Slay (literally) Queen.

Literally just renewed my license a few seconds ago then saw this. I love Plasticity and really need to make more stuff in it.

Godzilla poster and promotional art by Noriyoshi Ohrai (1935-2015)

Screenshot of the article: Alaska Art Student Arrested for Eating Another Student’s AI-Generated Art in Protest

Roses are red
AI pretends to know best

“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art,” he said. “At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn’t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it’s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.”

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

Gorgeous.

Malenia will always receive a repost here.

you think about scrooge and he basically gave cratchit reasonably stable long term employment and paid him more or less enough to raise a family on a single income and he's still a fucking villain. today's billionaires are like 10x worse

Nightreign probably has the worst player base of any game I've played.

I made the mistake of not getting out of 2nd rank in Deep of Night and am forever stuck.

The amount of people leaving now, sometimes before we're even dropped, is wild. I probably have 3 out of 4 matches fail due to leavers.

Illustration of various little creatures. Rows of them in a lineup. Ttrpg characters design

Some creeps.

Long before Pinterest, we built our own morgue file collections over decades. You were living the dream if you owned rooms full of these.

I've seen lots of acceleration due to the use of AI: acceleration of inequality, acceleration of climate catastrophe, acceleration of slop, acceleration of trust collapse, acceleration of scams, acceleration of model collapsed acceleration of misinformation, acceleration of drought

I know the trend has passed, but here is my take on Frieren
😶‍🌫️

Few animate with paint on glass. But Martine Chartrand wanted to do it. So, she flew across the world to learn from the best -- Alexander Petrov.

He mentored her. In turn, she fought to revive his struggling career. We explore:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/two-artist...

GenAI users so intent on framing this as a "want" have wholly stopped caring for the journey, the friends you make along the way.

I got really into gamedev nearly a decade ago. Thanks to ADHD I moved on to yet another interest (sound design) in a few years. Now I'm planning on making a pixel art Soulslike Metroidvania. Will I finish it? Probably not. But its the journey I always enjoy most.

i studied stem in school, but then no one was hiring
so i learned to code, but no one was hiring
so i learned web dev, but no one was hiring
so i learned level design, but no one was hiring
so i learned pixel art, but no one was hiring
so i am making an indie game called lady dracula

Elden Ring girls (part 2): Millicent, Marika, Rennala, Nepheli Loux, Melina
#ELDENRING #art

Now this is journalism.

Point it out. POINT IT THE FUCKOUT. They are PRETENDING to not get it.

people using genAI have a deeply rooted hatred of artists because the narrative has been shifting to "artists don't contribute meaningfully to society" for decades, as capitalism continues to backslide into the shit pit, but this (incorrect) attitude cannot mask the cultural significance of creation

I will never pass up posting a large witch's hat.

Also, Epic tends to have massive sales running from November through end of December and you can stock up on assets that are normally quite pricey.

Exporting Unreal Engine Content to glTF | Unreal Engine 5.6 Documentation | Epic Developer Community How to export Unreal Engine content to glTF

Oh, fear not! UE assets can be exported to various formats from inside the engine that Blender can open, like gLTF.

dev.epicgames.com/documentatio...

it's crazy that if you're a cat, your only two life outcomes are eating out of a trash can or getting treated like a little baby

Ultra Unreal Asset Mega Pack Unearth the ultimate bundle of Unreal assets. Pay what you want & support No Kid Hungry!

Humble's got this one going on now:

www.humblebundle.com/software/ult...

Epic gives away free assets every month! Go get em!
They include environments often and there's one right now.
I've been collecting Unreal and Unity assets for almost a decade now and have nearly 10,000 between Epic, Art Station, Unity Asset Store, Flipped Normals and other shit I've long forgotten.

I'd like to add that setting up rail cameras is absolute hell. Took me hours and hours to get paths juuuust right with smooth turns.

Thanks! Finally those Humble Bundle asset collections came in use! This uses three different sets including the Dekogon fantasy castle, Meshingun Gothic Interior and some old one (4.26) that's a mage thing. I set up rail cameras, particle systems, and some extra things here and there for recording.