Mónica Robles Corzo

@monarobot.bsky.social

Creature Designer and Concept Artist www.monarobot.com monarobot@icloud.com

To all the people who are anti-shit sandwich, I have one question: If shit sandwiches disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire day without a nugget, berry, or any other remnant? Imagine shit sandwiches were suddenly banned. Would you actually be willing to give it up?

Basically the same as the main text, but actually serious about AI.

Nice AI-image-generating tool, but it will never be as great an artist as Onfim, a child who lived in the Novgorod Republic in the mid-1200s and who scribbled these drawings and schoolwork writings on birch bark at the age of 6 or 7.

Onfim’s drawing of himself on horseback as a warrior defeating an enemy.Two of Onfim’s works.  On the left is a copy of a passage from the Book of Psalms he did for schoolwork.  On the right is an apparently autobiographical depiction of a monster labeled with “I am a wild beast.”Some more spelling practice by Onfim with some human figures who have round heads and varying numbers of fingers on their big hands.Onfim’s writing practice accompanied by 7 little people in his particular drawing style, who tend to have very big hands with many fingers.

Here’s some sketches exploring one of my ideas for the creature from “The Terror” by Dan Simmons, and how I imagined it could work as a supernatural element while still able to be mistaken for a polar bear at a glance or in the distance~

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It's not enough to be against AI, you need to be pro art. You need to be a champion of the art you love, you need to share that passion and joy, and do what you can to support the artists who make it, because it's not enough to hate AI, to hate what it's doing to art and media; you gotta love.

In Seattle, we have a local raccoon with short spine syndrome who's been kicking it around the city, and we have all collectively named him Jimothy. Here's Jimothy. We love Jimothy.

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Let me say this for the millionth time. Animation IS a film MEDIUM. A MEDIUM is the process/tools used to tell a story. Live action is a MEDIUM. Animation is NOT a GENRE. A genre is the type/category of story being told. Horror is a GENRE. Animation can be a MEDIUM used in ANY GENRE of film.

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it happened to us, it can happen to you. pls don't assume you're just gonna know it when you see it, *especially* for short, experimental work

Reckoning@reckoningmag.bsky.social · last mo.

Today, in place of a new piece of writing from IT WAS PARADISE, our special issue on war and conflict in environmental justice, here's a word of explanation from publisher @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social as to why we felt we had to remove a poem from the issue: reckoning.press/ai/

Cover art by Mónica Robles Corzo for Reckoning: It Was Paradise, a special issue on war, conflict, and environmental justice, featuring a monstrous antlered head with burning red eyes and a warhead emerging from its fanged mouth.

The area near the capital was struck with 7.2 and 7.5 earthquake. Some Venezuelans were greatly affected including some of the ones here. If you have the means to help donate to their kofi's or other means directly to them. Int organization funds often don't reach as many people here

Mav@xmaveria.bsky.social · 7mo ago

For people that feel helpless, this period is so tough but there's ways to help for anyone. Go out there support Venezuelan ppl and artists living in it as they prepare for unpredictable times Here is a starter pack of artists with commissions or donations open as well: go.bsky.app/8daQmpX

A blast from the past, some concept art for the #onyxequinox animated series! Thank you Sofia Alexander (creator of Onyx Equinox and showrunner!) for taking a chance on me for my first ever production, it was an incredible experience and love all the friends I made along the way! ¡Mil gracias!

As a bonus, a reinterpretation of the main characters in the style of an Aztec codex for the credits, I don’t know if these designs were used in the end!

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Mónica Robles Corzo@monarobot.bsky.social · last mo.

Some concept art for the #aztecbatman animated movie! Variants of the Batsignal / Emblem, obsidian Batarangs, the Bati-chalupa (more adequate for the canals of Tenochtitlán than the Batmobile!), and some weapons, belt and shield designs. #batman #joker #catwoman #animation