iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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nevrender @nevrender.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Vespers. Illustration for the Armored Core VI zine project RECORDS//ANALYSIS (@armoredcorezine.bsky.social)

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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Mathy math. 🐧📐📈 #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I once wrote faux networking for scripted narrative-heavy raid bosses when I figured out the local event system could broadcast to the lua machine running on the server. I wish I could have recorded Engineer type 1's exasperated<->impressed facial expressions as he scrolled through all 1600 lines.

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Lee Petty @leepetty.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Just going to live in the nearby forest now

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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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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 09/09/2026

After years of company stalling, Blizzard workers win mega-contract that applies to all unionized teams aftermath.site/blizzard-union...

the famous orc statue outside blizzard's HQ in irvine, california

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I was not prepared to be emotionally destroyed today. We put a lot into the games we create and reading things like this makes it all seem worthwhile. Big ooof.

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Dimension 20 @dimension20.dropout.tv · 07/09/2026

every job deserves comfort, dignity and safety! 🫡

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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

So... something REALLY cool happened I had my first week working on a SERIOUSLY cool project with VERY talented people at a place that makes me remember exactly why I LOVE making video games. Coolest. Week. Ever. (..so far???)

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John Romero @johnromero.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Check out my trip to the Dutch Pinball Museum where I discover a new FPS, possibly the first FPS. dutchpinballmuseum.com

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Gamedev can have a little door discourse as a treat

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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I was taught by all cyberpunk media that that the billionaire propaganda would not be blindingly obvious. I guess they are already so rich they really don't have to try 🫠

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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

YEAH AND NIGHT MARSH IS DARK AS BALLS I CANT SEE SHI (complimentary)

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巽 @tatsumimi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

操縦席

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Martin @tuxedopato.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Fast hands 🤝 Model: 战双帕弥什/1010浣

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Equiliari @equiliari.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A collection of some boulders I came across. Featuring normal Norwegian summer weather. #Photography #Nature #mountain #boulders #Reference #materialreference #Norway

$Photograph of a barren mountain landscape in cloudy weather. Boulders of various size are strewn about. In the center there is a large boulder that is fractured in clean slices. Other mountains are visible in the background.$

Photograph of a barren mountain landscape in cloudy weather. In the center there is a large boulder resting on a rocky ground. Other mountains are visible in the background.

Photograph of a barren mountain landscape in cloudy weather. In the center there is a boulder the size of a small boulder perched on the edge of rocky ground.

Photograph of a barren mountain landscape in cloudy weather. In the center there is a large boulder that is perched on the edge of a downhill rocky ground. Other mountains are visible in the background.

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It’s pleasant to put food out for wildlife and them to show up and walk past you and be very relaxed in your presence but also still clearly wild animals. For them small moments you all just vibing in the dark in each others company.

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Abel @abeliansoup.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

have you ever seen a visual shepherd tone anon? courtesy of @bleuje.com

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Gaelya @gaelya.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Quote with your purple art!

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Xavier @xavierck.com · 13/06/2026

Still really happy with how this scan translated into a usable in-engine asset I should futz around with cloth sim in Unreal a little more

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Dominik Mayer @dominikmayerart.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

New custom Ring token!

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Keijiro Takahashi @keijiro.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I've organized the documents, and the functionality on iOS is now working without issues, reaching a state of provisional completion. Since it's ready, I might as well try submitting it to the App Store, but before that, I need to do some dogfooding. github.com/keijiro/Jacq...

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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Heartwarming discovery: I just found out that the rival guild from my classic WoW days had a meetup last year for the 20 year anniversary of their guild. Sick.

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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Nine Inch Nails-ass OST plays in the background

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Rocketengine @rocketengine.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Allan Parker Marathon Art Blast www.artstation.com/artwork/6LKG00

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 08/08/2026

Sometimes I see something in nature and then spend the next several years waiting for the shot. Sometimes I never get it. Sometimes you see it and a week later you land it: I give you tonight's murder of crows in front of the sunset. 🪶

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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Yooooooooo how have I never seen this art before

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

One of today’s workshop robin visits, they seem happy with today’s progress with the sugan stool that only needs me to make 3 more stretchers and it be all the frame made and then just cleaning it up and making it nice.

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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Gonna keep hold of this for when I need to ask a producer if I can resources to have a button animated. We have fallen so far.

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LukeMakes @servus.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I'm having one of those days where I disagree with too much of modern life so I am debating going to live in the mountains throwing rocks at people who get too close

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