This lawsuit is brutal. One of the exhibits is the letter Universal sent to Midjourney, including a quote from a 2022 Forbes interview that I bet midjourney regrets

Guess we gotta keep up the sentiment that GenAI sucks so that more companies start to feel it.

Yup, stopped paying them last year and have not looked back.. Adobe has become such a pain, it's sad

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Magik

Just some doodly arcane studies, what a wonderful show ✨

Might as well share some colour management tips learned over the years:
Work to the sRGB gamut. That's what the overwhelming majority of content (especially online) is displayed to.
Most monitor providers have a colour profile (ICC or ICM file) and drivers for specific models you can download.

Love the concept and execution, this looks super cool!

Last year I started working a 5 day week and my habit of daily drawing stopped immediately.
Just looked through my practice folder for 2024 earlier and realized that, man I can't wait to cut down again. I really want to draw but I'm lacking the energy atm :(

pornhub is blocked in 17 states because 17 state governments are demanding that you upload your face and identifying information to a privately held company that may or may not sell that data to the highest bidder and pornhub believes that is a violation of your rights.

if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost

your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

I feel this. Man .-.

Faces are hard enough to draw on their own, but stylizing them presents a bunch of new challenges. How much detail is too much? How can you get the features ‘right’ even though they’re not realistic? Here are some of my thoughts on the topic ✨

I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain

I know animation has a lot of issues but for a such a collaborative medium so many of us aren’t really working together. Interacting personally. Lots of factors but sometimes as a story artists I only interact with my team and director. Ships passing in the night handing art back and forth.

Baiken 😤

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

Street full of parked cars in Bordeaux France, Google photo from 2008.

Same location in Bordeaux photo taken by me in 2023.

Before & After: I don’t think people realize the extent to which parked cars degrade public space.

don _hertzfeldt Not to sound like a curmudgeon, but when I was a teenager, I took the train to go to the record store to find rare stuff. Spotify is way more convenient, but that wasn't the point. The point was to get out and to feel like you're hunting, to feel like you're living your life. I'm going to the movies, I'm going to this show. What streaming has done-it's very convenient, but it's taken the feeling of going hunting and turned it into we're all just being fed. We're all farm animals that are just being fed, and we're being fed content. You can just stay home. Just stay home. We'll just feed it to you. No wonder everyone's depressed.

This hit my weak point for massive damage

00:00:00:00 2019

A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.

i can only upload 1 minute of stuff here apparently but here's part of my zelink smash bros inspired animatic / storyboard 👍✨ !