oldfag here, how is the job/freelance market these days?i am an old 3d artist, i worked on a bunch of stylized and horror projects, i know how to use pretty much all the modeling software pre ai, been thinking about getting my portfolio up and running again, and try my luck at finding clients again.
>>1034585>how is the job/freelance market these days?The new AI model can now do 41% of freelance jobs. Including 3D. And before you think I'm BS'ing here is a website that tracks it and even gives examples.https://www.remotelabor.ai/Become a Plumber instead.
>>1034600is there a website that tracks sentiment? what percentage of people would preffer human made 3d art, as oposed to ai slop, not every one is totally content with ai you know.
>>1034611If sentiment mattered, there would be no 3d layoffs in the game or film industry.In fact, that's more than enough proof people want art the moment it can be made faster and cheaper. The tools that get them there doesn't matter.
i think vfx is deadand recently i've been seeing vfx artists going>look at le thing i made opus/fable/astra make using blender MCP, it took me dozens of rounds of feedbackand it's like bro just tell it to make the most primitive blockout in the world and use that as a thing to feed image and video modelsthe job of 3d dcc's is now to become skin walkers for neural rendering enginesthe same thing will happen to gamesit's over
>>1034585 it's kinda shit, as it always was.forget the retarded jeets ITT, AI isn't really an issue unless if your work is abysmal , and that's saying a lot since AI output for 3D work is still complete garbage. freelancing is still possible, but it isn't gonna be your living.
lol imagine deleting your post and waiting for this
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>>1034620>>1034621good morning saar, hows the weather in mumbai?
>>1034622sir it is 0230 and a balmy night sirhow are things in copeistan
>>1034618>AI isn't really an issue unless if your work is abysmalIt's not about the work or even quality.If a CEO can enter a prompt and get the 3D model/animation/render that he needs, why would he bother to pay a team of artists full-time wages anymore?Notice how the Luddites can never answer that? If a CEO wants to pay an artist these days, it's because he's acting charitable. He doesn't need you.
>>1034615>i think vfx is deaddying but not fully dead
>>1034614There's a difference between real humans and human cattle. The people that prefer AI aren't human, they're a lesser species.
>>1034633>If a CEO wants to pay an artist these days, it's because he's acting charitable. He doesn't need you.Indeed, that's why you should be working for yourself, not for a pig.
>>1034633>+1000 izzat has been added to your SaarCard for this post
>>1034656Based
>>1034666So when all the "cattle" stop buying art, what are you going to do? Trade with other artists?The same group of people who are also unemployed and struggling? Lol, good luck.
>>1034672>when all the "cattle" stop buying artITT things that will never happen
>>1034736The need for Horses dramatically dropped over the last century.Some Horse lovers might exist, but they now represent the tiniest 1% who still support them.
>>1034740The need for Car ownership dramatically dropped over the last decade.Some Car owners might still exist, but they now represent the tiniest 90% who still support them.
>>1034633>If a CEO can enter a prompt and get the 3D model/animation/render that he needsBecause as we now know in the last 3 years this is absolutely not how the world or job market works. AI can now clone photoshop with a single prompt and yet Adobe still employs programmers. I know graphic designers who do basically nothing now but are still paid for legacy reasons. Opus 5.5 can do basically 90% of basic office work and as stated here >>1034600 half of non-basic white collar work, and yet there are no layoffs. I am kind of confused by it as well, but what I think is happening is that employers got massive pushback year ago when AI agents still couldn’t do shit for firing people and now they are too scared, so they just don’t fire people (because it’s bad PR to fire them) and just refuse to hire and let the existing staff remain there until they do some fuckup justifying layoff or just leave voluntarily.
>>1034672You misunderstood who cattle is, only around 70% of population could be considered cattle and they aren’t even the strongest consumers, most of their attention is captured by social media nowadays. The remaining 30% account for 90% of sales of indie movies, indie shows, indie games, niche goods, merch and so on. Will they continue to have money? Judging by how LLMs are going I don’t think those people will have enough cash in the next 1-3 years, but so will everyone else. Learning to become plumber is already useless because now trade school grads can’t find apprenticeships, and plumbers also need other people to have money.
