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LUO @luoiae.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

hawks (I got lazy to ink more and I realized I didn't use waterproof ink LOL OOOOOPSIES

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" 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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Tim Gaedke @timgaedke.com · 26/09/2026

talent is a lie

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べしょこ@3/29 く47b @besyoko.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

とぷ3

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A @everythingce.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

ホー炎 호크엔데

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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LUO @luoiae.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ENDHAWKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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まあ @maa21maa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

お題の絵がなかなかしっくりこず… こちらお題からかけ離れすぎてボツのホー炎です

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Momo @moomommo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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まあ @maa21maa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ホー炎😸

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塰它 @2hmnskihyhy1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

雨続きだしほーえん雨の中に放り出すか… と思って描いてたら雨やんだなぜこれは付き合ってないほーえん

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Unicorn Empire @unicornempire.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A little Endhawks Swoonery for your Tuesday! 🔥🐦

Enji Todoroki and Keigo Takami from My Hero Academia [Endeavor and Hawks] dressed in traditional Japanese clothes with Hawks as a scholar and Endeavor dressed as a swordsman

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Momo @moomommo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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かしう @casiu-ars.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

✕で見かけた動画のやつ

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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

just learned this today

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rock robster @plounce.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#catcrumb

a simple drawing of a sign on a post that says "something good will happen soon", and an orange cat driving a grey car thinking "i sure hope so, thank you though".

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さかなぎ @dc-saka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

バカンスのホー炎🏝️

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Momo @moomommo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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LUO @luoiae.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

endhawks

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ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ📦好可愛B0T @hako2512.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

🔥 這段真的很帥我畫一下✍️

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まあ @maa21maa.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

ホー炎

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Momo @moomommo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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れら @rei-mha.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

10月は全年齢本！💄マークをつけるホエンの話描きたいから2色刷りしたい

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sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

how about some good news: new cat just dropped!!!!

a photo of a small, spotted wild cat, with orange fur and brown circular markings, staring up with big golden eyes.

Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years

A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.

This 10-year-old male tiger cat is the first of his species (named Leopardus tilcayo) known to science. He is approximately 18 inches from head to end of body and weighs only 3 pounds, making him smaller than the average domestic cat. This video was captured at the Senda Verde Animal Refuge in Bolivia’s Yungas region, where he currently resides.

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いちじく @ichijiku3105.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

ﾁﾝ枕

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swagvoid🌱 @swagvoid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

new cat dropped!!

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Eskart(Commissions open!!!) @eskart.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

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Momodriller @momodriller.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

nyanngnyagh

cartoon sea otter holding a sea urchin that's been split in half, and is chewing on its insides

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いちじく @ichijiku3105.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

🔥

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virgil (school hiatus) 🫆🔮💫 @vigilnaut.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

daily reminder ✨

DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD. instead ask: is it SINCERE, is it CATHARTIC, was it FUN TO MAKE, is it MADE BY ME, and don’t forget to stay silly

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Momo @moomommo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

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Momo @moomommo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

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もとくに @mtknmha.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

ぴちぴちダメージ🦅

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Once Upon A Time On The Internet @newgroundsdoc.newgrounds.com · 01/09/2026

23 YEARS AGO TODAY, @mrweebl.bsky.social posted BADGERS to @Newgrounds.com

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まあ @maa21maa.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

ホー炎

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のん @frfreeeen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

顔が赤ちゃんすぎるけど許して

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みっか@次は2月 @3icca5.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

グッズの絵できました♡照れホー炎不備なければトート＆ポストカード＆ステッカーの予定です

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しょる @seanshoru.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

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Shay @shahara.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Don’t let ‘cringe’ steal the joy of something you created. Make it. Make it self indulgent. Make it for yourself, no matter how corny or cliche someone tells you your fave device or trope is. If it’s something you want to write (or read) then that’s a good enough reason to write it.

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月読🍀 @kt4-cq.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

何着ても似合うな、俺

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いちじく @ichijiku3105.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

タイタニックに乗ってた頃の🦅🔥

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🍄 you cannot kill me in a way that matters 🍄 @tierfal.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

a fun fact I've shared here and there: Tierfal was the last name of one of the MCs of the epic fantasy trilogy I started when I was 12 (although I didn't give any of them last names until later. because I was 12.) and I thought it would make a cool username 😂 I like that she lives on that way 🫶

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🍄 you cannot kill me in a way that matters 🍄 @tierfal.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Me watching FMA at 22: Roy is thirty whole years old, no wonder he can handle all that Me writing FMA fic at 37: who the fuck let this stupid baby stage a coup

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