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Marina || she/her || 26 Digital Art + Some Crochet Mostly draws OCs

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️@hypercubexl.bsky.social · last mo.

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…

ManDuck @mannnduck.bsky.social · last mo.

Rainy Chatter #illustration #animation

Morniae @morniae.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#Artfight revenge of Vera for @mothmeals.bsky.social :D

clo∙ver @clovercomics.bsky.social · 4mo ago

new page up!! littletinythings.com ☝️

bitch princess of everything (batty)@batshaped.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What I love about this scene is she knew he was going to support her no matter what she wrote, but she knew she would cry no matter what he said. He knew she would cry no matter what he said, and he knew he would support her when she did. It’s all predetermined and all still meaningful.

Hexopodomancer @islington.bsky.social · 4mo ago

pencil tests for one of the most "hell yeah dude" animated music videos to ever exist

Character Design References@characterdesign.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Animation by Suheb Zako, Maël Gourmelen, Georges Abolin & Julien Bizat* | Freak of the Week (2014) #penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation

Nazariel 🏳️‍⚧️@nazariel.bsky.social · 6mo ago

BLUESKY IS A WEBSITE THAT TURNS (post by jay.bsky.team claiming that bluesky is made with AI) INTO (picture of bluesky not working)

Rii Abrego @riibrego.bsky.social · 8mo ago

on her mind #art (wallpapers below!)

An illustration of a lovestruck girl, her head full of thoughts of another girl.

✦ Sister Eva @evabeesmith.bsky.social · 9mo ago

some bits of wisdom from tunglr

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The indie Filipino short film "The Lovers" (Studio Heartbreak) is now complete, and will be released this summer on Youtube. In the meantime, here's a nice official poster illustrated by Ami Thompson. www.studioheartbreak.com www.catsuka.com/news/2023-05...

Marina @mothmeals.bsky.social · 9mo ago

My Best Of Art for the past 4 years <3 ( 2025 / 2024 / 2023 / 2022 )

Marina @mothmeals.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Happy New Year <3 My resolution for this year is to finally post my backlog of art :3 I also wanna draw my OCs more and make more art that tells a bit of a story <3 and if irl obligations don't allow that, I at least wanna try a new art medium like sculpting with clay

Marina @mothmeals.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I'm thinking about rebranding soon! I've had this username everywhere for 10-ish years now, and I'm getting kinda bored of it - not to mention that I always hated that my username does not match up perfectly across all of my social media accounts...

Marina @mothmeals.bsky.social · 12mo ago

[OC: Moth] A Light in the Dark [ #ArtFright2025 #artfight #art #ocsky #ocart ]

Marina @mothmeals.bsky.social · 12mo ago

[OC Meme Redraw] In which Darcy was tasked to look after some hostages

Marina @mothmeals.bsky.social · last yr.

Vampire Miku! (the light is artificial) [ #vocaloid #mikuhatsune #hatsunemiku #deco*27 #deco27 #vampire #art ]

Marina @mothmeals.bsky.social · last yr.

[OC] Vampire for Dinner [ #art #ocart #illustration #butchervanity #vampire ]

Marina @mothmeals.bsky.social · last yr.

Day 04 - Chibi + Fursona [ #ocart #fursona #sona #cringetober #art #doodle ]

Marina @mothmeals.bsky.social · last yr.

[OC: Imp] Day 03 - Childhood Show aka Imp cosplaying as Sailor Moon [ #oc #demon #demonoc #ocart #art ]

Marina @mothmeals.bsky.social · last yr.

[OC: Cat] Day 02: Old OC Design

Marina @mothmeals.bsky.social · last yr.

[OC: Imp] Day 01: Heterochromia

Marina @mothmeals.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm planning to resume posting my art from recent years to this account in November :> I'm doing a doodle art challenge for October this year, and will post those on here as well as on tumblr

✨️Nova✨️@novapop.bsky.social · last yr.

Throwing bricks at them. If u like swatchtenna go read my fic <3 archiveofourown.org/works/685896... #deltarune #tenna #swatch

Dani(They/Them)- comms CLOSED reopening November @angusburgers.bsky.social · last yr.

how come it took me until now to look at Rouxls' uniform and go Wait a minute

SmittenSable @smittensable.bsky.social · last yr.

Some more #ArtFight attacks! It's been relaxing to work on a little every day! I'm going to have some busy weekends here soon though so I may not be able to do as much as I want! OC's by: @marinakaefer.bsky.social - a_hydraulic -SpacedAndConfused - Splitorama

クリス 🏳️‍🌈 💖💜💙@nerdvolutionkurisu.bsky.social · last yr.

💖Girl summer💖

Marina @mothmeals.bsky.social · last yr.

an old OC crossover comic for gheysnakeredacted and thedoctoramanda on artfight :> page 1/4 [ #ocart #art #comic #dolls #artfight2021 #artfight #digitalart #originalcharacter #smallartist ]

Marina @mothmeals.bsky.social · last yr.

An AU in which Daniel's and Alex' souls get put into two dolls :3 Angst ensues

Marina @mothmeals.bsky.social · last yr.

Daniel and Alex as Crochet Dolls <3 [ #crochet #crochetdoll #doll #amigurumi #oc #ocart #originalcharacter #smallartist #art ]