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SAHCon Hiveswap Act 3 Panel - Art Assets!

here's what we got a look at in the panel today! :D

during the entire stream, a song by james roach from the Act 3 OST played in the background, which used similar sounds to the wii channel shop theme.

started off with some lovely background art of the area outside of fiamet's hive by xamag, followed by some character sprites of trolls done by dagmar! along with a still image of an imperial drone by paperseverywhere.

onhors's pants were reportedly a point of contention, as their design was difficult to stylize and simplify!

then we got a couple more lovely backgrounds by xamag of a mall, cridea's hive, some areas within the jadeblood caverns, and a spaceship with a giant heart in the inside?!

the team members commented that you can infer a lot about cridea's personality just from her room, which has a lot of cute animations in it in the actual game. they also mentioned that her design was reworked from its initial version and it's a lot cuter now!

apparently, we will be seeing a few "mall crawler jades" who were designed for this area. this is also where the new james roach track plays

this cavern entrance gate is a piece of adult-designed technology that has since fallen into disrepair over the sweeps. the team talked for a moment about how much adult-built architecture there may be abandoned all over alternia.

it was spoiled for us that joey is going to space!

the team talked a lot about how they would love to tell us the lore behind this heart, and many other alternian and hiveswapian things, but they must resist until the game is released.

after this they moved on to the QNA portion which i'll post separately :]

hope everyone is excited for the next installment of hiveswap!

this panel was streamed as part of SAHcon, and the vod is up here for archival viewing.

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First... Blog post?? sup gang

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i haven't done one of these before or something, but i guess i'm doing it now for a reason so yo! big news!

I've recently got a job on working Hiveswap !! yippie !!

So glad that this went through and I'm excited to be able to work on official Homestuck property!

Also, on the more personal side, I also have a Webtoon of my own and stuff that you can go read and support! I have a Patreon and stuff that'll really help out on just personal stuff!

You can go read my Webtoon on the Webtoons App and Desktop page: Here!! and My Patreon: Here!!

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Your opinion about AI arts?

It is an unimpressive and uninspired method of creating art at best. It is also a method of undermining creativity in humanity for the sake of quick & cheap content. It diminishes the value of the working artist. It tells anyone that can identify a work as artificial that the person who generated has no respect for art, and would rather pay nothing or expend no energy for this work than to pay a real person who has the expertise to make it right, or to take the time to learn the craft themselves. So of course all money and energy is spent on making artificial art less and less identifiable, because inspiration and imagination come second in life to mass production.

It's just another tool to dampen the soul of humanity, and like every other tool of that nature, it's just one more thing that contributes to harming the planet. The power this type of machine learning & generation needs to function is not miniscule, it takes a lot of real world resources and produces a lot of real world waste as a result.

It relies on thievery and loopholes in the creative commons, scraping others hard work often with no consent. It encourages the idea that art is not hard work nor is it a skill, and that people are for labor, machines are for creativity. Don't you think it should be the other way around?

I have never had respect for the method.