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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.

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Bauwerks @bauwerks.net · Oct 17
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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Drawing of Gotoh from Patlabor parodying Kanamori from the Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! opening credits. Drawing of Noa from Patlabor parodying Mizusaki from the Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! opening credits. Drawing of Ota from Patlabor parodying Midori from the Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! opening credits.
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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
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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.

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How does cloth bend at joints?
Here’s some sketches I did just observing and asking one question..
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December 20, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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deflatermaus.bsky.social
"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d
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
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You can never have enough visual reference. 🤓📚📖
tadashidaiba.bsky.social 台羽正 @tadashidaiba.bsky.social · 1d
Toshiaki "Shinkiro" Mori workplace,1996
December 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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kenney.nl
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
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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
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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...)
In a recent interview with Nikkei Cross Trend, Hideo Kojima gave some insights about how Kojima Productions approached development of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, including the tricky subject of difficulty. “We gave a lot of thought to difficulty,” Kojima says. He notes that despite ultimately attracting over 20 million players, the original Death Stranding had some “pretty sharp edges,” so improving playability was one thing he was conscious of with the sequel. “We wanted to retain the theme and gameplay mechanics, but make adjustments so it’s easier to play. That’s why we added more vehicles, for example.” Interestingly, he admits to intentionally leaving in some “extreme” design choices in the first Death Stranding, which led to the game having two major points where players dropout rates soared. One of these was the mission in which you deliver President Bridget Strand’s dead body. On the other hand, when making Death Stranding 2, the developers didn’t include these kinds of intentionally punishing moments, and more players are able to reach the game’s ending as a result. At the same time, Kojima is aware that the milder difficulty made some hardcore players find the sequel “lukewarm” compared to Death Stranding, commenting that the right balance is hard to find when it comes to difficulty.
December 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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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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brandon.insertcredit.com
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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brianhioe.bsky.social
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
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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".
What was the reaction at Sega when you first shared with them your concept for Seaman. Was there much scepticism about such an unusual idea, and unproven technology? Yoot Saito: When we first proposed Seaman, there were of course people who were sceptical of the concept. I heard that there were voices within Sega, especially from the sales force, saying that it was wrong to put so much effort into something like this as a launch title for the company's new hardware. But there were many allies in this project too. Outside of Sega, Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto was particularly supportive of the idea from the beginning, and since Nintendo was preparing to launch a new disc-based machine, business negotiations for bringing Seaman to the GameCube also existed in parallel with Sega. Who was your champion at Sega? Yoot Saito: The person who served as our point of contact in negotiations with Sega was Mr. Irimajiri, who at the time was the vice president of Sega. He later became president of Sega. He used to be the president of Honda USA where he had established a reputation as a genius engineer of gasoline engines. He didn't know much about games, which is a good thing for us, because that's why he was on board with our Seaman project. He didn't have any preconceived notions. At Sega, it was mostly people in the marketing department who opposed us. They were constantly pushing for games that would be guaranteed successes in the market, and had less time for more experimental concepts. Even though Seaman launched on Dreamcast, Miyamoto-san continued to support us. He appeared in a videogame magazine wearing a Seaman T-shirt. In that interview he pointed at his shirt and said:, "The Japanese game industry will be ruined if games like this don't sell." I am so honoured.
December 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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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.
Screenshot of Crayon Shin-Chan episode 10 where Shinnosuke is climbing up a female mannequin in a pink bikini, and Shinnosuke's mom is covering the right side of the frame as she runs over to grab Shinnosuke. The shopping mall's display cases are barely visible through the mom's light blue skirt, and there seems to be some kind of texture like folded paper creases, and it's only on the skirt area. The rest of the mom is opaque. The next frame of Shinnosuke's mom running over to grab him. You can still make out the display case through her skirt, and the weird textures from the previous frame are also in the same spot, just not as visible as the blue skirt has moved over on the frame.
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.
Large chunks of ice float in the foreground of this image of the Chicago River at night. In this wide-angle shot, the buildings lining Wacker Drive appear smaller and farther away. This is a daytime view of the Chicago river covered in ice. An L train passes over the river across the top of the Lake Street bridge. What looks like an abstract image of angular white fields interspersed with irregular dark lashes is actually broken ice. The illusion is broken by a seagull flying above the ice
December 11, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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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.

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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...
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December 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Come for the pleasant music, lovely cinematography, and Hong Kong atmosphere, stay for the pointers on how you're probably closing your umbrella wrong.
kjoules.org Joel Chan @kjoules.org · 8d
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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mossmouth.bsky.social
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!)
historyofhyrule.com History of Hyrule, Zelda Archivist @historyofhyrule.com · 9d
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
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I've got nothing on who did what for the Animaniacs logo, but on a different note — Dismukes's portfolio is kinda wild.
The full logo for Animaniacs with the characters posing inside the WB shield. The classic logo for Megadeth. A logo for Full House.
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
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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?

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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
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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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utopia-defer.red
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
Federal RICO Case Alleges an All-White Board Runs Westport Nightlife Like a Racist Cartel Federal judge allows civil rights conspiracy case to expand after a local Black entrepreneur’s motion sufficiently alleged evidence of “common discriminatory purpose” to exclude Black business owners from Kansas City’s historic entertainment district. At the center: allegations of a weaponized “Good Neighbor Agreement,” brazen threats captured on tape, and a music ban targeting chart-topping Black artists. By JT ● Arts & Culture, Black Business, Black Economic Justice ● November 17, 2025 The front of Holy Bruch, where Euphoric Bar & Lounge was slated to be. The former site of Ale House, now operating as Holy Brunch KC, located at 4128 Broadway in Kansas City’s Westport district. (Mili Mansaray/Kansas City Defender) Behind the brickwork and neon signs of Kansas City’s Westport entertainment district, a federal lawsuit alleges an invisible regime decides who belongs and who does not. The mechanism of control, according to court documents, is a secret “Good Neighbor Agreement.” The price of entry is compliance. And the enforcers are an all-white, twelve-member board of the Westport Community Improvement District (CID). “We won’t sign a consent of any kind, even beer and wine, unless we have a good neighbor agreement in place,” CID members told prospective business owners, according to a lawsuit that claims to quote an audio recording.
December 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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docvivileandra.bsky.social
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
fakehistoryhunter.net The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 15d
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.
Trumps FA peace trophy. Several distorted severed hands reach up from the base trying a grab a floating globe.
December 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM