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since im on a fixing up old projects kick i decided to fix up the lightweight rgba compositor i made a bit ago.. a few qol things, fixing (one of) the webgl bugs, and adding in an option to invert channels. also theres a linux version now! bobacupcake.itch.io/rgba-composite

From Deductions to Gold: The Backflip That Figure Skating Finally Decided to Celebrate Surya Bonaly was penalized for the backflip that inspired my skating dreams. Decades later, Ilia Malinin is celebrated for the same move — and that contrast is hard to ignore.

Some might not be old enough to remember, but Surya Bonaly did a backflip in her 1998 Olympic performance. I watched her, and I also remember the backlash. When a black woman does something revolutionary, it's an illegal move. Now it's suddenly extraordinary.

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GUN NOSE An action-mystery RPG where you uncover clues and hunt killer robots, rendered in a revolutionary top-down 3D pixel art style.

Just backed GUN NOSE by Addy Valentine on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/add...

This game looks and sounds incredible!! Check it out and consider supporting it!

Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel Discord is "experimenting" with an age authentication vendor whose major investors include Thiel's Founders Fund.

it's 2026. PC Gamer is doing journalism while actual news outlets post more transphobia. a sandwich costs $16 or five easy payments of $5 with SandoLoan

Every time I'm reminded of it, I've wondered about how it could be recreated in real time vfx. Might just have to start digging into that 👀

This is so cool!!! I've always loved the look of this kind of glow. It's something you also see in a lot of live action films before the use of CG. For whatever reason, the lightning in Back to the Future always comes to mind as an example.

Rem from Deadlock, exploring Central Park at night. The forest is dark, but he's carrying a candle to guide him, as well as a pillow to carry his helper friends. Above the trees of the forest is a tall cityscape backlit by the moonlight. EXTRA TAGS : cerrytsuki, cereza.zone, deadlock, valve, fanart

Rem in Central Park

Level has been signed off and is ready for art pass. First step is getting all the road tiles in, adjusting spacing and collision, then we can start on art-ing the rest!

You will notice that the sweepers are quite agile and nimble little machines, mastering them is no easy task though😉

Post from Art Director Bill Robinson on LinkedIn saying: Welp, it finally happened. I was hired to work on a MAJOR live action Hollywood film (and I mean it’s one of the biggest anticipated films of the year). They needed a small animated sequence and wanted a character designer. I was handed a ChatGPT image and told “make it different”. I did - I spent hours finessing the design into something better and more specific for the character in the film. Waited a week for notes - then was told they got clearance from legal to use the original AI image instead. No need for any further work. This is what the director wanted. What are we doing as a society? What’s the endgame here? Replace every human until we are all homeless? I just don’t get it. If a major Hollywood film with a huge budget doesn’t see the need to work with real artists, is there any hope left?

Dude regularly works for Disney, DreamWorks, Netflix and CN so speculate away. But this sucks no matter which studio is doing it, and gross to think some major movie this year is running with a plagiarized image from ChatGPT.

Absolutely do NOT give your ID or face scan on Discord. It's even worse than expected. Apparently due to people bypassing current systems, they're switching to "persona" which is funded by fucking Peter Thiel.

That is an incredible pull quote from Meta, jesus. Masks fully coming off.

Poster to fight against ai. Visualized is a cave painting inspired horse, with text that reads "art has always been accessible"

I hear a lot of people saying that ai makes art accessible.. well I personally think that's bullshit- so I made this to drive my point home.
#regalsart #illustration #fuckai #digitalart

Decades of aggressive culture war nonsense has done so much psychological harm that it feels like a solid third of the population will actually require some kind of deprogramming to get this genuine rot out of their brains and maybe stand a sliver of a chance at being functional people.

The cover of the graphic novel, a colored illustration by Daun Han depicting King in the foreground, Luz and Harpy Eda behind him, and the other cast of characters framing them including Willow, Hunter, Gus, Papa Titan, the Collector, and Amity.

We've been looking forward to sharing this news for a long time. We're making a graphic novel!

The Owl House: The Long-Lived King
Written by me and the amazing @mikkicrisostomo.bsky.social

Illustrated by the incomparable @dindu99.bsky.social

We're so excited to tell a brand new story.

This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old

In case you're falling for the optics of the supposed draw down in MSP as a victory, Senator Tina is making it clear why they're going on TV and lying about it and hoping you buy it too: The funding deal.

Some scenes in the film "A New Dawn" use a multiplane camera and many traditional animation techniques ♡
Backlit effects, resin filter, powdered pastel, bubbles made of clear gel...
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Save 10% on Relooted on Steam Reclaim real African artifacts from Western museums in this Africanfuturist heist game. Recruit crew members, plan escape routes, acquire the precious cargo, and bounce out of the joint as fast as you...

The amount of racism in the Relooted reviews is sickening.
A bunch of assh*les clearly bought the game just to leave a negative review before getting refunded, and another bunch of assh*les are marking these reviews useful for them to be displayed a the top store.steampowered.com/app/3255890/...

Inherent Contempt for all these fascists as soon as we take back the House

why is it more necessary to attempt to prop up an industry than warn about the blatant, deceitful marketing campaign going on right now, and the high likelihood of mass data center insolvencies?

There's actually a rational history to people saying "we don't actually know how & why AI works". But it's been getting twisted into suggesting we don't know how neural networks work, which is nonsense.

What we don't understand are things about *language*. 1/n

There’s a sentiment among some locals that eyes on Minnesota are waning. The situation has NOT changed here.

Local resistance is tired, but of course never giving up. Please stay plugged into the news of the Minneapolis ICE occupation and donate where able.

We need endurance in this moment.

pretty obvious at this point that the conditions in the MAGA camps are considerably worse than Japanese internment

Running practice

#Agott #WitchHatAtelier #TheAtelierofWitchHat #Animation

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

No Kings includes Draft Kings

Trump Using A ‘Softer Touch’ With ICE In Minnesota? Residents Say Don’t Be Fooled. Two weeks after Alex Pretti’s killing, federal agents have shown no signs of backing down. The resistance definitely hasn't.

NEW: The Trump admin certainly put on a show last week about changing tactics in Minnesota after ICE agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA nurse.

Trump even suggested it's time for "a softer touch."

Except residents say nothing has changed. At all. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...