You’re looking at these images through the lens as a professional illustrator who has concepts of what is acceptable to deliver as a professional illustrator.
The reason it will steal your job is because your client, instead of having the concept and then hiring you to make something concrete will just type in prompts and click storyboard mode in the eventual tool this is democratized into.
To this person it won’t matter if it’s perfect or not because they just did it in 30 minutes themselves rather than having to hire someone and go back and forth over a week.
End of the day you just need an image good enough to get sign off from the client, and the quality level you work to won’t be needed anymore.
Most anyone can throw together instructive storyboards using stick figures and simple art. They hire professional illustrators because they want something more than that.
This is not to say that the new image generators are something illustrators can just ignore, it is a game changer. Like Photoshop, it provides a powerful set of art making tools and some will cultivate a talent for utilizing said tools that is worth paying for.
You’re looking at these images through the lens as a professional illustrator who has concepts of what is acceptable to deliver as a professional illustrator.
The reason it will steal your job is because your client, instead of having the concept and then hiring you to make something concrete will just type in prompts and click storyboard mode in the eventual tool this is democratized into.
To this person it won’t matter if it’s perfect or not because they just did it in 30 minutes themselves rather than having to hire someone and go back and forth over a week.
End of the day you just need an image good enough to get sign off from the client, and the quality level you work to won’t be needed anymore.