Starboardharpy - .°:•* Mako :°.*•

Imagine if you had a neighbour who keeps performing songs from Phantom of the Opera in his apartment every night, by himself but accompanied by a parrot, which he has taught to sing Christine's part. Admittedly it's kind of obnoxious but you are far too baffled to even be properly annoyed. And also you don't want to confront someone with that kind of power and determination. So every once in a while you just hear this guy dramatically bellow

"SING FOR ME!"

[ASTONISHINGLY HIGH-PITCHED PARROT SHRIEK]

i so deeply understand the reasoning of every comment

SEE YOU IN HELL, PUNK

So Netflix is releasing this animated movie but here’s the thing - all backgrounds are done in AI. No actual BG artists were hired or credited for this work. 

And here’s the kicker - I gave them too much credit. I realized that not even the AI users are credited apparently. 

Check this out:

“+Human”. No names, no nothing. 

I know it’s tempting, but please don’t hate-watch this thing. Numbers equal profit even if the people watching are just doing it to mock. Don’t give Netflix and other studios even more incentive to fire more animators and replace them with machines trained on their work and skill. Hilariously, the excuse used is ‘there aren’t enough artists’. That’s not true - there are more than enough artists, but the real issue is that no one wants to pay a living wage. Here’s a short video about the reality of animation in Japan. 

The biggest winners in this equation at the end of the day are the AI infrastructure owners - owners of Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, etc. Do not feed this machine, it creates more monopolization of entire industries, raises a powerful few and dehumanizes the rest.

EDIT: a lot of people are unsure what the anime’s called - it’s The Dog and the Boy.

big humongous urge to make a little joke animatic

Another one 🕺

Drew this around the same time as Hermes doing the Sonic pose iirc

four trans people walk into a movie theater …

Art Sled Rally at Powderhorn Park!

via Axios Twin Cities

#Minnesota #Minneapolis

brainstorming names for them because I have a somewhat vague idea for them; immediately thought of the initials PRISM for Mako's older brother, then realised that might be seen as, like, a possible connection to the council (because of the pyramid), but no, that'd be a red herring of sorts; that man doesn't know what's up with that school at all

Lil fun fact about Mako, I know it's written in his character ref that his name is Mako R., but his name's actually way longer than that

It's more of a Mako A. R. S. M.

He very much laments over the fact that his initials could've spelled MARSH, but instead he's MARSM

Painted Milo Belladonna for Pride Month cuz they're fabulous ugh