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World turtle blackwork. Design adapted from www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1... Pretty quick, apart from procrastination on the bits I improvised. 18ct aida, which was arguably a bit tight even with single thread. Was fun and love the result, though.

2D animation is booming in theaters. In China, the film Nobody is outgrossing many of Hollywood's recent CG films—on a $10< million budget. It's only one example. As 2D films rise, Hollywood's decision to kill them off looks shortsighted. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-hand-d...

Cover I did for the Runefest variant of the #Runescape Untold Tales of the God Wars comic for @comicstitan.bsky.social

Rewatching The Wild Robot. The reason Chris Sanders tells such great stories (this adaptation and Lilo And Stitch being good examples) is because he understands loveable characters can still be absolute dickheads. I wish more family friendly stories understood this. Write more cute little gremlins.

As someone who works in the children’s comics industry I would like to share my thoughts on this: Fuuuuuuuck offffffff.

The fact that the one game made by an explicitly communist co-op game studio now has three successor studios making a self-proclaimed sequel to it, and dispute the legitimacy of the other two is, of course, the most communist outcome possible.

Shinya Ohira animates like nobody else. He's a maverick artist known for the raw, explosive power of his drawings. If you've seen The Boy and the Heron, you know his work. For this issue, we've gone inside his career and spoken to him about his craft: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-maveri...

I hate to leave a good comics #protip languishing over at the old site so I’ll screenshot and repost some of the more helpful ones here.

RIP Jim Shooter. Comics legend. As a Marvel editor, he was handed a new toy license to do comics for. Neither Hasbro or Marvel leadership cared about their quality. Jim did. He rewrote Hasbro's character bios to not be shit, and made his writers treat it seriously. That license was Transformers.

Motorway bridge restaurants of Italy. The Pavesi Autogrill. journals.openedition.org/insitu/37430... The majority were designed by J J Bianchetti.

This is the Groove-billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris), and it's just straight up a dinosaur. Like, I know *all* birds are technically avian dinosaurs, but my first thought looking at this guy is: dinosaur. (📷: Suzie McCann, eBird)

It's gamejam time!!! As part of my ongoing overworld cleanup work I'm looking at the area south of Falador. I want to see how do people feel about moving Melzars maze underground to get back some forest space and make it fully a dungeon. Concept by the amazing @davebarker.bsky.social

Great time to remind everyone to check out Arne's PSG art tutorial. It covers a lot of topics quickly and applies to all art, including #gameart. Especially good for #handpainted texturing too! https://buff.ly/3UUmo0b

Good news for my patrons! My new gamebook Mutiny Most Merited is out. It's got pirates, mandrills, and a drinking competition. You can get it, along with all of my work, for a single quid (or more) and I won't judge you too harshly if you don't stick around. www.patreon.com/posts/mutiny...

Cartoon from 2004, done mostly to give the office thesaurus an airing. Hearing later that he'd had a rough time, I was slightly worried that accusing him of owning a cattery which was merely a hollow facade might have been a bit unkind, but it turned out that he liked it, so I sent him the artwork.

My favourite was having dinner with a bunch of Oxford ornithologists. "Braveheart was RUINED for me about halfway through. Everyone knows black-headed gulls didn't nest inland in Scotland until the 1950s"

A great example is even in the tech fields that seem sci-fi there is boring stuff. The biggest unsolved problem in neuron-machine interfaces, for instance, isn't decoding brainwaves or injecting information or whatnot. It's Tissue Encapsulation.

Finished this guy, and 358 days before Christmas! Look, right #paintingwarhammer

This energy but way, way darker.

Just discovered this amazing (I assume) 80s cover of The Handmaid’s Tale. The past is another country.

Every space is a liminal space if you can never remember what you came into a room for.

It seems like forever ago because I was just 23 when I wrote it, but I am still really proud of this story about how Terry Pratchett got involved in the Oblivion modding scene - and why said scene became so important to him in his later years www.eurogamer.net/the-story-be...

UNDERGROWTH Old Rob will try his hand at fixing anything and always with a smile.

Of everything I did on Spiderverse, I'm proudest of my work on Gwen's world - an alternate reality of color and emotion.

'Vernacular architecture is the community's expression of itself in physical and enduring form...examples have shown how the myths of a certain community are not only embodied but reinforced in the physical structure of their buildings.' Hugh Conway Morris

hey hey #portfolioday! i’m an illustrator, comic + storyboard artist. i’m probably best known for my work with Dungeons and Daddies but have drawn for the likes of Titan, Mad Cave, Dark Horse and more. currently open for cover work! [email protected] cargocollective.com/alexmooreill... #art

The problem with modern sci-fi is that it has bespoke costumes instead of whatever was left over in the studio’s stock, as the good lord intended

Apparently one of JRRT’s childhood friends mildly criticized him for writing poetry about fairies (before he moved on to more mature and serious elves) and JRRT’s response was to write even more poetry about fairies.

My cover for In Bloom

Okay I think you are ready for this BlueSky. Let's talk cheese history. More specifically, Yorkshire Dales cheeses, and how WW2 and rationing almost wiped out cheesemaking in northern Britain. This is the story of the near-death of the world of one of the world's great cheeses: Wensleydale. /1 🧵

Since the very dawn of humanity, from the time we stopped being apes and started being humans, we imagine that people have looked at the heavens, seen the regular progression of the stars across the night sky, observed the movements of the planets, and asked themselves, "When is bins?"

IT IS TIME The man looked up from his beach chair. "Really?" He said. "I've only just retired." Death held up a timer. A single grain was about to fall. And then... It didn't. CURIOUS Vetinari shrugged. "I've only just discovered drinks with little umbrellas. I'll let it fall in a bit" 1/17

the perfect cosplay does not exis—-

well this is every combination of fucking unsurprising deeply depressing and distressing and the purpose of a system is what it does and and and we told you, we always told you, and it didn't matter, you did it anyway because you don't give a shit

Noritake Salt & Pepper Shakers, 1925

This… seemed like a good idea at the time? I had fun anyway. #paintingwarhammer

St. Lucy'd day today, this is a surprisingly big deal in scandinavia. my favourite fact: St. Lucy tore her eyes out to avoid marrying a pagan 🙄. so we serve buns that are ... referencing and mimicing torn out eyes. bon appétit