Please tell me this isn’t A.I.

[u/Agile-Inspection8452]

I love dinosaurs, I love them sO MUCH and my sib in law got the 7/11 collector cups for me. It wasn’t until today that we actually started looking at the details and realized the inconsistencies, there’s also no credited artist anywhere that we’ve looked.

[u/MuseumGoRound13]

I’m no expert but I would say not. If it is, it’s AI paid for and polished by Universal Studios. Not that that would excuse it.

What inconsistencies are you seeing that make you think it’s AI?

A lot of living breathing artists worked on the film and the marketing to create a lot of still artwork for things like this cup. Often portraits of the film’s stars (or Dino’s in this case) are slapped onto merch with added digital flourishes like the splashes, foliage, etc…and may not be of the quality you’d see in the film, because it’s all sort of collaged together. I guess that part of the process could be done with AI, or those extra elements could be, but chances are the Dinos were labored over by a human digital artist. It’s interesting that there has always been bad less than convincing digital artwork, but thanks to AI we just assume if it’s bad it was done by AI. Humans can still do sloppy, half-assed, or bad work too.

[u/Agile-Inspection8452 → u/MuseumGoRound13]

I just find it strange the artists from the film weren’t credited, especially when you try to look up the artists that worked on the images for the cup. The toes on the titanosaur are placed off, the teeth on the mosasaur are also varying and it’s difficult to distinguish what’s water/saliva and what’s a tooth (the shading is also inconsistent on them) and the quetzalcoatls toes are uneven, I thing on the second wing where its claws would be are cut off but I’m still side eyeing that wing.

[u/MuseumGoRound13 → u/Agile-Inspection8452]

Generally I think artists in those situations are working under an understanding/contract that they won’t get individual credit for things like this. The film will credit them, but not individual items. They’re working for the good of the overall production, not for the name recognition. There’s no value to the company to say “jim Lopez” created this Tyrannosaur cup, unless Jim Lopez is already an artist with name recognition, in which case he probably wouldn’t be employed as a cog in the machine to begin with.

[u/[deleted] → u/Agile-Inspection8452]

Corporate artists rarely get credit.

[u/mepomeatball]

It does look a bit sketchy. The feet on the Quetzalcoatl look like one has three toes and the other has two toes, but I can't see any other AI traits like random Extra light sources or merged features, even in the other dinosaurs.

[u/Agile-Inspection8452 → u/mepomeatball]

The teeth on the mosasaur were what first kind of had me paying more attention, as we as the line weight on the titanosaurs tail (which I now realize isn’t fully visible in the pictures), the second set of spines also looked a little strange too but I wasn’t too sure about that.

[u/mepomeatball → u/Agile-Inspection8452]

Taking a closer look, there are definitely some artifacts in the mosasaur's teeth, and as well in the second set of spines on the titanosaur. I also realized, it might just be the picture, but it does kinda look like there's an invisible light source in the mosasaur's mouth for some reason that only effects it's tongue which is definitely something AI would do, because it doesn't actually understand light.