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Omni Jacala @artsyomni.com · 07/05/2026

Over the course of that Star Fox direct, I legit went through the 5 stages of grief over the character designs in rapid succession. I have now arrived at acceptance.

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Omni Jacala @artsyomni.com · 28/04/2026

Nope =P I’m hyperfixating on the potential of movies based on other Nintendo IPs

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Omni Jacala @artsyomni.com · 28/04/2026

I think I’m discovering that in another timeline, I might’ve become a screenwriter.

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Omni Jacala @artsyomni.com · 31/03/2026

Calling it now: the first time Mario goes into space, he's gonna freak out because he assumes that he can't breath in space because he's from our world where you can't breath in space.

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Omni Jacala @artsyomni.com · 29/03/2026

So is it safe to say at this point that the choice to go with Mario Galaxy as a second movie was motivated primarily by the intention to expand the universe? It's a convenient framing to facilitate drawing from as many different sources as possible, including other Mario games and other IPs.

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Omni Jacala @artsyomni.com · 29/03/2026

It was part of Smashified, but it was made by Andrew Coleman, not me.

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Omni Jacala @artsyomni.com · 26/01/2026

Is there a list out there of songs/melodies/tunes that can be played on OoT's ocarina? Preferably one that specifies if the tune requires the analog stick.

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Omni Jacala @artsyomni.com · 18/01/2026

Question for my #gamedev people out there: Have you found that working on games has generally made you more forgiving or less forgiving of flaws in the games you play?

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Omni Jacala @artsyomni.com · 10/01/2026

I doodled this back in June of last year but never finished it. Now I wish I had. =P the file is called "missing babies." Now there's only one left!

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Omni Jacala @artsyomni.com · 06/01/2026

Question for game devs out there: what software do you like to use to diagram your UX flows? I've just been manually making diagrams in Illustrator, but I'd be interested to learn some more efficient workflows. #gamedev #gamedesign

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Omni Jacala @artsyomni.com · 17/12/2025

I don't know that I remember a time in my life where I wasn't making art in some form. I've been drawing since I was a small child. But Sonic the Hedgehog got me into making *digital* art, specifically. Started by editing Sonic Advance sprites in MSPaint.

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Omni Jacala @artsyomni.com · 17/12/2025

Well I'm not really trying to conflate the two. I recognize they aren't the same thing. But I would imagine that historically, the advent of mass-production displaced a lot of career artisans who couldn't continue to make products at scale without charging higher prices because demand changed.

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Omni Jacala @artsyomni.com · 17/12/2025

Well, artisan-made furniture that isn't made at scale is certainly very expensive for good reason. I'd presume most people my age can't afford that kind of furniture. At least, not often.

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Omni Jacala @artsyomni.com · 17/12/2025

Well like, if I spend 100 hours making a physical sculpture and I want to sell it (and make a business selling them), it seems inevitable that I'd need to charge a much higher price for my time and labor than a comparable (maybe even superior in some ways), mass-produced product.

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Omni Jacala @artsyomni.com · 17/12/2025

By functionally equivalent, I mean a comparison like a mass-produced coffee table that you can buy for $20 compared to a $200 wooden coffee table of exactly the same shape made by a craftsman. Or a 3D printed figure vs. hand-sculpted.

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Omni Jacala @artsyomni.com · 17/12/2025

Out of curiosity, does that extend to industries that have been using mass production in lieu of human craftsmanship to produce things at scale for longer than we've been alive? Lots of the mundane stuff we buy used to be things that many people could barely afford, like furniture.

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Omni Jacala @artsyomni.com · 17/12/2025

Lately I've been really getting into making physical things by hand. And I've been contemplating whether people would be willing to buy them, but it's difficult to imagine making them at scale while keeping them reasonably priced for most people.

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Omni Jacala @artsyomni.com · 17/12/2025

I ask because it seems like we're on a trajectory where products that are partially or wholly AI-generated are going to become ubiquitous. In my experience, traditionally hand-made goods already cost a premium that most people typically aren't willing to spend. Is that the future for digital goods?

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Omni Jacala @artsyomni.com · 17/12/2025

Curiosity question: In the future (presuming you can afford it), would you be willing to pay higher prices for physical or digital products/services that are handmade/human-made over functionally equivalent products that are mass-produced or produced using AI?