What gets me about executives at movie/videogame studios being taken aback at consumer backlash to AI is that they seem genuinely surprised that we like the human beings that make the things that we like

This is like paying the guys that robbed your house to also burn it down.

We’re deeply honored that HADES II is in the running for Game of the Year and more at #TheGameAwards tonight, especially since we’re in the company of such an amazing group of wildly different and beautiful games. Congratulations to all our fellow nominees — we salute you!! 🙏👏

Disney will allow its characters to be used in Sora AI video generator and will make a $1 billion investment in OpenAI...... thewaltdisneycompany.com/disney-opena...

Quote reblog with your starry art ✨

What were your first four commander decks? (I did just get precons back in 2018 tbh)

"Birth of the Homunculus" A sorceress astounded by her creation. This painting has been floating around in my head for months now, and I only found the right time to bring it to fruition yesterday! (see thread for details + process shot-by-shot)

My head nearly fell off. The actual Minister for Health said this? m.independent.ie/irish-news/t...

The Complex, one of the last large arts and cultural spaces in Dublin City Centre are getting evicted on Jan 14th. I cannot emphasize enough how much of a blow this will be to the arts community in Ireland. Please sign the petition if you can, it takes only a minute! my.uplift.ie/petitions/sa...

youtu.be/TaFLB06ifFY Check out this short film I made that was featured in the Dublin Animation Meetup's Annual Film Festival, DAMNATION. Made in under 10 days using After Effects and Clip Studio Paint, please give it a watch!

youtu.be/TaFLB06ifFY Check out this short film I made that was featured in the Dublin Animation Meetup's Annual Film Festival, DAMNATION. Made in under 10 days using After Effects and Clip Studio Paint, please give it a watch!

last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

I needed a project to keep myself busy recently so I scratch-built an Armstrong from Final Fantasy IX 🏠🐟

I've seen multiple talented artists this week who have almost no followers. So this is me once again tapping the sign, if you see art you like, check out their page, if you like the rest of what you see, hit that follow button. Your timeline will be better, they'll be happier, everyone wins

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA. Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

heracross doodles

witch helmet

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

More of these two. (Including a halloween profile pic)

Forced myself to draw something last weekend. 👀 Another color study, trying to work in limited palettes.

Hitting the #MTGartmarket auction block: Mutable Explorer by @waynereynoldsart.bsky.social Auction info: mtgart.auction/mutable

Working on a new cover painting for a science fiction novel and playing with the themes of geometric abstraction which helped build this piece for an anthology, Down These Dark Spaceways. Psychohistorical Crisis II 30" x 18" Oil on Panel 2005 collection of Edie Stern and Joe Siclari

Kenny Who? Writers John Wagner & Alan Grant and artist Cam Kennedy saw the potential dangers of AI art back in the mid-80s. Dredd stories were always prescient but this one hits hard today. See also America. 2000AD PROG 477. Published 5th July, 1986.

Whenever sites come up with new rules like this I thing about how if you were a creator who was making something every bit on the level with a hugely popular and acclaimed series, would you be allowed to share it? Like, if you were sitting on the next Game of Thrones, you couldn’t share that here.

Out TODAY! For less than a pack of Magic cards, and available digitally! If you want Magic media outside of web fiction, this is your chance to show them. If you're a lore fan: buy it, don't just read a summary from someone who did.

"When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We hand over our autonomy, at the very moment of emerging American fascism."

My newest AP painting :)

King of the Coldblood Curse MTG: Through the Omenpaths AD: Emily Mazza Since people have been asking which planes these are on, this dude is on Eldraine :)

Found some more screenshots from my old #indiegame prototype 🔧 Would love to make a Dark Fantasy game some day 🤓

Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio had a budget of $35 million and every single character was moved one frame at a time by a human being. What the fuck are we even doing!!!!!!!

Tragic Trajectory. Digital painting. I laid this out with a symmetrical composition that has an alignment going through the eye, and hid a little moon and sun in the astronaut’s suit for no reason at all.AD: Taylor Ingvarsson. #space #blackhole #magicthegathering #wotcstaff #stars #edgeofeternities

A bunch of nasty foes you might encounter along your way :

There was a time when there was a “ruins boom” in Japan. Bookstores were filled with related photo collections, and I remember buying some myself. Ruins somehow evoke scenes from the past, and I find their decaying appearance appealing. #Illustration #LineArt #CommentPls

Had a lot of fun this year! I tried my best to do a sort of different style with each attack. #sharemyattack2025

Sometimes a mandragora root just has bad vibes. New public post up on Patreon. www.patreon.com/posts/mandra...

The views on the Ring of Kerry are always magical 😁

Picked this deck box up from @ultimateguard.bsky.social and I was so excited until I flipped it over. Looks like my art was extended with ai. @magic.wizards.com needs to make sure their partners don’t do this. I would have happily extended this for a couple hundred $$. Instead it looks awful!

genAI has sucked the oxygen out of every room for two years now and its value proposition as pitched is that they're basically magic and will replace all human thought. We shouldn't say "it's sometimes useful" for the same reason we weren't saying "it sometimes drives straight" about the Cybertruck.

Some people just seem to want to eliminate all potential sources of discomfort, no matter how small or innocuous, from their lives. Fiction allows you to model experiencing big emotions in a safe controlled setting, and I just don't think any good comes of avoiding that to this degree

At least the Irish news media will actually report on the significance of numbers attending London Trans+ Pride today. Apart from the Guardian, NO OTHER MAINSTREAM NEWSPAPER has reported on the 100,000 people who marched in London IN SUPPORT of trans people today! 😖 #NewsBias #Propaganda

Please do support your local bookshops. They are esential for independent publishers and have been the patron saints of my writing career through their word-of-mouth support.

BANANZA!!!!

Each bird in turn makes an excuse for not setting out, until at last they are all ready to get started. The hoopoe (hudhud or tajidar) is here the spiritual guide leading the birds through perilous valleys to Mount Qāf and the mythical Simorgh.

Really enjoyed this close read of the extraordinary EOE story

Lotus Field MTG: Edge of Eternities AD: Sarah Wassell

Visa and Mastercard have killed more art than every studio combined and most people don't even know about it

Beyond the Quiet - watercolour and acryla gouache on Arches 300lb rough paper Painted for Magic: The Gathering's "Edge of Eternities"