Skin tight is fine. Clothes, depending on cuts and styles, will drape over the shape underneath in different ways that don't necessarily represent what the shape is.
Thus, your understanding of the shape can be misled, and your attempts at adapting a pose to something slightly different, or coming up with your own (let alone dressing them up differently) will likely be stilted and wrong in a number of ways - because you're trying to imagine what's underneath without understanding that there is a muscle belly there that doesn't bend that way, or a bony protuberance being an anchor point for other landmarks, and what have you.
Imagine "learning anatomy" from studying a cohort only wearing the ultra baggy styles that are around currently.
You don't have to know all the names for all the parts... but you will probably get better results by learning from the ground up then inferring how the outfits drape over that.
1 data point of Yep.
I went to my local Monoprix to grab a few things during lunch break. For some reason they seemed to have suffered a fridge incident, good for me I didn't need anything from those aisles. I did wonder if it was just a recent problem or if a more sneaky malfunction had silently semi-spoiled some of the products I brought back days before, until it just blew over.
Let's see. Yeah, the lighting is good
- Location isn't quite right. The side gardens on the Champs de Mars are much wider than this. They're not in this style either :)
- Melty coins, and keyboard.
What else?
- Bunch of visible shape inconsistencies: building window sizes and alignment, fence railing, rivets on the bench, coins, accordion features, perspective violations etc...
- Metal clips on the bottom and top edges of the carrying case are on different sides. Said clips look inconsistent.
- One of the case straps originates inside (from under the velvet, even), the further one originates outside. The carrying handle is oddly mis-centered (as with most things).
- I'm not sure that accordion, compressed, fits in that case. She can just about stand in it (diagonally, on one foot).
- It has weird folds that disappear partway through and turn into adjacent folds going the other way. Between this, the keyboards and the dots, I'm sure there are other things wrong with accordion anatomy.
- Awkward left hand: not sure what's going on with the metacarpal joints, and index finger appears to begin forking into two tips pressing into two (misshapen) buttons. Her right hand is getting there too.
- Weird hair midline. I haven't seen a "sub-midline" like this in the wild :)
- The burgundy coat clips through the bench under her right leg. It's like the front slat goes through a hole in the side of the coat.
- We don't usually have that side curling bar on each side of the sitting area. It looks like it's clipping through the flats next to the leather handbag
- Ill-placed buckle on that bag.
- The green metal fence on the right begins behind her for one vertical bar, next one disappears into the plants, no further vertical bars, no top horizontal railing. Actually, it appears to only have fencing on one side, that's not something I'd see often. On the side where it does have a top, its top rail has very irregular width.
- Sand looks like... breadcrumbs? Very repetitive coarse shapes, like it was poorly done with a clone stamp.
- Something weird about the leaves.
- The foremost lamp isn't sure whether it has flat sides or not.
- The other lamp emerges out of nowhere from behind one of the blob-people in the alley.
- A bunch of unfortunate tangents and occlusions which make you wonder whether the diffusion hallucinated detail out of bigger shapes, or if it's been trained on photos where the tangents were done on purpose.
ie. center bottom bar of the bench being exactly aligned with the gray edge tiles, side curly railing-not-present-on-our-real-benches fully formed on her right, almost completely foreshortened out of existence where the bench's perspective forbids it...
Most people are fooled by much cruder fakes though. This is a lot better but keeps plenty of tells for observant people (and most people aren't)
When I was a kid, there was a game in the funny pages that asked you to find six things wrong in a picture. Someone should run a contest like that for AI-generated images.
It might be an interesting benchmark for vision models, too.
I was watching a friend stream a dead game lately.
That game was developed before generating images became widespread, and sunset as that "art form" started really taking off (game-as-a-service... probably partly reverse engineered and retooled with AI too). So during its lifetime, it was pretty much AI free.
I remember having been seduced by that game's art style at the time. It wasn't "the usual guys with futuristic guns and armor", it had some stylization as well, nice color...
Watching the stream, it occurred to me that it was in fact artwork from "the days before", in a way I hadn't been hit with until that point, even as a returning artist looking at pre-AI works.
"People came up with the concepts and developed and rendered them themselves", I thought to myself. Not in a "oh look, floppy disks. How quaint!" way, either.
Today I got stuck with a hairy frontend problem, which even AI couldn't help me with. Luckily, I managed to find a Medium article from like 2019. It was joyfully absent of 'comparisons that actually hold up' and 'X that is only a part of the picture' and nothing was load-bearing in there.
I forgot that once there existed a magical time when human beings used to write Medium articles by hand.
I think it was an ad for Retrospect in an early 90s magazine that said "There are two categories of people: those who have lost files, and those who are going to."
This is reminiscent of the reasons why Technics (Panasonic) could and would not just do a reissue of the Technics 1200 turntable.
In the mid 2010s after some lobbying, they eventually invested into new tooling to build a successor.
The new models have a handful of components in common, yes, a possibly even better re-engineered direct drive motor (and I don't remember about the tonearm) - but of course the prices put them in the "too much" range, even the more streamlined versions aimed at the DJ booth.
"Why so many brands change their logos and look like everybody else".
In the past year(s) I have noticed a few icons in my Android phone turning into the same thing.
For a long time there was Uber, white on black. And then others thought white on black was the cool thing to join in on, making the reduced icons of the following look the same : Uber, Soundcloud (they kept their sigil at least), Swile, Qobuz, myNoise. I'm sure if I installed more junk I'd have seen more.
Even myNoise who goes against tech grain! To their credit, they added an orange circle background to it sometime this spring. Soundcloud execs woke up and went back to their trademark orange. But, heck.
Anecdata: Every time over the years that my parents (now in their 70s) have purchased a new mac, software updates only ever happen if I run them.
I don't visit all the time. They run outdated versions of everything until I hear "we need to buy a new mac because we can't use this website for some administrative thing", which is caused by not updating the os and the browser becoming unsupported over time.
Also account for i.e musicians (I hear there's a few of them in Apple-land) who seem to keep getting bitten by Apple somehow breaking compatibility with a bunch of audio software/equipment even with developer release, time and time again.
Thus, your understanding of the shape can be misled, and your attempts at adapting a pose to something slightly different, or coming up with your own (let alone dressing them up differently) will likely be stilted and wrong in a number of ways - because you're trying to imagine what's underneath without understanding that there is a muscle belly there that doesn't bend that way, or a bony protuberance being an anchor point for other landmarks, and what have you.
Imagine "learning anatomy" from studying a cohort only wearing the ultra baggy styles that are around currently.
You don't have to know all the names for all the parts... but you will probably get better results by learning from the ground up then inferring how the outfits drape over that.
See Kim Jung-Gi demonstrating some of that (the subtitles are even somewhat useful) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVn205YsQhY