Nostalgia :)

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. 

Hilarously, 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.

A Hannya art I drew with a single color if I remember correctly, rocking a pair of earrings!

Fun fact: I've refiltered this to red and created myself an etui with this!

A glimpse from hell

Squidolus [Day:1994 Hour:12]

Snake. We’re not tools of the government, or anyone else.

Radical espionage action

bats make up 20% of all mammal species - here's 4 of them! 🦇

[northern ghost bat, spotted bat, philippine forest horseshoe bat, & bornean horseshoe bat]