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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The more people you call followers, the more you feel alone, since most of them are avatar faces who snap the moment you say an opinion they disagree on and you have to deal with worse than feeling "ignored".

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A response to my A.I. comments:

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Those who defend A.I. as a way to shortcut hard work are the same ones defending dopamines in sports, cheats in competitive games or in school exams and in general love to throw you under the bus to archive the highest goal... the outcome to become successfull is their only vision in the process.

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I see in artists using A.I. a positive thing; you see who never cared for art, but just did the "unwanted hard work" for money or career reasons, they always wanted to cheat themselves to the top. They never understood "integrity". Take their "value" in creating art and telling stories not serious.

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What studio is this and why am I here?

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Today my danish cartoon will premiere with one episode at a danish comic and cartoon convention. My dream to finally be a bigger part of a cartoon finally came into reality.

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Yesterday my hope in humanity died even a step more.

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Xavier - Renegade Angel. One of the best most overlooked shows ever!

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Getting invited by Uli Meyer in London was a highlight a year ago. This year we go Cardiff and Bristol.

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

That dog swam through the Springfield river.

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

It is always great that I can give a new brain tumor in my brain a specific movie name. Like the new one in my back brain is called Millionaire Dogs now.

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The show I work on has a very small budget and a small team. We have 1 BG artist, one special pose/character artist/ prop designer (me), 5-6 animators/clean-up artists, one comp artist, one supervisor and one director & one producer who also do the storyboards and edits. We still push the limits.

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Years ago I had the privilege designing the logo of Christel Kasselmann, one of the lead figures of aquarisic plant research world wide. She sold a lot plant books. At the 21.08 she died due to cancer... Dear Christel, I hope in heaven you can collect as many new water plants as you want. RIP.

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

My "Dirk Prototype" cartoon "FiaskoTV" will be announced/previewed at the 11.09.2026 at the Viborg Animation Festival! I worked on it since January and was the main Character designer and Special Pose designer: viborganimationfestival.dk/events/freda...

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FredagsTamTam live - med nye premierer og overraskelser fra DR - - Viborg Animation Festival

Fredag aften giver vi den fuld gas med animation på VAF Land, når vi i samarbejde med DR inviterer til en helt særlig FredagsTamTam live.Glæd dig til et brag af en fredagsfest med eksklusive premierea...

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Baby Huey from 1995 is kinda a hidden Gem by some of the former Ren and Stimpy artists and future cartoony directors such as Pet Ventura or Vincent Waller. I still kinda have a love/hate relationship with the show. I enjoy the perfect character layouts, but not the concept.

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

My illustrations for TamTam for the danish TV channel are up on the website!

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It's people I don't understand... maybe it's time for me to leave. Some people are meant to be with people, and others, like me, are just different.

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It says a lot that the two countries with the highest CO² pollution on this planet make fun of europeans not using air conditioners.

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The mother of my girlfriend died yesterday, 3 years after her father and 4 years after my father have died. All died because of smoking. Her mother was 63, her father 71 and my father 68. Death was very rampant during our relationship. Plz forgive me if I am not very active the next days.

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

While my team and I work hard with a low budget, with the high change that it does not catch any attention because we are just a small country (denmark) with no high reach into the world, I have to see how people who had all the success and did movies and shows sell me and the industry out to A.I.

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Good news; a good animation movie won in Cannes. The A.I. shitfest "Shitterz", sorry, "Critterz" was nearly completly ignored.

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Lazyness, greed and arrogance has turned three big names to use A.I.

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Remember the time real humen did children stuff?

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I am still alive, just very busy with the two shows and game I am working on and now adding a work on a pitch for a Disney show.

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

We have 3 animators, one bg artist, one comp artist, 4 cleanup artists, 2 coordinators, two directors/ producers and me as character designer, prop designer and special pose artist. Our budget for one season as a whole is the same as one episode of Hazbin Hotel. We won't get supported from anyone.

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Tribute to my favourite animator of all time. Thanks for inspiring me, Børge.

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The irony that Borge Ring was one of my biggest influences as a kid and that he came from Denmark and yet the same country gives me the opportunity to do a cartoon nearly 100% in my style to return the favour.

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Oh wow this one looks awesome! Thanks buddy!

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

It has been 4 years. Today in 2022 I got a call from my mom at 7:30 a.m. telling me my dad is dead. I ran over to my parents home and saw the ambulance getting out of the apartment. His dead body was on the ground. I miss you, dad...

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Back in the day rich people were evil but still had taste in good art and invested in it. Now their spoiled kids took over, still are evil and have no taste in good art, investing in terrible things.

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Like with the NFT crap, all you have to do is copy paste the A.I. slop and tell them their stuff is not copyright protected and maybe it vanishes quicker than you think.

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

No pop music = Best Mario Movie!

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Miyamoto after watching 'Ready Player One': "Hold my kirin ichiban!" Farts in 2026: 'Super Mario Galaxy Movie'

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Imagine all social media platforms have to pay you a small amount of money for the free art you post daily to create the traffic they recieve.

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Dirk Erik Schulz @themrock.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I think his death will be cheered so loud that we attract aliens to earth.

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