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I love to draw. Drawing is the most fundamental aspects of visual communication. Human have use drawing for thousands of year to communicate complex ideas.

The digital revolution:
In the last two decades, computer graphics and 3d software programs are getting more sophisticated at a rapid pace. This allow more artists to get their ideas out onto the computer screens with little drawing skills requirement. More and more artists can't draw before computer has made it unnecessary. This may come back to bite. 

Future of Ai integration:
The next digital leap will be Ai integration into the softwares. Procedural modeling, intelligent modeling, texturing, animations, and what not. The golden age of the 3d pipeline is coming to an end. Some tasks will be obsolete and Ai will take over those mundane functions. In order to further cut cost, studios will consolidate and bundle more complex visual fx tasks into one artist ‘s responsibility. Which mean talented and experience artists will be in high demand. With all this advantages, smaller studio can now compete with the larger studios since they can leverage Ai intelligent in the softwares to scale up and down on a project basis. 

Are we being replaced?
Computers are good at performing repetitive and derivative tasks and not so good at coming up with original ideas and solutions. You can leverage Ai technology to give you many iterations of cars with set design parameters. But the ability to quickly establish ideas and explore new and innovative ones will point back to efficiency of hand sketching. The abilities to think and draw are more important in the era of the digital revolution than ever before. Ai integration into software packages will definitely replace vfx jobs but to program Ai to and think and draw like a person is still decades from now. 

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