Dirk Erik Schulz

@themrock.bsky.social

Artist from Berlin, Germany

The mother of my girlfriend died yesterday, 3 years after her father and 4 years after my father have died. All died because of smoking. Her mother was 63, her father 71 and my father 68. Death was very rampant during our relationship. Plz forgive me if I am not very active the next days.

While my team and I work hard with a low budget, with the high change that it does not catch any attention because we are just a small country (denmark) with no high reach into the world, I have to see how people who had all the success and did movies and shows sell me and the industry out to A.I.

We have 3 animators, one bg artist, one comp artist, 4 cleanup artists, 2 coordinators, two directors/ producers and me as character designer, prop designer and special pose artist. Our budget for one season as a whole is the same as one episode of Hazbin Hotel. We won't get supported from anyone.

The irony that Borge Ring was one of my biggest influences as a kid and that he came from Denmark and yet the same country gives me the opportunity to do a cartoon nearly 100% in my style to return the favour.

It has been 4 years. Today in 2022 I got a call from my mom at 7:30 a.m. telling me my dad is dead. I ran over to my parents home and saw the ambulance getting out of the apartment. His dead body was on the ground. I miss you, dad...

Back in the day rich people were evil but still had taste in good art and invested in it. Now their spoiled kids took over, still are evil and have no taste in good art, investing in terrible things.