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Siggi Sigmond

@siggimation.bsky.social

Animator (They/them) Film | TV | VFX | Game Cinematics Comic and Plein air painting enthusiast. Mostly posting fanart and my cat's bullshit. No AI 🇨🇦🇺🇸🏳️‍⚧️ Certified Gremlin ™️ ArtTag: #Siggisart

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Dezi @dezi.quest · 21h ago

this is a 10/10 character sheet holy shit

Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 3d ago

Character design work by Katsuhiro Otomo for Harmagedon (1983), dir. Rintaro, Madhouse/Project Team Argos This job was Otomo's first in the anime industry, and the realistic style he used here had a huge impact on other artists

Siggi Sigmond @siggimation.bsky.social · 5d ago

A tattoo artist moves back to his home state only to encounter his high school bully playing bar gigs with his shitty band. Do I have a story for them? Will I finally have time make the comic? We'll have to wait and see. My current contract is demanding. #siggisart #comicaet #characterdesign

Character sheet featuring two characters. One, brightly colored, chubby man with long hair playing his guitar. The other is a lanky, purple haired man with a rough soul patch. He's wearing a tank top that reads "art school dropout". He has a brightly colored shoulder bag with a sketchbook inside.
The whole page is covered in various studies of facial expressions and character poses.

The two characters are obviously friendly.

Siggi Sigmond @siggimation.bsky.social · 6d ago

*over here Jfc. Will I ever learn to spell check?

Siggi Sigmond@siggimation.bsky.social · 6d ago

I don't want to be Dr. Gatekeeper over hear, but the minute anything gets popular enough to turn a profit? Scalpers descend. The obvious solution is to become a niche supervillain, build a program that sells scalpers corrupted tickets, and steal the money/give the pass to a fan that wants it.

Ghost Planet @ghostplanet.bsky.social · 6d ago

Drunk and Tired Bugs Bunny from Carrotblanca

ToonHive@toonhive.bsky.social · 6d ago

Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon are officially sister networks for the first time in HISTORY. The two networks now share a parent company following today’s completed merger to form Skydance.

Siggi Sigmond @siggimation.bsky.social · 2w ago

Give us this day, our daily doodle. #siggisart #copicmarkers

Photo of a sketchbook page featuring a feathered dragon's head from several different angles and several different expressions.
The sketches are done with black comic markers but you can see the undersketch in lighter colors showing through the final sketch.

Mei {🐺My Werewolf Girlfriend🏳️‍🌈}@speremint.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you don’t mind a self-plug, I make a sapphic werewolf x monster hunter comic that I host on Wordpress. I update every Friday and there’s currently over 60 pages up! bsky.app/profile/sper...

Mei {🐺My Werewolf Girlfriend🏳️‍🌈}@speremint.bsky.social · last yr.

🐺My Werewolf Girlfriend is out! 🥕 If you’re looking for Les Miserables X Stardew Valley but with toxic werewolf yuri, this comic is for you! Please go give it a read, I am doing this project completely independently, so please share! mywerewolfgirlfriend.com #webcomic #yuri #werewolf #comics

Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 2w ago

$15 ebooks? One dollar. $10 ebooks? Just a buck. $25 ebooks? You guessed it. 💵 💵 💵 Sale ends this week. Don't dilly-dally, gang.

Iron Circus Comics@ironcircuscomics.bsky.social · 2w ago

Getting that FOMO feeling from missing out on a sale? We've partnered with @sweetshop.app and for another week ALL eBooks hosted here (sweetshop.app/publishers/i...) are just ONE DOLLAR! 🪙 Pick up that title you missed for just a buck and save yourself a little for the physical copy later! 📚👀

Siggi Sigmond @siggimation.bsky.social · 2w ago

Timeline cleanse. #gubbinsposting

Two cats, a tortie on the left, and a dark grey tabby on the right, snuggle on a large duvet with a galaxy print cover.

Cybel Martin ASC @cybeldp.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is terrific. As old Hollywood crumbles, but I’ve been waiting for signs of what the new and improved studio system will be. Read the whole article. #AnarchistsUnited variety.com/2026/film/fe...

Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’

‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.

variety.com

Roya Shahidi | Looking for work @rsdream12.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’m in this image and I don’t like it

ADHD Memes@adhdforreal.bsky.social · 2w ago

Siggi Sigmond @siggimation.bsky.social · 2w ago

Just in time for truth and reconciliation day... I wonder how many of these losers could be doxxed by some good ol' fashioned catfishing? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

B.C. politicians, leaders condemn white nationalist gathering on First Nation reserve | CBC News

B.C. politicians and leaders are denouncing a gathering of white nationalists on the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc reserve near Kamloops, B.C. Kúkpi7 Rosanne Casimir said the nation received reports Sunday m...

cbc.ca

Matt Alt @mattalt.bsky.social · 2w ago

Very revealing dive into the government’s plan to make anime/manga/games a pillar of the economy. Japan already is a “story superpower.” If it wants to stay that way leaders need to tackle structural problems rather than pray for AI magic to fix them. annatachibana.substack.com/p/japan-want...

Japan wants to be a “story superpower.” Can the people who make the stories afford to keep making them?

I opened one ministry's plan to make anime and games a 20-trillion-yen export. The people who make them were mostly in the footnotes.

annatachibana.substack.com

G.Face @damdonjulio.bsky.social · last yr.

#Sinners

Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 2w ago

To celebrate the launch of Sweet Shop, the Comixology We Truly Deserve, ALL Iron Circus ebooks are ONE. DOLLAR. EACH. GET ON THIS.

Sweet Shop@sweetshop.app · 2w ago

We are so incredibly proud to carry the undeniable @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social on Sweet Shop. To celebrate our launch and them, we're having a sale where all their books are $1. sweetshop.app/publishers/i...

Talia al Ghoul 🏳️‍⚧️@usili.bsky.social · 3w ago

I think still such a funny single comic panel of Spider-Man.

Peter Parker:

"... You know, I actually *did* read some Ayn Rand in college? I spent a week thinking I was, like, the new John Galt.

"Yelled at some protesters. Fun times.

"Gd, I hate myself."

Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 3w ago

Blackfolk have to adhere to PHD levels of fluid unwritten social rules, particularly wrt to the full spectrum of expression daily not just to keep a job but also to mitigate our chances of being frisked so yeah I don’t buy it when them folk say it’s too hard not to say a slur just bc of reclamation

Cheryl Lynn Eaton@cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 3w ago

And I also do not believe anyone who blames their use of the word on hearing it all the time because I spent my formative years hearing men use that word dozens of times a day! Still didn't use it. Still don't unless I'm in my car pretending I'm Ghostface.

Siggi Sigmond @siggimation.bsky.social · 3w ago

My 35 pound weighted blanket came today. It feels like the unconditional love I never got as a child. 10/10

Siggi Sigmond @siggimation.bsky.social · 4w ago

It's-a-doodle! #siggisart

Marker sketch of a griffin looking over its shoulder to the right. Theres a light-blue marker sketch and thin black lines showing some of the underlying skeletal structure

Siggi Sigmond @siggimation.bsky.social · 4w ago

Went to my partner's show on Sunday. It was casual enough that I could play with some gesture drawings at à picnic table while I watched. #siggisart #lifedrawing #gesturedrawing

Sketchbook page filled with marker gesture drawings. Each gesture is of a different musician playing an instrument. The largest one features a light-haired man in a tank top playing the guitar.

Sketchbook page filled with gesture drawings in pen and marker. The largest one features a black-haired man with a mullet playing the guitar.

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…

Belle - The wicked witch of atproto @torrentempress.neocities.org · 4w ago

I lied about the other post this video which sums up the discourse this week and around the atmosphere is actually my magnum opus. this is it, this is everything, this is the entire thing.

Belle - The wicked witch of atproto@torrentempress.neocities.org · last mo.

Siggi Sigmond @siggimation.bsky.social · 4w ago

You know what? Let's all start bringing our sketchbooks to sports games. Let the artists invade! We'll take over the stadiums! Anyways, Wriggly field was so special to me as a kid and it was great to be back there with my family. (The Cubs lost. All was right with the world) #siggisart

Sketchbook page featuring 12 different gesture poses.
"Leading Edge" is written in bold at the top. The gesture figures are barely more than lines showing various stages of swinging à bat and pitching à ball.

Sketchbook page featuring 10 gesture drawings. Each figure again, in different stages of swinging a bat or throwing a ball.

Selfie. 4 people sit in a stadium. Three have hats. The person with orange hair does not have a hat. The man on the end is giving a thumbs up.

Etherington Brothers @etheringtonbros.bsky.social · 4w ago

Our feature artist/tutorial today is this MAGNIFICENT animation, by the talented James Baxter! Note how each of the THREE SECONDARY MOTIONS are slightly OFFSET to emphasise different parts of the action: HAIR jumps UP, SKIRT billows DOWN, RIBBON wraps ROUND! #anime #2danimation

Siggi Sigmond @siggimation.bsky.social · 4w ago

Concepts like "purity tests" are DEEPLY routed in fundamentalist Christianity and rape culture. They don't work because the world doesn't operate on a good/bad binary. Decolonize your mind. The more you radically accept the human condition for what it is, the easier it will be to spot toxicity.

I Liv, I Die, Oliviagain Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · 4w ago

"PURITY TESTS!" I'm not purity testing anyone. I'm saying YOUR STRATEGY KEEPS FUCKING FAILING AND KILLING US. If "democracy is at stake," CONVINCE POLITICIANS TO DO THINGS PEOPLE ACTUALLY WANT. "I can't do healthcare but I can do genocide and calling trans women men." That don't cut it.

Siggi Sigmond @siggimation.bsky.social · 4w ago

This morning I was rereading some early passages from a story draft. I got to the end of the passage and I was upset. I wanted to know what happened next. Unfortunately I have to write that bit. Fortunately. I get to write that bit.

Siggi Sigmond @siggimation.bsky.social · 4w ago

I genuinely enjoy Haruki Murakami. I like the dream-like flow that questions reality. I, however, cannot stand how all the women breast boobily through the narrative. Like they can't take up space unless they enter nipple-first.

Siggi Sigmond @siggimation.bsky.social · last mo.

I am SO TIRED of feeling with depression and anxiety. My brain is screaming at me about the state of my kitchen, while it feels like lead weights are tied to my limbs and the floor is made out quick sand. I'll trade my brain for toxic goo at this point.

Phantomarine @phantomarine.bsky.social · last mo.

I still don't know what the interface looks like

Mr. Tyler CroOoOoOoOok@mrtylercrook.bsky.social · last mo.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

Siggi Sigmond @siggimation.bsky.social · last mo.

Writing feels so daunting. When I stop putting pressure on myself to write something good, and instead just write something fun? Suddenly it doesn't matter. I'm being lead around by characters I barely knew at the start.