Gah. The Curls. So Adorable.

I'm in Hawaii staying at an idyllic hostel across the street from the beach. Day one of my adventure and the first friend I make is:

Meet Crema (thats what I'm calling her while I'm here). She belongs to no one and just hangs around the North Shore looking for scritches.

Am I in a movie or some shit?

Working on a fic for my “Dadueso adopts future Leo” au (which imma name “in case I make it,” btw)

And this is basically the entire plot of the fic in a nutshell

You know that scene in Steven Universe? Well.

Where is Leo, Green? @eternalglitch

I'm...a little sorry? Here's a textless version to make you feel better lol :)))))))))

If I see any complaining about this directed AT the strikers I WILL be handing out free fish in high-velocity cannons aimed at your face

Deadline

‘The Mandalorian’ Season 4 Start Of Production Likely To Be Delayed Due To Writers Strike

The writers strike may bring about a disturbance in the force. The current work stoppage already has disrupted the production of several TV

a handful of human au doodles from the past couple of days. and also a little concept doodle below ^^

*melts*

- Star Wars Moodboards -

Tech

So Netflix is releasing this animated movie but here’s the thing - all backgrounds are done in AI. No actual BG artists were hired or credited for this work.

And here’s the kicker - I gave them too much credit. I realized that not even the AI users are credited apparently. Check this out:

“+Human”. No names, no nothing. 

I know it’s tempting, but please don’t hate-watch this thing. Numbers equal profit even if the people watching are just doing it to mock. Don’t give Netflix and other studios even more incentive to fire more animators and replace them with machines trained on their work and skill. 

Hilarously, the excuse used is ‘there aren’t enough artists’. That’s not true - there are more than enough artists, but the real issue is that no one wants to pay a living wage. Here’s a short video about the reality of animation in Japan.

The biggest winners in this equation at the end of the day are the AI infrastructure owners - owners of Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, etc. Do not feed this machine, it creates more monopolization of entire industries, raises a powerful few and dehumanizes the rest.

I'M ONE OF THOSE TURTLE FANS AND I PUT A LOT OF EFFORTS INTO MAKING THIS POWERPOINT

@autismswagsummit @autismswagreblogs

I cannae BREATHE

Bless him

Of all the holos of me out there, this one is the one people can't stop using.

I feel like I sometimes overdo it with my digital art, so I did an experiment with a sketch of human!Mikey. I made a detailed color piece, a simplified color piece, and a black and white piece from the same sketch and compared them. I ended up using a new brush that I like way better for the lineart for all 3 of them, too. That worked out very well.

All in all, I think I prefer the black and white drawing the best. I love color and I’m so attached to his orange tips, but at the end of the day, black and white is a more striking look for my artstyle and is WAY easier to produce. 

I think moving forward I’ll stick with black and white for the most part, but I’d love to hear from you guys what you like best!

(ETA: it occurred to me that I can have orange tips and still do a mostly black and white drawing. Doy. So I went back and gave him some.)