Haha, this is something that constantly ponder, while I am developing this product.
Though, the conclusion I've come to is that that hand-drawn art will always meaningful for humans, because it is born of the human experience.
An interesting example is the invention of photography, which at its time, was very good at doing the thing artists were doing back then (capturing likenesses)
But photography didn't replace art: instead, artists now use photographs to be more expressive, convincing, and make better art. In tandem, the widespread adoption of photography meant that more average folks could get their likenesses taken!
Personally, my skills as an artist has improved by quite a bit, after launching this product, purely because observing it offers some fascinating insights into how anime is created!
I hope that as an industry, we'll find better ways to create, and what we know to be the "best" art today will be even better in the future!
Though, the conclusion I've come to is that that hand-drawn art will always meaningful for humans, because it is born of the human experience.
An interesting example is the invention of photography, which at its time, was very good at doing the thing artists were doing back then (capturing likenesses)
But photography didn't replace art: instead, artists now use photographs to be more expressive, convincing, and make better art. In tandem, the widespread adoption of photography meant that more average folks could get their likenesses taken!
Personally, my skills as an artist has improved by quite a bit, after launching this product, purely because observing it offers some fascinating insights into how anime is created!
I hope that as an industry, we'll find better ways to create, and what we know to be the "best" art today will be even better in the future!