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Digital Artist & Character Designer ITA, ENG, JP •🇨🇭 Artist at: @okonomicos Instagram: @same_elart 🪧 Commission Closed

Alex, the character featured in this illustration, was created to embody anger. She has spent her life suppressing who she truly is and being expected to become someone she’s not.

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Revised: Working on a deadlock hero fanart. Naming him Durge. A fighter pilot that was cursed after sacrificing his co-pilot so he could survive a horrible crash landing that left them both dying and stranded. He wishes to make amends to his family before ending his misery.

Deadlock fan concept WIP

Y'all. Please remember the artists that drew these things when sending around memes. I feel for these artists who NEVER get credited for these (and some, nowadays, are even being accused of being AI!) Here's a few common ones I see (feel free to add others, I want this to be a living thread): 🧵

the lovely thing, though, is that for every shitass AAA C-suite mealy-mouthing their way around how badly they want to replace all their employees with ChatGPT, there's ten thousand better indie games made by human beings you could play instead follow @caseyexplosion.bsky.social for more on this

If you are commissioning an artist, and want a specific pose, don't run to genAI to try and make it for you. Draw a stick person. Stick person poses are beloved among all artists. We can see exactly what you want. Do not fear sending the stick person. The stick person is magical.

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Genuinely, this concern about AI is one of the reasons why I think having friction in video games is good and why it's increasingly important to have games that simply exist instead of catering to our expectations. Reposting this message from Kojima about "pre-digested" art:

And he said, "If everyone likes it, it means it's mainstream. It means it's conventional. It means it's already pre-digested for people to like it. And I don't want that. I want people to end up liking things they didn't like when they first encountered it, because that's where you really end up loving something."
Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

Starbucks done EFFED up in Korea. Bad. May 18th just passed, Democratic Movement Day, when rose up after the military dictatorship sent tanks to mass-murder citizens. Some inappropriately call it "Tank Day." Starbucks commemorated Tank Day with a sale on tank tumblers. It gets much worse...

A Starbucks add that says 5/18: Tank Day! Slam it on your desk! And features a selection of coffee tumblers.