Comic Strips
Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.
Rules
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π Be Nice!
- Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: friendly.
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ποΈ Community Standards
- Comics should be a full story, from start to finish, in one post.
- Posts should be safe and enjoyable by the majority of community members, both here on lemmy.world and other instances.
- Any comic that would qualify as raunchy, lewd, or otherwise draw unwanted attention by nosy coworkers, spouses, or family members should be tagged as NSFW.
- Moderators have final say on what and what does not qualify as appropriate. Use common sense, and if need be, err on the side of caution.
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𧬠Keep it Real
- Comics should be made and posted by real human beans, not by automated means like bots or AI. This is not the community for that sort of thing.
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π½οΈ Credit Where Credit is Due
- Comics should include the original attribution to the artist(s) involved, and be unmodified. Bonus points if you include a link back to their website. When in doubt, use a reverse image search to try to find the original version. Repeat offenders will have their posts removed, be temporarily banned from posting, or if all else fails, be permanently banned from posting.
- Attributions include, but are not limited to, watermarks, links, or other text or imagery that artists add to their comics to use for identification purposes. If you find a comic without any such markings, it would be a good idea to see if you can find an original version. If one cannot be found, say so and ask the community for help!
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π Post Formatting
- Post an image, gallery, or link to a specific comic hosted on another site; e.g., the author's website.
- Meta posts about the community should be tagged with [Meta] either at the beginning or the end of the post title.
- When linking to a comic hosted on another site, ensure the link is to the comic itself and not just to the website; e.g.,
β Correct: https://xkcd.com/386/
β Incorrect: https://xkcd.com/
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π¬ Post Frequency/SPAM
- Each user (regardless of instance) may post up to five (5 π) comics a day. This can be any combination of personal comics you have written yourself, or other author's comics. Any comics exceeding five (5 π) will be removed.
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π΄ββ οΈ Internationalization (i18n)
- Non-English posts are welcome. Please tag the post title with the original language, and include an English translation in the body of the post; e.g.,
SΓ, por favor [Spanish/EspaΓ±ol]
- Non-English posts are welcome. Please tag the post title with the original language, and include an English translation in the body of the post; e.g.,
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πΏ Moderation
- We are human, just like most everybody else on Lemmy. If you feel a moderation decision was made in error, you are welcome to reach out to anybody on the moderation team for clarification. Keep in mind that moderation decisions may be final.
- When reporting posts and/or comments, quote which rule is being broken, and why you feel it broke the rules.
Banned Artists
The following artists are banned from the community.
- Jago
- Stonetoss
It should be noted that when you make reports, it is your responsibility to provide rational reasoning why something should be removed. Saying it simply breaks community rules is not always good enough.
Web Accessibility
Note: This is not a rule, but a helpful suggestion.
When posting images, you should strive to add alt-text for screen readers to use to describe the image you're posting:
Another helpful thing to do is to provide a transcription of the text in your images, as well as brief descriptions of what's going on. (example)
Web of Links
- !linuxmemes@lemmy.world: "I use Arch btw"
- !memes@lemmy.world: memes (you don't say!)
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Interesting point, but the middle part where they attack AI users is maybe a bit too long.
I definitely agree with the "when I find out its AI art I feel deflated" feeling. For me it is the lack of intentionality that makes current AI models worthless slop and stops it from being a proper tool, like the magic wand described in the post. No AI user can generate the same thing again. Thereby it is not their skill that created it, but random chance. What differentiates an artist is that intentionality. "If I put that paint stroke here, it will look like an eye brow" or "if I press that key for 4 seconds now, it will accentuate the following notes". When you can create parts of the artwork that intentional, then I agree that AI is a tool for artist. Before that it's just gambling and trying to present other peoples work (the training data) as your own.
Stephen Spielberg will never be able to coax an actor into giving the exact same performance twice. Do you believe Spielberg is an artist?
Definitely an interesting question that made me think.
First, I would say directors are usually not praised for the acting of the actors, because it is not the directors craft that is shining. They are however praised for selecting good fitting actors and for giving those actors the right lines and scenes in order to shine, because that is their usual involvement. And of course the direction giving during the filming, as their title implies. The whole movie is the combination of a lot of smaller artworks and the skillful combination of those pieces is the art of the director and what they get praised for. Like a collage: the pieces are created by other artist but the skilful arrangement of it is an art form in itself, without praising the collage artist for the individual artworks.
The question in my opinion is rather if film directors in general are artists, because as you said: they don't do it by themselves but rather rely on other people: actors, cameramen, cutter, editors... . And each single work could also be done by the director themselves instead of relying on other people.
And I would say: yes, film directors can be artist, if they involve themselves in the creative process in a significant way instead of giving every decision to other people and just being a producer with a different title. To refer to my prior comment: the intentionality is the artists touch. Like any boss of a creative team, like in video game production: it depends.
If Spielberg was involved in their movies in that way I cannot say, becausei haven't looked into it. Probably they did and they are, but I cannot answer your specific question in earnest, because I don't know.
I agree. I think 99% of AI art is made by a talentless hack of a human art director, and an unfeeling machine printer, neither of which is an artist. I think 1% of AI art is made by a thoughtful and intentional human art director who is skillfully manipulating various unfeeling machine printers, and who is an artist.
And both of them are using models that cost fossil fuels and water resources to train, which is a sin.