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Some studies from Tustomu Nihei's TOWER DUNGEON - just out here tryin to level up #sketch #study #towerdungeon #manga #drawing

A bunch of sketch studies of knights and sword fighting action from Tstuomu Nihei's manga TOWER DUNGEON

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 30/09/2026

Absolutely obsessed with this 70s baseball art (the Angels ones are by Richard "Dick" Lasley, Red Sox by Charles J "Chuck" Mazoujian)

1969 Red Sox program cover illustration by Charles J "Chuck" Mazoujian - from above, a baseball player swings at an incoming pitch

A trippy illustration of the Angles scorebook magazine from the 1970s by Richard "Dick" Lasley

A montage of Angels moments from a scorebook magazine, cover illustrated by Richard "Dick" Lasley

Cover of the 1970 Red Sox program and scorecard illustrated by Charles J "Chuck" Mazoujian. A montage of baseball moments.

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 29/09/2026

KNIGHTS & RELATIONSHIPS will be playing at the 2026 Out Of This World Film Festival in Albuquerque on Dec 12! More details to come!! #filmsky #fantasy

A still from the short film Knights & Relationships, with an Out Of This World Film Festival 2026 laurel. Text explains that the festival is December 12, 2026 atThe Guild Cinema in Albuquerque.

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 24/09/2026

206 miles so far this year

Stats of distance run over the year - 206 miles total so far

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 14/09/2026

Custom Oscar, Knight of Astora / Elite Knight figure, made from Mythic Legions figures and some 3D printed parts. Really nice to do some art just for fun #darksouls #art #actionfigures

Custom Oscar action figure from Dark Souls in a standing pose on a neutral background

Custom Oscar action figure from Dark Souls in an action pose with plants in the background

Custom work-in-progress Oscar action figure from Dark Souls. Some parts are unpainted 3D prints.

Disassembled custom Oscar action figure from Dark Souls. Parts are all spread out on a table for assembly.

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 07/09/2026

Happy Labor Day! So proud and grateful to be a member of IATSE Locals 800 and 839. Being a union member guarantees minimum rates for my storyboarding work and health insurance for my family between jobs. Get involved in your union, organize if you don’t have one yet 💪 #filmsky #labor #art

Selfie wearing an Animation Guild hat and Art Directors Guild shirt. Photo subject is very handsome.

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 04/09/2026

I'll be at Lightbox Expo in October with a murderer's row of live-action storyboard artists! Don't miss it!! #art #lbx #storyboard

Promotional image for a Lightbox 2026 panel, "How To Break Into Storyboardindg For Feature Films," featuring Aaron Sowd, Amy Umezu,
Dwayne Turner, Sam Tung, Tony Liberatore, and William Groebe

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 01/09/2026

Chatting storyboarding and pitching/development with the great @chancesecond.bsky.social

Photo of Chance Brown and Sam Tung outside a restaurant

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 17/08/2026

KNIGHTS & RELATIONSHIPS will be playing at Los Angeles Fantasy Fest, November 20-21, at Skiptown Playhouse, where it has been nominated for Best Short and Best Director. Further details to come!! #filmsky #fantasy

A still from the short film Knights & Relationships, with a Los Angeles Fantasy Fest Film Festival 2026 laurel. Text explains that the festival is running November 20-21 2026 at Skiptown Playhouse in Los Angeles.

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 13/08/2026

Great day talking storyboarding at WB Animation

Photo of Sam Tung next to a Daffy Duck sculpture in front of a Looney Tunes backdrop

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 12/08/2026

Excited to check out SWORDS AGAINST by @amabel.bsky.social

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 10/08/2026

Loved VENOMOUS LUMPSUCKER by @nedbeauman.bsky.social Very beautiful, very powerful

Photo of the cover of “Venomous Lumpsucker” by Ned Beauman

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 09/08/2026

Pretty pleased with these jeans

Photo of cuffed purple weft jeans. The cuffed interior is purple and the jeans have a slight purple sheen to them.

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 31/07/2026

Showing KNIGHTS & RELATIONSHIPS at GenCon!

Photo of Sam Tung on a red carpet with a GenCom backdrop at GenCon Film Festival 2026

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 24/07/2026

Second time catching THE ODYSSEY!

Selfie of me and my wife in front of Odyssey posters

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 22/07/2026

GenCon scheming over coffee with Ray Chou of @mythworks.bsky.social #ttrpg

Selfie of Sam Tung and Ray Chou at a coffee shop

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 16/07/2026

Absolutely floored by the German edition of ESCAPE FROM DINO ISLAND from @systemmatters.bsky.social. Tremendous work from Daniel Neugebauer, Eike Kronshage, Regina Nolte, Frank Bartsch, Lutz Winter and Patrick Wittstock. Whatever language you speak, a must for EFDI fans! #ttrpg #dinosaurs

Photo of the German edition of Escape From Dino Island ("Flucht Von Dino Island") and a carnotaurus toy. The book has orange and red text on a black cover.

A warm-toned silhouette illustration of dinosaurs in a forest on the inside cover of the German edition of Escape From Dino Island ("Flucht Von Dino Island")

Interior art and layout of the German edition of Escape From Dino Island ("Flucht Von Dino Island")

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 13/07/2026

Saw a salamander on a run

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 13/07/2026

Sell your book in five words “You escape from Dino Island”

Photograph of tabletop RPG “Escape From Dino Island” with a Jurassic Park Carnotaurus toy

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 11/07/2026

Murderers row of illustrators at the Odyssey crew screening #filmsky #art

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 03/07/2026

Reminds me a bit of this line from Elden Ring

An image of Melina from Elden Ring with the overlaid text, "However ruined this world has become, however mired in torment and despair, life endures. Births continue. There is beauty in that, is there not?"

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 23/06/2026

Honored to be up in Sacramento on behalf of IATSE Locals 800 (Art Directors Guild) and 839 (The Animation Guild) with wonderful folks to support @rbkforassembly.bsky.social’s AB-412, which would require GenAI companies to disclose what’s in their datasets on their websites

Group photo of supporters for AB-412 in Sacramento

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 23/06/2026

En route to Sacramento to talk AB-412 and stick it to AI on behalf of my fellow illustrators and workers

Photo from an airport bar of a passport, vodka tonic, and a copy of Brian Merchant’s book Blood in the Machine.

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 18/06/2026

Took my kid to his first game at Dodger Stadium today, he was a big fan of the hot dogs

Photo of a kid wearing Dodgers gear and eating a hot dog

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 18/06/2026

On this day two years ago we were shooting KNIGHTS & RELATIONSHIPS! Such a great time, very happy with how it all came out A few more festivals (including GEN CON at the end of the July!) and then I'll put it online for everyone. #filmsky #fantasy #medievalsky #ttrpg

Photo of Director Sam Tung and First AD Teddy Pryor on the set of Knights & Relationships in 2024

Photo of director Sam Tung and actress Krystle Martin on the set of Knights & Relationships in 2024. Krystle is wearing full medieval armor.

Photo of actors Krystle Martin and Brandin Elmore on the set of Knights & Relationships in 2024. Two knights in full armor stand in front of a tree with a map on it near a campfire.

Photo of crew on the set of Knights & Relationships in 2024. A bunch of people stand around cameras and monitors and actors in medieval knight armor in the woods at night.

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 14/06/2026

Update he talked me into donuts

Little kid in a dodgers hat looking at donuts in the grocery store

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 14/06/2026

Hand to god I saw these people in a dream last night, had about an hour to get a sketch down before my kids woke up and demanded raspberries

A young woman with dark hair in black armor with silver trim holding a thin sword walking through a field of grass on a cloudy day.

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 10/06/2026

Statement from The Art Directors Guild, IATSE Local 800 on Martin Scorsese’s recent promotion of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) The Art Directors Guild represents storyboard and concept artists in live-action film, series, and commercials

Statement from The Art Directors Guild, IATSE Local 800 on Martin Scorsese’s recent promotion of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI):

"Mr. Scorsese, The Business is not in flux.

Oscar winning director Martin Scorsese is turning his back on the human artists who throughout his career have helped him create his most memorable works.

In the recently released Black Forest Labs video promoting their generative AI product FLUX, Mr. Scorsese asks the question, “how do you communicate what you see in your head to your cast and crew?” He claims the solution is the use of this generative AI program to do the jobs that are rightfully the jurisdiction of Art Directors Guild Local 800 artists and designers - human artists and designers who have been successfully collaborating with directors to visualize their films for decades. Mr. Scorsese's promotion of a generative AI product circumvents the input of Art Directors Guild Local 800 art directors, graphic artists, illustrators, production designers, scenic artists, set designers, and other talented Union professionals.

Generative AI is only capable of producing this type of “cinematic intelligence” by ingesting large swaths of copyrighted work, likely scraped from the internet without consent, credit, compensation, or transparency.

The skills of Art Directors Guild Local 800 artists and designers bring the highest level of value to any film or television production. To think their professional contributions can be mimicked or outshone by generative AI, which is built on work likely stolen from them and many other artists from around the world, is a betrayal of the collaborative nature of cinema."

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 07/06/2026

OUR paintings, OUR words, OUR music, OUR faces, and OUR voices - ARE NOT THEIR TRADE SECRETS ! Hearing is THIS MONDAY (6/8) 3pm on AB-412, which would require AI companies to make their datasets searchable online Capitol Annex Swing Space, 1021 O Street - Room 2100, Sacramento, CA

Information about the 6/8 hearing on CA AB-412

QR code to RSVP to the 6/8/26 hearing for CA AB-412 in Sacramento
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScXT3bqX4jUJNA8O_QmcR9WV6S-WXzRhmum0PrBRkTFdlFI5Q/viewform

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 27/05/2026

You can’t read it but my shirt says ANTI-AI TIL I DIE

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 18/05/2026

KNIGHTS & RELATIONSHIPS will be playing at GEN CON 2026 as part of the Fantasy Short Film Block on Thursday, July 30 at 3:30pm in the Westin Capitol Ballroom III! Tickets HERE: www.gencon.com/events/329036 #filmsky #ttrpg #fantasy

A still from the short film Knights & Relationships, with a Gen Con Film Festival 2026 laurel. Text explains that the film is playing on Thursday, June 30, at Gen Con in Indianapolis.

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 11/05/2026

Did some storyboards for s2e05 of CITADEL, out now on Amazon Prime #filmsky #art

A comparison of a storyboard frame and the final picture from Citadel season 2 episode 05: a woman takes a man with a bag over his head down the London tube escalator

A comparison of a storyboard frame and the final picture from Citadel season 2 episode 05: an orbiting camera shot of a prisoner exchange; prisoners walk around a confectionary booth in an empty London tube station at night in the dark

A comparison of a storyboard frame and the final picture from Citadel season 2 episode 05: A man stands with a burning figure in the background

A comparison of a storyboard frame and the final picture from Citadel season 2 episode 05: a hostage flanked by gunmen descend down a London tube escalator at night

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 02/05/2026

KNIGHTS & RELATIONSHIPS will be playing at GenCon! More details to come! #filmsky #ttrpg

Two knights in armor sit in a forest at night lit by firelight

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 01/05/2026

Taking my kid to his first MLB game this weekend! Flying back to my hometown to see Dodgers @ Cardinals. Pen and marker, then some Photoshop #art #baseball

Pen and marker drawing of a blue and gold LA Dodgers hat, on a background of a blue field and gold star

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 27/04/2026

@jiffytot.bsky.social took a nice picture of me at the Renaissance Faire

Photo of Sam Tung in Renaissance Faire costume

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 27/04/2026

Too heavy! Chain coif can just chill on my shoulders

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 27/04/2026

LA Ren Faire with the fam

Photo of a family at the Renaissance Faire

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 26/04/2026

Some lovely reviews of KNIGHTS & RELATIONSHIPS from the @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social 😭 Feels pretty great to have an audience totally get what you were going for and enjoy your work

Screenshot of Letterboxd reviews of Knights & Relationships

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 26/04/2026

There’s literally a defunct castle down the road from me and I’d love to have a medieval/fantasy-themed bar that hosts buhurt fights

Photo of a defunct castle-themed novelty restaurant once called Magic Towers in Pomona, CA

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 26/04/2026

So honored to have KNIGHTS & RELATIONSHIPS play at @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social!! Looks like an amazing Festival, I so badly wish I could have been there in person. Next time!! #fantasy #filmsky

A photo in a movie theater of people watching KNIGHTS & RELATIONSHIPS. On screen, a medieval knight in a yellow hooded cloak stands in front of a tree lit by firelight at night.

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 25/04/2026

Rodolfo DaMaggio’s storyboards for this film are truly GOAT work

Rodolfo DaMaggio storyboard for Hidalgo: a layout for a desert town

Rodolfo DaMaggio storyboard for Hidalgo: low angle of men on horses riding toward camera

Rodolfo DaMaggio storyboard for Hidalgo: over-the-shoulder shot of a man in a horse talking to a soldier

Rodolfo DaMaggio storyboard for Hidalgo: a man tends to an injured horse after falling in a spike pit

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 22/04/2026

Dual-wielding Union cards

Photo of Art Directors Guild and Animation Guild Union cards

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Sam Tung @stung.art · 21/04/2026

A few years back I acquired the rights to Darrell Schweitzer's 1980s fantasy-horror novella WE ARE ALL LEGENDS and was really hoping to make an animated series out of it. Someday, perhaps....

Purple-themed image of a drawing of a knight, viking warrior woman, and demonic figure with the title "WE ARE ALL LEGENDS"

Cover of Darrell Schweitzer's novel WE ARE ALL LEGENDS

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