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AdriOfTheDead @adrimakesart.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Resharing my #LuigisMansion piece for spooky month 👻 Still really like this one, even if I did kinda chump out on the background lol #adriart #nintendo #fanart

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AdriOfTheDead @adrimakesart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Forgotten Island was a lot of fun! Pacing was a little frenetic, but the animation was gorgeous also funny dog boy

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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 09/06/2026

You Are Your Own Worst Enemy #pipandgunko #comic

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AdriOfTheDead @adrimakesart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

so I guess there was an earthquake today????

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Frank&Stein @brandtandstein.com · 29/09/2026

Worldwide chums! It is just TWO WEEKS until Worst Man is available for you! There is still time to preorder, which is honestly advisable given the first print run ran out three weeks after UK launch

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Steeeve Duffy @stevenduffysstuffy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

resident evil: the movie: the game #re

Fan-comic of the Resident Evil live action movie:
“He got real lucky on his route, huh”

First panel Bryan is struggling to hold a lot of the puzzle items from the games. He reads the sheet of paper with the Chess Piece Plug Puzzle clue: “‘the rook and knight are on the same wall and the bishop and queen aren’t next to each other. The queen and rook are opposite each other too…’ so this doesn’t need the gems? Why do I have gems???”

Second panel, Bryan is thinking as hard as he can over Chess Piece Plug Puzzle placements

Third panel, Bryan’s deflated: “can’t this just be like everything else and have a huge stupid padlock?”

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AdriOfTheDead @adrimakesart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

if you draw my OCs I will take a bullet for you

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Dana Terrace @danaterrace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I could've never imagined working with such a spectacular & skilled crew, making something so gruesome & beautiful, which is what I love from the horror genre. So proud of our team & cast. And to those waiting, hope you enjoy, or at the very least, hope it makes you flinch. #knightsofguinevere

A black and white shaded digital drawing of Andi and Frankie holding Gwen as her hand reaches out to a sleeping Olivia. Knights of Guinevere. Text says: Episode 2, October 9.

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AdriOfTheDead @adrimakesart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm trying to draw Jace's stupid cloak and this is the only good reference I could find for the patterning the things I do for The Bit™

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Amid Amidi @amidamidi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s amusing to think that Chicago once had a steakhouse themed around the 1951 UPA short Rooty Toot Toot.

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The Toocheke WordPress plugin lets you do traditional and webtoon style webcomics, plus chapters, tags, etc Please stop renting e-space from these slumlords

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Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Animation Is Film, Annecy's L.A. sister fest, has unveiled its 2026 lineup. Titles include ‘Iron Boy,’ ‘Tangles,’ ‘The Violinist,’ and ‘Knights of Guinevere,’ the first series ever to open the festival. www.cartoonbrew.com/festivals/an...

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‘Knights Of Guinevere’ Leads Animation Is Film 2026 Lineup

Nine competition features, five shorts presentations, studio previews, retrospectives, and filmmaker talks will run October 16–19 in Hollywood.

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Zach Hazard Vaupen @emo-sludge.com · 20/09/2026

the difference between fine art and illustration is nothing more than the economic class of the artist making it and that of their patrons.

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La vida en viñetas @lavidaenvinetas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

VHS, por Glen Brogan

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Ben Fleuter @benfleuter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Wiccanery - a short comic about a witch and a vampire.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026

on some level, you have to accept that yes, people are reacting emotionally without doing detailed research but really you can’t blame them or stop them. this was some bullshit not a single one of us had to think about three years ago and now it’s making shit worse in like most daily interactions

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026

people are always saying anti-AI arguments don’t understand the full nuances of the technology. which is correct. but only because it stole everyone’s work, exists solely to get you fired, has made the entire internet unusable and has been forced on everyone without consent

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Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The first trailer for 'Animation Mavericks: The Forgotten Story of UPA' has arrived, and without a press release or marketing push, it has already drawn more than 40,000 YouTube views in a week. We can't wait to see it when it releases in early 2027. www.cartoonbrew.com/documentary-...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/09/2026

This is why I hate "just a tool" so so so much. You can make a calculator without access to every calculation. You can make photoshop without access to all photos. Someone show me a genai tool that didn't require all of our labour in its production. It's plagiarism software.

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Tom Breen @tombreen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In 1973, two 15-year-olds with a Super8 camera made “Nightmare,” a 4-minute adaptation (in the loosest possible sense) of “The Shadow Over Innsmouth.” Now it’s on YouTube, and it’s got the eerie look that a million “analog horror” creators strive to make youtu.be/_DNHDMXeLSM?...

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026

Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this

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ats @theatsthetic.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Batman gets an art commission

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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SULLY - POLYPAINT out now! 🎨 @artofsully.com · 15/09/2026

N64 and PSX artists rejoice - my vertex/normal painter tool POLYPAINT is now (finally) live on the Unity Asset Store!! 🎊 Grab it 30% off for the launch week - I can't wait to see what you all do with it! assetstore.unity.com/packages/slu...

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AdriOfTheDead @adrimakesart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Reposting this thread for Undertale Day 🌼

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AdriOfTheDead @adrimakesart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

QRT this post with what you think is your art’s defining feature ✨✋ stark white backgrounds 🤚✨

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Disney renaissance movies used to look different. They were planned to be printed on 35 mm film -- that's how they were first released. Modern editions skip that last step in the process. It was a highly developed, overlooked craft, as we explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/disneys-fi...

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Fable Siegel, Lackadaisy Showrunner @fablepaint.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

READ the ROOM when adding to the discussion. Your words don't exist in a vacuum just cuz you say so. Or else we all will be impoverished when today's awkward 14 year old never picks up a pen and become's your new favorite showrunner cuz she's worried she'll get mobbed for even trying.

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Fable Siegel, Lackadaisy Showrunner @fablepaint.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Don't fall for astroterfing, Seeing a lots of obvious bad takes on animation, especially indie animation, to gin up "debate" that reads more like angry hornets nest stirrings. The impact will be less indie animation from anybody and less interesting animation coming out period. youtu.be/UBXo2x_qeTc

youtu.be

Why Are Animation Fans More Bigoted in 2026 Than 1996?

YouTube video by Anthony Gramuglia

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Sam Frantics @dsoart.com · 10/09/2026

Garffeld Pt 12, Special Edition

3 panel Garffeld comic: panel 1, Garffeld crouches on a table while Jon angrily reads a letter, "What is this? What devilry have you wrought now?"; panel 2, Jon reads further down the letter, "The list of crimes continues!"; panel 3, Jon holds his face in his hands, "I am beset by a wicked cat." Garffeld looks at the viewer, "I have not been idle."

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Мишка, the Skunkset @skunkset.beachmilk.party · 14/09/2026

Some things never change Fuck you, love you too, @adriofthedead.bsky.social, here’s to 12 years 🧡🩵

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AdriOfTheDead @adrimakesart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“might” is looking more like “definitely” 🫠 keep your peepers pried especially those of you on my discord server

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AdriOfTheDead @adrimakesart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

sorely need to get my brakes worked on so I mmmmight have to do like a pwyw sketch stream or something this coming week

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🤘🏿🏳️‍🌈Kalen Whitfield🏳️‍🌈🤘🏿 @jazlyte.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

2 years, hundreds of joints, thousands of furry dollars later we are a week from ASS

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Katie Tiedrich @katietiedrich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m not the first person to make this observation but the prevalence of nauseating ai-generated business logos means stuff like this hits CRAZY for me now

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Adri @adriofthedead.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

this recently popped up in an instagram comment thread and I cackled so hard I scared my cat absolutely perfect, no notes

A blurred image of René Magritte’s “The Treachery of Images”; the words “Photo Unavailable” are superimposed over the image

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AdriOfTheDead @adrimakesart.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My only real gripe with Coyote vs Acme is some of the 3D modelling animation looked a little rough in spots, sometimes jarringly so I get WHY they weren't, but I wish all the toons had been 2D animated like [spoiler redacted]

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Sure, sex is great, but have you ever watched a media company suffer actual consequences for their shitty behavior?

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

"A.I." is the tool of and the prevailing aesthetic of fascists leading to a world devoid of meaning or art.

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Heilos @heilos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Make sure to go see and support this film if you can! It's gone through hell to get released and I certainly wanna see it succeed despite everything trying to kill it. ❤️ I think there are some available showings today as well depending on the threater!

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ShouXin手訫 @shouxin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It’s the weekend! Let’s stretch a little with these cats. Cats seem to know better than we do how to truly relax. Stretch your legs, loosen up, and let go of the week’s tiredness. I hope these little cats bring a bit of ease and a good mood to your weekend😊 #shouxinsketch #cat #sketch #sketchdaily

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Kategod 🐉🧿🦑𓅛🪬 @kategodart.northsky.social · 26/08/2026

we have thousands of potential dolly partons and tim curries already walking amongst us. most of them are begging for rent money or getting crushed at a shitty job

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AdriOfTheDead @adrimakesart.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

started this last week, still gotta finish it ;w; she's fun

an unfinished, half-inked drawing of a devil girl with medium length bobbed hair and wearing a backless dress; she's holding aloft a (still uninked) wine glass and cheekily looking over her shoulder at the viewer

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