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Salphe ✨🐧🦆🦉💖

@corvonaut.bsky.social

Salphe 🌸 21+ 🌸 any/none 🌸 tiny hobbyist and bird lover!! very shy but i don't bite i promise! occasionally 🔞, no minors please! links: https://corvonaut.carrd.co/ #art

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zack 🦇 commissions open!@vampbyte.bsky.social · 2w ago

been a while since i posted about them so reminder that i have all my clip studio paint brushes and assets available over on my vgen, ko-fi, and patreon! #cspassets #clipstudiopaint #vgen

daryl "dino-damage" b 🏳️‍⚧️@hypercubexl.bsky.social · 2w ago

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 6d ago

🚨NET NEUTRALITY RED ALERT- The federal government has inserted a provision into a funding deal with the state of California that would make the state abandon its gold standard net neutrality law, broadband affordability regulations, and public safety protections. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

California: Tell the Governor to Stand Up for Net Neutrality, Affordability, and Public Safety

The federal government has inserted a provision into a funding deal with the state of California that would make the state abandon its gold standard net neutrality law, broadband affordability laws, a...

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The Sea is Our Stage @seastage.bsky.social · last wk.

The Sea is Our Stage has hit ✨1,000✨ wishlists on Steam! Thank you so much for all of the love over the past week since we announced the VN, it's been incredible to see so many people show up for this little passion project featuring my wife and I's OCs! 🥹 We'll have more to share soon 🩷 #SeaStage

☽ ✦ Loki ✦ ☾@artcangel.bsky.social · last wk.

One of my arfight attacks this year. For @marerune.bsky.social 🌊 who's gorgeous girl is la chica polar 🍻 Let her vibe refresh you ~ #furry #digitalart

Anthropomorphic marine sea lioness of teal and sand colors floating in water. She wears a bikini of green, orange and yellow shades. She is looking at the viewer and doing a peace sign

✨Kiki✨@setenza.art · last wk.

I made an anti-AI sticker for my website hopefully to discourage people from sending me NONSENSE

Support real, human artists. NO AI. The star is mine to use!!

Thank you! Let's work together!

✦ sliv ✦@slivertooth.bsky.social · last wk.

important contribution to the discourse: they have taken my favorite shape

Zaber (◍•ө•◍)@zabersuzume.bsky.social · 2w ago

Star Dragon Adopt 🌌 #adopt

emilkyyyy😋@oceansatedogs.bsky.social · 3mo ago

the stars spell out your name #dogdraws #conceptart #scifi

concept art of a space station, with the camera looking up at a cloud formation filled with dozens of stars. it's very colorful

f. lee @ Everfree NW @fleebites.bsky.social · 3w ago

avian august: underrated birds edition day 16: ethiopian raven

SamhainDuke🎃@samraeduke.bsky.social · 3w ago

More artists need to talk about how sometimes it's ok to take a break, and that it's the evils of capitalism that make you think you have to work yourself to death. Also, if you're not creating for your own happiness then wtf is the point? These are my own opinions i guess.

The Sea is Our Stage @seastage.bsky.social · 3w ago

We're happy to announce #SeaStage is featured along with 200+ other romance-themed visual novels in @vnstudioelan.com's Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival running Sep 1 - Sep 9. store.steampowered.com/curator/4624... #FallinLoveFestival #VN #yuri #OCs

The key art for "The Sea is Our Stage" featuring Theo and Arianne laying in the water, holding hands and looking at each other, is featured in a graphic promoting the Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival by VN Studio Élan, which runs on Steam from Sep 1 - Sep 9.

Salphe ✨🐧🦆🦉💖@corvonaut.bsky.social · 3w ago

everyone please go look at my friend's upcoming pirate yuri VN!! and remember to wishlist 💖💖!!

The Sea is Our Stage@seastage.bsky.social · 3w ago

Announcing THE SEA IS OUR STAGE! A free-to-play fantasy yuri visual novel telling the tale of a nobleman's daughter whose quest to return home is up-ended by the arrival of a chaotic androgynous pirate. Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1118300 #SeaStage #VN #yuri #OCs ☠️🏳️‍🌈

The Sea is Our Stage @seastage.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Sea is Our Stage on Steam

A free fantasy yuri visual novel in which a noblewoman uncovers her father's evil plot and, along with her lowborn friends, takes to the seas to flee from high society. Her plan to right her family's ...

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Lune @mdlune.bsky.social · 2y ago

Joan and Daisy mae

Crab @alicezakat.bsky.social · 9mo ago

They fucked it up 💔 #hollowknight #silksong

snooze 🌻 webcomic-brained @justsnooze.bsky.social · 2mo ago

[ 🌻 oc ] what if there was a woman.........

Rough sketches of Briar, a fat butch woman, dressed in a loose-fitting shirt. In one sketch, she holds the ends of the shirt in her hands as she stands knee-deep in water. In another, she seems to be in the middle of taking it off, leaving her torso partially exposed.

sunny @coyotebutch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Trying to draw again. I like this colored pencil brush I wish I remembered who made it

Kenny 🍊 Rest Time @ducclord.bsky.social · 5mo ago

[🎨🦆] i love me the way i am #trans #furryart #OCsky #art

Kenny 🍊 Rest Time @ducclord.bsky.social · 8mo ago

[🎨🦆] Tiger tiger! #trans #art #furryart #furry #OCsky

モにょルン @monyorunrun.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#rhythmheaven

Salphe ✨🐧🦆🦉💖@corvonaut.bsky.social · 2mo ago

starting to think AF might just be a wash for me this year between an emergency wiping out half of july and other personal life problems LMAO....

🍊 tsu @tsurudraws.art · 2mo ago

minor bsky tip for readability if you want nested replies/trees: Settings > Content and Media > Thread Preferences > Tree View video instructions in replies mine was off by default and i much prefer nested comments

Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

👀 📷: Least Bittern

Salphe ✨🐧🦆🦉💖@corvonaut.bsky.social · 3mo ago

hey july i took time off for AF not to have everything irl start exploding at the same time!! i haven't been able to get an attack in yet cmon give me a break!!

Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A Blue Jay that caught a flying ant on the boardwalk and is about to have a little snack

PaleoSteno🐬🦕🦄@paleosteno.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I recently saw a post saying, "Everything used to be 20 dollars and now that I finally have 20 dollars, everything is now 200 dollars." And for that reason I don't think I'll ever shame anyone asking for financial help for any reason because shit's been so fucked lately.

Slykhos @slykhos.bsky.social · last yr.

Numbers @pigpenandpaper.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Please Please Please Do not take Artfight too seriously. It's a non-obligatory gifting game. The points don't matter, it's all made up. Whether or not you get "traffic" on tiktok or whatever doesn't matter, all that matters is if the person you're gifting to likes it. And they should like it.

Salphe ✨🐧🦆🦉💖@corvonaut.bsky.social · 3mo ago

af down, quick i gotta finish my refs while af isn't looking