Why your choice of AI tool could cost you—or your client—everything REMEMBER TORRENTING? THIS IS WORSE. Back in the early 2000s, everyone knew torrenting films and music wasn't   technically   legal—but it wasn't technically illegal either. Regulation takes time to catch up with technology.   Then one day, it was   very illegal . Fines arrived. Warnings flooded in. Some people went to jail. Then LoveFilm emerged. Netflix followed. Spotify launched. The story ends well—for tho

Part 3 of 3   | Read Part 1: The Arms Race | Read Part 2: The Fragmentation Crisis We've covered   which platforms   might win (Part 1) and   why they're all failing us   (Part 2). Now for the conversation nobody wants to have: "I spent 10 years learning tools that AI mastered in 10 months. What now?" This isn't about doom. It's about clarity. Because right now, there are 3D artists spending thousands of hours mastering skills that will be automated by next year. And there ar

Originally there was ComfyUI, comfortable with its niche and waaaaay ahead of its time. Now? Everyone's got a canvas. October 2024 saw an absolute deluge of node-based workflow tools hit the AI video scene. Flora, Freepik Spaces, Krea Nodes, ImagineArt Workflows, Runway Workflows – suddenly everyone had their own infinite canvas with nodes and pipelines. Erik Knobl   wrote a brilliant piece asking whether this new workflow is actually better. His answer? Yes, emphatically yes

In Part 1, I broke down which platforms are winning (and losing) the 3D AI race. Spoiler: nobody's really winning because the entire approach is broken. Today, let's talk about   the elephant in the render farm   that nobody wants to address: Your £30K hardware investment is gathering dust while you pay monthly fees to upload your work to someone else's cloud. And the software giants? They're either asleep at the wheel or actively making it worse. Let's fix this. THE 2012 WAR

Following my post on MASS DENIAL SYNDROME:  https://lnkd.in/e7zCftbT  and the 90% creative role displacement, several of you asked: "What should I actually do about it?" (Some others said they're now doing a night school course in plumbing...that wasn't my original intent) Fair question. Here's the practical answer for 3D artists, motion designers, and anyone in the creative 3D space. Everyone's obsessing over AI image generators and video tools, but where is the true 3D revo

Why this rebel is rebelling against AI slop–and how Red Rising is the perfect proving ground I’ve been in the trenches of media production for 15+ years, and since 2018, when Synthesia first whispered synthetic smiles and Adobe Neural Filters turned “impossible” into “one-click,” the way we work and tackle creative challenges has changed at an ever-accelerated pace. Yet every year the same sludge floods the feeds: AI-generated “content” that’s fast, cheap, and utterly soulles