Michelle

@fawnest.bsky.social

Animator (Universal Music Group) • Voice Actor (Hasbro) • Quarter Finalist Pokémon TCG Illustration Contest ‘22 • I work at a library and make #art

All you Libby users borrowing digital books and audiobooks through your library cards, you can set your preferences to human authors and artists ONLY. Click the middle button at the bottom, then "Content Controls" under Settings. You'll find "AI Contributions" there. Click in to it to make changes.

Libby menu interface showing Content Controls: AI Contributions with the Hunan authors only and Human narrators only options selected.

Watching Jerma985 with my dad as Jerma says “Virtual Bart was more important to me than Metal Gear Solid II” Wild to hear this as a fan of Jerma since his TF2 days

Pokémon Fossils today! Let's all promise to be nice and respectful about this... not turn it into a gift shop scalping challenge. Let the kids get inspired to learn about the natural world. I just want to see some cool fossil comparisons and peek at a fake worm and a salamander under a log.

It was awesome to go behind the scenes again at the Field Museum today. Hopefully I’ll give another brief college lecture about my work later this year. I hope everyone will enjoy all the hard work the team has been putting into the Pokémon Fossil Exhibit.

Just saw Iron Lung with my friends at the big theater! (I famously do not like blood or most horror. I did like the game when it came out a few years ago) As far as production/post goes: it was very well done. I was squeamishly watching the whole time but enjoyed the acting, color grading, SFX, etc.

Does anyone have a digital brush (preferably for CSP) that looks like this palette knife technique (1st image)?? I’ve tried adapting brushes I have and ended up with this (2nd image) but it’s unoptimized and not responsive to stylus pressure in the way the palette knife would be.

Bob Ross using a palette knife with white oil paint to create a rough texture on the side of a mountain painting on canvasA digital brush texture sample of markings that look rough and porous, akin to a sponge imprint. A hand written label next to it says “Textured Palette Knife”

Can finally post about this now that I’ve announced it. Been learning about new texturing methods, CGI motion tracking, and a bunch of other stuff to bring Minior to life! 💫 Screenshot is from my 2nd test.

A 3D render of the shiny Pokémon Minior (core form) in the real world outdoors. Minior is a glitter-filled ball shape with 5 protruding points like a star, two white swirly eyes and a smile. It hovers above a brick walkway by a leafy tree.

Thanks to everyone who came to my lecture about video game preservation at the library yesterday! It was great to hear that everyone in attendance was genuinely interested in this topic. I hope the Slide Docs and further resources are helpful.

By the way, I’ll be part of a presentation at ILA RFN this year. I’m glad for the opportunity to share the wonderful work my colleagues and I have developed over the past few years at the library. (Also I’m excited about the fun PowerPoint because I love making those)

When I was a kid, my dad told me that a pink elephant lived in the Mindscape office building. I believed that for years and would always keep a lookout for it.

Quite some time ago I saw some incredible puppetry advancements (TiNK) developed by Swaybox and I am still thinking about them. I saw it out of context and thought it was for stop motion puppets (still HUGELY impressive at that) but it’s even more amazing that it’s for real time live action!!