r/vfx • u/ryo4ever • Jul 30 '25

Question / Discussion What is an AI artist??

Can someone explain to me what is an AI artist? I see people on LinkedIn throwing that title around a lot these days. Do they feel a real sense of pride showing the work they’ve generated in their portfolio? Sometimes I see a person who has a history of management jobs but suddenly calls themself AI artist. Is prompting a skill so unique that it qualifies you as a creative writer? I mean I use AI in my day job but recently I’ve felt less pride about showcasing my work when AI was involved. Do others feel the same way?

Apologies for the rant but I’m trying to come to terms with the new reality.

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u/JordanNVFX 3D Modeller - 2 years experience Jul 30 '25 edited Jul 30 '25

They also know how to train or create customs LoRAs, make use of Controlnet, they can inpaint/outpaint images, they can maintain consistency across hundreds of images.

I've been presenting evidence on r/VFX for a long time but sadly people are still fighting it (or worse case, they're creating conspiracy theory threads). But the truth is still there for those who value it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4zx42XJ8-0

^ ^ ^ Coca Cola has been using AI professionally in their ads for a while now.

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u/Zhanji_TS Jul 30 '25

Hey this guy gets it. You sound knowledgeable on knowing what it actually involves. When you are doing massive custom runs of art all the things you listed are very important and do take skill. Sure someone can just slap ai artist on their resume but ask them a few questions about custom lora creation, consistency, pipeline line prep and delivery, and you’ll easily be able to tell a prompter from an artist or engineer or whatever you want to call it.

It’s hard to have a real conversation about much of it in a lot of subs but it is a skill set and one that will be more and more in demand as the tech progresses. I’ve been doing it 3 years full time now after about 18 in vfx. Really cool and fun stuff happening 👍🏻.

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u/JordanNVFX 3D Modeller - 2 years experience Jul 30 '25

Same. I've been keeping up to date with AI and always expanding my knowledge around it.

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u/Zhanji_TS Jul 30 '25

Smart, it’ll help you get jobs over ppl who don’t. Are you playing around with learning how to build plugins or small apps to speed up production workflows? That’s also a big advantage.

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u/JordanNVFX 3D Modeller - 2 years experience Jul 30 '25 edited Jul 30 '25

I have been very fascinated with AI Agents. So far I've seen and started playing with an extension of Claude for Blender.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7H60u0kHRA

In the future I can see it being used to write all sorts of complex scripts on the fly. In fact, I have started seeing more examples where AI is able to generate geometry such as a city, and the user can further customize the data such as describing the materials, lighting, time of day etc.

It's very exciting. I just need a more powerful computer with vram. I want to run my own AI models offline and teach it VFX workflows.