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A greyscale 3d model of a vertical wheel like piece with a section cut out on one side and two round cylinders on opposing sides, indicating the top and bottom of the lantern.

Sorry about the silence. Been trying to work on a ton of products and new boxes in the background. Feeling burnt, I decided to take a bit of time to work on something for me and started modeling the lamp my d&d character, Alphyrim, uses. Still a ways to go, but happy with the main body so far.

Fantastic video. Got a few ideas from it and some confirmations from it on some trends I've been seeing.

Several years ago, when things were bad, as they are now, I made a comic about art and community in the face of hate. Today feels like a time to reshare. 1/5

I am experimenting with removing my old cs6 suite from my workflow and so far, best I've found at least, is to work across multiple programs. Text is being done in either Gimp or Inkscape, drawing in Krita or CSP. It isn't as seamless as ps and illustrator used to be, but seems to be a way.

I'll let this video I have saved to my hard drive speak for itself.

Keep going and don't be afraid to fail.

Is that... Cosmo?

This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025

I’m struggling and stress is bad, if anyone has a moment to repost these- it would mean a lot. ♥️

These months are especially hard for me mentally, as I’m sure it is for a lot of other folks. Thank you for reading.

The front outer cover of a drawing pad, using decorative paper, washi tape, and a built in bookmark along the spine using stab binding methods.

The front inner cover of a drawing pad, using decorative paper, washi tape, and a built in bookmark along the spine using stab binding methods

The back outer cover of a drawing pad, using decorative paper, washi tape, and a built in bookmark along the spine using stab binding methods

The back inner cover of a drawing pad, using decorative paper, washi tape, and a built in bookmark along the spine using stab binding methods

Day late and dollar short, but the person this is for I wasn't able to see until today anyway. Finished this last night for a friend who lost his drawing pad and I am quite proud of how it came out. For my first hardcover book, there are pleanty of places I can improve, but I think it came out good.

Quote posting this to get more eyes on it.

Seriously, give this animation a watch. It's short, but it's beautiful stuff.

For those who don't know, Lord of the Rings is easily my favorite movie trilogy ever. Definitely one of my favorite fantasy stories. I love it. 💚

youtu.be/bJyB2ucm86Q?...

Usually share this song as some fun around this time of year. Given the climate we are in this year, here's hoping it won't become a portent.

Either way, Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Festive Festivus, Crazy fun Kwanza, or a great whatever ye celebrate this time of year!

youtu.be/t039p6xqutU

Billionaires shouldn’t exist.

Eat the rich!!

Some thoughts: When using GenAi as a mood board you don't get sources. This means you deprive yourself from knowledge. You generated a location? You deprived yourself of knowing more about the interesting parts of the world and why things came to be. Generate an armor or costume? You deprived yourself on real world techniques, function, form and history. You generated art inspirations? You deprive yourself of learning about artists from history or lock out living ones from potentially being hired. Ethical issues of using GenAi models aside, one ends up making visuals mood boards devoid of reality and history. With it one deprives themselves from learning about our world and who is living in it, inadvertently making your work weaker, because of how detached it is from our shared human reality and history.

Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things.

Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

Shit is lean for my comrade here. Help an animator's mother out this season.

Aye. Just thinking about it has been getting me a bit choked up. I hope she rests in peace for a life taken so young.

I'm not certain I can even watch the movie anymore without bawling my eyes out given some knowledge I've acquired on the last discussion between Charlie and Marie at the end....

That emotion in Charlie's voice isn't acting is all I'll say.

As an artist and a scientist, I beg of you...

Say no to the widespread implementation of Large Language Models and "Generative" Artificial Inteligence.

USE YOUR BRAIN!!

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Upset at your once-beloved companies trashing that IP you used to love? Hey, let's make our own IP! Support indie artists, animators, creators not tied to any corporation and support their efforts to make original and independent works!

LOUDER FOR THOSE ON THE BACK!!!!!

Heads up for all my art friends that have an online store.

Haven't seen this yet, but gonna keep my eyes peeled and, should this be a thing, share to spread the word. Little precaution just in case.

That looks like a front view of a window wall and doors given what looks like door handles on those two near the middle, so, windows and express door to downstair neighbor patio?

Just tested myself and it is legit. You can get a new reader for free.

If you can find a full copy of it online, go watch the whole thing. The clay painting techniques they pioneered in the Joy to the World sequence are still absolutely spectacular and the banter between Rex and Herb are a classic unto themselves.

YouTube video by Carpe Donktum Claymation Christmas: Carol of the Bells(Original Version)

Spent a good part of the day setting up some Christmas and watched Vinton's excellent Claymation Christmas special to try and get in the groove. Still has one of my favorite takes on Carol of the Bells, and I wanna share it for those who may not have seen it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SOv...

@jemsmith.bsky.social and I made a 2D physics-based game in 4 days with sounds and music by Jaybooty Sutherland!

This is Fallbearers.

Here's a little clip of the other jammers playtesting it:

#gamedev #gamejam #indiegames

I am horrible at self promotion and feel guilty about it every time, but, seeing as this is the "lets buy gifts" time of the year, I am gonna crawl out and say I am still doing dice boxes and my tower vaults.

It’s my birthday today!!! 🎉 I’m now closer to 30 than not x’)
I would love for u to enjoy pondering my art and maybe rtwting it during this trying time xD 🎉🎉

I might give that one a try and make a template for that for myself. That's a damn good idea to get that fiddley detector they use to actually work easier since it's the laminates that typically make it go crazy.