ipad is either dead (whoops lost 3-5 years of casual art) or going into retirement. And I'm gonna be out like $3k for a new one. Anyone want to commission a really nice whole minute of animation?

🍉 THE DIS-LOYALTY ZINE 🍉: Punch a hole through these "killer" brands every time you boycott them. Complete the set to reveal a poem and hidden image. ✊🏻 Created with @chadtoprak.bsky.social for @avantbeetle.bsky.social's Protest Game Jam. 📄 Wanna print your own? heyitshelen.itch.io/the-dis-loya...

If @humblebundle.com keeps platforming AI bundles I'm going to halt my subscription.

My city is having a free public transport day to help with fuel use/costs and wow it's weirdly super nice to not feel so aggressively policed? Doesn't matter if I pay my fare or not, I guess there's some sort of persecution complex overhead I'm free of today?

did you ever wonder WHY western writers write samurai stories about "honor" but Japanese writers never seem to? I was curious, so I decided to find out. It got weird.

Sound off- who's around? I'm struggling with motivation to 'post' or 'make content'- which sucks because it means I draw and noone sees it. Who's still seeing this?

People are following me around/after games week- I sort of avoid the whole thing these days (no 'stance' - just sort of avoiding enclosed gatherings) - did my name come up?

If you are in support of the 'March For Australia' today against immigration, run by neo-nazis, block me and lose my details, thanks!

On iiNet or TPG in Australia? Might want to change your modem password, especially if it's still on the default. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Carving little chess pieces. Trying to develop a process so I can knock out a whole set.

(If my account suddenly follows a couple thousand people and starts DM'ing you about wanting help, I will have been hacked)

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

That Sexy bear has just 12 DAYS LEFT on Kickstarter, and it's nowhere near close to funding! It would be a shame if this strange and wonderful book never got to see the light of day. Maybe take a look and see if you could give it a little support? www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

Not really stumbling into the kind of games accessibility resources I'm looking for, organically- I'm starting a research journey, but I'd love to crowdsource links to accessibility advocates/info etc. looking at games developed specifically for access, headswitch games etc, not adaptations for AAA?

I'm looking for full-time work in Melbourne 🇦🇺 (fast remote start possible). I provide - 2D game art: stylised concepts, visual development, illustrations, motion graphics, icons & painterly UI - Art direction, art management Happy to do tests or freelance work. 💕 ruthbosch.com [email protected]

if ur reading this, stop and take a moment to breathe and as u breathe think bout me and how u want to support me and how u want to be my friend and also buy my art

"I need to take more time outta my week to do studies." -Rex, every time he finally does some studies (Thanks for the ref, @trueref.bsky.social )

Soft-launching my Ko-fi with a shiny new membership Discord! ✨🖤 ko-fi.com/ruthbosch

Weird seeing everyone's 2024 photo retrospectives. Maybe 3 photos of me exist from this last year, and I'm not in charge of them or it would be zero. I don't think we ever interrogated phone photo culture? One day in highschool everyone went unrecorded and the next day- kapow. (have some art)

Moni is good people and the machinery around this stuff is a mess in their part of the world. I'd swing harder at this if I had steadier work, so instead I'm asking y'all to swing a couple bucks at it if you can.

DnD DM's and other roleplay organisers- I guess I'm opening PWYW commissions? I'm looking for more steady work (admin/software etc) and this is ideally to help fill the hours until that's sorted. Items, characters, locations! Drop me a DM or a dee skeet or whatever we call it here.

A lot of new followers I don't recognise from my time In The Bad Place- Hi! I'm Rex. I make art/animation/pixels, but I also program weird gadgets, gamedev and I've worked as a uni lecturer teaching programming and animation. Say hi! What're you all about?

Hey remember drawing for fun?

oh all right one more for good luck (has sound)

I feel like I haven't actually spoken into twitter in so long I have no idea what good interactions look like on a social feed site. What can you do for me today, bsky? (I offer a token cheery pixelart animation in exchange)

Finally cutting ties with the other site, might be here a bit more? Also my tiktok is at www.tiktok.com/@rexhausted

I'm animating weird plants again, but I can't show a WIP here because still no video?

This is tricky to word without spoilers but it feels like one of those plot holes noone talks about? So in The Prestige... Could Hugh Jackman just do the thing once without a gun, and then afterwards do it the same way as Christian Bale? Wouldn't that be more obvious than the existing plot?

Been seeing hideous little non-apologies from ex-nft artists complaining about how their comment sections are still full of 'didn't they do nft's? ew!' Everyone knew what they were and why they were bad. You traded your rep with artists to get in with crypto turds, it's not something you get to fix.

In the unethical image-scraping universe we live in, I feel bad that I can't reference specific models-but my lifedrawing reference folder is a bad jumble from a dozen different sources- pinterest etc. Would work directly with models for an exhibition etc. but for studies it's maybe overkill?

Tomorrow at 12pm PST. Really nervous to do a Kickstarter, but I hope those who missed out last time will be here for this! www.kickstarter.com/projects/alu...

Don't support Croquis Cafe, folks. On top of this BS, they are Trump supporters. There are plenty other anatomical resources out there you could try out.

hey rex maybe next time draw something from the last 40 years if you want people to like your work

The Games for Gaza bundle is now live! It's 256 games (48 video games, 197 tabletop games, and more) from 140 different creators! All proceeds are going to the organization Medical Aid For Palestinians. My microgame of rebellion against empire, A Sunless Space, is included! itch.io/b/2120/games...

nfi what this is worth, if anything. But it's somehow worse not to say anything at all.

Did you hear that the Russian government is sending a representative to this party? Apparently their leader has a real grudge against our guests from Quebec after they made fun of his flatulence. They said not to let "that putain Putin poot in the poutine."

Does alt-text make sense for visual artists? Genuine question. I'm pro-accessibility but it feels like adding 'Beautiful hot elf dressed in purple playing a lüte' - to an image is somewhere between near-irrelevant for vision-impaired folks and making life much easier for AI scrapers.

well this feels like it's gonna set us back a full decade or three ouughff

Just like the last referendum, whatever the numbers are gonna be today I'm still going to feel like I'm living on a racist garbage fire. It could be 98% yes in victoria and I'll be like "oh like three racist white slugs on this train voted no" every stupid day.

Kinda wild how quiet migw crew are being about covid. I mean, if you were doing pax hard, waiting in lines for things, no mask- probably assume you got it, right? Obviously not slinging shame but maybe don't visit grandma for the next week or so...?

4 year old train-doodles prototype for a gameboy palette vampire/hunter/human dating sim idea. Dunno, worth noodling together over a weekend? Would you play it?

told myself 'this year you'll thin out the seedlings to avoid having 50 chilli plants to look after' but uh I might already be too in love with these little guys

Hello Bluesky! The game I art directed, Wayward Strand, is having a HUGE first birthday sale. If you’ve seen the game around and have been curious now is a great time to grab it at a super deep discount - 40% across all platforms. Shares very appreciated :) store.steampowered.com/app/1080450/...

I made this: www.tiktok.com/@rexhausted/... -across 3-4 software packages. CSP for background. RoughAnimator for animation. Da Vinci for compositing shadow etc. Handbrake because I suck at video compression. Procreate Dreams handling everything in one hit would smooth that pipeline to zero.

You may remember me from such hits as <iPad Lifedrawing> <Random Animations> <Unfinished Game Prototypes> and who could forget <Orphan Pixelart Assets>

Hey folks, I guess I'm here now?