Card game dev pays AI artist $90k for monthly 10-hour shifts
Champions of Otherworldly Magic just revealed it paid an anonymous AI artist $90,000 over six months to produce more than 1,000 card illustrations. The creator worked just 10 hours a month for $15,000, delivering generated and hand-retouched art astronomically faster than traditional teams. Why it matters: Studio-level game art production is rapidly moving from theoretical debates into commercial deployment.