>>67131901>Problem is that isn't a quick job in an already low paid profession.It's not a quick job for sure, you'd probably get a same turn around time, but the end result would be of a higher quality. I think the lowest non-scam vtuber model commission is like $500, you get a custom model with layers. No rigging etc. The turn around time for that would probably depend on where you live as well, 500 bucks is like a weeks work for me, in the US spending a week to get 500bucks might be poverty level depending on the city and would likely be unfeasable, so i don't blame some artists charging $2000-4000 for their work if it takes a few weeks or a month. But lets say you get someone to make a model from scratch in a week for 500. A week for a character is super fast and likely would come with a lot of cut corners and quality issues. That someone will have to come up with a design from scratch, make sketches and doodles before making a decision and leave enough time to draw the lineart and render it. That's a lot of work in a short span of time.
With AI, 80% of the design decisions are made for you, just roll the AI gacha machine for 1 hour. Probably 30-40% of the render/lineart work is already finished with that result as well. On top of that you have the generic yet competent facial and body proportions. (can browse twitch vtuber section to see the struggle in that respect with 'affordable' models). Then you have 4 days to customise and fix the model, separate parts into layers, draw overlaps etc.
This is purely theoretical of course, but with improving models specifically made to target vtubers, the amount of fixes you will need to do, like centering the model bodies and faces- will go down in the future somewhat as well. I see this sort of workflow flooding the market until incestuos nature of sharing the models that generate all that will get boring and tiring to look at. But for a while i think it will make economical sense for those artists who are in it for the most money in a shortest turnaround time and not artistic expression or they have no prestige identity of their own to upkeep and sell as an added bonus. And i don't think artists who'd want to make custom models with personal thought put into that could viably compete in that price range. I really hope that's not the case, this AI stuff seems to have echoe's of crypto and NFT hype and grifts. Maybe it will all burn itself out as well, after the fastest grifters make as much money as quick as possible, before the jig is up.
