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Digital Art: Coastal Landscape, Landscape, Night Ocean and Tower Seaside
Posting these images at the request of Saizo-Luz.
Artwork digitally drawn by me (Alexander), Gabriel, Lucia and Sabrina.
Lucia took care of the final details and refinements.
The 'landscape' image, we blended some mountains from another image of ours into the background.
Gabriel drew extra trees (quite a lot) in 'landscape' and 'coastal landscape'.
The 'tower seaside', we added the white tower on the coast - it was just another ocean landscape (it was only water and waves). Sabrina also added some random windows in the tower.
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Artists: Alexander (Heytor), Gabriel, Lucia and Sabrina
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These are beautiful!
Who is Saizo-Luz?
I don't see a lot of art under the GPL? Any particular reason for that?
I hope you share more. These are great!
Did any of the four artists use any A.I./LLM/GAN tools to assist with creating these images?
Saizo-Luz is a guy who asked for some artwork for an open source game called 'Battle for Wesnoth'. He contacted my friend Kyle who told him I could help. The game policies requires that artwork or any other content be under the GPL license, or some CC...
These images are an old work of ours that we don't use for anything, and he asked me if he could use them. He can use it. I'm glad our old relics will be used for something, especially for an old game. So he gave me this website and told me to register and publish these images and leave them under this license to avoid any problems in the game community. He says that publishing the images avoids any speculation about whether it is actually licensed or not. That's why it's under GPL.
Is he not registered? He said he had already used some images from this website.
Ah, Battle for Wesnoth, big fan of that game.
Namely, CC-BY-SA 4.0, currently. I ask about GPL because it is useful for code, but difficult to use for art. Would you be willing to share these as both GPL and CC-BY-SA 4.0? Both of these licenses match the existing Battle for Wesnoth project artwork and this would make it more useful for others to benefit from these as well.
If he is, it is not under the name Saizo-Luz. Submitting art requires registration, but using art from the site does not. He may not have an account while still enjoying the artwork here. :)
There appears to be some jpg artifacts in the images. Are there any original artist files (like .xcf or .psd, or even .png before they were compressed?) at higher resolution or in lossless format?
About AI / LLM / GAN tools...
No! I told Saizo to use AI to create the images quickly and in excellent quality, but the game's policy is also against AI generated content. That's why he wants to use these images.
We used to draw art like this before (it was our hobby) but we never got to use it in any meaningful project. I'm glad you like it! :) It took months to finish some of them, the quickest was the ocean at night. As for the changes and edits, it was recent and at Saizo's request. I think he'll need a few more and if we can continue to help him, we'll post a few more that were in our trunk.
We don't make these arts anymore. When we need to, we use AI, it's much faster and the quality is very good. These are kinda blurry, but Saizo is fine with it.
Understood... Somewhat. :/ These are not AI, but other works produced for Siazo might be? I look forward to any additional scenes you are willing to submit! Though, any assets that used AI even partially would have to follow different rules if you submit those here, so please let me know if future submissions use any AI tools. Thanks! :)
I'll add the CC 4.0. Other people can use it as well, it's not only for him.
There is no other or old files and there is no higher resolution. Everything we did was always after saving a copy of the image so as not to end up messing everything up. Gabriel drew the trees recently and we did some more editing (it was kind of a rushed thing). I wish it had better quality, but we are not professionals.
Thanks.
I understand. Looks plenty professional for my uses! :)
Hey man, I just registered! Thank you so much for doing this! :)
You didn't need to post these images so quickly - like I said: I'm still deciding whether I'm actually going to use them. But they look wonderful! You resized them, and didn't lost quality?! That's impressive! I'm still looking to see if a map would be an option, but from what I can see it won't be. The good artists are busy, and I don't know the old continent of the game very well, so... I think I'm gonna use these! :) I don't think it's blurry, it's perfect for that game - the artwork they have has a somewhat blurred style. Kyle said you're using his email... XD! He didn't want to post the sound effects he created but he gave you his email... I mean... what? *_* There is no need to do further editing to fix some things, it's just fine! Sorry for any inconvenience about licenses and AI stuff! I'd use AI to create images, but they said NO! There was a whole discussion about the issue, policies and ethics. There are no more artists around, AI would be great to fill that gap - I used AI to create schedule images, it's a very small image, but the director didn't allow me use it. Rules are rules... moving on! Thank you again, Heytor!
That brat! He said I used AI to create these - I had to prove him wrong, AI can do so much better. I'm using his email so I won't have to answer anything else or give any further explanations about these images - if something comes up he'll be the one answering. Won't he publish his sound effects?
I put the images under the required licenses, you should have no problem - if you have some problem, don't use them. I've told you before, and I'll say it again: I'm not going to get into discussions about these images - I'm just going to share them (especially for you, since you asked for them) so that you can use them under license. If you don't use it, let me know! Seriously! There is no problem if you decide not to use them.
He allowed me to use them licensed, but he'll not publish it. These licenses should be enough and if I don't use them it's because there are issues in the game community and I'm avoiding headaches. I'll let you know.
@Saizo-Luz: where did you make the request for these to be posted/shared?
It was in private, I didn't use any platform. I don't think I'm gonna use these artwork. I'm gonna try to create the map using an art I've found here. https://opengameart.org/content/map I'm using to many directions in my campaign.
Thanks, but I'm not really concerned with your usage of it. I need to know about it for all the other OGA users that might use it.
you made the request in private, ok. How did you know to ask for the artwork to be shared? If you didn't find the artwork on any platform, how did you even know Haytor, Gabriel, Lucia and Sabrina were artists who had some landscapes to share?
Heytor already said. Kyle is my friend and he knows Heytor, he was the one who recommended Heytor to me. Don't worry, I think Heytor will remove the images or change to public domain. He's trying to avoid these issues.
"these issues"
What issues? Y'all are having half a conversation that doesn't make sense. "Heytor already said". No, not really. No one said who Kyle was until just now. I don't want the images removed unless I understand if there are actual issues and what they might be. Can you tell me the full story?
The third comment... My friend Kyle, indicated Heytor to me...
Full story: I needed images... couldn't find any... Kyle said about his friend Heytor... I talked to Heytor and he showed me some images... I liked the images... Now the issue: Kyle said it was drawn by AI, but Heytor said AI can do so much better than them... and I agree with Heytor! Then Kyle showed us some images drawn by some lousy AI... and it does look like these ones... probably the directors of the game Wesnoth are gonna think the same, and are going to ask questions about this. So I asked Heytor to post these images in this site to avoid this... and he did... but I think this isn't enough, and I REALLY want to create a map for my campaign. Then Heytor asked me if Kyle wouldn't publish some sound effects he made/mixed for me, "the tenth comment"... Kyle won't publish it and I'm gonna use the sounds anyway. That made Heytor question me as to why I made him post it here, since I'm going to use other people's work who haven't even posted it on any platform. Kyle doesn't want anyone asking permission to use his work or asking questions... so I said that to Heytor... and he said: SO DO I! I kind of made him do all this for nothing... *_* I believe he didn't like the fact that we were questioning their work... and Kyle said he won't answer anything (because Heytor is using Kyle's email). Now Heytor will either change to public domain or remove them (maybe I won't use it, I'm still working on the map. If I can create the map, I won't have to use these images). So that's the issue... he's gonna be questioned about these images, and he doesn't want that. It's all my fault... *_ * I asked him to publish it, even though I'm going to use other people's work that they haven't even posted on any platform, and that was stupid of me. He already had to answer some things to you... now imagine if someone puts it somewhere else that creates some confusion about it... I'll ask Heytor to talk to you before he does anything. I'm sorry!
(we didn't talk about everything here, other things were in private)
Cool. Thanks.
@Saizo-Luz: Asking Heytor to share these assets here was not pointless even if you don't end up using them. They are being shared with everyone, and someone will use them. With that said, thank you Alexander (Heytor), Gabriel, Lucia and Sabrina for sharing them! :)
Posting assets here on OGA means no one needs to keep asking permission to use the assets. Having them here means permission is already granted. Any suspicion of AI can also be resolved here so that others are not continually re-asking the same questions; they can visit this page and see that it has been resolved already.
I believe I can resolve the issues regarding AI suspicion, but I would need to get a few more questions answered from Heytor. However, if Heytor is using Kyle's email address, that would mean he would not get any messages I send, correct?
Yes, please. No apology neccessary; I was just having a hard time following the story without all the context. Heytor can DM me here. Alternative contact methods are also available. Let me know if additional information is needed.