iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

kip ☄️ @kipbite.com · 29/09/2026

AMAZING!! this turned out so good!! must feel awesome to get it finished too haha

kip ☄️ @kipbite.com · 28/09/2026

CHAPTER 2 BEGIIIINS!!! 💎 site: www.vesselcomic.com 📖 comicfury: vessel-comic.cfw.me ⭐read pages early!! ko-fi.com/kipbite [ #art #vessel ]

a crop of a digitally drawn comic page. the panel in view shows a wide shot of the outside of an overgrown ruins, with midday sun beating down on the scenery. the stone walls have moss creeping up them, and large trees shade the courtyard area with cool shadows.

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kip ☄️ @kipbite.com · 26/09/2026

emotes are back on the menu!! grab em grab em grab em!! ⭐ vgen.co/kipbite ⭐ [ #art #vgen #vgencommission ]

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kip ☄️ @kipbite.com · 26/09/2026

emotes are back on the menu!! grab em grab em grab em!! ⭐ vgen.co/kipbite ⭐ [ #art #vgen #vgencommission ]

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kip ☄️ @kipbite.com · 25/09/2026

more nart today!! www.twitch.tv/kipbite [ #twitch #live ]

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kip ☄️ @kipbite.com · 24/09/2026

🌲💀 [ #art #pokemon ]

a digital art drawing of the pokemon phantump hovering in the middle of the image. behind them, a dense woods of thin trees is backlit by a soft pinkish orange light in the distance, which casts a highlight on everything, complimentary to the green and blue shadows. below the phantump in the background, the light is seen illuminating the surface of a small stream with a log bent over it, forming a natural bridge. the phantump is backlit as well, and mostly in the shadow, allowing its red glowing red eyes to become a focal point of the piece.

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kip ☄️ @kipbite.com · 24/09/2026

AAAA OMG?? 🥺 THIS RULES!! thank you so much!!

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Tonionio ✨ @tonionio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I drew @kipbite.com while they’re streaming cool art

a cartoon style drawing of just the head of kipbite’s vtuber.

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kip ☄️ @kipbite.com · 23/09/2026

big arting!! and probs some commission stuff later!! [ #twitch #live ] www.twitch.tv/kipbite

a digital art sketch of the pokemon phantump in a dark forest, backlit by an orange light behind them

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Shooshies @shooshies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

✨💗✨💗✨💗✨ Emote queue is open! :3 Take a look at some of my favourite emotes I've made recently! Hmu on Discord or Vgen 😊👍 ✨💗✨💗✨💗✨

Send Emote inquiries to Shooshies on Discord (Username: Shooshies)

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kip ☄️ @kipbite.com · 23/09/2026

commission for a re-draw of the shaded citadel cover!! [ #art #vgencommission #vgen ]

a digital art re-creation of the shaded citadel D&D cover, but very stylised and cartoony. a party of four adventurers of different classes stand in the middle of the illustration, fighting off root-like monsters that are creeping up from thick purple fog. behind the party is a large dead tree with sprawling leaf-less branches. the central party member is casting a bright spell that is lighting the middle of the illustration.

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kip ☄️ @kipbite.com · 22/09/2026

your art literally blows my cock clean off

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kip ☄️ @kipbite.com · 22/09/2026

as always, ko-fi members are a handful of pages ahead!! and YOU can be, too!! ko-fi.com/kipbite

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kip ☄️ @kipbite.com · 22/09/2026

WAHOOO!! chapter 2 is officially beginning next week for public release!! 💎 site: www.vesselcomic.com 📖 comicfury: vessel-comic.cfw.me [ #art #vessel ]

a digitally drawn cover art page for a comic. the text reads "chapter 2, fortune" beneath the text, a crystal orb is seen on a table, backlit by blurred light from a window.

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kip ☄️ @kipbite.com · 18/09/2026

✨new YCH just dropped!! just in time for the cool weather :3 grab one over at my vgen! 🎃 vgen.co/kipbite [ #art #vgen ]

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kip ☄️ @kipbite.com · 18/11/2025

sleepy 🍀 #art #pokemon

a digital art painting of the pokemon bulbasaur asleep in a lush green field, with soft clouds towering above them in the teal sky behind

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 19/09/2026

this tweet is NINE years old and is still the best trans rights policy advice out there

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kip ☄️ @kipbite.com · 18/09/2026

my pleasure!! thank you so much for a fun commission!! 🩵🩵

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kip ☄️ @kipbite.com · 18/09/2026

✨new YCH just dropped!! just in time for the cool weather :3 grab one over at my vgen! 🎃 vgen.co/kipbite [ #art #vgen ]

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kip ☄️ @kipbite.com · 27/11/2025

lil litwick!! #art #pokemon

a digital art painting of the pokemon litwick in a shaded snowy valley. the snow-covered fir trees behind them are lit with orange light

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GreenFogg @greenfogg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"bird man bird man birdman! Kestraaaaaaaaaaaaaal. His design has been updated since i drew this but oooh I am so excited for his appearance in the Vessel comic by @kipbite.com " from 2025

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kip ☄️ @kipbite.com · 18/09/2026

commission for a tattoo for an OC!! [ #art #vgen #commission ]

a digital art drawing of a stylised tattoo, shaped to fit on a person's back. the design is of a small patch of water with water lilies, lotus flowers, and spider lilies floating in a smooth trail across the surface. the lotus flowers are white with slight pink hints, and the spider lilies are a vibrant red. all the plants have water droplets on them.

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kip ☄️ @kipbite.com · 17/09/2026

nothing beating this one i'm afraid

a screenshot of a drop down menu on a form. the prompt is "gender" and the selected option in the drop down reads "0"

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kip ☄️ @kipbite.com · 15/09/2026

FINAL PAGE OF CHAPTER 1 IS UP!!!! ✨ 💎 site: www.vesselcomic.com 📖 comicfury: vessel-comic.cfw.me [ #art #vessel ]

a crop of a digitally drawn comic page. a man and a woman are seen in a ruined room with sunlight streaming in from off-panel. the man is standing on a pile of junk and rubble, holding up a blue gem encased in metal brackets. the woman is standing behind him on the ground, watching him.

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kip ☄️ @kipbite.com · 10/09/2026

it's uh. doing it again

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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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kip ☄️ @kipbite.com · 09/09/2026

i hate to admit it but i am a little stressed about money rn. i don't have anything in the comm queue so i'm stressing about keeping up with vessel please consider grabbing a comm or dropping a ko-fi if you're able to! 💙 might do chibi comms on stream soon too! vgen.co/kipbite ko-fi.com/kipbite

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kip ☄️ @kipbite.com · 09/09/2026

or please consider supporting me on ko-fi!! a one-time donation is greatly appreciated, but if you decide to subscribe you can also read my comic early!! ko-fi.com/kipbite

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kip ☄️ @kipbite.com · 09/09/2026

✨i've also opened up sketches and tattoo designs on vgen!!✨ i need some work at the moment, please consider supporting me if you're looking to get some emotes/artwork done!! [ #art #vgencomm #vgen ]

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