Slater
@slatersev.bsky.social
3D Animator on CRASH, a Halo Machinima series, artist, writer. My YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@armafala4195
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are trans athletes in youth sports.
My very first feature film that I completed almost 6 years ago is now available on digital! This, almost 2hr film, took me around 2 yrs to complete & was a huge learning experience in experimenting with this animation pipeline which I use to this day. Out on Prime or AppleTV!
"Big Anime" doesn't want you to know it, but 99% percent of attempts to "Akira Slide" end in crashes and lawsuits. Wake up people #animation Complete Video: youtu.be/yTEHR0ygBU8
Jorge, an animator was harassed for MONTHS by an OpenAI stan taking his wips and jamming them into SORA to "Fix" them. Because he dared to note GenAI companies have ruined the market for everything PC related. That's the type of people they are, its THAT black and white, #animation
Jorge R. Gutiérrez reflects on the backlash on his AI project in a new interview with Variety: “What I quickly learned is this is a black-and-white issue. You’re either pro or anti—there’s no in between. My intentions were good, but I was taking my family to hell by doing this.”
THIS STUDIO MADE THE FAMOUS IDTECH ENGINE AND YOU'RE FORCING THEM TO USE FUCKING **UNREAL**??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? FUCK YOU
The RWBY announcement lead to the dropping of historical internet yuri truth nukes, Monty Oum was one of the earliest Yuri Warriors.
Monty Oum's work was the reason I wanted to be an animator, as you can imagine the rwby V10 was nice, and this just a few months after an AI shill who was harassing me lost everything when Sora shut down. And I got to put out my #animation unmolested. Nice to have a few wins youtu.be/PNs3chvtEqo
Bound By A Cycle: Animated Action Short Film
YouTube video by Slater
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...maybe the internet wasn't so different back then. #versuswolves #supereyepatchwolf #woolievs #homestuck #humor #internet #racism
Welcoming Street Fighter's Yasmine to the small but notable clique of Filipino Fighting Game women. #streetfighter #tekken #soulcalibur #deadoralive
Disappointed, but not surprised, Sega is requiring consent to AI model training in the terms of services to join on the hunt. Always read the terms you agree to friends.
🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 from Sonic HQ: the Chaos Emeralds have destabilized and are scattering across the U.S. We need your help to recover them before Dr. Eggman finds them so we can power Club Chaos this Fall. Join the Chaos Hunt: www.sonicchaoshunt.com youtu.be/OSNi9KBdvz8
There is going to be new movement on KOSA next week Contact your representatives and demand that they oppose KOSA and the KIDS Act www.congress.gov/members/find...
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NEWS: The leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will unveil a bipartisan deal Monday on guardrails for protecting kids against online harms, including a long-sought compromise on the Kids Online Safety Act. @benbrodydc.bsky.social has the details: punchbowl.news/article/tech...
My MAWS post blew up pretty big on the other site, to the point it got staff from the show talking about their involvement. Its nice when that happens.
Actively annoyed by seeing some AI people smugly agree with each other that the reason we hate their shitty technology is that we resent it "lowering the barriers to entry" for the arts, which apparently the world of software development has always done.
Storyboard artists, often closest and most integral to realizing a director's vision, are a relatively cheap part of the process. Often their role is disparaged, or not even understood. And yet one of the main goals of AI in film production seems to be to replicate what they do.
A24 announces that they want to put storyboard artists out of work. That's what the headline should be written as. Becuase we should be honest about what these AI "tools" are trying to do, and who it is trying to circumvent. variety.com/2026/film/ne...
New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is" www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...
60% drop in reviews if people even smell AI on your game - full supports the investors, developers, and publishers that took a hard "no gen-AI" stance, despite grifters' proclamations that they were "going to be left behind".
Someone actually crunched the numbers, and using GenAI can decrease reviews for indie game on Steam (a useful proxy stat for sales) by as much as *58%* 🤖
One of my favorite pictures is this one by Whitey Schafer from 1940. It was created to break all of the Hays Code in just one frame.
sometimes i go back to look at the Hays Code just to irritate myself awake a bit more
Auliʻi Cravalho will be wonderful, and for anyone interested in getting a taste of Jessica Cruz before her show debuts. Reminder her best onscreen depiction at this time is unironically in the first Justice League x #Rwby movie. Jeannie Tirado crushed it.
First look at Jessica Cruz from ‘My Adventures with Superman’ Season 3. She will be voiced by Auliʻi Cravalho (‘Moana’) and will have her own spinoff series (‘My Adventures with Green Lantern’).
It's bizarre how repeatedly people keep hijacking the conversation about Accessibility away from things like closed captioning, colorblindness support, alt-text for screen-readers, etc, to "Games should be easier to play, books should be easier to read, and shows should be simple to understand"
The biggest story of our time that we're not talking about nearly enough www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...
Opinion | My Students Can’t Read
The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.
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hey man we used AI in the production process of this game but don't worry none of it made it in the game, it was a huge waste of time and money, and we could've just looked at stock photos at the end of the day. You have to accept the future.
the thing about data centers is that you know Ewoks would hate them, and Ewoks have never been wrong, so
People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.