they pretty obviously are. just because they’re more tasteful than usual cover slop does not make them hand-made (and they don’t even look consistent with dj’s history of fairly simple album cover art.)
And what did you think about the MV extract song and video ?
your quote make me think in a very clear option and it is a possibility
the images are pieces of AI made… with cutouts pasted onto prepared backplates and unified in post the most likely explanation.
its like i think were likely built with a collage-driven workflow: fixed backplates (backgrounds) + AI-generated elements (face, smoke, ruins, “void/eye”) pasted in.
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In a regular illustration there would be zero reason for a fade out of the statue like this.
I am also sure this is a AI generated image
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“zero reason”… except that it looks cool? I can totally see a human artist doing this