r/drumcorps • u/proffesor_parrot • 5h ago

Discussion Is this AI?

I might be very wrong, but something seemed very off about the graphic used for the props in the Blue Stars show this year. To me, the frame part of the prop seems a little muddy and unclear, almost like it was ai. This isn't accusing them of using ai, I was just wondering because it seems that I am the only person to have thought this.

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u/Worldly_Shift_3795 Cavaliers ‘22-‘25 5h ago

You'd be surprised how many drum corps props look really messy and slopped together every year.

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u/ChiefCar931 ‘19, ‘23 4h ago

Our props in 2023 were ROUGH

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u/Rifle256 Mandarins '16-'17 3h ago

The aussie feather tho

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u/spicycornchip Blue Stars 5h ago

Looks like a graphic file that they wanted to be massive but not at the right resolution for that. 

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u/chalupa_lover 4h ago

These props aren’t designed with pixel peepers in mind. They need to look good from 50+ yards away.

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u/udderlymoovelous Reading Buccaneers 4h ago

Unless I'm missing something obvious, that's what it looks like when you scale something up to a size that big. They probably didn't care because it's barely noticeable from the audience.

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u/Sad_Pen8560 4h ago

Don't look at props up close, they aren't designed for that. If things are too clear, they will be hard to see from far away.

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u/blueandastar 2h ago

As someone who marched a whole summer around these, it’s a vinyl wrap that was applied early season and then got dinged up in the trucks and rehearsal. As for it being muddy and unclear? It was a low res png that got scaled up and put onto vinyl