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Bauwerks
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Writes for software companies, and sometimes the VFX/animation industries. Also an amateur animator and hobbyist photographer in my free time.

https://bauwerks.net

Tags: #art / #animation / #photography
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Now's probably a good time to finally make a pinned post. Hey there! Writing for tech is my day job, but I also draw, animate, and take photos when I'm not working. I do all four on my website.

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#art
Can't say I've ever seen any video of Kinu Nishimura drawing before, so this is pretty cool.

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December 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
One thing I miss from Blogger/Blogspot's (or even Tumblr's) heyday is when a lot of the animation industry was on there and talking shop about art or animation techniques in natural longform writing. Reading Shiyoon's posts scratches that itch for me.

shiyoonk.substack.com/p/how-does-c...
How does cloth bend at joints?
Here’s some sketches I did just observing and asking one question..
shiyoonk.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement
for all people make fun of falun gong, it's wild how much this is basically the same thing as shen yun
December 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
You can never have enough visual reference. 🤓📚📖
Toshiaki "Shinkiro" Mori workplace,1996
December 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Pretty disappointed in both @humblebundle.com and especially in @girlswhocode.bsky.social. Please teach girls how to code, don't push them into generative AI. That won't build their skills. Prioritize foundational programming skills and awaken their interest. "Tired of long days writing code"???
December 19, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Always a good day when potentially more Shuji Imai artwork is spotted. 😃

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ABOBOBO
Double Dragon II: The Revenge in Nintendo Power (Issue 10, January/February 1990). (Source) Although not directly credited, the illustrator is almost certainly Shuji Imai, who also drew the Howard &....
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December 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I agree w/ Derek's comments in general, but I want to present this as a counterpoint to the quoted excerpt he highlights. At the end of the day, Kojima's running his own small studio that's released 2 games in 10 years. They need to sell!

(Source: automaton-media.com/en/news/deat...)
December 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
My kingdom for people commenting on video game 2D graphics to refer to them as sprites or backgrounds here and there instead of "pixel art" all the time. Bonus points for also not mentioning the system's era as a qualifier (i.e., 8-bit, 16-bit, etc.)
December 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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We got all the hits:
- purchased by private equity firm
- hid a bunch of layoffs
- invested a bunch of money in AI
- tried to make that money back by ruining the best product it now owned
December 18, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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All of it was bad cliches that were rolled out but it’s telling that it still got so much attention among the western left—the western left has really not reckoned with its own Orientalism as it leads to uncritical views of contemporary Chinese authoritarianism
December 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Relatedly, just this morning I read this interview w/ Seaman creator Yoot Saito in the latest issue of APWOT, where Saito says Shigeru Miyamoto was a huge supporter of his game, even wearing a Seaman shirt to an interview & saying "If these weird games don't sell, then our industry won't survive".
December 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
While watching ep. 10 of Crayon Shin-Chan I paused on this frame and immediately noticed the weird textures visible through the mom's skirt. It's actually semi-transparent and you can see the background through it, though I'm not sure what those other visible lines forming a Y come from.
December 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Yes, I might be crazy for liking stretches of sub-freezing temperatures so the river can ice over because it's beautiful.
December 11, 2025 at 5:03 AM
What shit luck: the Chinese guy who famously recorded footage of the Uyghur concentration camps in Xinjiang and fled to the U.S. before releasing the footage online a few years back got caught in an ICE raid and may face deportation back to China.

hrichina.substack.com/p/man-who-fi...
Man who filmed Uyghur concentration camps now fights for his own freedom in the United States
In 2020, Guan Heng embarked on a risky mission to prove the existence of concentration camp facilities used to imprison Uyghurs. Now, he faces the threat of deportation back to China, where he would f...
hrichina.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Come for the pleasant music, lovely cinematography, and Hong Kong atmosphere, stay for the pointers on how you're probably closing your umbrella wrong.
A 2018 clip from Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown of Henry Yau, who earlier this week announced that his umbrella shop Sun Nga Shing will close at the end of the year, ending an incredible 183-year run
December 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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After LttP it feels like we stopped seeing illustrations like these, where the mystery and danger of the world was the focus. The artwork became much more character-driven. Seems to line up with the series' shift in design and perhaps general trends. (Unsurprisingly, I like the original games best!)
Such great cave exploration pieces in this one. The mood in them is awesome. I love how detailed the art is in the 2nd one.
December 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I've got nothing on who did what for the Animaniacs logo, but on a different note — Dismukes's portfolio is kinda wild.
December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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looking down the levels

📍airside, Kai tak, hong kong
December 8, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I haven't paid Aardman any attention since they started shilling NFTs back when that fad was trying to gain momentum, how did that end up working out for them?

www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
Wallace and Gromit creators annouce they are cautiously embracing AI
‘We use CGI as well, but AI is a whole new thing,’ says Nick Park
www.the-independent.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there
December 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Somebody in the comments was like "flame war sounds so corny though" YES THAT'S THE POINT, "discourse" gives what amounts to turbo-dorks arguing on the internet (I'm one of them I'm allowed to use that term) an unearned veneer of legitimacy.
December 6, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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insane local news just dropped. i've lived in a part of KC for ~decade and it's been an inside joke with friends and service workers that the local biz/party district is ran by a cartel of biz owners who bully out new ventures and replace them with generic dive bars for white suburbanites.

Well UH
December 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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One of the really funny things about portrayals of the Medieval period that have every peasant wearing brown and black is those colors were actually really expensive compared to blues, reds, and yellows
Adventures in Woad: Woad Dyeing in the Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Worlds
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December 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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This is the most horrific trophy I’ve ever seen. It looks like a cursed object found in a desert crypt.
December 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM