This hits way too close to home

Amazing art!! You have such a gorgeous style! Happy Balloon Day!

Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

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Okay, wow, this looks amazing?? OBSESSED with the visual style and animation!

If anyone brings up anything remotely related to either Firefly or Mindhunters it will trigger a full-throated rant lasting far longer and louder than anyone deserves Two completely different shows cancelled in their prime with the kind of wasted potential that leaves an aching in my heart

SEPTEMBER 1ST ITS HALLOWEEN

Will never forget this scene from Ned’s Declassified School Survival Guide

Or you look at something like Fury Road: heavy on practical effects and stunts, mostly all planned out in advance with intensive storyboarding, and looks just as good or better than many bloated “everything green-screened and edited 100 times” blockbusters

More broadly, VFX bloat is at least 90% a result of poor planning, poor management , and execs/leads generallu treating artists and studios like a black box they email to receive infinite executions, revisions and costly minor variations around the clock and on demand

What really gets me besides the obvious rich ass trying to not pay skilled talent is YOU. MADE. YOUR. MOVIES. FUCKING. VFX HEAVY, MY GUY. YOU DID THIS. THIS WAS YOU FROM THE BEGINNING. YOU MADE YOUR OWN PROJECT EXPENSIVE. YOU GREEDY BITCH. NEXT TIME MAKE A MOVIE IN YOUR BACKYARD.

Worth reading the entire thread. I wasn't aware of the complete fallout of the Tumblr!NSFW ban, but even as someone who doesn't post NSFW art it smelled like bullshit a mile away. Let people post their creations. If it's not harming anybody but uojndknt like what you see, click away. It's that easy.

gAI art is bad because it's stealing labor. stealing labor from art is easy because no one sees art as labor, they see it as talent. they see it as talent because it's easier to believe they have a right to hate you because they can't stand they gave up and you didn't. fuck them, pay labor.

I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic

RETRO SURVIVAL HORROR. LIVE ACTION CUTSCENES.

Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.

Now it's hot garbage thanks to Eclipse & AI

Unfriendly reminder:

I dont "NETWORK", I do not "keep a consistent schedule", I don't try to make my art "stand out" on people's feeds. I POST MY ART. And if it flops, I DON'T CARE.

I saw someone posting that AI haters are as annoying as AI pushers, a perfect 2025 ass opinion. Powerful people/corporations shoving AI into every product and service regardless of harm or utility in an endless race for profit are the same amount of bad as people saying 'can we not?'

An eloquent image: Setting aside the content under the tarp for a moment, teens were asked to make art expressing what it is like to be a teen, and the end result was a mural wrapped in a tarp by adults. I bet a lot of teens would find this expressive of their experience.

the thing about moral panics is they aren't about moral panics. it's about community control and rampant bigotry. censorship is a tool of fascists, those who purity police are fascists, and if your disgust agrees with their mission more than the right for fiction to gross you out, you are a fascist

"artists should charge more!" then pay them. Do comission them. tip them what u think they're worth. Artists wont believe they are worth money until u give it to them. They know what it's like to not have much, & hope everyone can afford their art. SHOW them they CAN ask more. Don't just Tell them.

Can I just say how fucking ridiculous it is that queer and nsfw art is more heavily regulated than the fucking plagiarism machine destroying our planet that is genAI

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time for my new favorite tumblr post

if you are a concept artist currently using Vizcom and believing that it's "just a tool", all you are doing is making absolutely certain you will shortly cease to be a concept artist

A fun redraw challenge

embarrassing myself

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The audacity of using AI on an adaptation of an Alberto Breccia comic... a guy who went to any lengths to pursue new ways of analog texturing his work. He made comics of nothing but cut up construction paper, he embroidered landscapes in his panels, and inked with fucking razor blades

My two pennies about AI and “artist RPers get more engagement” is that resources like HeroForge exist. I haven’t made learning to draw a priority, but I -can- model my OCs with HF and spruce it up in a photo editor, and it’s a great visualizer Y’all just lazy

every day i feel like this picture

every time someone says “I asked ChatGPT” I hear “I asked the hallucinating machine of confident lies” and idk it just doesn’t engender a sense of trust you know

I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again: an extremely small sliver of artists are truly wealthy and they for the most part are not posting on social media

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I dont know who needs to hear this but your full body commissions are worth more than $20

The fact that the environmental impact of AI alone isn’t enough of a deterrent for people will always be baffling to me. It’s bad enough to that you’re trying or moralize using the theft machine for your little tasks, but the soapbox you’re arguing from is already in hell I’m afraid.

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So my girlfriend is an amazing stop motion animator, and she recently did a medieval cat themed bumper for Adult Swim! Sharing it here because she only has Instagram and I think everyone needs to see her animations. She's so freaking talented, y'alls. PLEASE go follow her!

i think the biggest public relations coup AI boosters scored was calling it “AI.” people genuinely think it is an intelligence, and that when they query it, it is providing reasoned answers

My best friend is an art teacher, and she was telling me today about the training she had to attend today, called "Artificial Intelligence: It Isn't Going Away". And of course, if you know my opinions on this matter, you also know hers-- we are very aligned here. But she was saying to me that...

(Can you believe the sheer amount of creativity and drive dripping out of this asshole?? How DARE he!!) My boyfiend is hard at work making a game! Everything from model to rig to animation to story to code all comes from his own big, wet brain tHe tALeNtED BAsTaRD! 💙 Check out this cinematic! 😱

After watching this video I’m sitting here thinking about AI, theft, sampling, compensation, and where we draw those lines. “…and Gregory Coleman died homeless without knowing his impact on the music world.” Thanks to @bengalart.bsky.social for the link. youtu.be/9zmEDzsMkqE?...

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Good time to reshare my thoughts on AI.

2023 I felt like coming full circle, from playing Neopets for the first time in 2003 - kickstarting my dream of a career in art - to officially illustrating for the #Neopets TCG. I’m so excited for this New Era of Neopets and I'm honoured to play a small part in it! www.neopets.com/art/gallery....

Uh-oh, looks like this Burlap pet’s come a little unravelled! Burlap pets are kinda nightmare fuel to me, but for some reason seem very popular with others. I guess there IS a kind of macabre appeal to them ... so here’s my homage to the colour! #Neopets #Wocky www.neopets.com/art/gallery....