Adulthood is just cycling between "If I don't say yes to every opportunity, no new opportunities will ever be offered to me" and "Oh no, I have said yes to too many things" over and over until you die.

Congrats to Zhen Xu for her awesome paper on CAM photosynthesis at the End Permian extinction - published today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Daydreaming

Practice for an upcoming workshop

Devastated to hear the entire Marvel Studios’s Visual Development team has been let go. This was my old home but more importantly, the home of so many incredible artists and peers. Absolutely heartbreaking 😔 Sending all my impacted peers my love and support. Please reach out if you need anything!

Can’t believe the news, Disney shutting down the marvel. vis dev department. This teams art made them billions and billions of dollars, but it seems that paying a handful or so of fulltime illustrators is simply too much to ask these days.

Here’s just ONE of the artists Marvel Studios let go today: Wesley Burt, a brilliant veteran, one of the best in the industry. He made the viral Fantastic Four Valentine’s day card! He was also pivotal for the look of many films and shows like for example Loki, Black Panther, Avengers and so on!

the irony of having a one-on-one HR layoff meeting in the conference room with my Loki mural on it

www.patreon.com/posts/153901... I’m exploring yokai again

Next week there will be another existential boogeyman designed to discourage you from pursuing art. There will always be a mosquito in your ear trying to convince you your creativity has no value. Let this Sora situation be a lesson. Stop getting pushed around by scammers. Make art

dont mind me im just taking a lil victory lap as an og hater

fun reminder: the reason why they make these fucking pointless "live action" remakes is because since it's "live action", the animation is considered "vfx" and not character animation, so they can pay these non-unionized satellite studios fuck-all and make a cool few million for essentially nothing

Because, my erstwhile peer, your audience gets to choose whatever buying criteria they like and it's your job to either find a way to appeal beyond that or conform. You don't have to agree. Either sell what people want to buy or go broke trying to force them to buy what you're selling. 🤷🏿‍♂️

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

As someone who went on the Internet for the first time in the early 90’s, I fucking loved the Internet. It has given so many things in life, and afforded me so many incredible experiences. And to see it, and technology in general where they are today is kinda soul crushing.

No joke, I think this might be one of the most important roles for tech-savvy Millennials/Gen Xers. We caught a glimpse of an amazing world, one that was almost entirely free of corporate or political influence because the suits hadn’t caught on yet. We could talk with ANYONE in an age of landlines

King Charles has issued a statement following his brother Andrew’s arrest

📯That's it! BALADINS is OUT on SWITCH, PS4 & 5📯 🧙 a narrative RPG, with quirky creatures and characters 👯‍♂️ multiplayer fun, 1 to 4 in co-op, local & online 🐲 confront the dragon that stuck you in a time loop Join the adventure!

A monumental release, you can now get Kala Mandala in most of the world! Step into a fantastical world of meddling busybodies and shoes-optional adventure!

"the left isn't excited about technology" How many 3D printed whistles have been sent out to ICE watchers

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

Grand moment de dignité journalistique. C’est un journaliste suisse, malheureusement, ce n’est pas en France qu’on verrait ça.

They want you to see this and unionize less. You may be next, etc etc, the fear. But the lesson must be: Unionize MORE. One team, one department, one studio protected? Shut down. *Every* studio protected? They can't shut them all down (without trashing the shareholder value, their only KPI).

Been messing around with acrylics during the holidays

I also want to say thank you to the person who introduced me to the French word 'beaucoup' this year. It means a lot.

My professional artists peers! We got a survey request! Researchers at the University of Carnegie Mellon is doing a research to see how generative Al has (or has not) impacted your work and/or sentiments in the industry. Folks in creative fields only, please consider filling this out 👇

Fantasy illustrator working on games and books. Portfolio: www.artstation.com/julienfenoglio Open to freelance inquiries!

once again screaming at people about her public document full of historical clothing references and resources (which had it's most recent update on the 12th of january last year!) heystacks.com/doc/1247/cla...

My Discord account has been hacked. I’ve been able to reach Discord support but, for the moment I am locked out of my account. Until further notice, do not interact and especially DO NOT DOWNLOAD anything (it’ll be malware) it sends you. I’ll keep you posted.

Wtf there's an actual Black Sun flag waving on a balcony in Via San Donato, Turin

Who else here was at View Conference?

What a feature for #portfolioday ! This semester was a mazing, fantastic teachers and fantastypeers, I'm really proud of the work I've done :3 www.smarterartschool.com/julien-fenog...

We’re gonna leave the games industry better than we found it 😤 Introducing DNA CODEX: The GameDev Library 🧬 📚 ongoing, always growing, digital archive for all 💸 COMMUNITY-FUNDED and freely accessible 🫡 curated + maintained by DnA Creative (us!) dnacreative.notion.site/codex

Need a break from playing Switch 2 (or watching videos about it)? Check out this week's podcast with En Garde's @julfen.bsky.social!! 🎨 open.spotify.com/episode/5dy8...

Anyone participating in Art Fight this summer?

See you in Bologna for the Play Festival! I'll be DMing a few modules I helped co-create.

See you in Bologna for the Play Festival! I'll be DMing a few modules I helped co-create.

the best joke in videogames development is replying "ship it" to every broken ass prototype no I will not be taking questions

You know you're in deep when typing Y in the search bar does not give you youtube but yog-soggoth

Got carried away doing some root studies

Also, I've seen news of Firefox becoming unreliable (i.e. selling data etc) doing the rounds. Any advice on alternative browsers? (Brave, the wolf one, "waterfox"?)

One thing that gave me a nudge to get back here is this nifty extention: www.sky-follower-bridge.dev

How does one start actually posting here? What if I gave microblogging a chance? What's the point of it all? Will this be a sh!tposting account? Will this help me land jobs, grow a community of fans, keep in touch with peers & friends? guess I'll find out

I've been digging through old drawings at home and some teenage ideas are ripe for a remake XD

A new start :)

finding old mutuals on Bluesky has some real "pacing the deck of the Carpathia desperately trying to figure out which of your loved ones survived the sinking of the Titanic" vibes