Some heartbreaking animation news today from people who have been some of my animation heroes. It’s up to us to hold the line and build a better future for animation.

Top 10 Anime Betrayals

GenAI crowd incapable of a single original thought once again

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com

Just saw that while it has ai assisted search as well, you can fully turn off any AI features and even have the engine hide AI generated images in its search results Time to switch for good. Let google bury yet another "great" business decision like you know - stadia, google+, google glasses....

Living with a toddler is like living with a little trickster gnome for real. Like you'll just walk into your kitchen one morning and all your pot lids are on the floor arranged in a line.

Literally me dropping my son off at daycare every morning youtu.be/SRoeeEVhifU?...

Really into Spiritbox's Tsunami Sea album lately. Just wanna lay in a sunbeam with a wall of sound coming through my headphones.

Can we all talk about yaoi instead of 300 tweets that are mad that ppl don't like bluesky

omg

Last night I went to watch a movie on Crave and despite the name and description being in English, it only played in French. Come to find out you need a premium subscription to access all languages. 🫩

The moment dumphones start having nice cameras it's over

Working in the studio this week like wow this is so nice why don't I do this more often-- oh yeah, it's the 2 hours spent on public transit every day

It's #WebcomicDay once again! FiSHSKiN is a dark fantasy, queer horror webcomic about pretending to be something you're not It's a mixed narrative told via parallel perspectives between each chapter. Warnings for body horror, Big Gay Feelings, and a sprinkle of existentialism fishskincomic.com 🐟🔪

The era of A.I. dudes taking a real stab at calling their shit art feels pretty dead but this trash is still in full swing for like show fliers, local advertisements, basically any place a working illustrator or designer used to be able to make $25 - $500 dollars on a freelance gig. Now it’s slop.

There were few things Google could do to force users off of Chrome faster than this. "We put an entire AI thing on your machine without telling you" I bet the entire marketing department for Chrome is absolutely melting down right now.

The IWK parking discourse reminded me I needed to call urology because I suspect an appointment letter got lost in the mail. hashtag adulting

A story in 3 parts over 3 days. Toddler: 1, Dollarama Good Luck Bear: 0

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

Welp, no more Moleskines for me

one winged angel's thesis

"The Human Made Mark is set to appear as an ident before a verified film and as a certified Trust Mark in the end credits, indicating that a project has not been made with the help of AI. The idea behind the initiative is to give audiences the opportunity to make a decision in their viewing habits."

Watching The Pitt from a country with universal health care is wild. What do you mean you can rate your hospital on Yelp-

Yesterday I spoke at a high school in Calgary, giving the students a quick rundown of my creative career and things I wish I'd known when I was their age. Here's a summary of key points I covered: • My career is nothing like what I envisioned when I was young, but key parts of it shaped my future.

Someone on Facebook complained that the effort we spent holding a funeral for a raccoon-shaped traffic cone would have been put to better use picking up litter. We can do that too – meet at the diverter this Saturday. #BikeHfx

KPDH put out limited edition vinyls for Record Store Day 🤩

I think I was like 10 when I first watched Alien. The chest burster scene scared me so bad I couldn't finish the movie, and wasn't able to watch it again until I was in college.

Sometimes I think about how insane e-commerce sale tactics would have been 20 years ago Every store you've ever bought anything at automatically starts sending you 3 flyers a week

Up way past his bedtime

Can you kind people please report this etsy art thief for me? 😔 thank you so much to mavhenan on tumblr for alerting me to this www.etsy.com/listing/4473... shares appreciated

Halifax/Dartmouth folks with young kiddos, they deliver here too! We just recently enrolled our son 🥰

The horrors will continue until morale improves

Potty training our son this weekend, which means our first cloth diaper journey is coming to an end. I'd like to thank everyone who didn't believe in me for empowering me to succeed out of spite 🥰

Story callout: Do you live in Halifax and work at a job that pays you minimum wage? One of our reporters is looking to speak to people about their day-to-day experiences as the cost of living continues to rise. Email us: [email protected].

Kiddo is really into Magic Schoolbus lately and it's making me so nostalgic for that era of animation!!

sunset over the marsh

Ok fine Disney can leave time out

Top comment on r/technology lol www.reddit.com/r/technology...

Breaking: Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora

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

Can someone put Disney in a time out

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Disregarding any image search result coming from Adobe Stock as automatically untrustworthy because there's a 90% chance it's AI slop. They've become the Temu of stock image sites.

You know when you're playing a video game and you suddenly have a timer counting down on your screen and you don't know what you need to do but you do know something bad will happen when it runs out? That's what going to a store with a toddler is like

Our Lady of Perpetually Online

Daydreaming about how in the future people will ask each other where they were when they found out It happened, much like 9/11 but good

I've been on relatively light-on-drawing projects for the last few years; a lot of re-use or re-tracing designs. But the show I'm on currently is -all- drawing, which is great, but it does mean my fear of repetitive stress injury is back babyyy

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