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illustrator / motion designer www.valbabayants.com https://ko-fi.com/vbabylon valbabayants@gmail.com

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Art by Ralph McQuarrie for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

14.02.2026 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1231    πŸ” 268    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 8
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Sister of Rebirth
Exploration artwork for personal project

09.01.2026 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 67    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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A pair o ' Ghosts

30.12.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 149    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Another Interior Illustration for the forthcoming limited edition of Tad William's 'Otherland' from Grim Oak Press. A total of six full page plates for this edition.

Trenches
18" x 14" Oil & Acrylic on Bristol Board
Pre-ordering for the books:
grimoakpress.com/collections/...

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My biggest stand alone build yet! 'Admiral Beakon and His Lack of Foresight’ 34”W x 12”H x 20”D Mixed media: polymer clay, wire, foam, fabric, wood, brass, aluminum and found objects. Available if interestedβ€”> www.rednosestudio.com/puppets/admi...

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The Jolly Cat at the Fish Parade

02.10.2025 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 174    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

incredible sky, this is one of my favorites

16.09.2025 03:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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40k Chaplain fanart -
oil painting on panels 12"x18"
#oilpainting #warhammer40k

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Too long for full alt text, the gist is that genre fans have "a limited frame of reference" to genre work. Fans try to link things in Babylon 5 to Lord of the Rings, but JMS was thinking about Orpheus. Or more broadly, that genre works have broad and deep inspirations, in ancient, classical, and medieval stories, themselves that genre fans are ignorant of.

Too long for full alt text, the gist is that genre fans have "a limited frame of reference" to genre work. Fans try to link things in Babylon 5 to Lord of the Rings, but JMS was thinking about Orpheus. Or more broadly, that genre works have broad and deep inspirations, in ancient, classical, and medieval stories, themselves that genre fans are ignorant of.

I've quoted this post by JMS (Babylon 5, Sense8, etc) for years now. It's long, and he's talking about genre fans here, but genre fans of the 1990s are now genre writers. www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/0...

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had this same feeling from Pulse by the same director

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"NORCO finds the sublime at the heart of the perverse. It seems to suggest that setting your sanity adrift is the only way to float." Very enjoyable article by @groan.bsky.social!

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pluto tv now, the license jumps around every few years πŸ™„

08.07.2025 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

classic twilight zone always hits, babylon 5, fringe, futurama, trailer park boys

08.07.2025 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

repackaged auteur worship

07.06.2025 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A Great Egret gliding towards the marshy part of the lake to do some fishing.

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From: The Little Mermaid (1968), dir. Ivan Aksenchuk, Soyuzmultfilm

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πŸ”₯πŸ”₯‼️

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The Ocean in early spring has a nice bloom to it. So active like ink in a water glass

02.05.2025 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

love this composition

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🀩🀩

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Cover illustrates Jenny's Junk yard -- used spaces ships and second hand robots. The titular Jenny sits on a captain's chair, behind here is a junkyard with crushed robots, floating cars, spaceships, etc.

Cover illustrates Jenny's Junk yard -- used spaces ships and second hand robots. The titular Jenny sits on a captain's chair, behind here is a junkyard with crushed robots, floating cars, spaceships, etc.

Ed Emshwiller's cover detail for Galaxy magazine, ed. H. L. Gold (February 1960)
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist

27.04.2025 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 267    πŸ” 73    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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Vantage point. #pixelart

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morning waters

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three safecrackers wearing protective gear and working on opening a safe, with gold sparks in the air, surrounded by a smoky-looking fog from a fire extinguisher

three safecrackers wearing protective gear and working on opening a safe, with gold sparks in the air, surrounded by a smoky-looking fog from a fire extinguisher

closeup on the black hood of a car at night with city lights reflected on its glossy surface

closeup on the black hood of a car at night with city lights reflected on its glossy surface

James Caan in the middle of a used car lot that's on fire. there's a pink and blue neon sign in the background and strings of white lights above that are reflected on the cars' surfaces, especially one black car that takes up most of the foreground

James Caan in the middle of a used car lot that's on fire. there's a pink and blue neon sign in the background and strings of white lights above that are reflected on the cars' surfaces, especially one black car that takes up most of the foreground

closeup on a gloved hand holding a metal rod, the other hand holding a blowtorch being applied to the metal creating a spray of pinky gold sparks

closeup on a gloved hand holding a metal rod, the other hand holding a blowtorch being applied to the metal creating a spray of pinky gold sparks

Thief remains one of the best-looking movies I've ever seen in my life

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Queensborough Bridge - 1913

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oh love this

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Early visual explorations for the Common Side Effects title sequence.

Episode 9 is now streaming! It’s the third and last episode I got to direct on the show.

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πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯

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