Anu C.

@anumation.bsky.social

Art director - Greenhearth Necromancer / Character artist / Kid lit illustrator and author! 🇨🇦 #kidlitart Rep’d by Thao Le at the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency anumation.ca

Crowd sourcing this to save me some time looking: Is there a free translation site that doesn't use AI, where it just works like how they all use to work? I still need something, mostly just for Japanese artist names and publication titles, but I don't want to feed into the AI beast. Thanks y'all!

AUTHORS! Do not, without the explicit permission of an illustrator, upload the art from your book into any AI system to create content like trailers for your book. I cannot believe this needs to be said AND HERE WE ARE.

Ocarina of Time was the game that I have drawn the most fanart of throughout my life. It’s the game that got me into world building and lore, and how I ended up finding amazing communities and resources like @historyofhyrule.com So yeah, my inner child is really excited

Working on my first KidLitArtPostcard of the year 🫣 I had to pause a lot of personal art due to work obligations and burnout, but slowly getting back at it

This really is it, this is the part that keeps me raging against the machine. Every day of my career I’m shoulder to shoulder with incredible people, pouring their skill & point of view into the work they do, making choices that amaze and delight me. Frame by frame, drawing by drawing…that’s THE job

Ju Li Khaw@juleshortstuff.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Any time a creative turns to this tech, they are saying "I do not respect the people who do this thing. I do not value their creative contribution to my vision. I think they are so worthless, they can be replaced by the machine that ate their work." It's not surprising this is seen as hostile.