Are you reffering to the meanders or the rest, the rest seems perfect to me and i am trying some meander rendering to see how sloppy different models can make it look ;p!
Why don't you explain and directly say what you hate.
Example "I hate you X people that think Y do this Z amateur stuff"
I don't claim to be a flag expert i just show some ideas with quick AI rendering to be improved afterwards. I test the concept i don't claim that is my final flag, i will not base my final flag on a quick render AI man i will use Inkscape for the serious drawing...
He means that most flags look worse when they add shading to it, because it may make the flag maybe look a little bit more realistic, but also adds no functional purpose to a flag.
I'm more referring to the fact that no flag in history has ever had shadows because creating flags with shadows was impossible for most of human history
Best use would be to try non-shaded flag as a base and a shaded one in non-animations.
So you think if i add shading like the picture i posted here is worse?
It doesn't matter if you could, but if you did, i am testing the concept through quick AI slop rendering i will not finalise it as this sloppy don't be just an AI hater buddy...
Then dont post it if its just a test and not something you made
And why couldn't you have just made the test yourself?
If it is sloppy, as you said yourself, why post it?
Im not even an avid ai hater, I just hate ai art/flags on this sub because I often put hours into my own creations, and to see someone post this slop is aggravating
Ok i understand the reason for your frustration, but i don't claim what you think i am. How should i title it myself if i want to not aggrave you, simply for testing the concept art first before spending hours in serious drawing?
I think it is smart if you are not sure about a concept to test it out before spending hours...
This looks like it belongs on a luxury hotel stationery set rather than a flagpole. It is high quality but definitely leans more into aesthetic design than a practical vexillological symbol.
Well that is the main practical factor that demands flag designs to have limited complexity.
Still i am wondering of the concept aesthetically not if it is practicall to have as an actual flag, more like "Are the symbols combined aethetically? "
Of course this is a sloppy quick AI rendering not the final one
I think have both the Laurel wreath and meanders make it look a bit busy, I think having only one of these elements is fine, maybe your using both since they were kinda the symbols for Ancient Greece
I do think using the Vergina Sun ( a symbol mostly associated with Macedonia) can be a bit confusing since s it leaves out other Greek states. if it’s for the Hellenistic age then ya that would make sense I guess
If i render ,other than AI unsloppify it's faults, the meanders thinner would it look less busy?
Also the Vergina Sun is more assosiated with the Macedonian Hellenic tribe, that's why i explained it through Hellenism and more Macedonia centric fan fic.
The symbol had panhellenic religious meaning and very important fun fact about that is that Thessaloniki is built in a way that you can see Mount Olympus in a clear day from the seaside of the city, which was considered the home of the Gods.
Add to that the unification through a one Greek tribe only main symbol isn't that absurd according to the actual history as the Macedonians were the ones to unify almost all of the Hellenes for the 1st time, hence in a more succesfull state building scenario we can imagine their own prefences to be the cultural norm.
I agree though the mainders if you look them closer are sloppy indeed. The AI hate i am not sure if it is naturally born or promoted by the people that will lose their jobs by it. For example being a graphic artists in your job and not needing to work 8 hours in your shift at the company and writing at reddit, would make you for sure bash it every way you can....
Not sure either but is very reddit specific. Instagram for example dont really care. Neither does tiktok and so on.
In reddit of they even have a suspicion that it may be AI, even if it was perfectly made, they will call it Slop.
There was a post of someone that put a REAL painting of Van Gogh and said it was AI generated and got absolutely bashed. It turns out it was the real thing.
So they just hate because :)
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u/SHIZ_Dan 12h ago
This flag is so easy to make in Photoshop, why you used AI😭 it literally ruined flag