there is such a magic to sitting on a tiny island in the boundary waters, seeing more stars than you could have imagined were up there, hearing the loons
i hope we do not rob future generations of experiencing it
A scientific study shows that watching experimental animation is good for your brain.
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Animation: Jonathan Djob Nkondo.
Hereās just ONE of the artists Marvel Studios let go today:
Wesley Burt, a brilliant veteran, one of the best in the industry. He made the viral Fantastic Four Valentineās day card!
He was also pivotal for the look of many films and shows like for example Loki, Black Panther, Avengers and so on!
A tree sparrow is speaking: "Artistic creation shouldn't be considered carelessly! Good art is made deliberately! With emotion! Physical exertion! If you aren't crying or bleeding by the end, you'd better look into another lifestyle...". We see a class of birds with piles of sticks and a big banner that reads "Intro to nest building" made out of twigs. The teacher continues: "Ok! Does everyone have their bundle of soft moss?"
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Cunt-a-vision 2.0: Fix Your Hearts or Die is the 25th episode Hellavision has made and will be screened in Minneapolis, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, London, and Hamilton Ontario within the next month. Keep an eye on hellavisiontelevision.com for updates.
bro we just live in robocop now
we had four years where we didnāt have to wake up and immediately check the news to see what new nightmare the president has threatened to inflict on the world every morning and 77 million people voted that we should have to do that again and I will never get over it
It's psychopath behavior
The Five Calls app now has a script for you about not committing genocide in Iran. Please call and leave messages to your Reps and Senators.
5calls.org
Hayao Miyazaki films start in his sketchesāhis "image boards." Itās a habit heās kept up for 60 years.
He works fast and loose, mainly in pencil and watercolor. Perfection isn't the goal. But you can trace his growth through the pictures. We explore:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-image-...
"28 years later: the bone temple" really confirms all my childhood suspicions about teletubbies
š«µš» cured
Listening to my cat gently snore solves all my problems. I am cured
From: Short and Suite (1959), dir. Norman McLaren, National Film Board of Canada
Note: flashing images
look i'm not a big "judge people by the media they consume" person but if you watch the new wizard bigot show that gives money to Rowling, I will think less of you and trust you less.
A selection of shots animated by Kim Kyeongbae for Scavengers Reign (2023), created by Joe Bennett and Charles Huettner, Titmouse
this is the fourth time a company has said they'd either send openai billions or get openai to send them billions that's never actually come through - AMD's 6GW of data centers, SK Hynix/Samsung's 900k of DRAM wafers, NVIDIA's $100bn, and Broadcom's 10GW - none of them are real!
Sora is down. I stay making animations with my human hands and brain. Check mate tech bros āØš«¶š¼āØ
It feels great to be a generative ai hater today. Thanks for your hard work and giving us haters a rallying point @edzitron.com
Sora, the ai video generation software that couldn't make videos that were longer than a few seconds because the ai aspect would be too obvious, failed? Huh. Weird
OpenAI is shutting down its AI video platform Sora after it flopped
Disney is now exiting their $1B deal with OpenAI
art is "undemocratic" because only rich people can afford to commit to it full time. if you want to enable the working class to find success in art, you want social welfare, subsidized rents, free healthcare, and UBI. which you could pay for multiple times over with the money being wasted on "AI"
Gave my cat a little taste of DQ blizzard (yolo) and now he won't shut up about it
Without downloading any new pics what's it like dating you?
Animation filmmaking is a rollercoaster of feeling like i'm on top of things and simultaneously deep underwater. There is no in between until it's actually done
You know an animation project is long when you have to redo a "finished" shot because the rest of the shots have strayed from initial ink tests š
Hamline University in St. Paul is one of many colleges that found itself immersed in a surrounding neighborhood impacted by ICE arrests and raids. Now, months after the height of the operationās surge, one professor says returning to normal is not an option.
lmao he says "they're completely wrong" but then explains its a generative ai overlay, which is what everyone said
