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.

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

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???

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...