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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sometimes I feel like the only one, but I don't dislike painting pots. 🫣 I have a lot of dropper bottles too and I find pros and flaws in both designs, but maybe I'm weird...

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

While reading Bjorn the Fell Handed book by @justinhillauthor.bsky.social, I wanted to build the kit I have on my shelf since years.

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daryl "crimetime after primetime" 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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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Today I wanted to see if the castraferrum could bend the knee with some work. It's doable. Not easy but doable.

Side of the castraferrum legs with knee working.

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Jorge Rodríguez @jorgertg98.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Risen Dark Angel comm for @ragnamarkndroll.bsky.social! Really proud of this one

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Phil Szostak @philszostak.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“Tony [Gilroy] finally turned to me, and he said, ‘Hey, you just got to stop pitching plot. Plot is bullshit. Plot is what happens when you get the behavior right. Pitch me a line of dialogue, pitch me atmosphere, pitch me something visual. Stop pitching stuff that happens.’” 1/2

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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electriceve (ICantThinkEm) @electriceve.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

ak interactive appear to be using ai in their box design. just another reason not to buy ak products 🫠✨

The box design for AK quick gen metallic paints

A close up of the box design for AK quick gen metallic paints showing particularly suspicious gun design

A close up of the box design for AK quick gen paints

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm still disheartened by that book missing on my shelf. 😢

All Siège of Terra LE books bar 1 (The End and the Death Vol 3).

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

My son has started watching Bluey again. I'm honestly amazed by the writing of this kid TV show each time I watch it with him. Some episodes honestly make me shed tears.

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I finished reading the Jarnhamar trilogy. I started reading Hive.

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

First time I manage to take pictures of lightning. I'm quite happy.

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Didier Deschamps Magnétiques @ddmagneto.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Suboden Khan, capitaine de la première Confrérie des White Scars. #whitescars40k #whitescars #warhammer40k #warhammercommunity #subodenkhan

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

If you are going to GenCon this weekend, can you ask @cubicle7games.bsky.social the status for the Horus Heresy RPG for me? Thanks!

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Finished this part #WIP. No the back pack and the horse.

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Tonight's #WIP

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The Duke of Bretonnia @nickthechemist.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Bretonnian Baggage train, finished! The knight prays at the moveable shrine before battle. The glue on the grass still needs to dry and I'll take some better photos then! . . . #warhammertheoldworld #warhammercommunity #bretonnia #warhammerfantasybattle #warhammer #theoldworld

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

These last days I painted 2 Drop Pods. I think I'll paint some Bretonnians again next.

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Jordan Sorcery @jordansorcery.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I was very sad to hear news of Richard ‘Orclord’ Hale’s passing. An enormous loss to the community. The Stuff of Legends has long been an essential resource for collectors, fans, & historians, and I personally would not have been able to do so much of my work without it. Terribly sad news.

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I just wanted to say: Fuck StreumOn. Very hard. I honestly despise their vile founders. Maybe the worst people I worked with in my life. I'll never buy a game from them, not even accept it for free.

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

After all, why shouldn't I?

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Tried to build a 40k 11th edition table just for fun. I quite like the result.

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I developed a theory this morning about Orks. After seeing those horrible nails on the foot of Gork and knowing Orks are fungi... I'm pretty sure now Orks are in fact Gork's mycosis.

Horrible mycosis treatment add I want to forget badly

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I'm honestly terrified, we live on the top floor of a small apartment building near Paris without air conditioning. It's 31°C right now in the kid's room and it's forecast to be even worse in the coming days.

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Docteur Bagarre @docteurbagarre.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

In this grimdark future of mankind, there is no hope. There is only la céramite of Limoges.

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" and if you have a 3D printer guy in your club, he'll bring it up at every opportunity.

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Andy Clark, Nerdling Herder @andycruns.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Warhammer needs a sim city type game where you build a hive and have to fend of genestealer infections, mutie uprisings, political machinations, occasional orks etc all while keeping the population balanced between downtrodden and rioting

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Fred Scykhe @scykhe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This friday I have a game planned with @dried.bsky.social and I have painted a Kill rig for the occasion. It was a very fun mini to paint which took me longer than expected but a real pleasure. More photos in posts below #warhammercommunity #warhammer40000 #nerdlings #orks #waaagh

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I had a revelation today and I just had to get it off my chest. Sorry.

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Yesterday I had a booth in an "association day" for my city where I presented my association (which isn't doing wargames only) to other inhabitants of the city. My most wholesome encounter with was a 13 year old and his mother.

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G.M. Gray @gmgray.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Persepolis is among my favorite graphic novels, and I've been thinking about this quote a lot these days for obvious reasons. So sad to hear about Satrapi's passing.

If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it's that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.

Quote by Marjane Satrapi

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ian.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com · 04/06/2026

just in case you ever feel you're not good enough, this is from an old conversation with John Blanche as he and i discussed imposter syndrome a few years back go well, John. you fucking rocked

I've have to ignore imposter syndrome there's SO many brilliant artists out there why on earth would people want to look at mine ...

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Talking about his art this triptych of the Imperial Palace you saw opening the 3rd edition rulebook will always live rent-free in my head. It's everything defining 40k for me: gigantic, dark, mystic, mysterious and absurd (and so cool). He will be dearly missed by all.

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I'm so sad seeing the news. RIP to John Blanche maybe one of the artist who had the biggest influence on my life. You'll never be forgotten.

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I can't unsee Macron as a Barbarian now...

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Kyle Freyasfaðir @kylekaybee.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Last Head taker, almost done @dried.bsky.social

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Charles @dried.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Honestly even as a hobbyist first, gamer second, I'm really interested by those prepainted terrains (depending on the price obv.). Terrain is really boring to paint and I don't have much. Just a little above the necessary above to play. If they add variety in the future it would be a huge win for

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Fred Scykhe @scykhe.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Today I build this kit as I want it painted in 3 weeks for my game with @dried.bsky.social #warhammer #warhammercommunity #nerdlings

An unopened kill rig box for Warhammer 40000

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