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Anonymous04/24/26, 03:18No.7923627
Why was Ruan Jia's old artstyle so much better?
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Anon04/24/26, 03:25No.7923632
they both look like AI slop but especially the right. Unfortunate. WHat do you even do when you wake up one day and realize this, kill yourself?
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Anon04/24/26, 04:56No.7923676
>High heels on a medieval knight armor
Reeeee
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Anon04/24/26, 05:05No.7923683
he hadn't worked in the game industry much at that point. so he hadn't had his soul morphed by the expectations of chinese slop. it the right image finished? feet don't seem planted on the ground
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Anon04/24/26, 11:38No.7923798
I'm sure there are more differences, but at a quick glance two things are obvious>edges
Old paintings had more variety and softer edges were much more common, allowing the hard ones to pop out.>colors
Again, old stuff had more variety with the palette usually incorporating a much wider range of colors, new stuff is quite monochromatic in the sense that he picks one color for the subject and sticks to it, armor is pretty much always the same hue for example.It's strange that even these days he begins his paintings with a much richer palette and then ends with the most boring shit imaginable, it's not like he can't make something look interesting, he just pivots towards gray slop no matter what
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Anon04/24/26, 22:05No.7924118
So... How does someone learn to paint like this?
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Anon04/25/26, 00:35No.7924236
loos like overrendered slop
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Anon04/25/26, 17:05No.7924735
Ruan's older work consisted of a lot more "found detail", that is detail that is suggested as a result of color or texture. It created an artwork with an ethereal vibe that could be carved out with sharp edges wherever he wanted to put emphasis.His modern evolution leaves nothing to the imagination. It's still technically impressive obviously, but it loses some of the character.
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Anon04/25/26, 17:35No.7924750
older style are inspired by western art and ideals, shadows, colors and dynamism.
newer ones are done with asian sensiblities, lighting, clarity and details.
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Anon04/25/26, 18:16No.7924773
There is a reason impressionism and hatching don't really work in digital. There is no reference point for size.
His brushwork is too small and his canvases are too big. So in the final picture his brushwork is smudged, due to sizing down the resolution. Even a 4k monitor is too small to properly display his pictures.
I don't understand what his goal is. If his art would be painted on a 1x2m canvas, it would be impressive.
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Anon04/26/26, 03:10No.7925186
he hadn't yet discovered wei feng who was technically more proficient at the time
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Anon04/26/26, 18:24No.7925681
>people when they see the actual source of the art that the AI stole
>IT'S AI
Many such cases. I think there will unironically be a generation that believes only AI is capable of creating art at this level.
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Anon04/28/26, 05:09No.7926886
People will look you dead in the face and tell you Ruan Jia is a great artist.Before you start replying go look at Syd Mead's concept art.
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Anon04/29/26, 16:00No.7927992
Now that the sentiment around AI has done a 180 and recent reports from MIT and S&P Global have shown that nearly 95% of AI pilots in the enterprise sector have failed to deliver a measurable impact on the bottom line and AI companies have started bumping up their prices to get somewhat close to not burning a hole in their pocket (every AI company is unprofitable ATM) and people beginning to push back against data centers, and companies like NVIDIA being BTFO by China's Huawei chips (China is becoming self sustaining, ruh roh!), it's prime time for those of you who weren't demoralized by the jeets and shills to get hired in the upcoming rehiring wave now that grift is being seen through and the negative ROI and performance plateaus are impossible to look past. You've all been studying and practicing right?
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Anon04/29/26, 19:13No.7928105
He had the freedom to work with more impressionist brush strokes. Now everyone wants something tightly rendered. Ruan is a fucking autist so he doesn't know where and when to stop even if he has 80/20 in mindvwhen requested to do such a piece.
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Anon04/29/26, 21:53No.7928227
>always so weird that people pit artists against each other when they likely learned and corresponded with one another and have a respectful relationship
>like imagine if you grew with your friend and the influences between each other become obvious, it slips into your work and it slips into their work then out of nowhere some guy calls you a hack copycat and you're just like: the fuck
>it must feel pretty weird
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Anon04/30/26, 18:06No.7928794
as an artist:
>wow he's amazing, much better than me. What an inspiration
as a member of the audience:
>another clutter freak asian with no real ideas,
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Anon04/30/26, 22:34No.7928957
Ruan absolutely mogs 90% of pros even halfassing it
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Anon05/01/26, 21:16No.7929760
lol
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Anon05/06/26, 04:38No.7933696
distribution of detail, surreal setting on the left, right is emotionless
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Anon05/12/26, 16:01No.7939603
>starts doing 2 hour demos instead of taking 1 year per illustration
the east has fallen...