it's never inevitable. keep fighting it

One of my favorite things ever is seeing Artists and Animators directly showing how far they have improved over time. #Animation is obviously first and foremost a visual thing, so seeing the growth through side by side comparisons is always so cool. And this is a great story, FUCK Sora

2025: AIshill harasses me for months shoving my #animation wips into Sora to "improve" them. March 2026: I manage to get rid of him. Release video, Sora dies pathetically and a voice of my childhood @bendiskin.bsky.social release a in character video celebrating it. What fun youtu.be/PNs3chvtEqo

If Square and Disney were serious about KH4 being great they would include NYC as a world straight up. The canonical home of of Square's Parasite Eve AND Disney's Gargoyles? AYA BREA AND ELISA MAZA COULD BE COP PARTNERS, literally a perfect set up, to good for words

Both the Wall Street Journal and The Information confirming that OpenAI is killing Sora - both the app and *access to its video-generating model for developers*. This is a huge move that suggests things are a bit desperate www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open... www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...

As an animator who had to very directly deal with an Ai “artist” using Sora on my animation WIPS to harass me, gotta say I am quite pleased, support real artists: youtu.be/PNs3chvtEqo

OpenAI is shutting down Sora AI platform 👍 Disney is exiting their $1 billion investment 👍 variety.com/2026/digital...

I'm so sick of seeing AI disclaimers like this. The solution to not having the budget for voice acting isn't to use AI, it's to not have voice acting at all! Games don't need VO to be good! By jamming in slopvoices, you're not making your game better, you're making it worse and reprehensible!

Placeholder assets in a game should look obnoxiously temporary, so obvious that no one would mistake it for the final asset. In past games we've used the doge dog (rip) as an icon, hot pink versions of characters, our CEO's head, etc. If you use a temp asset that seems passable, it may stay there.

I made a video comparing my very first #animation from 2018 with my last from 2025. Its been a weird journey, "fun" fact, the 25 clip was made while being harrassed by a GenAI "artist" trying to discourage me by feeding my wips to it. If you wanna see the complete video: youtu.be/PNs3chvtEqo

Scenes back to back don't have anything to do with each other, characters talk to Kliff as if they're waiting for him to respond and he doesn't, characters we've never met or heard of are killed off screen and that's a big deal. It's absolutely bizarre.

I made a video comparing my very first #animation from 2018 with my last from 2025. Its been a weird journey, "fun" fact, the 25 clip was made while being harrassed by a GenAI "artist" trying to discourage me by feeding my wips to it. If you wanna see the complete video: youtu.be/PNs3chvtEqo

Some say that making a smaller game or simpler game are ways to cut down on dev time. This is also true. But if you're making a game of any size that has any sort of consistent production methodology, a good way to make everything take longer is to change standards and pipelines in production.

Hello Bluesky. I'm working on an animated short and just launched a Kickstarter for it. Please take a look and share with anyone you think will like it! 🙏 www.kickstarter.com/projects/alt...

had to make this games industry compilation after hearing digital foundry's really bad response to the dlss 5 backlash

what if we blended every famous woman into one woman and then thats every woman you see now. here at nvidia we

Clive would blow up fossil fuel infrastructure, making him based as fuck

Clive would totally destroy factories to stop tech companies from powering militaries, on the other hand that would also include AI data centers soooooooooo fair trade I guess?

“No deporting US citizens” is a CONCESSION???

While I was making this #animation I dealt with tons of PC issues, but that paled in comparison to the shit I got from an AI "Artist" stalking me on Discord, trying to put my Wips into it to "fix" thankfully, he was dealt with. Cheers to all real animators, real artists. youtu.be/PNs3chvtEqo

It's worth pointing out that Resident Evil has, for a very long time now, used scans of professional models for its characters. Even if your literal job is to look photogenic, it's still not enough for genAI.

mfw im playing resident evil 5 remake in 2029 and DLSS 5 turns chris redfield into charlie kirk for 1/200th of a second

Subnautica devs v. Krafton ruling is ABSOLUTELY stunning. Start at the top of page 32 and read until the end of that section on page 37. Krafton CEO was warned by their legal personnel to not follow ChatGPT into what is likely Some Of The Dumbest Legal Shit Ever, CEO believed the plagiarism bot.

Remember: if you're feeling like you can't possibly fight a behemoth this huge and wish you should do something that actually hurt it, you already are Simply being vocal about how much you hate it is extremely powerful, so don't stop devaluing their investment

#Animation So close now, feels weird

i think we should start posting this every time someone acts like liking emet-selch or zenos or gaius or yotsuyu etc etc etc makes you an evil fascist

"The Director/Leonard Church and Bernard Strauss would probably get along even better. Get together every couple weeks for brunch to chat and swap notes on how to best torture the Mouthy A.I under there control"

With NUMarathon out it's interesting that newer Bungie fans and others might learn that the closest anyone has come to OG #Marathon depiction of AI isn't actually Halo, Destiny or anything else made by Bungie. No, its closest counterpart is actually Red vs Blue Durandal and Church would be friends

"Stripping anonymity from the internet would constitute one of the most sweeping rollbacks of civil rights in recent history. It would allow for unprecedented levels of mass surveillance and censorship, endangering the most marginalized members of society."

Make it stick.

Just in case this post gets deleted by big corp.

Anyways.

From the first trailer of "Kindred Spirits", the new animated feature film by Tomm Moore & Cartoon Saloon (Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, Wolfwalkers) + Folivari. Coming in 2028. Full video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQn9...

So ARC Raiders is actual spyware: timothymeadows.com/arc-raiders-...

Arkos content in 2025? No way! ✨ Merry Christmas, everyone ✨ #rwby #rwbyfanart #arkos #jaunearc #pyrrhanikos

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

You only have a short time to comment. They are trying to destroy our forests to enrich a few logging company executives and the politicians they’ve paid off. Leave your comment here: eplanning.blm.gov/Participate-... morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ...

If you feel that use of AI art assets at any stage of the process is an automatic out, but ChatGPT translations are fine if they're "checked" by people, it might be worth asking yourself why that is. Because it sounds a whole lot like valuing the work of translators less than other creatives to me.

Happy #Zelda40th! Animating goofy #zelink stuff is how I got my start as an animator. Nothing special, but I learned a lot, here's to 40 more. #ゼルダの伝説40周年 youtu.be/8CK1xmPpd9o

Today is the 3rd slopiversary of us having to temporarily close submissions. The problem of "AI"-generated submissions hasn't gone away and is still a huge waste of our time. House policy remains the same: #noAI stories, translation, art, or anything else.

I remember vividly the day Gooseworx posted this on tumblr and immediately thinking "Ohhh.....not sure thats gonna age well" Really sad that I ended up being correct. She deserves better and its not just TADC. Creators fundamentally can't trust there fanbases to behave on any level.

Happy #Zelda40th! Animating goofy #zelink stuff is how I got my start as an animator. Nothing special, but I learned a lot, here's to 40 more. #ゼルダの伝説40周年 youtu.be/8CK1xmPpd9o

IT HASN'T EVEN BEEN A WEEK!

A Gorillaz short film by The Line studio is coming on February 27 on Youtube : "The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God". www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucRu...

all i want to do online is play video games, talk to my friends, and look at girls boobs and every fucking day some freak i've never met decides to make it harder and harder to do that

Its one of my best performing videos on YT, and I am not sure why: youtube.com/shorts/O4yph...

posting is harmless provided you don't take it seriously- the second you start believing you're doing Important Work, that's when the madness takes hold

Drew Mira from KPop Demon Hunters

Ahead of the release of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die, I want to relay something from the Q&A after the early screening I attended. There's a scene where people are shown scrolling a tik-tok-like app showing endless AI slop videos. Per Verbenski, all of them were made by human animators.