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AJ Jefferies

@moonjam.com

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3D artist, illustrator, animator & idiot. Click & hold #art to see some of my work, #diy to see some DIY projects and #CABINBUILD to read how we built a cabin moonjam.com instagram.com/moonjam3D ducksfilm.com

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AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · Aug 16

A horse struggles to exist

#art #animation #indieanimationday #horse

AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 39m

Thank you so much! That's incredibly kind of you to say and I'm really glad you like it!

AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 1h

Thank you 🙏

AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 3h

A still from the movie Dark Crystal, where a Podling is being drained. Only the light is now blue and seemingly coming from the Windows 10 background

AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 4h

Yep. I get asked to rip off work ALL the time. I always do due diligence & steer them toward the original artist (or away from the concept).

The worst thing is when the brief hides the source & you discover AFTER the fact, that their 'idea' has been lifted wholesale from someone/where else 💀

AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 4h

Yeah, it's definitely a manual 3D rip off. The majority of their work is 3D/CGI and this is pretty bare bones stuff.

Although, their instagram reveals that they are now pivoting to AI, because of COURSE they have...

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 7h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 5h

My agent's going to speak to them... Will see how that goes!

AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 5h

I'm going to reach out to them first. If/how they respond, then we shall see!

AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 6h

Sadly, this is 100% accurate

AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 6h

The only reason I stumbled across this was because Insta fed me some godawful AI garbage from a '3D' studio. I looked at their profile, scrolled down and found this!

AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 6h

Genuinely, the only plus so far was when I made the side by side comparison and thought "hey, maybe I *do* know what I'm doing!" 🥲

AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 6h

This is my origin story (a man who sits in front of his computer and loudly yells "WHAT THE FUCK!?" every few weeks)

AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 6h

They HAD to have my animation as the base for it, right? There's just too many near identical shots.

AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 6h

Right!?

AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 6h

They even have them saying "WHEE!" repeatedly. Am I insane?

Here's my original for context
bsky.app/profile/moon...

AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · Sep 13

PEAS!

#animation #cgi #peas #teatingvideohere #3d #vegetables

AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 6h

So, I stumbled across this animation (left) that a professional studio made for a commercial client last year and a lot of it seems VERY familiar to my 2023 'PEAS' animation (right)...

AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 6h

Hahahaaa!

AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 7h

A detective series, where they travel around the country, solving mysteries.

Absolute carnage when Jay Kay turns up, and all the evidence in the crime scene starts sliding around. Banksy's always *just* out of the frame...

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 10h

Book Cover of the Day:

Ed Gorey cover:
Nineteenth Century German Tales
Edited by Angel Flores
A Doubleday Anchor Original
Illustration of spider in flames with scrubby landscape and cliffside in background.

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Brandon Orden - ⚡ Wishlist Towerbolt! ⚡ @bordenary.bsky.social · 8h

Hey #PortfolioDay! I'm Brandon and I'm a 3D Environment Artist, Pixel Artist and Solo Game Dev. Here's some samples of my pixel art and my 3D work.

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twarda.bsky.social @twarda.bsky.social · Jan 14

Hej #portfolioday!👋
I'm a freelancing artist with a biology degree working in games.
I do #paleoart, #gameart, #conceptart, and I specialize in creature design.

My stylized illustration is shown below while you can contact me & see more of my work here: twarda-arts.carrd.co

Thanks for looking!

Stylized Styracosaurus painting with a forest background

Stylized Microraptor painting. The dinosaur is sitting on a prehistoric Ginkgo.

Left part of an underwater scene portraying mosasaurs. This part features a squid, crabs, and ammonites.

Righ part of an underwater scene portraying mosasaurs. This part features a plesiosaur, fish, Hespeornis, and a turtle.

AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 1d

Ahhhh shit. What a powerhouse he was 💔

AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 1d

This is, essentially, pornography (to me)

Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 1d

For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).

www.designroom.site

AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 1d

Yesssss! This is amazing. I also played it with both kids when they were way too young ❤️

A 6 year old’s fan drawing of Shadow of the Colossus

AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 1d

This gave me instant panic-soaked flashbacks. Circa 2006-ish, loads of large ad agencies & studios swapped out their big clunky CRTs for exciting new, flat LCD monitors. All with the worst colour gamut imaginable...

"There's a LOT of banding in the gradients. Pls fix!!!" 💀💀💀💀💀