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Dorian

@doriandotexe.bsky.social

Full time Con Artist He/They 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Links: https://doriandotexe.carrd.co Next Conventions: MCM London, Megacon Birmingham Tags: #art ✦ #shop ✦ #oc

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Dorian @doriandotexe.bsky.social · 12h ago

If I ever plan to get married I need someone to stop me. The amount of second hand bullshit I've been subjected to this weekend 🙃

ciil 🦭@ciil.bsky.social · 2d ago

genuinely funny when u start hallucinating AUs for ur ocs like yes this is my fandom of 1 where i write the canon AND the fanfic. i am the whole ecosystem

Lunowli Bergana (and Roone!)@onetinypugilist.bsky.social · 3d ago

That girl with The Posts@roodypatooti.bsky.social · 11mo ago

fighting the problematic stereotype of 'only the bad guys are weird sex perverts' by making the good-hearted protagonist an even weirder sex pervert

daryl "bury me with my golden arm" b 🏳️‍⚧️@hypercubexl.bsky.social · 3d 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…

DecodeVen @decodeven.bsky.social · 3d ago

I need to remind everyone, especially after their presentation today. Level-5 has been very openly using Generative AI in their game development and are proud of it. This includes their newly announced titles such as New World of Steam, Yo-Kai Watch 2 and Curious Village Remake.

Dorian @doriandotexe.bsky.social · 3d ago

Walk into the loo at the services and someone was blasting that Charlie Kirk song 😭

gogomi 🎀 hotarucon @gomi.moe · 2mo ago

Who is she… #evercold #ffxiv #ffxivspoilers #sketch

Quick coloured sketch of the new pink haired miqo’te girl visna from the Evercold trailer.

Dorian @doriandotexe.bsky.social · 5d ago

submitting visna adoption papers

553 (fives) 🔞 ☀️@rkgk553.bsky.social · 5d ago

I'm still testing out if this works but I uploaded my Drakengard 3 x FFXIV zine for download on itch. ~15 Character profiles and a 5 page comic of my self indulgent AU 🥀 rkgk553.itch.io/drag-on-fant...

Zine Title: DRAG-ON FANTASY XIV
Cover Image: Hraesvelgr and Ysayle styled as Michael and Zero from Drakengard 3. Ysayle is sitting on a bloodstained floor in a skimpy white dress and a bloodstained flower in her eye while Hraesvelgr stands behind her.

Alisaie and Alphinaud dressed as One and Brother One from Drakengard 3

Panel 1 - Five intoners standing on the roof of a crystarium-like building. Alisaie calls out "Long time no see, Ysayle"
Panel 2 - Ysayle: "Has it been long? I didn't Notice"
Panel 3 - Alisaie: "Still so serious..." "But it doesn't matter.... This ends here."
Panel 4 - Ysayle, looking up at the roof "Yes - it ends here..."

Dorian @doriandotexe.bsky.social · 5d ago

also feel like i blinked and i missed the FFXIV patch story, that was it???

Dorian @doriandotexe.bsky.social · 5d ago

link looks like a little freak in the OOT remake dear lord

Dorian @doriandotexe.bsky.social · 5d ago

AA7 will be announced today 😌

ines 💥 semi-wristed @inesvisual.bsky.social · 6d ago

i miss my own ocs. what are those little guys up to. they should call me

Dorian @doriandotexe.bsky.social · 6d ago

Preview of my piece for the DAA 2027 Calendar 🔆 @dragonageannual.art You can preorder the calendar along with a whole bunch of other goodies right now!! Check out the DAA page for more info [ #art #dragonage ]

Cropped preview for the Dragon Age Annual Calender. It features Cullen from Dragon Age 2 and part of a building.

Dorian @doriandotexe.bsky.social · last wk.

ok i will post art for once (i finished this months ago) [ #art #fatamoru ]

Dorian @doriandotexe.bsky.social · last wk.

Nintendo support are so bad. Asked them to remove a passkey from my account so I can reset my password, as it's currently blocking me from even setting up my switch 2. It's been almost two weeks 😞 So glad my post convention treat is just an expensive brick atm

c ⁘ kreuzchen @krzchn.net · 2w ago

My vgen is all set up and ready! 🌞 Taking skeb-style character sketches, character focused pieces and tokens/icon requests for now. We'll see how it goes! #art #vgen #commissions

krzchn (@krzchn)

Check out krzchn's commissions and portfolio! | London based illustrator who loves dark fantasy & big swords. I especially like doing TTRPG character pieces! ...

vgen.co

Dragon Age Annual | PRE-ORDERS OPEN NOW!!!@dragonageannual.art · 2w ago

#DragonAgeAnnual 2027 Pre-Orders Are Open! 👉 Click Here to get yours NOW 👈 Physical pre-orders run until Sep 30 & digital pre-orders until Jan 31. All proceeds go to support MSF Sweden💜 #DragonAge #zine #fanfic #fanart Share THIS post to unlock a bonus sticker & zine for all packs!

A selection of cropped previews of completed and in-progress works created for Dragon Age Annual 2027. From left to right: The Gallows from DA2 with a red sky and a shadowed figure raising a red lyrium sword, The hall of heroes from Orzammar, Zevran Arainai wearing his concept art Crow armor, The Breach from DAI over the Temple of Sacred Ashes, the Heart of the Titan from The Descent DLC, an artistic representation of The Hinterlands as though the viewer is standing in a 3D map of the location. Text reads: Dragon Age Annual 2027 Shop Open. Some works featured are WIPs.

Kendra, normal version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 3w ago

Evil people have to start dying RIGHT NOW

Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 3w ago

back before AI, video game developers had to make every digital woman look the same through hard work and artistry

Dorian @doriandotexe.bsky.social · 3w ago

People messaging me asking when my shop reopens and I appreciate the enthusiasm but my brain is soup. Too soup to deal with taking product photos and adding/updating listings

Kukumomo 🔞@kukumomoart.bsky.social · 4w ago

Dorian @doriandotexe.bsky.social · 4w ago

This back pain. Just put me down 🫠

Dorian @doriandotexe.bsky.social · last mo.

Back to my mines....

Dorian @doriandotexe.bsky.social · last mo.

Why do people see my username and try and correct it. It's doriandotexe all lowercase no brackets or anything else. I probably should have picked a better name for trading rather than just my username but it's too late now

Dorian @doriandotexe.bsky.social · last mo.

Stages/loud events should not be next to vendors/autographs/panels. It's so frustrating to have to shout just so customers can hear you. I think wrestling/karaoke etc have a place at these events but the people who do the layouts need to attend and see how annoying it is

Bex Ollerton@schnumn.bsky.social · last mo.

Why the fuck do conventions keep doing this

A diagram of a wrestling ring at convention right nextto artist alley. The wrestling ring is extremely loud and the wall in betweenit and the artist alley does nothing to reduce the noise. All the Autistic people are having a terrible time

arnaerr 🦭⭑｡@arnaerr.bsky.social · last mo.

YOU CAN GIVE FEEDBACK ON THE OFFICIAL EU WEBSITE HERE: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

European Commission - Have your say

ec.europa.eu

arnaerr 🦭⭑｡@arnaerr.bsky.social · last mo.

Please sign and share this petition if you care about small artists and their businesses! c.org/R8MBNwbJMY This regulation is very harmful and caused many people to shut down their stores/sales in Europe

Amy 🇨🇦@amypisces.bsky.social · last mo.

I didn't show the awesome prints I got! These were done by @doriandotexe.bsky.social and are beautiful! Lucanis caught my eye at MCM Birmingham and the booth had so much Dragon Age! Such love! Tagging @willynilly123.bsky.social because he wants to see all the art (and I have no shame in tagging him)

gogomi 🎀 hotarucon @gomi.moe · last mo.

It's my Birthday! 🎂🎉 Thank you so much for hanging out with me for another year 🤗

my warrior of light Gogomi and her static tackling M6S add phase

Gogomi lost in the Thousand Maws of Toto-rak

Gogomi's memories of ffxiv featuring her favourite minions from the Shadowbringers era, the Crystarium, the Titanias and sepia photo fragments of Moenbryda, Ysayle, Yotsuyu and G'raha

Dorian @doriandotexe.bsky.social · last mo.

I keep making keychains with extra attachments and stuff, and they look more unique and nice. But oh my god has it ballooned my con prep time immensely