✷ Chai ✷

Had the pleasure to help out with some rough animation on Niccolo and it's so cool to see what they did with it!!!
Congrats to the team for making literal magic happen on screen, what a beautiful film 🧡

"Niccolo", the 2nd 2025 graduation short film from french Gobelins school, is online.
Directed by Clémentine Di Prizio, David Florian, Axelle Granet, Sirui Liu, Hugo Michalet & Njolai Pachomius.
Full film >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=O515...

A quick note on not getting stuck in your drawings. Sometimes you luck out and you draw an amazing elbow and your drawing is completely screwed because you refuse to delete it. Here's the medicine I take.
(I am not cured and still fall into this everyday, help!)

A digitally painted fanart of Kpop Demon Hunters. Rumi, a Korean pop star in her early 20s, stands under a yellow umbrella in the pouring rain outside a glowing corner store. Next to her is the silly blue tiger derpy, sitting in the wet street with no umbrella. The tiny, six-eyed bird Sussie sits on top of Derpy's head with a tiny red umbrella. The colors skew toward a glowing magenta.

My Neighbor Demon-Tiger

#oc

a silhoutte on a glistening lake against the carpathians, lit by the sunrise. Framed by a circular snake eating a dragon, with traditional bear and goat costumes at the corners.

dunno if I reposted this one on here yet: Romanian folklore-tinged commission for Mau/Irina

My latest horror-ish animation, which was part of a microfilm festival in June 🦷🧚

#2Danimation #shortanimation #toothfairy #TVPaint

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.

painting

About to complete my job on a project I've been involved in for over two years, feels exciting and weird at the same time

Me and my tendons have a troubled relationship. There’s always one somewhere in my body that’s freaking out.

This one is for anyone who relates to the feeling of being overly aware of those burning sensations your body can present you with ❤️‍🩹

i'm open for feedback! is this a comfortable way to view my work? also i'm aware the layout might break in mobile view, still figuring out how to fix ://

Kristina Haidinger | Portfolio - Animation

had the urge to rework part of my website again, 'animation' now contains an overview of all projects and you can click on the respective title to watch the film and get a more in-depth look :) (i'll be adding boards and character designs once i find them haha)
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2dchai.art/animation

whoa time flies and ig i kind of disappeared again?
anyway, i finished my micro short film & was commissioned to design some forest critter suggestions and snuck my mushroom dude in there!!
now on to finishing my book >:]

pov: u have unfinished business with the tooth fairy.
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This is part of a (very) short film I plan to enter into a local competition for funsies next month ✨

#2danimation #animationprocess

Original image was taken 1936 by Adolph E. Weidhaas

Brünnhilde, my beloved!

A dark elf-type witch lady in a sexy leather and nylon outfit. She has a horned headdress on as well.

A little cheesecakey thing, kinda encroaching on @jetblackraider.itch.io territory

Symbiosis 🦋

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Received good news this week! The artbook project I had to put on hold for a while is happening 🌝 More on that soon

A painting of Elric of Melniboné, stood on a boat in the fog

A painting of a hunched demon sat on a burned out tank, surrounded by flames.

A painting of an angel swooping over a dark sea against an unusual meteoric sky.

A still from a videogame animation, a barbarian POV brandishing a sword at two floating maggots in front of a n ominous glowing green doorway.

Happy #portfolioday to all who observe!

My name is Jimmy Makepeace, I'm a fantasy illustrator who loves Angels and bugs!

Hi, I'm Chai and I've been working as a freelance cel animator & illustrator for the past three years, creating background art and rough animation for short films.

I'm available for project-based work starting June! ☀

🌐 2dchai.art
📧 contact@2dchai.art

#PortfolioDay #2Danimator #illustrator

I made this proof of concept during my after work hours (on and off) back in 2019 for an idea called Dream bandits, which is set in 1990. The idea has changed since then, and I want to bring it back, but here's what people saw!

+ process ☁
#procreate

An oldie from 2022
#2dchaiart #digitalart #cloud

So beautiful and crisp, i'd drink the water from that fountain