Jorge, an animator was harassed for MONTHS by an OpenAI stan taking his wips and jamming them into SORA to "Fix" them. Because he dared to note GenAI companies have ruined the market for everything PC related. That's the type of people they are, its THAT black and white, #animation

THIS STUDIO MADE THE FAMOUS IDTECH ENGINE AND YOU'RE FORCING THEM TO USE FUCKING **UNREAL**??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? FUCK YOU

The RWBY announcement lead to the dropping of historical internet yuri truth nukes, Monty Oum was one of the earliest Yuri Warriors.

Monty Oum's work was the reason I wanted to be an animator, as you can imagine the rwby V10 was nice, and this just a few months after an AI shill who was harassing me lost everything when Sora shut down. And I got to put out my #animation unmolested. Nice to have a few wins youtu.be/PNs3chvtEqo

...maybe the internet wasn't so different back then. #versuswolves #supereyepatchwolf #woolievs #homestuck #humor #internet #racism

Welcoming Street Fighter's Yasmine to the small but notable clique of Filipino Fighting Game women. #streetfighter #tekken #soulcalibur #deadoralive

Disappointed, but not surprised, Sega is requiring consent to AI model training in the terms of services to join on the hunt. Always read the terms you agree to friends.

There is going to be new movement on KOSA next week Contact your representatives and demand that they oppose KOSA and the KIDS Act www.congress.gov/members/find...

My MAWS post blew up pretty big on the other site, to the point it got staff from the show talking about their involvement. Its nice when that happens.

Actively annoyed by seeing some AI people smugly agree with each other that the reason we hate their shitty technology is that we resent it "lowering the barriers to entry" for the arts, which apparently the world of software development has always done.

Storyboard artists, often closest and most integral to realizing a director's vision, are a relatively cheap part of the process. Often their role is disparaged, or not even understood. And yet one of the main goals of AI in film production seems to be to replicate what they do.

60% drop in reviews if people even smell AI on your game - full supports the investors, developers, and publishers that took a hard "no gen-AI" stance, despite grifters' proclamations that they were "going to be left behind".

One of my favorite pictures is this one by Whitey Schafer from 1940. It was created to break all of the Hays Code in just one frame.

Auliʻi Cravalho will be wonderful, and for anyone interested in getting a taste of Jessica Cruz before her show debuts. Reminder her best onscreen depiction at this time is unironically in the first Justice League x #Rwby movie. Jeannie Tirado crushed it.

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It's bizarre how repeatedly people keep hijacking the conversation about Accessibility away from things like closed captioning, colorblindness support, alt-text for screen-readers, etc, to "Games should be easier to play, books should be easier to read, and shows should be simple to understand"

The biggest story of our time that we're not talking about nearly enough www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...

This is exactly it. The work is the point.

hey man we used AI in the production process of this game but don't worry none of it made it in the game, it was a huge waste of time and money, and we could've just looked at stock photos at the end of the day. You have to accept the future.

the thing about data centers is that you know Ewoks would hate them, and Ewoks have never been wrong, so

People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.

The camera overhead section my fight scene was made after I saw "The Worlds Divide" by @djaxx.bsky.social Its a great shot and fight. And I can't wait for the general public to see it. Feels weird to have used a movie that isnt actually out yet for inspiration. My Animation: youtu.be/PNs3chvtEqo

Andy Merrill (Brak) is an Amazon delivery driver. Carey Means (Frylock) got CHF from/exacerbated by COVID & was recently working as a restaurant dishwasher. C. Martin Croker (Zorak) died of sepsis from an infected tooth he couldn't afford to get treated. Capitalism destroys both art & artist.

Saw this on FB. If you’ve ever enjoyed Aqua Teen, please help if you can. Someone who’s such an integral part of one of Adult Swim’s most beloved shows deserves much better than this.

Gutierrez already walking back his apology is a shit feeling for me because his previous public stance was a huge motivator for me finishing this even while being harassed by a Genai shill stealing my WIPS. But the responses from others in the #animation industry have been heartening. Thanks

‘Amphibia’ creator Matt Braly speaks out against the use of AI in animation: “If you need to partner with AI to get a greenlight on your project, it ain’t worth it.”

I think we’re long past the “ai bad because of stealing” argument and fully in the “ai is also actively and tangibly destroying our planet why are you even trying to use it as an art tool at this point” stage

The animation chat has me thinking one telling thing - in the years since AI arrived, there's not been a ground-up indie phenomenon, like we saw with earlier tech (Flash, etc). It hasn't unlocked anyone's creativity. For all the anti-gatekeeping rhetroic, nothing anyone cares about has been born.

said this before but it's fascinating how literally no demographic is immune to turning into The Mad Fan. For years it was common knowledge that only maladjusted weirdos would ever throw a fit on social media over a show and now soccer moms are posting themselves with guns over stranger things

If you liked Red vs Blue back in the day, you may like CRASH. New episode out now! I'm on the show's 3D animation team, which is kinda funny because I worked on RvB Season 12 too. It's a bit more serious and falls more into Halo lore than RvB. www.youtube.com/watch?v=201D...

old kainier silly little comic #nier

Teaching kids AI literacy - what it is, how it actually works, what the tradeoffs are in using it - would be a good thing. But that's not what's being proposed, they're trying to get it into grade schools to create AI dependency

im crying why does he get a girlfriend install

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

Presenting the next expansion coming to FINAL FANTASY XIV: Evercold!

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.