Nicholas Kole

Jumping spider plus owlbear thingy

Based in Vancouver, Canada. Love working on Sci-Fi, fantasy, historical, horror, or anything weird. Love exploring and establishing new IPs or refining and reinventing old ones.

Jeff’s work is INSANE

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i see u, brother

OK SO I MADE A MIRO

oh my gosh life saver fr! this is the chart I was dreaming of

An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

I want every word of this in massive letters of fire in the sky. Thank you, @moryan.bsky.social.

Is he-

WOAH!! Alexandria is available! big big value here for any team looking!

how do I pick 😡

i need to draw pokemon for my sanity and sense of wellbeing and I need to do it aggressively

ty for your service 🫡

Artists writing & illustrating their own ongoing webcomics or graphic novels are braver than our troops and they deserve our unwavering honor and respect 🫡

The only way to survive in comics, at least as I see it, is absolutely to embody the middle of this Venn diagram, you know… where it says “this doesn’t exist”

AND…there is very little out there to match it creatively- comic artists do it all, late into the night, at incredible speed. The sense of ownership and control of your own voice is intoxicating.
The gap between your wildest storytelling ambitions and reality is almost entirely down to your ability

Being a comic writer/illustrator was THE original dream, out of art school.

Learning this in the months after graduating broke my heart- I felt denial about it for years, but everything I’ve seen since continues to bear this out. Comics is the hardest work going, for the least pay on offer 💔

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

Granted!

Who am I kidding, had to do the set

"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 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?