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Happy birthday dude 🎉

Jim Lee's impassioned words about why DC will never use AI have already won New York Comic Con.

Studio Ghibli fell in love with this film and gave its director a movie deal. Master animators like Yuri Norstein call it a favorite.

Its name is Father and Daughter, and we've explored its story:
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What an expertly called shot

brilliant animation breakdown here for Sunderfolk -
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2D animation is booming in theaters. In China, the film Nobody is outgrossing many of Hollywood's recent CG films—on a $10< million budget.

It's only one example. As 2D films rise, Hollywood's decision to kill them off looks shortsighted. We explore:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-hand-d...

I live for furs, I worship furs - animated by the great Marc Davis

Great quote from Milt Kahl on standards -
“You might as well, geez! If you don’t have something to aspire to, what have you got? You have to have high standards. I think that’s part of any profession. If you don’t aim high, well, you’re not going to get anywhere.”

And on the subject of #realartatters: AI poisoning tool NIGHTSHADE is now free for artists to use: venturebeat.com/ai/nightshad...

Via Variety: 'Guillermo del Toro refused to make #Frankenstein with too much visual effects and green screens: "I want real sets."'

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Alright last shout about this. 3-6 months (your preference) for a freelance gig. Games animators only please. Keyframe, charm, appeal. All the good stuff.

The Glassworker is a gorgeous, moving, sometimes brutal feature from Pakistan. Making it was a decade-long struggle.

Ghibli inspired it, but this is no GenAI knockoff. It’s a deep study of Hayao Miyazaki's and Isao Takahata's filmmaking. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/learning-t...

🎉LUDOCENE LAUNCHED 🎉

So excited (and nervous) to send our game-finder into the world.

Ludocene.com

If you want a better way to find amazing games that rewards experts and is in the hands of players, this is our shot.

Thank you to the 1000's backers and supporters.This is just the beginning.

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

I spent the past two days working on Garb, in preparation to show it off at the Sparkies tonight in Bath!

some adjustments:
- health drop pickups
- no more requiring lock on to shoot
- general quality of life updates

also Garb has now been backronymed to Game.About.Rebounding.Balls!

#indiedev

🐲 Dinozilla rig now available at 3dFiggins.com/Store! Full range of controls for body/face/accessories and game ready!

Model by Marcelo Pinheiro

📡 RT for a chance to win a free download!

Concept art from The Lion King (1994), dir. Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, Walt Disney Feature Animation

Pieces by Andy Gaskill, Chris Sanders and Ric Sluiter

Here's a work-in-progress bank of animations as part of a locomotion suite I've been working on with @edswain.bsky.social as part of my @limitbreak.co.uk mentorship! It's still rough and in the blocking stage at some parts, but I got it into Unity to see how it feels.

#gameanimation #unity

Quadrupeds in games are tricky, here’s the default locomotion set of Bento the dog from Somerville. The gaits are 1 walk, 2 trots and 4 x gallops all with left/right turn and incline/decline variants. #animation #gameanimation #quadrupeds

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

Shinya Ohira animates like nobody else. He's a maverick artist known for the raw, explosive power of his drawings.

If you've seen The Boy and the Heron, you know his work. For this issue, we've gone inside his career and spoken to him about his craft: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-maveri...

a load of jobs here at Jagex

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