The fact that so many players in the Canadian animation industry are still blaming the slowdown on WGA and SAG strikes while also warning and panicking about falling behind on AI adoption is just… You do know you’re falling for the excuse AND the scam, right?

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My good fucking god, this is SO cool

as a grandchild of four survivors of nazi concentration camps,

a rather idiotic last-minute christmas card i whipped up in the style of military corporate promo material - merry christmas everyone

I'm making eggnog pancakes

after writing and drawing the third skill of making comics is weathering the slog, and ultimately finishing it, and this is the hardest and most important part lmao. and needs to be practiced just as hard as the other two. and you’ll get better at the other two by practicing the third

i've been playing Routine and because I'm bad at survival horror type games because i'm always SUPER cautious and stressed out, so it takes me twice as long as it probably should. but also I have a stronger understanding of how horror movie characters can get super lost while being chased 😅

I left Twitter a while back because I couldn't tolerate it anymore; I don't post enough art (and definitely not enough finished work) to be worried about its theft anyhow... but this makes me want to do things that would violate multiple terms of service - the sheer audacity of it all is infuriating

LRP I've smoked fewer than 10 cigarettes in my life (and for weed I tend to be a vape guy, gotta maintain these lungs at least a little) but many of the coolest people I know are or have been smokers and that's just the facts. Hard to beat a cigarette as a prop.

cyberpunk dystopia is here, there's colored LEDs all over and I eat too much cup noodle they keep putting bigger pictures of the dictator's face on things but at least on the Nets we still talk freely sometimes your robot girlfriend is secretly a real person nothing's been right since the plague

Season's Greetings from CAG ❄️ The CAG office will be closed until January 5th, and all of us wish you a safe and cozy holiday and New Year! 🔴

Take note: no big overhead lights, lots of little lamps. If you want people to like how your apartment looks, get lots of little lamps. Even some bigger lamps are fine. But keep the big ceiling lights off.

Huge news!! 73.8% affirmative vote! Congrats to Halifax Ubisoft workers! GET'EM

Hi I’d like to pay you money for goods and services, I saw your horrifying genAI advertisement that was full of lurching taxidermy of dead things that never once lived, you showed me a memory and symbol obliterating vision of death I want to shop at your store,

One day after I drew this, I went to the Shipyards Christmas Market and it was actually not raining and quite a nice time

Photobooth at the Polygon Gallery with @scribblechris.bsky.social and @uncannykari.bsky.social

it helps when you’re regularly making cool stuff with people who you think are talented. it’s meaningful that they want to keep you around

Boycott all movies, entertainments, concerts, newspapers which are in any way connected with the quisling authorities.

Now that everyone knows who Trump-protecting Bari Weiss is, let's recall that Vancouver Coastal Health's Head of Comms, Deana Lancaster, was RT'ing Bari Weiss not long ago The 2 of them, busy mocking & downplaying the seriousness of Covid. PS Covid never was & still is not "the sniffles" #bcpoli

Breaking in a new pen + coloring warmup with Chun-Li

Line art of @arrowvideo.bsky.social's blu-ray cover for Kinji Fukasaku's 1975 film GRAVEYARD OF HONOR

Ask and you shall receive

The only acceptable amount of genAI usage is zero, IMO.

When I worked in news I was curious about the tech and tested it for summarizing lengthy court documents and interview transcripts. Every test returned at least some incorrect info, including made up details or even fake quotes! Worse than useless, actually harmful, for a journalist to use.

The thing i like about cake-style donuts is that I can go into a shop and "just" get a donut but what i am really doing is getting a slice of cake

"the ai witch hunt--" let me be the first to tie you to the stake and throw a match onto the kindling on top of the brush surrounding your feet. i will sit there with a picnic basket and watch as you immolate

This account is valuable, and also upsetting. So many games using AI. Luckily the non-AI games in the world still vastly outnumber the slop. I was really curious about Owlcat's new Expanse game, too 😞

i'm watching The 6th Day (2000) and it is the most Vancouver-spotting movie I've seen in a long time (and I watched Deadpool II a couple weeks ago). Tinseltown, Stanley Park, T&T, Metrotown, SFU (of course), Central VPL, and this is just the first half hour.

I was tempted to go dancing with a friend tonight (despite a sweaty indoor space being a little much for me to want to risk, even with a mask) but she told me the space was recently raided by cops. Let people have fun! What the fuck dudes. Cops who shut down parties in industrial zones, get a life!

I genuinely find it hard to entertain any "Where do we draw the line on AI" devil's advocates, when the amount of gameDev GoFundMes is the most I've ever seen in any year. When we know data centers are killing towns. When we know the data it's trained off of is stolen.

I like that this is a line from the Sabotage Field Guide, because it really -is- sabotage to hoard your skills at work. If you're a senior artist, you owe it to your coworkers to pass on the skills and tricks you have. (Unless you're working at Raytheon or somewhere in which case, sure.)

Worked at Wildbrain at the same time as Kyle for a while, talked with him during the union drive, he was always real supportive, and his enthusiasm for the craft always came through in his threads about animation. This hurts. Goodbye, Kyle.

once again screaming at people about her public document full of historical clothing references and resources (which had it's most recent update on the 12th of january last year!) heystacks.com/doc/1247/cla...

she's just trying to drink her shitty whiskey in peace, man. why are you being so obnoxious. ✍️

when I want fast food in Vancouver:

Being hungover sucks but there is a kind of middle ground where you're a little messed up but it also serves to remind you that you had a good time the night before 🐦 Titmouse ❄️ Holiday Party ❄️

Part of the story here is that Deloitte's recommendations to Nfld & Labrador's health dept cited articles that don't exist. They "stand by" the conclusions their report made, but doesn't this prove that the conclusions were predetermined? If the research isn't real, the entire report is worthless.

An extremely tight and cutting piece from McMansion Hell author Kate Wagner. It's not paywalled, but you will need to drop an email (and verify it) to read. Click through to Kate's post for a few excerpts. The piece is pretty short, but not a word is wasted.

Finished this one today, great great book. At times gruesome, at times heartbreaking, sometimes really funny. A story about fear and guilt and persistence and grief but also a heavily propulsive horror yarn. I'm being vague to avoid spoilers. Read it!! Find it at your local bookstore or library!

One of the things I've always loved about Cat and Girl is how the characters are only just barely communicating with each other. It's not even a conversation in the sense of "waiting for your turn to speak" because the monologues overlap - but read together the meanings are changed, too

if you want to expose the cracks in the current ecosystem's hypocrisies and lack of interest in art in a smart way you have to be confrontational about it. by the time you're on your back foot arguing for things that are being disappeared as "this has a right to exist" you're already losing.

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

i felt like drawing Bat Boy. it's nice to feel things #coolcartoonsbynicky

There's been a bunch of discourse the past couple weeks about how AI's water use is overblown and "less intense" than other industries. Here's the thing: it's using as much as Bottled Water and *is COMPLETELY unnecessary!* It shouldn't be using any water at ALL, because it shouldn't exist!

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Re: Larian/Divinity and the "small amount" of AI in the production process: Baldur's Gate 3 was my favourite game of 2023. I played it twice in a row, which amounted to over 300 hours. Divinity is not even going on my list.

Supernote vs Remarkable! I kinda want an e-ink tablet to doodle on (and maybe read books on). Remarkable is in stores, Supernote is only available online (in Canada) so I can't try it out. Anyone with access to both have thoughts on which is better for artists?