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Kawamaru

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✨ They/them ✨ 1993 ✨ Finland ✨ 🎨 #Art and #Animation 🎞 Specialized in digital illustration, 2D animation and animal art 🐾

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a ghost makes friends with a cat, but they can't touch. the last panel the cat is also a ghost and he has picked her up and is petting her and smiling

a ghost makes friends with a cat, but they can't touch. the last panel the cat is also a ghost and he has picked her up and is petting her and smiling

1-page comic

30.12.2025 21:38 β€” πŸ‘ 6934    πŸ” 1924    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 23
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Envy Green - Part 30
With progress on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NWg...

#Art #Animation #WarriorCats #WarriorCatsArt #Squirrelflight

28.02.2026 05:14 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank youuu I love to hear the intention can be seen there <3

01.03.2026 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Glad to hear that! <3

01.03.2026 03:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
This all began with a concerned mutual reaching out to me, stating that they saw a notification that pointed at me using the Meta AI app and asking if my stance on generative AI had changed.
That’s when I learnt that Meta has been quietly using random people’s accounts to promote their app. The catch is… these people never actually downloaded the app. Including myself.

I just wanted to make this post to warn people. If you see a notification like that - know that it’s a lie, I never downloaded any AI app and never will. I’m an artist who values hard work and human effort, and generative AI repulses me to an unimaginable degree.

This all began with a concerned mutual reaching out to me, stating that they saw a notification that pointed at me using the Meta AI app and asking if my stance on generative AI had changed. That’s when I learnt that Meta has been quietly using random people’s accounts to promote their app. The catch is… these people never actually downloaded the app. Including myself. I just wanted to make this post to warn people. If you see a notification like that - know that it’s a lie, I never downloaded any AI app and never will. I’m an artist who values hard work and human effort, and generative AI repulses me to an unimaginable degree.

If you follow me on Instagram and you receive a notification about me joining or downloading Meta AI well, IT'S A FUCKING LIE. Meta is blatantly lying to us in order to make us download that fucking sludge-generator. I would never touch GenAI with a 10 foot pole.

OP www.instagram.com/p/DVN3Ac2DG9p/

27.02.2026 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1108    πŸ” 881    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 35

Thank youuu so happy to hear that!! <3

28.02.2026 11:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Envy Green - Part 30
With progress on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NWg...

#Art #Animation #WarriorCats #WarriorCatsArt #Squirrelflight

28.02.2026 05:14 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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HASHIREEEEEEEE

#gdw #gingadensetsuweed

25.02.2026 05:56 β€” πŸ‘ 156    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 1
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Character design work by Yasuhiro Nakura for Moomin (1990–1991), dir. Hiroshi Saito, Telescreen

25.02.2026 01:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1675    πŸ” 601    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 13

You don't need AI to make animation. You literally have a camera in your pocket. You can draw with a stick in the mud and shoot the frames. There are several apps that help make this even easier.

18.02.2026 03:39 β€” πŸ‘ 594    πŸ” 195    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 1

If you care about pixel art as a medium and want to learn more about how to detect if it is genuine or AI-generated, please refer to this writeup that I created with the help of the community. Read, download, share and support real creators.

11.02.2026 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 4285    πŸ” 2330    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 28
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its never gonna go away #furry

11.02.2026 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 742    πŸ” 225    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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the matryoshka. πŸͺ† #alanwake

06.02.2026 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 4874    πŸ” 1438    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 7

Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".

09.02.2026 18:25 β€” πŸ‘ 13246    πŸ” 6126    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 47
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gradient.horse Draw a horse, watch it run!

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

gradient.horse

09.02.2026 23:11 β€” πŸ‘ 7005    πŸ” 3607    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 154
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Prince of Persia was an experiment in rotoscoping. It put lifelike animation on '80s home computers.

Designer Jordan Mechner converted VHS tapes and movie footage into pixels -- and went way beyond the tech of his time. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-the-li...

09.02.2026 22:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1326    πŸ” 435    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 24
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Did the thing
#Art #HourlyComicDay

09.02.2026 04:49 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Small acrylic marker painting of a red kirin on a bright yellow background. The mythical beast is standing and keeping its head low and looking at the viewer. The base coat is bright red but it has brown antlers/horns and hooves and also teal scales, mane, tail tassel, eyebrows, beard and ears. The kirin is showing its teeth a little bit.

Small acrylic marker painting of a red kirin on a bright yellow background. The mythical beast is standing and keeping its head low and looking at the viewer. The base coat is bright red but it has brown antlers/horns and hooves and also teal scales, mane, tail tassel, eyebrows, beard and ears. The kirin is showing its teeth a little bit.

Kirin/Qilin
#art ✧ #painting ✧ #kirin ✧ #qilin

08.02.2026 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1466    πŸ” 220    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 3
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commission

07.02.2026 04:43 β€” πŸ‘ 333    πŸ” 115    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Your majesty, I promise that I will make the young lady smile. ✧ ˚ γ€€Β· γ€€γ€€ .

06.02.2026 10:29 β€” πŸ‘ 940    πŸ” 464    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1
Digital drawing of a black-gray wolf in blizzard. Background is light gray.

Digital drawing of a black-gray wolf in blizzard. Background is light gray.

Like seasons, everything changes.

05.02.2026 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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this is my iron lung fanart
#art #ironlung

05.02.2026 02:36 β€” πŸ‘ 470    πŸ” 154    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

one thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.

02.02.2026 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3880    πŸ” 926    πŸ’¬ 72    πŸ“Œ 127
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A healthy boy πŸ’–

31.01.2026 12:07 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Vapeee πŸ’™

06.01.2026 20:13 β€” πŸ‘ 5163    πŸ” 1787    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 2
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Jolte βš‘πŸ’›

08.01.2026 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2726    πŸ” 865    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 2
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Flareon 🧑

12.01.2026 22:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1289    πŸ” 403    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 0
An imagine explaining that OpenAI is Trump's largest donor

An imagine explaining that OpenAI is Trump's largest donor

One more reason my soul shrivels up every time I hear someone say "I just used chatgpt to ____"

31.01.2026 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 7039    πŸ” 4332    πŸ’¬ 49    πŸ“Œ 75

Man what the fuck, they so clearly understood that nobody wanted this, nothing is even close to the level that Pinterest is in terms of finding images, there's nothing even close

Why do this when everything AI is trending downwards and imminently crashing

01.02.2026 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 242    πŸ” 77    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2

every day sometHING FUCKIN STUPID HAPPENS IN ANIMATION πŸ’€πŸ’€πŸ”₯πŸ”₯

02.02.2026 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0