of humans. But no one ever knows what the future holds in any sphere of activity.
Do Blender as it is fun first and foremost.
Very very few actually make any money, let alone a living out of art. A lot of it is luck or abilities at selling yourself and running a business. Not least as so many see it as easy and try it. Grant has some YT videos on how little money there is for most even before ai.
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its not about money that scares me its about the point and logic to put all the hours and then suddenly you see ai creating a model in few mins. i understood your point though. thanks for the explanation.
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You have to go with the flow. AI is here and is here to stay, but it’s just another tool. We see it as a threat to our current way of making art because we were raised in times without it but the next generation will see it just as a tool for assistance in expression and use it extensively. If you don’t, you’ll fall behind.
You could compare AI art to game engines. Engines like Unreal and Unity opened up game dev for a lot of people, not just ones who could code their game from scratch, but that doesn’t make all products made with them good and it definitely didn’t diminish the need for people who know and can build specialized systems from the ground up.
You can use a tool like AI or Unity to make something quick or demo some ideas and even accelerate your process but it’ll take more than that to actually get a polished product, you will need skills to finalize it.
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makes sense.
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Some people say it will, I think it won’t as it cant do emotion. I personally use Midjourney all the time for reference material, ideas and inspiration. As well as ChatGPT for ideas too. I use it as a tool and not to replace me
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I don’t think so.
It will replace repetitive tasks (as usual).
As an artist, you do many studies on one subject before your boss, team, or client approves this. To start with a little idea and finish It has many steps. Ai will help you with this.
As an example of a tedious task is re-meshing a high poly model into a low poly model. There are tools and even some sort of easy-to-use re-mesh functions. But most artists will do it manually because of the control you have. Here can AI give this process a boost.
AI means also, tasks are left to subjects that humans are good at (not yet mastered by AI). This also means we need more different kinds of learning as a human. We need to learn to use tools around AI. Maybe even a different kind of evolution.
the tools ai provide are very easy to use and any one can use them so what is the value of something which any one can use that means any one can create a model with so skills required instantly.
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Does an AI know what is beauty?
Is an AI creative?
AI’s just repeat what others already did (that’s where it’s learning from, existing information). We, humans, can see beyond this ( although, some of us … 
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