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Occasionally makes 3D art!

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daryl "bury me with my golden arm" b 🏳️‍⚧️@hypercubexl.bsky.social · 2d ago

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…

🌙Profecias🌙@profecias.bsky.social · last wk.

POV: You go to the Troll character with great potential convention (does not go as planned). #WoW #WorldofWarcraft #Zandalari #Amani #Zuljan #ZultheProphet

I am Brohkai @iambrohkai.bsky.social · last wk.

#Warcraft #Troll #Darkspear #Voljin My Warchief ;w; ...I do have self indulgent Zul'jan stuff in the works but that's going to be a minute. I'm not good at doing comics.

Stromgarde Enjoyer @nilocor.bsky.social · last wk.

Troll fans reading up on every Midnight story update

Tazmina's Art @tazminasart.bsky.social · last wk.

If only baby-me knew how many other people felt salty about the historical treatment of trolls in WoW. I thought I was alone!

Tigger Bouncing

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Tazmina's Art @tazminasart.bsky.social · last wk.

"Oh man! An interesting troll character. I hope nothing bad happens to him!"...

Rastakhan reassuringly puts a hand on Zul'jan's shoulder while Vol'jin looks on in support.

Tazmina's Art @tazminasart.bsky.social · 2w ago

Quick art for the TRP.

Tazmina's Art @tazminasart.bsky.social · last mo.

Decided to do an abrupt dump of renders that have been gathering dust on the hard drive.

Tazmina's Art @tazminasart.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Zuku'zin explains to Deleni the importance of good soup. Deleni complains to Zuku'zin that her teacup is empty.

Tazmina's Art @tazminasart.bsky.social · last yr.

Noticed a trio of new icons added in the latest WoW patch named "inv_sealpet_body". Wonder if we're getting a new dress-up pet around Winter Veil. Also found creature textures.

Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 2y ago

Lots of people joining Bluesky again! Welcome! Whether you just joined, or you created an account decades ago and are gonna start posting now, here are some tips to enhance the experience. Share widely for all newcomers 🦋

Tazmina's Art @tazminasart.bsky.social · 3y ago

New Zandalari boi with the clothes he deserves, inspired by @nootziq.bsky.social's art and headcanons. Need to give him some jewellery - then I can move onto his wife!