G.I. Joe Classified Series

I could definitely see some artists trying to use AI as a shortcut so they can work on multiple projects at once and still hit deadlines. Then it's just a matter of whether or not the client can tell.
 
Damien said:
I could definitely see some artists trying to use AI as a shortcut so they can work on multiple projects at once and still hit deadlines. Then it's just a matter of whether or not the client can tell.
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They had an artist they'd used for ten years on their D&D products turn in a bunch of AI art and not tell them and they ate a ration of shit from the customers for it. Guy torched his career on a shortcut. Hasbro replaced all his art in the online versions of the book and swapped it out on second printing. I can't imagine they want to do that again, cos it got UGGGGGGLY.
 
docsilence said:
They had an artist they'd used for ten years on their D&D products turn in a bunch of AI art and not tell them and they ate a ration of shit from the customers for it. Guy torched his career on a shortcut. Hasbro replaced all his art in the online versions of the book and swapped it out on second printing. I can't imagine they want to do that again, cos it got UGGGGGGLY.
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Holy shit.

I'm not in the loop like I used to be with the gaming side of things. I hadn't heard about that. What a fucking boneheaded thing to do.
 
Damien said:
Holy shit.

I'm not in the loop like I used to be with the gaming side of things. I hadn't heard about that. What a fucking boneheaded thing to do.
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yeah, it was... eighteen months ago or something like that. Not that I want to give a big corporation the benefit of the doubt, but it was early enough on with the generative AI slop that people were getting bamboozled pretty often at the time, and given publishing deadlines he probably turned it in months before anyone even knew they should be looking. The book came our right around the time we started to notice the telltale signs.

They actually paid a different artist for replacement art for the 2nd printing instead of just swapping stock/existing art, so they TRIED to fix it, but it really set them on a path of paranoid consumers after that.
 
I guess I can't say for sure but some recent releases have given me an AI vibe: retro card Tele Viper, Cover Girl and especially Flint, and now Law and Order. I could be wrong, I guess. My assumption was Hasbro would jump all over doing AI in lieu of paying a human being but again, maybe I'm wrong.
 
They're not even decent ai images. Flint and Cover Girl are awful. I almost feel bad saying that if someone actually put pencil to paper and gave it their all. Thankfully, I didn't bother collecting MOC since Walmart made it rather difficult to get really nice card backs plus they were on that really thin cardstock. I gave up early.
 
Justice said:
My display is barren on one side now. All the MCU stuff is gone and of course all the Crystal Balls. No more Rhinos or Sandman's either. Pretty much just a couple of Spirit Spiders and a few pegs of firemen left.
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I'm wondering if this display will stick around and get restocked decently with new stuff, or if it's a one and done sort of thing.
 
From the two displays I've now seen, it looks like they're meant to stick around. I don't know about other folks' stores but most of them in my area are being renovated with — I don't know the terminology — like stage display areas in the clothing and home sections to show off products. This action figure display feels like a part of that with the display cases at the top and stuff.

And god knows they aren't putting anything in the regular aisle much these days.

But it is Walmart and they could be in the trash next week.
 
mrboshek said:
They're not even decent ai images. Flint and Cover Girl are awful. I almost feel bad saying that if someone actually put pencil to paper and gave it their all. Thankfully, I didn't bother collecting MOC since Walmart made it rather difficult to get really nice card backs plus they were on that really thin cardstock. I gave up early.
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I don't collect moc but I do make it a point to have a file card for all of my vintage GI Joe figures. For me I consider it part of them being complete. For these 6" Joes.....I just can't. For one they're too big. My 3.75" FCs all are stored in recepe boxes that are perfectly sized, I'd have to find a whole new place for them. Next, for as big as the new FCs are, there's like one sentence of text reprinted 6 times in various languages. Finally, I'm not even convinced humans are drawing (or writing?) them. To the recycle bin for all of it. Really my only gripe about this line.
 
yojoebro82 said:
I guess I can't say for sure but some recent releases have given me an AI vibe: retro card Tele Viper, Cover Girl and especially Flint, and now Law and Order. I could be wrong, I guess. My assumption was Hasbro would jump all over doing AI in lieu of paying a human being but again, maybe I'm wrong.
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Always leave room for the Liefeld Effect: You can be a successful artist that makes ugly art as long as you're consistent in meeting deadlines. I find a lot of non-traditional art (NOT AI, but created entirely digitally) can look pretty shitty if the artist doesn't take the time to put a lot of finishing work into it - but the finishing work is what takes the most time and if you've got deadlines you just turn it in. And it gets used because at least you're consistently hitting that deadline with something that is 'good enough' to go on a cardback or into a comic.
 
Still not seeing him in Walmarts by me. Unless people are clearing them out before I stop by which could totally be happening. One of them finally got in the retro Duke & Scarlett. It also finally got in the latest Storm Shadow.
 
Regarding these store displays... what part of the store are they usually located? I've heard its not next to the toy aisle... but where in the store usually?
 
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