Lucas Nunes

YouTube video by Vanity Fair ILM's VFX Secrets Behind Star Wars, Transformers & More | Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair asked me to talk about visual effects, and it was my great honor to show off some of ILM’s terrific work over the years.

Todd Vaziri on Vanity Fair VFX
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Oh nice, I animated that big tentacle monster grabbing the trees!

Illustration I did of a roaring and/or yawning T. rex with a judgmental rex onlooker in the background. (done for Beasts of the Mesozoic T. rex figure)

T. rex was formally named 120 years ago today. Hell yeah king happy birthday!

#art

my hot take is some of y'all need to stop only reading comics. read prose, go to a museum, learn scrimshaw, wtfever. go be an interesting person first because i can TELL when people don't ingest anythiinnggg else but comics

Do you guys ever look at a drawing in progress and simply feel so overwhelmed by the amount of work left that it paralyzes you?

Anyways I'm 65 hours into a piece and have not yet completed the drawing step. Realizing there is a reason I put this idea off for 11 years 🙃

Ptero

As we look at this gif of Twig and the Lighthouse, it makes us think of the time we tried to befriend a local crow. Unfortunately, we put out some cat food that the crow deemed unsatisfactory. The rest of the week we were dive-bombed by an enraged bird.

Moral: Appreciate your friends! #KeeperGame

I forgot about this #paleoart of Deinocheirus I produced back in 2019 until this morning. Having not looked at it for years, I think it holds up pretty well. And no, it's not got the "feather mountain" look because D. was a big animal in a temperate climate.
#dinosaurs #fossil #paleontology #sciart

Forgot to announce I have a new paper out this week! Animals that are more front-heavy have thicker, differently shaped forelimb bones to deal with the extra load. Limb bones alone may thus be useful proxies for body shape - but posture complicates things. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

A dromaeosaur dinosaur, brown and white

Onto the most fragmentary of the Kem Kem theropods so far, an indeterminate dromaeosaurid known from some teeth and claw material! Size comparison and some thoughts below ⬇️

#sciart #paleoart

Digital painting of a large edmontosaurus dinosaur with a pale yellow background. In the foreground is a dark young Tyrannosaurus Rex.

A large Edmontosaurus regalis is giving the side-eye to a young Tyrannosaurus. Rex that's just passing by.

"The Wandering Village" animated trailer by Trash Studio & Nippon Animation (Japan) for the video game by Stray Fawn Studio (Switzerland).
Directed by Takuro Suzuki, with Ghibli alums Akihiko Yamashita & Yoshiharu Sato.
Full credits >> strayfawnstudio.com/presskit/she...

Three pterosaurs, Dearc and two darwinopterans, fighting over a squid in a red blue subset

Announcing🏅The illustration accompanying Dearc osteology paper (link.springer.com/article/10.1...) won an art award at the BMC Zoology image competition, under category "Life in Motion"! (read about it here: bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....) 🏅

Two Dearc papers, and all award winners!

Some examples from my art book Carbon Based now live! www.kickstarter.com/projects/oni...

An illustration I did for a competition in China 🤞Anchiornis

Design sheet for the Crystal dragon. It had two tails and saggy skin, mama mia what more could a guy want 😍

With all the Gem Dragons I did for Dungeons & Dragons The Book of Dragons, the crystal dragon probably had the strongest foundation to build from so I really made a meal out of painting the skin folds.

This is dragon 4 of 5

Design sheet for the Emerald dragon.

Of all the Gem Dragon illustrations I did for Dungeons & Dragons The Book of Dragons this weirdly proved the most challenging. I pushed myself to paint a type of scales I rarely do here.

This is dragon 3 of 5

Thank you : ))

a tweet that says: CGI in the 2000's looks better than most movies today

"Why does OLD MOVIE's visual effects still hold up?" shot design planning and organization taste sticking to a plan appropriate timeline small volume of work appropriate budget

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Thank you Jay! I loved your work on WWD!

YouTube video by Eon Dude nissin cup noodles Ice Age animal commercial

Some really fun commercials with some delightful animations of prehistoric critters youtu.be/SgTmeT_ha2c?...

Genius!

Some more T.rex stop motion practice after work. It was getting late and I had no clue how to end the shot, so.. "Boop"

The winder rig in the backgroung is from Kinetic Armatures

A herd of terrified cows runs through dust in the foreground while above their heads against a blue sky you see the underside of a huge diamondback rattlesnake dragon spreading its wings over the herd with a cowgirl on a saddle on its back spinning a rope above her head

I took @abigbat.bsky.social ‘s illustration workshop over the past couple months to try to level up my painting game. It was a great experience, well worth checking out. Here’s my final, a cattle wrangler on her diamondback mount
#ttrpg #illustration #fantasy #western

Illustration of Rey Dau from Monster Hunter with a really nicely drawn foot. Also not that it matters but I counted all the tail and back spikes to make sure it matched up to the actual guy.

Illustration of Rathalos from Monster Hunter with extra care paid to the subsurface scattering on the wing patagium. Rathalos is my favorite creature design so he gets special big boy treatment.

Illustration of Zinogre from Monster Hunter in fully charged state. When I first saw Zinogre 15 years ago I was not really into him. However seeing him go super saiyan and start breakdancing in game turned me around pretty quick.

FMK - rey dau, rathalos, zinogre

Scavengers Reign (2023)

The best recent sci-fi show that almost no one has seen.

Sonic mocking Shadow's serious cool boy pose by pulling back his fully loaded chilidog

shadow the hedgehog in a his cool boy pose pulling the slide back on his silly tacticool pistol

Fully loaded chilidog >>>> ̶F̶u̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶l̶o̶a̶d̶e̶d̶ ̶g̶u̶n̶-̶

you work at ILM! ralph macquarrie and joe johnston worked on star wars with just their brains and their hands and created some of the most beloved/fucked up creatures you've ever seen! and you're getting up on stage to show a fucking possum owl? made by computer? get in the bin you ghouls