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Michel Dinel

@padder.bsky.social

SeniorStoryboardArtist College grad 2D animation Exp:Storyboard,2Dart,Animation, CharacterDesign,Comics ShippedGames:DeusExMD;TombRaider;Marvel’sGuardiansOfTheGalaxy. May be free for work after March. Opinions my own. http://linkedin.com/in/micheldinel

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Those videos converted from GIF are missing frames. Like the bird/water segment is missing some, and moves slower in the video. loses all the impact of speed it originally had and we barely see the bird grab fish (should be like 5 or 6 frames, we only see 3). sigh. whatever U_U

16.02.2026 18:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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3/3
The "trailer"

16.02.2026 18:32 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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2/3
To not be continued

16.02.2026 18:32 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Found other old stuff.

2002
before I went to animation school

Had to convert to video because bsky and GIF still ain't friends.
GIF= GRAND IMPACT FIGHTING!!!!

1/3

16.02.2026 18:32 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

ah sorry. Figured it was best to keep it in the past for now.

16.02.2026 18:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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One of my fave short stories I've ever created, this one in tandem with the illustrious and masterful @dustinweaver.bsky.social. It's... The Adventures of Thing Thing: The Blue Cheese Affair.

16.02.2026 17:00 — 👍 133    🔁 46    💬 9    📌 3

I used to be an creative artist. Now I'm just a craftsman.😭

16.02.2026 17:01 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Don't know what happened. Seems I've lost the habit of reaction shots nowadays. I blame all these "grounded" video games I had to board. Lara croft having an exaggerated reaction to everything in her survival prequels? yeah. no.

16.02.2026 16:54 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Nothin' much. warmup ref studies to get going on dayjob.

16.02.2026 14:31 — 👍 57    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Can be fun for ideas, references, or just have a view of what’s out there at large without having to load pages that show little at a time online.Fun to know these free things exist and are available sometimes in some book stores.

16.02.2026 03:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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J’ai obtenu chez L’Imaginaire ces “pamphlets” gratuits (de 145 pages dans le cas de Glénat), qui montre une grande brochette de leurs parutions, avec examples pleine page.

And there’s DC with over 50 pages of their next issues in a presentation that reminds me of Diamond’s Previews catalogues

16.02.2026 03:44 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh well. It’s not like I have to do it in one sitting. Guess other games will have to wait for another while. 77hours sunk into this so far.

16.02.2026 03:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Arg. Technically beat Code Vein 2 but these days they think adding extra segments with high difficulty to a long game to get the “real” story is cool.

Imagine going to theatre to see a 3hour movie and then after credits you gotta stick around for another hour or two to finish seeing the full story.

16.02.2026 03:01 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Like now, I have a headache. Maybe about to prepare supper. So like....Ok f-it. screenshot it and move on. zzzzz oh yea, supper. maybe I should take some advils.

15.02.2026 21:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How I often draw quick and rough sketches while finding searching for random ideas of what to draw.
Before usually ditching them because time/energy/laziness

15.02.2026 21:53 — 👍 30    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

There's the original Solaris movie on Tubi...seems to have striking visuals, but if I remember the Clooney version it's about sappy flashbacks of life with wife before being separated. Now this one here is almost 3 hours long. Not sure my post 2020 - pseudo ADD type brain can handle it.

15.02.2026 21:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hyperbolic but, there's a feeling of concerted efforts to screw consumers&citizens from a financial class of society, even if coincidental; a collective emboldening among them as if abuse against masses won't come with consequences if they push far and fast enough to deprive and weaken the majority.

15.02.2026 12:23 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Even if AI bubble bursts, it'll have created a precedent for more "remote terminal"-like setups, as if cloud and streaming were canaries in the mines of what's to come. This growing rarity situation may impose it as a norm and, like how things changed during COVID isolation and didn't return...

15.02.2026 12:15 — 👍 17    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

"Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead"

They're killing the consumer market.
Gonna have to rent the hell out of everything for worse performance and they'll collect all interactions and potentially compromise your business.

15.02.2026 12:06 — 👍 48    🔁 8    💬 3    📌 0
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Made me think how decade trends we latch onto is such a short period in time, despite movies perpetuating the nostalgia. By the 80s this was already quite retro, and that era's music was called the Oldies.

14.02.2026 18:47 — 👍 362    🔁 55    💬 3    📌 1

That’s drive-in diners.

14.02.2026 21:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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by 10 am (less than an hour) I had this. Then I kinda made it worse.

14.02.2026 19:05 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Made me think how decade trends we latch onto is such a short period in time, despite movies perpetuating the nostalgia. By the 80s this was already quite retro, and that era's music was called the Oldies.

14.02.2026 18:47 — 👍 362    🔁 55    💬 3    📌 1

Not her.

14.02.2026 18:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
14.02.2026 17:51 — 👍 151    🔁 19    💬 3    📌 0
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Ya, there's a bit of jank, but somehow it works and surprisingly, haven't been stuck in the environment. Now my weapons might be OP XD. I tried Nioh3 demo and noped out remembering how tough boss were. I finished Wo Long but Rise of Ronin has collected dust. Nioh 2 : stopped at this boss.

14.02.2026 17:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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It also has this guy called "Valentin", considering the day it is.

14.02.2026 17:20 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

(Code Vein 2 is an odd beast. It "should" be bad, but I had fun regardless, more than many of the "big well-rated" titles.It also has that kind of vibe 90s/80s dark urban fantasy anime aspired to, but with modern cringe anime tropes.Bosses can be tough but next thing u know, wow, you beat them easy)

14.02.2026 17:16 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

I could be finishing the playthrough of Code Vein 2 but I'm stuck coloring and adjusting a drawing I was done doing 2 hours ago. Arg. Colooooors. soooo looooong

14.02.2026 17:06 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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