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Vince Underwood @vince.vinceunderwood.com · 5h

If only we didn't have to only rely on podcasters to hit this hard. This is how every single journalist in this country should be.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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Kevyn Stott @kevynstott.bsky.social · 13h

Hey #PortfolioDay I do chunky Pixel art & Animation
Do you have a game that needs a bunch of enemies?
I am ready to unleash my power !!

Portfolio: kevynstott.tumblr.com/
Email: [email protected]

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Vhalenn🐶MindVenture @vhalenn.bsky.social · 16h

Happy Late #PortfolioDay !!!🌸

I'm Val, a Tech-Art, working solo on a cute creation game to push creativity and live a wholesome adventure!

Screenshot of MindVenture with a waterfall

Screenshot of MindVenture with an island

Screenshot of MindVenture with a far view village and windmill

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Zito Comms Open(until Oct 15th) @zitoisneato.com · Aug 11

Howdy doody! Chris Zito here, I'm willing to voice act in your cool indie projects!

If you like what you hear, consider contacting me @ ZitoisNeato on Discord, DM me on Bluesky, or Email me at [email protected]! (Discord Preferred)

#voiceactor #indieanimation #voiceacting

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 18h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 20h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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TheCongressman @thecongressman.bsky.social · 16h

I'm Zach, I work primarily in illustration, concepts and design. I love to work in many fields and am always looking to learn more skills. I'm currently working on Sonic fangame: Sonic Galactic, an original comic series 'Mirage Devils', and a small personal game project.
#portfolioday

Illustration for my original comic series 'Mirage Devils', showing the main characters lit from behind by a sunset, in order left to right: Julian, Cassius, and Romero

Background design for 'Coral Garden Zone' from the Sonic fan game, 'Sonic Galactic'. Tall ancient spires seen looming over the ocean, lit under the eclipse of the moon.

Mecha Sonic mk. 1, Mecha mk. 2, and Metal Sonic fighting for dominance.

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Moosh 🍄🐶 cms open @mooshpuppii.bsky.social · 16h

just in case anyone needs the confirmation - our class had an editor from a well-known comics publisher come in today and told us she won't even look at the dead bird app anymore when they're looking for artists. hosting your own website for your art (or here on bsky!) is the best right now.

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Tintin 🎃👻 @tintinteal.bsky.social · 21h

Happy #PortfolioDay everyone!! 🎨✏️🌠

My name’s Justin and I’m a 2D Generalist based in Canada.

I do lots of 2D Animation, Rigging and Storyboards on Toonboom Harmony and Storyboard Pro but in my free time I love drawing fanart and my OCs from my #Jinkoverse project!

💌: [email protected]

Jinkoverse illustration featuring the main cast Jinko, Yusah, Pola and Byte all standing in a row smiling and looking towards the right side of the illustration.

Behind them is an expansive view of space and the stars within it.

An illustration of Jinko, Yusah and Pola walking down some stairs into the city.

They’re all wearing casual outfits:

Jinko’s sporting a nice baseball tshirt with some red shorts and a grey backpack

Yusah’s wearing a black v neck tshirt with brown pants and a crossbody bag

Pola’s wearing a nice yellow summer dress with white stripes and a brown handbag

A Pride themed Illustration featuring the cast of Jinkoverse at a Pride Event. Everyone is covered in confetti and is wearing Pride Flag themed bracelets corresponding to their represented identities.

Illustration of younger Jinko and Yusah playing in the Flemo Botanical Park. Jinko is dressed up as an Astralnaut wearing a cardboard box as a helmet and carrying an Alien plushie while Yusah is carrying a Basketball.

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Shane(SAWhane) @sawhane25.bsky.social · 13h

It’s Been a while sense I’ve done this lol. #PortfolioDay

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kelsey irene @holographic.pink · 19h

hello it's #portfolioday !!!

always around for 3D generalist work-- my largest body of work is character work, but i've done props and environments in the past, very versatile

get in here early and you get my great personality and jokes for free 🤸‍♀️ there's also more at tinyurl.com/sz2yjpe3 !

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Tyler McGrath @tyler-j-mcgrath.bsky.social · 15h

#PortfolioDay let's go

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Mellow Marz ⚡ @mellowmarzart.bsky.social · Jul 9

Hey hey #PortfolioDay

My name is Anthony, a freelance Illustrator and Concept Artist and Mechanical Master Mind. I don't draw mellow things, I'd rather make that art a PUNCH!

🎨: mellowmarzart.carrd.co
📧: [email protected]

Illustration of Filia from Skullgirls lost and wondering aimlessly in the rain standing on a huge puddle that shows a reflection of her past self silhouetted against the full moon, and has Samson's past host framing the scene. This was created in collaboration with EightySixed.

Illustration of all the characters in the phantom rider arc of Sonic IDW. With sonic on the left and the rest of the characters drawn within the hardlight hexagons in the scarf on the right.

Illustration of Sonic and Tails on the Tornado 3 from sonic Unleashed flying at high speeds skimming the water while avoiding the egg robots surrounding the two. Tails is flying the tornado with confidence, while Sonic is hanging on to the back handles with a nervous expression hoping not to fall in the water below.
Illustration of Sonic and Tails on the Tornado 3 flying at high speeds skimming the water while avoiding the egg robots surrounding the two. Tails is flying the tornado with confidence, while Sonic is hanging on to the back handles with a nervous expression hoping not to fall in the water below.

Illustration of Squigly from Skullgirls standing center stage framed by skulls and the antagonist Lorenzo, Black Dahlia, Double, and her reanimated father Roberto that caused her to become a zombie. With her mother, Selene Contiello is the Skullgirl that is framing the image.

Leviathan is wrapped around the skullheart and Squigly, taking on the shape of a particular music symbol.

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KOPIKUP : Commissions Open! @kopikup.bsky.social · 15h

Happy #PortfolioDay!
I’m a 2D animator and illustrator who‘s REALLY into platformers!
(especially the ones with a particular blue hedgehog)

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⚔️frontier!⚔️ (COMMISSIONS OPEN) @scourgefrontiers.bsky.social · 18h

bbbbbb tails doodle

#sonic #sonicthehedgehog #sonicartist

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Hika/Tām | HK★TMK @hikatamika.com · 23h

Hi #PortfolioDay. I'm Tam/Hika, a Graphic Designer and Web Designer with 5+ years of professional experience.
I have overlapping skill in motion graphics, video editing, illustration, and comic art.

💼: hikatamika.art/
💌: [email protected]

#GraphicDesign #WebDesign #BlackSky

Square social media post for Structure Groups

Sketchbook tumblr theme in media grid view.

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✨Kiki✨ @setenza.art · Apr 9

Hi #PortfolioDay!! 🎨
My name is Kiana/Kiki and I love to do original works with my OCs while also being a graphic designer!
I'm currently taking comms on VGen!
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✨ Portfolio: setenza.art
✨ Commissions: vgen.co/setenza
✨ Links: bio.site/setenza.art

Two lop-eared girls in chibi form waving at the viewer. Background has shooting stars.

A lop-eared marionette posing while holding a chakram. Rel, a tiger-like character asks, "Well? What do you think?" with Nadya, another lop-eared character squealing while saying "I LOVE HER!!"

Karin, a bat-like person blushing while handing the viewer a box of chocolates. The background is the color pink with white flowers.

In order my ocs, Erem, Karin and Nadya posing while standing together facing to their right. The background is a halftone pattern. Erem is taller, muscular with pointy ears. Karin is bat-like while grinning. And Nadya is a lop-eared bunny girl smiling cutely.

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hal @astr-hal.bsky.social · 17h

hi #PortfolioDay :3

i'm hal, i like drawing OCs (and OC stickers), loose lines, and playing with colors

vgen.co/astr_hal

Ethan, a dogboy, playfully looks back at the viewer, back towards them, holding out a peace sign. A large cloud in the distance towers over him.

A matcha-themed sticker sheet of Camille, a deer girl.

A tomato-themed sticker sheet of Fiore, a catgirl.

A worm's eye view of Ethan sitting down next to his car in a field. Tall grass frames the artwork.

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David Mariotte @davidmariotte.bsky.social · 18h

Hi #portfolioday, I'm David! I'm a writer & editor! Currently looking for comics writing work (licensed or original--I've got pitches, webcomics okay, NSFW okay) and long-term employment in editorial or a related gig! Hire me!

[email protected]
www.davidmariotte.com

The A cover to Transformers Wreckers: Tread & Circuits by Jack Lawrence and Candice Han depicting the "IDW2" version of the Wreckers. They're showing off for the cameras. Clockwise: Thunderclash, Ricochet, Minerva, Circuit, Aileron, and Hot Shot. One of several Transformers projects I wrote. I also edited the entire line of Transformers comics for several years.

The cover to the Eisner-Award Winning Godzilla 70th Anniversary book, by E.J. Su who also has a fantastic story inside. Godzilla is destroying a town and chomping on a train. In the background, a silhouette of light in the destruction makes a giant 70. A comic I co-edited with Jake Williams at IDW (and one story edited by Jamie S. Rich). I was the Godzilla editor for a bit working on other titles as well.

The cover to Power Rangers Prime #5 (which makes the Pink Ranger look more purple than he really is). Depicting the Prime team. Clockwise from top: Red, Yellow, Black, Pink, and Blue! Art by Dan Mora. I am also the former Rangers editor at BOOM! Studios.

The cover to the Sonic the Hedgehog 2022 Free Comic Book Day special. Art by Adam Bryce Thomas featuring Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails. I was the editor on Sonic at IDW from 2018-2023, as well as writing some additional materials for the book, including a recap back-up story in this very issue!

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Amy Farbright 💻🦔 (CHECK PINNED) @amy.fruitbasket.gay · 16h

hey #portfolioday and #gamedev!
i'm a programmer with >7 years of commercial+hobby gamedev experience, across many disciplines. recently a commercial game i worked on shipped! but now i'm looking for other work to cover my bases. check out my site for other projects+contact info foreverwip.github.io

In late 2022 I was hired by GalaxyTrail under contract to work on various projects, with work centered around prototyping core game systems, integration of assets, and implementation of certain graphical effects. The first project out of this to release is Chrono Gear: Warden of Time, a hololive game published under the holo Indie label, released in September 2025. Shown here is one of my contributions, the "Stasis" ability which was adapted from a variable-timescale prototype I designed for another project. The technical design of this ability was used throughout the game for similar time-control effects.

In late 2023 I started working with STUDIO//LYNFLO offering general development assistance with their upcoming game DRAGONFRUIT: a mother's love, powered by Godot Engine. Here is just one example of what I've worked on: a dynamic shadow system that switches between realtime shadow casting and a static "directionless" shadow sprite based on distance and intensity of surrounding lights.

This is a work-in-progress full port of Sonic the Hedgehog (revision 1) for the Mega Drive to C, designed and built over the course of roughly 19 months as of April 2025.

The intent of this project is to provide a base from which the game and its mechanics can be experienced and ported to a variety of platforms, without any compromise to how the gameplay handed in the original. The version of Sonic 1 currently promoted by Sega is not a port but a remake of the original, made with a completely different game engine (in fact, it's the same Retro Engine that I've hacked on in my other hobby projects, go figure). Unlike that version, this project is built off of the original Mega Drive game's machine code, with as few changes made as possible.

All game code has been successfully converted (barring some inaccuracies my testing might not have picked up), so now all current work is centered on cleaning up the generated code, further decoupling the drawing code from the VDP, and adding additional features. In this screenshot, I demonstrate the additional features such as widescreen support and custom shaders (blurring the background to make the foreground more readable).

Screenshot of work on Sonic the Hedgehog 2 HD, a fan remake of the original game, showing a full 3D rendition of the special stage. What was once a 2D background with perspective tricks is now a full 3D scene, with objects positioned in three axes instead of two. When I first joined the team, there was already some work done on a procedural 3D renderer that generated polygons on the fly based on the original game's data, but it was very simple and offered a very limited view of the stage.

One of the main goals I wanted to achieve with the new renderer was for the player to be able to see the twists and turns of the rest of the track in the distance as they went through the stage; The main draw of the stages in the original was their 3D look and being able to look ahead of you, so it felt like a natural step forward. At the time though, the renderer was only designed to generate the track relative to where you were in it.

I ended up doing an almost complete rewrite of the renderer; I wrote my own spatial hash implementation and camera class in order to cull geometry, and rewrote our geometry generator to calculate all vertices only once at load time. Along with some extra shaders I integrated into the renderer, it provided an incomplete, but still more engaging visual demonstration of what the game could do to give a classic scene a modern coat of paint.

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BRUZZESE✸ @bruzzeseonline.bsky.social · 17h

Guess what, #portfolioday? I'm open to doing some cover art. Email bruzzeseonline [at] proton [dot] me.

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Ben Fleuter @benfleuter.bsky.social · 17h

Hello I draw a lot of mechs and environments creatures.
#PortfolioDay

A Beamsaber mech with the look of an angelic knight

A cyberpunk cityscape - the sky polluted with neon light. Designed for Hit the Ground Running.

A bio-horror creature with organic censors, a hood made of hands, and a cape made of flesh.

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Orlando B ✍️ @sarkastiklover.bsky.social · 22h

Happy #PortfolioDay!

My name is Orlando and I'm a digital illustrator from Portugal, who likes to play with colors and design.

All my links linktr.ee/sarkastiklover

Adira, Last of the Valquírias, an adult magical girl strutting into battle

A close up on the face of a woman running through the woods at night, her mouth and hands dripping with blood

A woman sitting on a bed overflowing with white, silky sheets, her left leg up in a chair, her right hand on her knee and her left hand holding a sheathed sword

Link, facing down Calamity Ganon, with the Master Sword ready and Zelda in his thoughts

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TheCongressman @thecongressman.bsky.social · 16h

I'm Zach, I work primarily in illustration, concepts and design. I love to work in many fields and am always looking to learn more skills. I'm currently working on Sonic fangame: Sonic Galactic, an original comic series 'Mirage Devils', and a small personal game project.
#portfolioday

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Lorenzo Hall 🍉 @lorenzohall.com · 20h

#PortfolioDay

Hi, my name's Lorenzo Hall. I'm a comic writer and novelist, previous work includes IDW's TMNT and an upcoming title I can't talk on just yet (🤫).

Looking for writing work in comics or prose.

Five page comic panel in black, white and green, showing Raphael angry after an argument with his brothers. The turtle is shown htting things in his room before going to bed angry, dark energy approaching in his dreams.

Illustration by Gigi Dutreix. Lettering by Nathan Widick.

Other credits are also visible in panel 2

Page from "The Outer-Space." Illustrated and co-created by FrogletComics depicting Pascal's ability to read minds.

Birthday Comic for Jon "Y'all Come Eat" Gray, featuring him and his characters. Scripted by me, Illustrated by FrogletComics

Art of Ariiisan featuring the reveal of Ardan. Illustrated by Cal Saiyan/ScourgeFrontiers and scripted by myself. Ardan is shown in fiery attire wielding a blazing blade.

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astrophysician 🌌🏳️‍⚧️✨ | coms open! @astrophysiciann.bsky.social · 18h

Hi #PortfolioDay!
I'm Skye! I'm a comic artist, illustrator, and author. I draw expressive fantasy and #sonicthehedgehog. I'm open for freelance, especially comic covers/interiors.

✨Reach me in DMs or at [email protected]
✨ www.artstation.com/astrophysici...

A comic page depicting Super Sonic throwing Dr. Eggman’s mech over his shoulder.

A comic spread depicting a young girl telling the face of a faerie in a pond what she’s looking for in the Land of the Fae

A digital painting of a girl wearing a cloak resembling a moth. An abstract, vaguely humanoid dark shape leans over her with a hand on her shoulder.

A digital painting of Shadow the Hedgehog obtaining a new Doom Power: Wing.

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