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I got to make the MV for Who Knows by Lime!!

No to AI generated images, no to AI generated text, no to AI generated music, no to AI generated voices, no to AI generated games, no to AI generated videos, no to AI generated slop in all its forms. NO TO AI FUCKING SCRAPING I do not and will never consent to have my work used to train your fucking stealing plagiarism machines.

I see a lot of people reacting to the unity thing by mentioning the price threshold for where fees take effect, and I'd like to remind you that any fees which are applied past an earning threshold are almost always a test that will be nudged down to lower thresholds as soon as the company feels they can scoop money off the top

it's actually wretched for unity to do this because they know exactly what they're doing. the intent is to make people entirely dependent on unity early on and then, once it's too late to switch workflows, squeeze them for every dollar they're worth

this is why it's especially notable that a program like rpgmaker comes with a perpetual license that doesn't change based on your profit scale: it means that they've already taken the money they intend on taking from you, and it's a number below thousands of dollars

Via my personal art account! Post from a few weeks ago. The game it actually almost out, and the itch io page is up! https://bloomzeye.itch.io/bubble-bumble

this lil bee is Kiwi

lol I don't even feel like logging into my game dev tumblr @bloomzeye to post this...ANYWAYS! I'm making my first indie game (it's almost done!), and here's Kiwi the Bee, my main character!

ain't she precious?!

I don't usually do fan art, but I'm really vibing with artist OhTheSunnySide's (on Twitter), character designs and stories! Not used to drawing human-like pixel art, but I think I did okay within an hour!

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[Image Description: A pixel art graphic of a character with brown skin, long and wavy white hair that reaches past a slender neck, pointed ears, full lips, eyes with a yellow-orange pupil and dark eyeliner, white eyebrows, and a white star-shaped mark in the center of their forehead, with thin white lines beneath each eye.

The character has yellow markings on top of their ears, a center line of their bottom lip, and triangular marks on their cheekbones. The character has a golden arch above their head.

The artist's watermark named "bloomzeye" has three hearts inside the b and two o's.

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Apparently the original admin of writing prompts saw the shit storm and kicked everyone out lmao

OH MY GOD????

I am being so serious when I say: if you have the financial and time privilege to get a group of friends together and make an indie project, PLEASE do. Indie games, indie animations, indie comics etc etc

the art industries are kind of in the shitter. It’s not so much because of AI (though that doesn’t help) but because studios just aren’t hiring people and funding projects anymore. People who’ve been in the industry for decades are finding themselves struggling, and once you have a mortgage or kids it’s harder to do something as risky as making something on your own.

completing projects is hard. it takes a lot of time and effort, and most people can’t afford it. so if you CAN afford to make art, even at the risk of no financial gain, I strongly encourage you to be as resilient as you can. We’re at a point where these industries are not going to turn around by themselves, and waiting for jobs to open up again in order to get experience and portfolio work might not be realistic.

people have been making art and telling stories longgggg before we were getting paid for it, and people aren’t going to stop just because no one has hired them to do so.

for everyone else: support indie artists when you can!!!! That person who made that cool indie game or youtube animation or webcomic might be doing this full time! your support might be the only reason they’re able to keep doing it.

and if you have already started an indie project: you’re so brave and I’m very proud of you!!! in fact, drop a link to it in the reblogs if you want! 👇

I forgot the password for this account, so I was posting via my personal art account 😅

My first indie game is almost ready on itch.io!

Again, not logging into my game dev tumblr (@bloomzeye) for reasons, but my first indie game, Bubble Bumble, is almost ready to play! Here's the itch io page for it: https://bloomzeye.itch.io/bubble-bumble

Ahhhhh! I have basically zero followers on this page, but I don't care! I've made a video game, something I never thought I could even do, and I'm happy about it!

lady from the ocean 🌊🐚

✦ find me on instagram @the.flightless.artist ✦