iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Cee @ceedavies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Let her know one of the scariest and coolest dinosaurs ever discovered is called Sue (named after the lady who found her!)

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TAHK0 @tahk0.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

it’s not me who is wrong, it’s flip canvas horizontally who is wrong

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Cee @ceedavies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sharing this again because it's October (cursed character season) #curseofstrahd #dungeonsanddragons #ocsky

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Cee @ceedavies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm sorry Galehaut, I hope you are ok and safe.

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Cee @ceedavies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I love how much attention you paid to those clothes. This is so lovely. I've had summer nights that looked just like that (short of an owl friend 😞).

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Cee @ceedavies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

How can anyone even carve like that? I'm missing out!!

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Cee @ceedavies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ur rendering is so juicy

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Cee @ceedavies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Best Grog I've ever seen

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Cee @ceedavies.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I like Etienne! He can hang out with my Mina.

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Cee @ceedavies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Saw these guys at my local

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Daily bunny no.3439 gives a wake-up call

Two bunnies look over the side of an old bridge at twilight. Underneath them, clinging to the underside of the bridge, a bunch of bats have just awakened, and one spreads its wings. It is just after sunset.

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Cee @ceedavies.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I think it’s smart tho. I always get paralysed going from flats to texture / rendering!

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

if you learn a skill or start a new hobby, it makes you a better person, not worse. nobody ever gets into calligraphy and immediately starts screeching that typefaces are useless and only the quill shall prosper. there is no "woodworking psychosis" nobody thinks they're dating their kettlebell

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Munkao @munkao.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Gossip-godlings: Extroverted deities so addicted to human drama, they pivoted to govern over secrets, scandals and stories.

Southeast Asian Fantasy: 4 adventurers hover over a bronze statue, statue is talking to them.
Text below: "So I told her, I said, girl, these offerings ain't nowhere near enough to tell you where the ruby is." - Gossip-godling Sanba.

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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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Cee @ceedavies.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

That swirl effect on the flats is so effective

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Cee @ceedavies.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

These are some of my favourite creature arts. Especially that green looking thing with the feathers and the funky collar.

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Cee @ceedavies.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My reference pics of your girl, in case you'd like them

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Cee @ceedavies.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

goddddd your lines are so good

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🫀Ana🔪(Zaeda) COMM OPEN @alienclaws.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

first time drawing at #CanvasAP I can't wait to attend more Canvas APs!

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Cee @ceedavies.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Omg!!! Thank you!! I look sufficiently annoyed, well done

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Cee @ceedavies.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Thank you for joining in the event! It was lovely to meet you

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Cee @ceedavies.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

(My character name is Trachynthota Mharwyn and I dressed as Hades!)

Screenshot from the MMORPG Final Fantasy 14 showing my in-game character dressed as Hades from the movie Hercules / game Kingdom Hearts.

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Cee @ceedavies.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I crashed @feroxxiv.bsky.social’s art party and @goldenlilyxiv.bsky.social rolled high enough for me to draw them cosplaying Aqua! #finalfantasy #artparty #ffxiv #finalfantasy14 #elezen

A rough digital sketch of a fictional character on Final Fantasy 14 called Jaquine Elarai. She has short black hair and pointed ears.

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Cee @ceedavies.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I understand, I closed my Etsy because the admin and fees were more than I wanted to deal with anymore lol. But I still want to have a shop on my site someday. You let me know if you ever end up in Glasgow or Edinburgh!

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Cee @ceedavies.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Please tell me these will be online too perhaps?

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Cee @ceedavies.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Oh my good nooooo I told myself I have enough prints. Jimmy!!!!!

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TarZangief @tarzangief.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Neutral in the culture war"

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Alexandria.Monik @alexandriamonikart.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"My little butterfly wings are getting kinda tired." Dolly knew the power of leading with love. She is, and will always be, an inspiration and an example. She's been a guiding light in my life and so many others. An angel on earth went home. We'll always love you, Dolly.

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harlequinade shadows @outsidershadows.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Hi, everyone. I need your help!!! I REALLY need some commissions — it’s an emergency. I’ll take on any projects, including illustrations of two characters. Send me a DM with any questions—I’ll reply.

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Cee @ceedavies.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

And it feels cold and judgmental but when another reader calls something brilliant when in actuality it's very derivative, uninspired or clearly trying to wear the same shoes as certain other epics... I can't tell who to trust for reviews lmao.

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Cee @ceedavies.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Yeah I'm. Not sure I'd want to continue with something that made me feel like that. What is it about some fantasy writing that feels so lukewarm? It's why I avoid the genre and it's such a shame because I might be missing out on something special.

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Cee @ceedavies.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I had a passing curiosity in the Mistborn books and now I'm glad I didn't commit. Do you think you'll keep reading the series or call it after this one?

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Cee @ceedavies.bsky.social · 14/08/2026