A public challenge

This piece was realised for Mykol’s Discord server weekly challenge. Everything had to be done by the artist. No external assets (mesh or materials) were allowed

The creation

Little piece of paradise🌱

Analysis

Self critique

Someone pointed an inconsistency in style. The trees leaves are very simple while the grass is very realistic. The water should have foam and not look so viscous

If you pay attention you can see the edges of the model at the bottom of the waterfall

The man against the machine

I decided to try and replicate my image with AI models. I wanted to see how good they would look compared to mine

I used a Stable Diffusion model available at the time on this website. Safe is to say we’re clear, AI cannot even compare to a beginner 3D artist

Or can it ?

I had seen some AI generated pictures previously. Not only did this one struggle to understand the prompt, it also only produced disgusting looking images

I then decided to try another model, and ask Midjourney v4

Not on the same level

It did not understand the prompt at all times, but every single picture looks infinitely better than mine. Lots of work to do !