Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

100% I've said this before, but learning to say a project is "done enough" and moving on and also just stubbornly continuing to make shit even if it isn't good are more important than being the world's best draftsperson.

XP-Pen Artist Pro 22 (gen 2) box. Has colourful image of a cow.

The opened XP-pen box, revealing a wrapped monitor.

My first drawing on the screen of a smiling bovine character named Mr. Moo giving us a thumbs up.

New drawing screen, who dis?

#xp-pen #art #cow

Theft for, nay, from all!
Hallucinations for all!
Profits for... ehm... well, not all, but mayhaps it will trickle down from the overseers, eventually! That's a kind of theoretical all (that won't come true)!

She told you to your face, fully knowing you WORK IN ANIMATION, that animation = cheap n' lazy???

www.xp-pen.com/ca-store/

Due to some glitches on my very old Cintiq (18 years! I'm the 4th owner!), I bit the bullet and purchased the XP-Pen Artist Pro 22 (Gen2).

XP-pen Canada is having a flash sale this week, which helped. If you're in the market for a drawing tablet or screen, take a look!

Would the City of Ottawa have funding for you doing this series? I gotta imagine there's a possibility there, this is great local work! :)

Motte and Bailey sounds like an accented "Martin Bailey", and is thus funner to say.

"Mahtin' Bailey? That guy owes me money! And better ahguments!"

A depiction of a motte (better protected fort on a hilll) connected to a bailey (lesser protected yard that is easier to fall). It is in reference to an argument tactic where a much more wrong argument is presented, and then when argued with, the party will sacrifice that argument and pull back to a much more limited or reasonable argument and pretend that was what they meant the whole time.

It's a classic motte and bailey style diversion.

"Everyone should go all in buying AI (by which all context we clearly mean generative AI)!"

(pushback)

"You rube, we were merely referring to machine learning and reasonable this or that computer application, I didn't specifically SAY genAI..."

Exciting to see history made in hope, tenacity, ingenuity, and cooperation today, on our way to the moon. #artemis2

Disgusted to be sent an email link by an educational institution of '10 courses everyone's loving' and 8/10 are explicitly about using AI. Really damages academic credibility when the message is the antithesis of learning how or why to do things.

I'm here to enrich students, not impoverish them.

One day, when I have a more secure full time job locked in again... Sigh...~

Yep! I sure did!

We had this on VHS when I was a kid, and I expect rewatching it as an adult after 25-30 years would be a different experience. I knew it was weird when I was young, but I might appreciate just how weird now, lol.

Original tumblr link here:

www.tumblr.com/ohnoitstbsky...

“Where will it all end?” a question asked exclusively by people who don’t want “it” to even begin.

“What if it goes too far?” A question ask exclusively by people who don’t want it to go far enough.

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

Queen the rabbit monk, dressed in a blue, yellow, and purple acrobat outfit, ready to punch. A heroforge mini.

Queen the rabbit monk, dressed in a blue, yellow, and purple acrobat outfit, leaping back. A heroforge mini.

Queen the rabbit monk, dressed in a blue, yellow, and purple acrobat outfit, crouched and ready to pounce. A heroforge mini.

Queen the rabbit monk, dressed in a blue, yellow, and purple acrobat outfit, kneeling reverently. A heroforge mini.

And of course, the #Heroforge mini pics of Queen.

A tiny bunny saying "Giant woman..." looks upon a muscular acrobat bunny named Queen with our back to us, flexing. So powerful!

I started playing in a Wilds Beyond the Witchlight campaign, which is exciting! Normally I am always DMing.

Presenting: Queen! The regal star acrobat of the Witchlight Circus, a Harengon Monk. She is accompanied by her tiny knife-throwing boyfriend bun, Jack.

First panel: Teen wearing shirt that says 'no fear'. Second panel: Close up on different shirt reveals picture of an offputting, sleep deprived halfling character. Third panel: Teen wearing shirt that says 'one fear'.

An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

TFW in person classes are cancelled due to poor weather and you could easily pivot to conducting an online class, but are denied that option by the administration. Sigh. 😑

Your brand may contain multitudes.✨

you wanna learn VFX?

The VFX school is closing. All their shit is free. Torrent files and everything

grab it while you can

thevfxschool.com

To my Canadian friends, an acquaintance started a petition to allow US transgender citizens to claim refugee status here.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

If you’re Canadian please sign it.
If you’re not, please share ❤️

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

Work-Life Balance for Animators Animation Director Megan Ferguson discusses mental health challenges for animators and what work-life balance actually looks like in the real world.

The talk I did last night is up!

I was super pumped to be able to chat about this topic because its important, but it can also come off as very 'self-help' and 'manage your way into efficiency'

Im not about that, instead I dig into why its so hard to find, what is in our agency and what isint.

I will definitely share this with my class (and is good advice for me as well- it being easy to talk about not overworking, and falling into the traps of being the overworking boss, which sets an example for people on my team regardless of what I say). Thank you so much for this video.