One week and i will able to contunue game development. I just need to pass one last week.

#portfolioday illustration stuff

Warhammer Owner Games Workshop Bans Its Creative Staff From Using GenAI.

Bandcamp is announcing that they're prohibiting music created wholly or with subtantial use of AI

practicing pencil sketches, almost forgot how to draw not in digital

🎶wip for my friend's character portrait for dnd campaign🎶

White people, keep that same outrage when ICE kills an innocent Black person; oh wait.……… it appears you only have selective outrage — Keith Porter Jr., 43-year-old father of two shot by an off-duty ICE agent. RIP 🙏🏾

I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time

monthly object-character design study as voted by patrons

mahareth render wip 🥲💀

pumping my mooskles to get bigger and stronger to fight capitalism

Only four days left to snag one of these shirts, commemorating our boys on mars

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

while my mom was pregnant with me, she was delivering chinese food on bike in new orleans. i like to think that the music she heard in the streets made me the way i am now. happy new year everyone!

The year was tough, probably one of the most anxious and shitty of my life (2020 and 2022 are still tied for first place, haha). I tried to take stock, but honestly, there weren't that many to really sum it up. Everyone's more or less alive, and I'm thankful for that.

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

These people are clowns.

The number of big name games coming out saying "oh yeah we used Gen AI tons during the initial concept stages, why is thay a problem?" Is honestly enough to make me not want to touch anything larger than an Itchio game

Last year i declined 3 comics that I really wanted to work with but has no time 😭 Also another benchmark pages made with @simonroy.bsky.social and Oliver Hine in '24

Hey guys! I highly awared about our finances for the next year (everything's REAL bad) so i'm starting to look for a big cool coloring gigs for the next year - call me NOW if you wanna work with me in '26! Pages from a few last comics made with @simonroy.bsky.social

you can also read the esssay itself here freskovich.medium.com/the-x-files-...

new scam going around where they hire you for a job but pay you less than the value your labor produced

1st Wing

AI always, ALWAYS boils down to executives wanting to reduce staff costs. Always. Anything else is a blatant lie.

Ideas are not a resource that the games industry needs generated. You cannot shoot a nerf gun into a studio and miss someone without a thousand great ideas. It's never been a problem for any of us. Just ask us. Fuck sake you evil bastards just admit you don't want to pay for staff.

I've been struggling for a long time with perfectionism and self-criticism, which I developed after starting my work as an artist in mobile game development 5 years ago

background image #wip for my upcoming video essay on the X-Files I like the way it's turning out with this curved and thick line, won't redo it, will leave it like this - it has its own charm, I'll just add details and a more complex rendering

My awesome new shirt, and the heroic kosher hot dog shirt that inspired it

#vtm #OCart #brujah

There is not a single thing in my life or career I've integrated the 'AI experience' into willingly, and not a single thing in my life or career that's been improved by having AI unwillingly shoved into it. I don't know why there's a demand for this.

I finally made it to vacation just awful, I'm so tired, it's impossible to work at such a slavish pace, so good that I have three weeks of constant sleep ahead - and still no paycheck yet fuck capitalism

the great strategist Odysseus pretends not to look at anything at all 😜 #hades #Melinoe #Odysseus

the thing that drives me insane about genAI/chatgpt bullshit is that brother, the process IS the work IS the entire thing. no artist comes to art for the final result. the final result is inextricable from the fucking labor that came into making it

"concept artists can experiment with AI to make their lives easi-" wrong I smack you with Claire Hummel's immaculate and detailed understanding of costume design, which she got by studying historical references, which made her strong, which you will not become by relying on AI get good

I don't want gen AI in my browser I don't want gen AI in my pc I don't want gen AI in my art I don't want gen AI in my games I don't want gen AI in my music I don't want gen AI in my movies I don't want gen AI in my books I don't want gen AI in my cart I don't want gen AI in my life

I'm a writer, not an artist, but I have found people beginning to demand a uniformity of style in prose and copy, and I think it's coming from a similar place

The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out. This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.

1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.

Hi! I'm a queer indie dev. In my Winter Sale, a bunch of my games and assets are 50% off. All sales go directly to paying my artists and VAs. I'm trying to reach the $100 goal to fund my dream project. It would be a great Christmas gift! ❤️ itch.io/s/175894/win... #indiedev #gamedev #VNDev #queer

Similar to how voice AI use has been suggested; for 'scratch' or reference. I know many actors, myself among them, who got jobs from the scratch work. Every example of AI being used I've seen is cutting away a job that someone coming up would take or get on their journey. Maybe that's the point.

Creative solidarity means: If you're a writer, do not use AI "art" or AI "voiceover" If you're an artist, do not use AI "writing" or AI "references" If you're a streamer/actor, do not use AI for backdrops, thumbnails, etc. Never help AI steal another medium No excuses, no shortcuts, no surrender.

one of the funnier aspects to the AI backlash is the fact that they're negatively polarizing much of the tech enthusiast demographic against them by making hobbyist PC building functionally unaffordable

This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money. Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.

"I asked chatgpt--" Shut the fuck up. I asked the Lady of the Lake, and she said you are unworthy of the sword Excalibur. You will never be king.

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