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 kirotheavenger wrote:
I genuinely don't believe GW directed their artistic employees or contractors to use AI. Quite the opposite, we know they told them not to.

But I cannot fathom how a human would draw an extra finger, especially one so perfectly integrated into the hand/wrist like AI does.
GW's explanation of "it's miniature photography" makes even less sense - their minis have the right amount of fingers too!

I'm pretty convinced an artist used an AI filter of some kind. And it, as AI is want to do, added an extra finger.

Stuff like this long pre-dates AI. See the cover of High School Musical 2 (doubt anyone ever expected to read that on here lmao).

 Lord Damocles wrote:

 kirotheavenger wrote:

But I cannot fathom how a human would draw an extra finger...

The Ork on the cover art of Fear The Alien famously had six fingers, so GW's artists do have form.

And GW's Photoshopping on box art is often sloppy.

I'd agree that it's almost certainly an editing tool incorporating AI in this case though.

I'm not an artist or graphic designer but I know Adobe has been boasting on a weekly basis that they're integrating AI into photoshop. So unless someone is deliberately using an out of date version I'm not sure that can really say digital art is AI free.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

 Lord Damocles wrote:

 kirotheavenger wrote:

But I cannot fathom how a human would draw an extra finger...

The Ork on the cover art of Fear The Alien famously had six fingers, so GW's artists do have form.

And GW's Photoshopping on box art is often sloppy.

I'd agree that it's almost certainly an editing tool incorporating AI in this case though.

I'm not an artist or graphic designer but I know Adobe has been boasting on a weekly basis that they're integrating AI into photoshop. So unless someone is deliberately using an out of date version I'm not sure that can really say digital art is AI free.

They could just, y’know, not use photoshop, or any adobe product. I mean between the forced insertion of the slopifier and the recent severely dubious changes to the terms of use of their (near-mandatory) online storage, on top of the ruinous pricing and cancellation policies, I’d consider them fully compromised as a professional product.

But they also managed to build an infrastructure around a proprietary file format and you need to create everything you have ever made from scratch again with a different file format if you stop using their software
a new company/product can get away not using adobe, a company existing for more than 10 years won't have the time and money to switch to something else

 cole1114 wrote:

Stuff like this long pre-dates AI. See the cover of High School Musical 2 (doubt anyone ever expected to read that on here lmao).

Spoiler:

the usual photoshop errors are still there in GW pics and are called out as such

But this:


is different to this:

Can we take this discussion to a dedicated thread of its own and leave this topic for Horus Heresy news and rumours? Thanks!

Do we have a time frame, when the Mk4 will get (or could) released?

We don't. It sounds like it could be soon, maybe in just a few weeks.

On the other hand, we still don't have the Whirlwind...

 Ashiraya wrote:
We don't. It sounds like it could be soon, maybe in just a few weeks.

On the other hand, we still don't have the Whirlwind...

At this point I expect them to come together.

GW normally tries to not mix different systems in the same preorder too much so the Whirlwind waiting for other HH stuff to join their preorder date makes sense to me

RazorEdge wrote:
Do we have a time frame, when the Mk4 will get (or could) released?

Given the lack of other announced releases I assume Mk4 are meant to help bridge the gap between now and whatever is announced in the next preview stream. There's currently pretty much 2-3 weeks worth of stuff left including tonight:
1) AOS Slaanesh / GHB
2) HH Mk4 (& Whirlwind)
3) The LoTR thing from a while ago, which could easily drop alongside HH

I could see a Praetor in MK4 alongside the Squads and the Tank.

 Matrindur wrote:
GW normally tries to not mix different systems in the same preorder too much so the Whirlwind waiting for other HH stuff to join their preorder date makes sense to me

It doesn't make sense, because the other 30k stuff the Whirlwind was previewed alongside did release, but the Whirlwind didn't. Then GW previewed -and- released even more 30k stuff (the Falchion, etc) but still didn't release the Whirlwind, even though it was revealed back in January.

It might be a mould problem.

 Ashiraya wrote:

It might be a mould problem.

Apparently Whirlwinds were sent out to content creators for review with the Falchion, so it sounds like a last minute reschedule. Distribution delay perhaps.

Whirlwind alongside MK4 Battlegroup sound quite likely. Two different price points, so even if some cant afford MK4 big box, they'll still be able to get *something*

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