Going deeper in my learning of new tools

lately, I bought a new work station, planning to dive back into 3D animations combined with some of the new tools I've been learning. at first, I thought that I'd "just" use AI to enhance my animations with speech, movements, etc. one thing led to another, and in the past few weeks I found myself diving deeper and deeper into the realm of Stable diffusion, comfyUI, and ai-generated art in general. I spend dozens of hours installing everything and playing around with it, studying it, learning, solving problems. every time that I managed to succeed in doing one thing, I had at least 2-3 new things I wanted to learn.
and I still do. this is fascinating and its going to lift our creativity and art to the next level, along with creating completely new styles of digital art to explore.

I thought I'd only use AI to enhance my 3D art and my videos, and I found myself starting to generate, paint, retouch, learning how to create consistent character (that's one of the biggest challanges - still a lot more to learn!). My excitement and passion these days reminds me of what I felt in the first 1-2 years of my path. I love it! I'm out of my comfort zone, learning new things every single day, and I know that eventually this will bring me to my next phase and level as an artist. You know me: I have to do it all. Some artists do filmmaking. some 3d. some create Ai/digital arts. I love it all. I want to do it all, and always add new tools to my toolbox.
I love it! I trully do. I was born to do this.

anyway, attached is my very first Ai layered drawing. I generated a base image, and then started paiting on it and modifying it using AI and multiple layers. I'm excited with the ability of taking an image and manipulating it slowly until I have what I want.
also, just for fun, I created a very short animation sequence from it. hopefully, later on I'll be able to create full length animations, Anime style and also merge these new exciting tools into my core 3D animations.

Full-res image & short animation attached.

Cheers, for better days to come <3

Shay (Gsfcreator)