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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · Nov 14

Let me reintroduce myself!

Im Brandon, I work as a storyboard artist and director in the LA animation industry

I love drawing my boy Wukong

Im developing many projects I hope to share with you all one day!

My dream is to make an animated martial arts feature

Re-Repost your art on Bluesky!

Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · May 31

I posted my boy of course! But everything is taking suuuper long so I might give up for now and try again later.

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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 25m

Mmmm yeah

Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 2h

score

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 4h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 5h

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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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 5h

Two weeks ago we lost a giant of the movie posters world, Renato Casaro. Today we lost a modern Master of movie posters: DREW STRUZAN. I can guarantee you have at least seen 5 of his posters in your lifetime. The man has put his art on some of the most popular movie franchises (Indiana Jones, 1/4

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Comedy for Animators @comedyforanimators.bsky.social · 18h

Here is a YouTube video I made awhile back. Staging for Visual Comedy. I hope you find it useful.

Staging for Visual Comedy

YouTube video by Jonathan Lyons

youtu.be

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🕷️Gory Thing🕷️ @korybing.bsky.social · 6h

Love that we all know this is going to happen and have known it since this shit was introduced yet all we can do is wait for the dumbest and most easily avoidable economy crash of all time.

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 2d

AI bubble now 17 times bigger than dot-com boom and four times larger than subprime crisis, per MW

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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 5h

Its funny the MCU tried to TVify movies and Netflix with Stranger Things is movifing TV shows.

Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 5h

And you turned ok! Lol

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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah I mean absolute banger film and poster!

Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 6h

One of my favorite Drew Struzan posters.

Big Trouble In Little China poster painted by Drew Struzan

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💀🧟‍♂️Kevin Church of the UNHOLY 🧟‍♂️💀 @beaucoupkevin.com · 6h

Oh, man, Drew Struzan's departed us.

You know all the hits, of course; the man was a legend. Here's a rejected (!?!?) poster he did for STAR TREK V.

The movie-era USS Enterprise speeding towards a planet that's in the process of exploding. You can HEAR this poster.

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Sergio Codespoti @codespoti.bsky.social · Nov 15

Drew Struzan

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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 6h

The absolute best to ever do it. A style unto himself. He was always able to capture the magic of the possibilities of film. Even bad movies are amazing through his eye and brush. RIP Drew Struzan.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 7h

Just saw on IG that Drew Struzan has died. RIP to the man who painted my childhood.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom by Struzan

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Eric Shmeric @ericdienstfrey.bsky.social · 9h

So Jurassic Park is about a group of rich people who don't understand that biology is far more complicated than "there are only two genders" and how this ignorance toward gender fluidity in nature causes these rich people to lose their money and die.

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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 16h

Omg come on

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SIDE BANGS @sidebangsmusic.com · 17h

I would hate to fill my childhood and teenage years watching 30 second sound bites instead of getting absolutely obsessed with like 7 of the records I could afford

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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 17h

Worth it tho

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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 18h

Its so good I should also probably pay

Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 20h

They need to be liked and thought of as cool.

Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 20h

That snake in Zootopia 2 is the best looking 3DCG I think I’ve ever seen.

Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 22h

Damn last WTF episode. Its wild to celebrate and mourn a cool media project coming to a proper conclusion.

Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 22h

Great article about Patlabor 2 and the martial law sequence.

Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 23h

Mamoru Oshii planned it. A young Satoshi Kon took the lead on its layouts. The result: a stunning moment from Patlabor 2.

We're looking inside the film's martial law sequence, including storyboards and production art:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/life-under...

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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 1d

I can't believe the final season of #SolarOpposites is out now and waiting for eye balls to see it! HULU and Disney+ like right now. No really. GO WATCH IT NOW!

Mike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 1d

The final season of #SolarOpposites is NOW STREAMING on HULU and with Hulu on Disney+!

THE ALIENS
THE WALL
IT ALL COMES TO THIS

Tell your parents to resubscribe so you can use their account.

Final season of Solar Opposites poster - now streaming on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+

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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah it was incredible

Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 1d

It projection. They’ve sold their souls for money and now take marching orders. And they have such a self centered world view they can’t comprehend that not everyone feels the same. In fact most people.