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Lucas Nunes

@lucasjn.bsky.social

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Senior Animator at Industrial Light and Magic. Worked on Frankenstein, Mandalorian & Grogu, Andor, Godzilla vs Kong and a few other projects. Opinions my own. He/Him https://vimeo.com/354859947

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Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 15h

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 1h

Haha obrigado!

Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 11h

Haha amazing

Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 11h

Maybe one day 🙏

Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 11h

Hell yeah!

Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 11h

RJ's stamp of approval. I can sleep well now. Thank you very much dude!

Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you : ))

Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 11h

That means a lot, thank you!

Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 13h

Thank you!! The puppet keeps breaking but maybe it will survive till I paint it 😅

Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 13h

a man with red hair and a beard is standing in the woods

ALT: a man with red hair and a beard is standing in the woods

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Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 13h

Best compliment 🙏

Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 13h

Thank you!

Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 15h

Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 7d

Vanity Fair asked me to talk about visual effects, and it was my great honor to show off some of ILM’s terrific work over the years.

Todd Vaziri on Vanity Fair VFX
youtu.be/ERKEsIzTFas?...

ILM's VFX Secrets Behind Star Wars, Transformers & More | Vanity Fair

YouTube video by Vanity Fair

Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 8d

Oh nice, I animated that big tentacle monster grabbing the trees!

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RJ Palmer 🔜 Lightbox Expo 101 @rj-palmer.com · 11d

T. rex was formally named 120 years ago today. Hell yeah king happy birthday!

#art

Illustration I did of a roaring and/or yawning T. rex with a judgmental rex onlooker in the background. (done for Beasts of the Mesozoic T. rex figure)

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shivana @heyshivana.bsky.social · 11d

my hot take is some of y'all need to stop only reading comics. read prose, go to a museum, learn scrimshaw, wtfever. go be an interesting person first because i can TELL when people don't ingest anythiinnggg else but comics

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 12d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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RJ Palmer 🔜 Lightbox Expo 101 @rj-palmer.com · 12d

Do you guys ever look at a drawing in progress and simply feel so overwhelmed by the amount of work left that it paralyzes you?

Anyways I'm 65 hours into a piece and have not yet completed the drawing step. Realizing there is a reason I put this idea off for 11 years 🙃

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Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 13d

Ptero

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 13d

As we look at this gif of Twig and the Lighthouse, it makes us think of the time we tried to befriend a local crow. Unfortunately, we put out some cat food that the crow deemed unsatisfactory. The rest of the week we were dive-bombed by an enraged bird.

Moral: Appreciate your friends! #KeeperGame

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 14d

I forgot about this #paleoart of Deinocheirus I produced back in 2019 until this morning. Having not looked at it for years, I think it holds up pretty well. And no, it's not got the "feather mountain" look because D. was a big animal in a temperate climate.
#dinosaurs #fossil #paleontology #sciart

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Dr Matt Dempsey @sketchy-raptor.bsky.social · Sep 11

Forgot to announce I have a new paper out this week! Animals that are more front-heavy have thicker, differently shaped forelimb bones to deal with the extra load. Limb bones alone may thus be useful proxies for body shape - but posture complicates things. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Jay @kakapojay.bsky.social · Aug 29

Onto the most fragmentary of the Kem Kem theropods so far, an indeterminate dromaeosaurid known from some teeth and claw material! Size comparison and some thoughts below ⬇️

#sciart #paleoart

A dromaeosaur dinosaur, brown and white

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · Apr 25

A large Edmontosaurus regalis is giving the side-eye to a young Tyrannosaurus. Rex that's just passing by.

Digital painting of a large edmontosaurus dinosaur with a pale yellow background. In the foreground is a dark young Tyrannosaurus Rex.

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · Jul 18

"The Wandering Village" animated trailer by Trash Studio & Nippon Animation (Japan) for the video game by Stray Fawn Studio (Switzerland).
Directed by Takuro Suzuki, with Ghibli alums Akihiko Yamashita & Yoshiharu Sato.
Full credits >> strayfawnstudio.com/presskit/she...

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Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · Aug 15

Announcing🏅The illustration accompanying Dearc osteology paper (link.springer.com/article/10.1...) won an art award at the BMC Zoology image competition, under category "Life in Motion"! (read about it here: bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....) 🏅

Two Dearc papers, and all award winners!

Three pterosaurs, Dearc and two darwinopterans, fighting over a squid in a red blue subset