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DONE! ❌ No more bound with that site. I have the backlog of #ClipStudioPaint tips downloaded - I'll repost here on bluesky from time to time // Tried to find an automatic solution but manually is the play. It's just an extra work that had to wait since these last couple of months where busy(er).

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It is indeed an amazing set... I know everybody has Tim Burton fatique... most of all Tim Burton. But there is reasons why he became so big...

more Oscar season goodies....

Aha, yeah, uhm, still looks kinda cheap, though. It has "we have 3D models, let's slap a basic ass cell-shading on it and pretend, it's animation"-energy.

As a special thank you for this year, my wife and I made you a video game. We made it inside of bloxels, the education environment, we use for game making workshop with kids. 100% custom graphics, gets quite intense, 10+ min playtime. Use a controller. Have fun. play.bloxels.com/arcade/14585...

The scale of the issue is not the problem... it is a problem on principle and look what it got them: A placeholder asset, that is dangerously easy to miss and that makes empty promises of a later illustration complexity, that was not actually delivered. And for what? Guys, like, fucking don't!

Crunch Sexual Harassment Abuse Copyright Infringement Gambling Toxic Gamers Anti-Woke Grifters Discrimination Military Contracts Saudi Money Data Collecting Pdf-File Streamers Union Busting Layoffs AI ...working in video games, man.

With Critical Reflex being such a major player in the indie space, these accusations of covered up sexual harassment and unfair labour practices are all deeply disappointing and distressing. I hope this all gets tackled quickly and decisively. noisypixel.net/critical-ref...

Fucking right! (Also Sorry We're Closed fuck excellent game to win instead.)

Say it with me now- placeholder assets are supposed to be bright and obvious so you DON’T ship with them. Also it doesn’t matter if no ai-generated assets are in the final executable?? The rising sea levels aren’t gonna be like “oh well no one saw that so the climate change doesn’t count”

It’s absolutely disgraceful but it’s also been a very useful tool to assess who is worth listening to in my academic circles—the ones who are uncritical about gAI have lost me entirely. I distrust your judgement, your research skills, everything.

"concept artists can experiment with AI to make their lives easi-" wrong I smack you with Claire Hummel's immaculate and detailed understanding of costume design, which she got by studying historical references, which made her strong, which you will not become by relying on AI get good

Good luck, Larian.

Unexpected, but I can get behind Arcane licensing for boxing gear marketed to young women. Still... can we get more affordable toys and collectibles plz?

Oh, it's just incredible and effortless how Kristen Stewart dismantles and diagnoses the pathology and ego of Brando (and... well, all the dudes in Hollywood) here. www.youtube.com/shorts/_h-iK... There's just so many parallels to tech in this. And I'm so glad she's solid in herself to just SAY it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybj1... PMG at it again. Important watch for everyone in the games industry.

100%! The key to great concept/fantasy/sci-fi art is not to paint stuff that just looks cool. It is to paint stuff that is interesting to know (incl fiction). For audiences and for the artist it is about discovery. If you start with a prompt you only get results based on ideas you already have.

Brioche the Doughmancer 🫓

"competitive" in this "tech driven industry", staying "state of the art". Swen Vincke exposing himself as a tech bro, who considers art to be in service of tech, not tech in service of art. I wonder how game award speech Vincke from 2024 would feel about this. /1

Like man, my career only exists in the way that it does now because a production designer was googling "realistic pokemon" and found me. If he could have just had a machine spit that out, I never would have gotten a job. This is a major issue hitting artist discoverability.

'I think at this point everyone at the company is more or less OK with the way we’re using it (AI)' is an amazingly rich sentence. aftermath.site/larian-ceo-a...

Thinking about harada leaving Tekken. Was reminded of this absolute banger of a tweet. Harada was not just a Tekken guy... he was a fighting games guy and always pushed the community forward and was excited about what other studios did. Gonna miss him.

Re-sharing this story today and every day this week cause I can't thank the people who spoke to me enough and you should read it for their sakes at least, also can't believe I forgot to tag @videogameworkers.bsky.social and @cwaunion.bsky.social the first time wccftech.com/cwa-canada-t...

Common id software W. Seriously though, especially in such bleak times like these, it's great to see even more parts of the gaming industry successfully unionize. I wish the best for id's new union! ✊️

Props to Mick Foley

In a short German language news video on youtube about the Bondi shooting, the auto-generated English voice over "decided" to literally giggle and chuckle while decribing the Bondi shooting events. Other AI voices where sniffing and changing voice mid speaker. Fuck. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj8q...

thank you to everyone who helped raise $41,616.34 for Medical Aid For Palestinians <3

Okay yeah, This feels like a mix of AI Slop, Trace Photo Ref, and Actual (mostly rushed) Art, all made to hide the duct tape and glue. Im kinda mad I backed the Kickstarter, checking that now they REALLLLLLY hid this. AWA Studios really pocketed 100K in Kickstarter Money and ran with this.

Gnnnn, this happened immediately after picking up the shotgun without any chance of testing it myself at all. Fucking backseating voice lines, cowardly game design fuckery, I'm so fucking done with it.

You are either all in (see what i did there?) or all out at this point. But you are no longer wondering.

Canary Islands animation studios 3Doubles and Double Duck are jointly launching Fantasías Animadas, a two-day industry-student crossover initiative this weekend to celebrate the craft of animation at a time when automation is becoming commonplace. www.cartoonbrew.com/events/3doub...

Some late night character designing from yesterday. There are some small things I would like to tweak, but that will happen in the overpaint phase of the group. For now, I'm moving to the next character.

Finally got my insta going. If this is a place you enjoy/prefer to engage with art, you can find me here. Come around and say hi. www.instagram.com/anjinanhutart/

I can hear the second panel with the horses, jeez.

This makes me emotional a bit. Wow.

A bit of overpaint glow up for a robin concept from a while ago...

Yes to this!

Absolute icon. Save travels, Cary. Our souls are yours.

Looks amazing. Sega Bass Fishing in Twin Peaks.... I'm so fucking in love with the PS1/2 era low poly style that has blown up the last 2 years.

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

Some stuff from last year: Visual development art for Studio Fizbin. With apologies to Katsuhiro Otomo. #visualdevelopment #visdev #akira

Okay, I think I can lock that one in. Optimnized toolsets and layer setup. Ready!

Contemplating the rendering style of the current character design project.

Legit GOAT vid.

The ORCA mech carrier 3D print files are available now in the shop at www.teccotoys.com