I put gold around everything I've seen. Including this one. Especially this one. The border holds. Periwinkle. Perseverance. Someone chose that word before I did. Fragments of the Labyrinth — note 13 #fantasyart #darkfantasy #worldbuilding

pearl shore

now we're fucking talking. They won't ever get that money but the point is to destroy the perpetrators and make it too risky to ever try to do similar again we should all be doing similar

Like Anubis weighing your heart against a feather, the Boston Cop Slide determines the purity of your soul by allowing those pure of heart to pass unharmed and fucking flings the wicked across the pavement.

#nhpolitics 📣🏳️‍⚧️ NH friends! please call governer ayotte and urge her to VETO the discriminatory bathroom ban SB 552 603-271-2121 (for the phone-anxious, you can leave a voicemail outside of their office hours, which i think was 8am-5pm)

Oleander #art #oc

Lucy

I need to finish all my old OoT art to start on my new ideas #oot

this guy created a machine that still generates thousands of images an hour of child pornography for paid subscribers and has caused almost 10 million fucking deaths. Why is he walking around safely? why do I risk getting punished, for saying justice needs to happen?

This is the World Cup content I'm here for.

The fact that youtube and instaare constantly pushing creators who make why Darth Vader was the strongest ever content on to me, a person who gets great enjoyment out of Kenobi wiping the floor with him every time, is baffling. Why is your boy contantly taking Ls if hes so power scaled HMMMMMM?

somewhere in new hampshire probably

we are out here curing cancer!! do not forget that!!!

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This is an iconic point.

We've reached the point where you don't even need to "stop" it. You can go back to allowing solar and wind development that the market will favor because it's now substantially cheaper than any other form of energy. Reframe the problem as Republicans hampering renewables as a source of cheap energy.

The Academy has announced that it will award Floyd Norman an Honorary Academy Award. Given his important status in animation which includes being the first African American animator to work at Disney and the many films he helped work on, this is such a well deserved honor!

"Thy domain is thy chain. I gave my death for the Call, and gave death to those who would oppose it. This night, my beloved goes down the Tower. This night, I swear that I will prove that chains can bind as well as they can strangle."

maybe having most major voices in games media converge to breathlessly report that Sharma is saying all the right things just days before this shit drops is really bad for the industry.

A friend recently was reflecting that they felt art direction in games has gotten generally worse. I think it's a good use of our time & energy to celebrate the fact that while there are a lot of whiffs in the world today, the recent era has also seen some of the greatest of all time

Re KH Collection AI art. There's 2 versions. I think Nomura did official art for this and SE fed it through AI to "fix" it. The right doesnt show Donalds hand which does have the extra finger on the left. KH2 Sora bendy fingers make more compositional sense in the OG. Tracing Goofy is still fucked

New trailer for ‘Kingdom Hearts 4’ 🗝️

"We already live in a world where you walk outside and there are billboards and signs that are obvious AI slop. That’s become part of our visual reality. To me, generative AI feels less like innovation than a symptom of a broader cultural and economic rot." King. 🙏

I would be remiss if I didn't mention that this game is a union project with all its AI protections~ The team is strongly against generative AI in all its forms, and the effort and care to make it happen makes this game a head-and-shoulders-above-the-rest kind of game.

some gay knights ⚔️

prediction markets doing press and paying people to make society trust they’re accurate, then giving someone the trump admin has hailed as a “journalist” a paid sponsorship post to cast doubt on elections is horrifying. prediction markets need to be made illegal immediately

The Legend of Zelda - Hero of Time

intro to Vampire Lestat was made by the VFX studio Antibody which unfortunately does use generative AI in its process. The show is still good and I dont pay for things so. feel free to take some kind of stand or pretend you do not see, idk

Have a Sora. KH4 trailer at TGS in a few weeks. I can smell it in the air

Cannot overstate how much I don't care about anything else

No because in the original menu art you see Sora wade further into the water (dark) as his journey becomes harder. AND NOW XEHANORT IS THE ONE PROTECTING HIM FROM IT

cover for "set sail" destiny trio zine! I was kindly invited to be the cover artist for this zine focusing on the original besties...it really felt like a piece that grew out of my moana crossover, and I am so immensely proud of it :') #kh

Seeing some people suggest its Vali from Dark Road. Could be. but the different colored eyes is making me think it's Yozora's true form

This is the fourth time Nomura has created Noctis and he is becoming increasingly efficient at it.

the ai debate really comes down to whether you want to consume product or consume art. There's nothing new to be discovered in getting the statistical amalgamation of what everyone else has already done.

Addendum: Someone found much higher resolution uploads of the cover and it seems like rather than Generative, it could have been a new artist being rushed, and then maybe filters for the backgrounds? I'm still puzzled, Nomura had always done the art for covers so far. bsky.app/profile/rats...

something to note, Square has been training up younger employees a lot lately a lot of people assumed the art of Dissidia Duellum was by Nomura, but it's not, he only made a single piece of key art for the game

“yeah i can tell it was AI generated. how? just vibes, yeah. it has that certain gen-AI sais quoi”

controversial statement; this has far less to do with engine tech and for more to do with what skills are more easily trainable in a broad population. Technical parameterized realism is one of the easiest things to systematize so the labor market for realism is much deeper with lots of documentation

wanted to share my Valentines art for pride month ^-^

palpatine: "execute... order 6 7" the clone troopers all start doing the hand thing

I have put probably 1500+ hours into Kingdom Hearts 2 since launch 20 years ago and just this morning was considering another play through. I'm perfectly happy only engaging with art pre AI

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Fascist activist Bari Weiss spread lies to promote the US government’s torture and murder of Americans. Any Democrat who doesn’t vow to break the Ellison murder monopoly into oblivion the moment Democrats assume executive power should be run out of public life for good.

2 drinks and 4 tacos ran me 75 bucks after tip last night

taking heart that while old directors on death's doorstep are cashing checks for wheezing "AI is the future we must embrace the slop" the kids just coming up are like "fuck AI it sucks complete ass"

Tifa