does anyone know if there's something (a plugin, a setting, etc.) for Substance Designer that's similar to the Electronic Nodes plugin for Unreal Engine? I really enjoy the look & feel of the angled, subway-map-style wire connections Electronic Nodes enables for UE...

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picked up TR-49 tonight and it has thoroughly captivated me at every turn so far… if you’re reading this you should pick it up too!

TR-49: OUT NOW Narrative deduction / audio drama "Outstanding" - PC Gamer "Politically fierce" - Polygon "One of the best" - Thinky Games "I wanted to know everything" - RPS "Impressive - very impressive indeed" - Eurogamer $6.99 / ~6 hours Steam: tinyurl.com/2jvt9ewk iOS: tinyurl.com/4ucwx4s7

If you're a composer that utilizes Musiversal it might be time to drop them. They have a clause in their terms of service that grants them the rights to train machine learning models off your recordings, and by extension the music you wrote. musiversal.com/terms-of-use Check out clause 1.7

When the bubble bursts expect a lot of “you refused to adopt it” talk

I believe you

If you’re asking for places to donate or aids to support in Minnesota, this website is a really good compilation of mutual aids, rent aid, food/supply donation and more! 👇

Idk who this helps, but if you, like me, have been using Notion as a work/life database for the past 5 years and are also tired of companies forcing AI onto all of their products, I recently found out you can email Notion support and ask them to manually disable the AI features in your account

it goes without saying, but the fact that the simple act of MONITORING AND OBSERVING ICE's actions in public is being treated as a criminal act, is extremely telling

On nice days during this deep winter time, the vultures get short jaunts outside to enjoy the sun and snow. Yolo the king vulture has a lot of fun exploring this bizarre winter world, then enjoys foot and face warming as soon as he returns inside. #lovevultures

Can be an angel?

Detail I'll be posting the work process on Instagram soon!

Keep hearing devs say that they only use ai for "pre-concept art" There is no pre-concept art. There is concept art. That's where the idea starts. With the concept. You're using ai for concept art.

Brandt’s cormorant paint pen doodle

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

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Full bloom.

Changing of seasons.

It’s dangerous out there! Take this! #happynewyear #lemonpig

FAVORITES OF 2025 Game: Deltarune ch 3+4 Comic: Barbarous, Tiger Tiger Book: Stag Dance Music: Cosmic Selector Vol.1 TV: Common Side Effects, Severance, Pluribus Movie: Brokeback Mountain (saw it for the first time this year during the re-release, did not expect to love it as much as I did!)

please look at this spider called a "Queensland Ultraflat" (pic by Marten Stevens)

Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt

Pygmy seahorse Hippocampus bargibanti #art #illustration #sciart #fish #seahorse

Dappled light ✨🍃

Besides that, the act of writing a design document forces a designer to deeply inspect their design. In this process you find all kinds of little things that could be problems later and you either remember them or note them down or fix them in the process. You are engaged in the act of creation.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

They are sisters

Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.

our tiny art team worked so hard to bring the hand-drawn style of this game to life!! I'm very proud to have been a part of crafting the beautiful things in this trailer.🌿

Alexander Volokov (Russian-American, b.1960) "An Evening Conversation," Giclee on canvas 34 x 24 in #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Creative solidarity means: If you're a writer, do not use AI "art" or AI "voiceover" If you're an artist, do not use AI "writing" or AI "references" If you're a streamer/actor, do not use AI for backdrops, thumbnails, etc. Never help AI steal another medium No excuses, no shortcuts, no surrender.

The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out. This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.

The only acceptable amount of genAI usage is zero, IMO.

The Palia beta literally had unreal mannequins as NPC placeholders! This is good for development! You do not want overly rendered placeholders, it completely hurts the foundation evaluation of your game. Grayboxing is simple and ugly ON PURPOSE

Trying out colored pencils over the past couple days, jumping between sketchbooks to see how different paper feels.

yeah the sick ideas are coming from algorithms designed to produce the statistically most likely next token for sure for sure

You can tell how cool and good AI is because every time someone announces they're using it they have to immediately rush to disclaim that actually they're only using it a LITTLE bit, just the tiniest bit, not even THAT much really. The future of art is here, and it's measured in acceptable ppm

The act of gathering reference is such a deeper thing than just a fucking collage. It's research, learning, assessing and building on your knowledge base. Even google image search is dog shit for this, crack a fucking book. Learning names, history, influences.

It's all bad of course, but it is the most c-suite brained thing to think of it as "just" concept art because it doesn't appear in the final product. Concept art is the creative bedrock of your entire project. If you're comfortable using it there, the entire thing is rotten.

Stranded Time Travelers

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

I wish more game journalists would ask the Clair Obscur team how much AI they used and on what, because I definitely get the feeling it wasn’t just that one placeholder asset..

our tiny art team worked so hard to bring the hand-drawn style of this game to life!! I'm very proud to have been a part of crafting the beautiful things in this trailer.🌿

showing a trailer at the Game Awards costs anywhere from $450,000 to a cool $1 million.. here's my old-ass Tiny Tires trailer for free ❤️ #indiegames