Nicholas Kole

Did a little model of @nicholaskole.bsky.social's dragon 💙

Granted!

Who am I kidding, had to do the set

Concept art of Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite by Claire Hummel, showing several versions of her outfit

"but we need to iterate on a bunch of ideas so our artists need to-"

concept artists have been iterating on ideas for decades, they're trained to do it efficiently

if you as a company want to sacrifice quality for quantity then that's on you, and it WILL show in the product, it WILL look sloppy

Concept art of Rosalind Lutece's wardrobe and outfit construction from Bioshock Infinite, drawn by Claire Hummel

"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I smack you with Claire Hummel's immaculate and detailed understanding of costume design, which she got by studying historical references, which made her strong, which you will not become by relying on AI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 job team!! 🤝

AND SHE SHALL LIVE!!

MUCH WILL DEPEND

oh I mean I can't tell 😅 every competitive online shooter looks awful to play to me, this tempts me more than any of them

what else?

Who am I kidding, had to do the set

new pokemon starter!

Gawwww I love her

I just think he’s neat

But I don’t play FPSes so maybe they truly are missing their core audience? Does it look like a gamer mouse and a european vape shop and a crypto site and an ad for a really cool new keyboard I don’t need? Yes!
I think it still kinda rules, something should look like this

It’s definitely the only fps I can think of that has tempted me with art style. Maybe OG overwatch back in the day, the original concept art for Destiny, and this.

Nah that dude is gross

Something needs to champion this aesthetic and establish it as a tentpole in the industry, imo it’s important for other work to be able to push off from & respond to it. Yes it reminds me of a lot of bad things (vapes, nfts, gamer chair) that have similar aesthetics but…they took a dang swing 🫡

Whatever happens, it’s the best looking fps in the space and I’m tired of pretending it’s not

Karla needs help, I think we can knock this bill out together right quick

WELL yes but also *career

I’m definitely taking care! The brace is mostly preventative and I’ve done a lot to make my setup as ergonomic as possible

Well. Wait- I-

(my wrist will be fine)

I will burn out live while making full eye contact throughout, and invent Carpal Tunnel 2: the worse, more complicated sequel to carpal tunnel 1, before I let a machine do even the worst parts of the work I love.

I have been sleeping in a wrist brace bc I have been up at all hours deep into the tedious phases of painting and if you suggested to me that I should use generative AI to do it instead, I would break my wrist in front of you and throw my arthritic hand in your face.

I don’t know how to use chatgpt etc but I imagine it’s going to a website and typing “oh no what groceries do I buy please tell me false god for I am so weak I cannot go on” as your brain atrophies and leaks out of your ears from disuse and the machine is like “buy eggs milk bread and a horse”

A dragoness with orange scales sits on a grassy hill and looks into the distance at the mountains. The evening sky, a full moon rises above the mountains #runasolarisart

🌙

These words are designed to slide off of our brains and be forgotten.

Say it plainly: No murdering children overseas. No locking up children in concentration camps here. No pedophiles in government or any positions of authority. No Republican freaks inspecting children's genitals.