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This article sums up the uneasy feeling I've had since PAX East. The industry I've known my entire career is gone. I don't know what's coming next, but I can't pretend that things will ever return to what they were

FUN FACT: Helen Hunt is a stage name, her given name is The Iliad

Microsoft is the real offender here, but anyone who writes even a news post about the copilot "AI" Quake 'tech demo' without describing how it actually functions (or fails to) it is is doing unpaid PR work.

cringe, as an idea, is a dead end. it’s a means of writing off sincerity and earnestness in pursuit of some ill-defined concept of above-it-all cool. letting it help define online culture was a mistake. if you view everything as cringe, you are living an empty life

" It’s not that they just picked something cute and accidentally the co-founder of that studio hates their whole approach from the bottom of its heart.

OpenAI picked Studio Ghibli because Miyazaki hates their approach"

I’ve been thinking about this tweet a lot recently

I tell my cat “I know” when she meows at me but if I’m being honest? I don’t always know

From what I've heard, sadly it is 😥

“The value of art is not how much it costs and how little effort it requires. It’s how much would you risk to be in its presence.”

- @realgdt.bsky.social, regarding AI

hank won’t cross post what is, in my opinion, his best tweet, so i’ll just have to do it for him

This is also part of why the PhD is being devalued as a degree. More women than men get PhDs now.

If you have any resolutions this year, add playing Season: A letter to the future. You won't regret it.

I finished a poster with Kiki and I want to show it EVERYWHERE

This was the most insulting thing to see at The Game Awards last night

At a time when AI is massively threatening the livelihoods of voice actors and artists. So disappointing.

Had the honor of making a poster for the 25th anniversary of Cowboy Bebop! Really, really loved working on this one 🥲

If it helps with your anxiety at all, four fifths of all animals are nematodes.

Citizen Sleeper 2 releases January 31, 2025

I'm not on twitter anymore, but this tweet from 2 years ago is sadly more accurate than ever

When the red web comes out, you know very normal things are happening. In this Patreon-exclusive episode, we answer more of your questions! #woolievs #supereyepatchwolf #vswolves #riverdale

Watch out for the “I wish to politely disagree” AI bots, looking to farm engagement. A recent addition to #bluesky. My advice: block on sight.

Always repost

RIP D&D... they made it 'woke' now it stands for dunegeons and DEI

Article with image of balloon Luffy about to destroy a cop

Outfucking standing photo choice

The sunset tunnel moment from the game Journey, where the player slides from right to left past columns throwing shadows towards the camera. The bright glowing sun sets behind the distant mountain. The scene is tinted in glowing warm shades.

This is a black and white texture I hand painted to map shadows into the downhill scene in the game Journey. Most games generate these textures automatically, but I did it by hand because we did not have the tools to do so during Journey's development.

A close up of my hand painted shadow texture, showing that the shadows of the columns in the sunset tunnel were aligned with the pixels of the texture to achieve maximum sharpness in game, despite the resolution of the texture being very small for the amount of area it was covering.

Funny story: Journey had no automatic shadows. I painted them all by hand. The shadow texture was not hi-res. To get the iconic sunset columns to cast sharp shadows, I made sure that they aligned with the pixel grid of the texture. Here you can see the shadow map I painted.

The intro title shot from the PS3 game Journey. This is from the finished game. The title "Journey" is displayed above a distant mountain, with the player character seeing it from atop a sand dune.

The intro title shot from a work in progress version of Journey. The title's font is different, the composition is asymmetrical, and the distant mountain is not as tall as the final version.

My initial sketch for the title shot for the game Journey. A simple, small line drawing featuring the player character in the foreground and the mountain in the distance.

10th anniversary Journey thread, recreated:
I was the art director of thatgamecompany's Journey. It set the course of my career and my art. I'm forever thankful to the community of players and their incredible love for the game. This is a thread comparing early dev images and how things shipped.

a close up of a cat 's face with a very angry look on its face ALT: a close up of a cat 's face with a very angry look on its face

Me when bullshit AI image comes up while im looking for reference images

What a stunningly beautiful, uplifting and heart breaking series! Every frame of Arcane is a work of art!

GUYS I FOUND HIM

And the flashback where he has the long hair in his youth? Damn.