Ectasy

Give folks their flowers

No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier

"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

please support ur friends making creative shit in this cruel world. u have no idea how much a kind comment can mean to an artist when every website just tries to make you focus on the numbers

some of my rough animation for #KnightsofGuinevere pilot, ft Frankie and Andi and some Things she had to say 🥸 Many thanks to Dana and Kofi for letting me have fun with this one! 🤸

#animation #officialwork

btw telling an artist you like their OC/want to see more has a lot more impact than numbers of likes and shares... obv those are appreciated too, but you don't really know what ppl sharing your art think of it unless they tell you. and it feels really nice to know! a kind comment goes a long way :)

Art motivation 💪

"Hades II" trailer by The Line Studio for Supergiant Games.
Director: Louve Sarfati Karnas
Character design & lead animation: Amanda Jespersen Holm
Storyboard : Neil Dieu, Zhihuang Dong
Art director: Meryl Franck
Full 4K video & credits >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8lJ...

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

THIS ANIMATION IS SO INSANE

Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them. Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!” Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.” Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face. Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Animation by Sergio Pablos* | Treasure Planet (2002)

#penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation

Via Variety: 'Guillermo del Toro refused to make #Frankenstein with too much visual effects and green screens: "I want real sets."'

variety.com/2025/film/fe...

Deeply recommend getting absolutely brainrotted about a pairing/oc/concept that no one else is making food for so you have to cook for yourself. Not only is making what you want to see deeply rewarding, you will improve and it will not even be on purpose it will just be the inevitable byproduct.

I'll say it once and I'll say it again. If you think artists are just "naturally talented", you're deeply wrong. The only difference between you and us is that we kept trying when it didn't come out like we hoped.
You can always make art yourself. There's no bad time to start, you can start now.

Happy 25th Anniversary, Paper Mario !

A page full of drawing studies of leopard geckos, in pen. There are gecko heads, as well as full gecko bodies, and then some areas with studies of gecko arms and feet

Leopard gecko studies

DS lite! 🍓✨

#lowpoly

My character Lhune, who is a blue tiger with the back end of a deer, appearing to be floating or falling with a feather.

"Light" <3

Make art that you think is fuckin sick as hell. Make the shit you never thought you could that you always wanted to see. Beat your insecurity to death and fight to become your own favorite artist.

A drawing of a blue-green nasty little dragon face. Just a nasty nipper, an unpleasant sort, deeply stupid in the eyes and pointy in the teeth. You should probably repost it just in case.

DRAGIONE

Genuinely think anyone can “git gud” at any creative craft they are interested in. If we wanted to actually “democratize” art we would invest in housing, healthcare, food and education as human rights. All GenAI does is make people even more financially precarious and less able to pursue a passion

In case any of my fellow creatives also needed this reminder:

More of my Captain Amelia design drawings....

#captainamelia #treasureplanet #characterdesign #kdunc9 #kenduncananimation

and you know what, you might as well post it too. because one man's suck is another man's fuck.

You gotta make art that sucks in order to make art that fucks

Bringing it to 🦋 by request:

People hate their own art because it looks like they made it. They think if they get better, it will stop looking like they made it. A better person made it. But there's no level of skill beyond which you stop being you. You hate the most valuable thing about your art.

A three-panel comic. In the first panel, a simple humanoid figure is shown, seated and writing on a piece of paper. They are smiling, and the words above their head say, "Enjoying hyperfixation". In the second panel, they have dropped their pencil in shock. They look rather distressed and seem to be dissociating. Large red letters read: "I AM SO CRINGE" In the final panel, the humanoid figure has gotten over their existential crisis and is back to happily writing on the piece of paper.

Me on an hourly basis

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.

DIY > AI

A graph titled “The Creative Process” showing a cute pumpkin girl going through stages of making something. She starts out high up, “I just had the best idea!!!” and starts sliding down a hill “this isnt as simple as I expected.” She winds up in The Swamp of Despair (two skulls say: “this part sucks! don’t give up!”) She says, “this sucks, I suck. Why am I wasting my time.” She crawls her way out of the swamp “it’s not perfect but I’m going to finish” and crests the final hill, “it’s done??? I lived???” Finally, she walks away from it all, glittering with pride. “This turned out pretty good!”

the swamp of despair (from 2018)