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Yann Boyer
@yannboyer.bsky.social
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He/Him, French Art Director / Concept artist for animation.
Also maker, fighting game enthusiast and woke.

Portfolio : https://cara.app/yannboyer
YLAB Arcade Sticks : https://linktr.ee/ylab_
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Yann Boyer @yannboyer.bsky.social · Nov 18
New pinned post !

I'm a concept artist / art director from France, I've worked mainly in animation but did some pieces for video game advertising as well.

Here's a selection from some of the latest non-NDA projects I've worked on

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www.linkedin.com/in/yannboyer/
A painterly concept art of a young boy lost in a swamp A painterly concept art of a volcanic area A painterly concept art of a bioluminescent lush forest at night A screenshot of the fifth Love Death Robot episode, "Sucker of Souls"
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kortizart.bsky.social
Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things.

Here’s a blurb on what I mean:
Some thoughts: When using GenAi as a mood board you don't get sources. This means you deprive yourself from knowledge. You generated a location? You deprived yourself of knowing more about the interesting parts of the world and why things came to be. Generate an armor or costume? You deprived yourself on real world techniques, function, form and history. You generated art inspirations? You deprive yourself of learning about artists from history or lock out living ones from potentially being hired. Ethical issues of using GenAi models aside, one ends up making visuals mood boards devoid of reality and history. With it one deprives themselves from learning about our world and who is living in it, inadvertently making your work weaker, because of how detached it is from our shared human reality and history.
December 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
yannboyer.bsky.social
Quelle triste nouvelle
acupoftim.bsky.social Tim @acupoftim.bsky.social · 1d
Décès d'Edika, coup de poing dans mon enfance.
Le dessinateur de bd Edika se prend un upercut par lui-même et plein de personnages s'échappent de son crâne qui explose.
December 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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mrmunchertoyou.bsky.social
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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morningjrpro.bsky.social
Dont accept this- they still get money/reimbursed for the claims.
Meaning profits still go towards queen transphobe.
wario64.bsky.social Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 6d
Hogwarts Legacy is free on Epic Games Store. Mystery game is the next title buff.ly/HE94Ti2
December 12, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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videogameworkers.bsky.social
"AVVIES" AWARD WINNERS THREAD.
Woe be upon the winners! ❤️

Watch live 👇
www.twitch.tv/UVW_CWA
December 11, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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ashfr.bsky.social
December 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
yannboyer.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_2T...

That rendering is insane, love it.
Orbitals - Official Announce Trailer [Japanese Dub] | The Game Awards 2025
YouTube video by IGN
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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catsuka.bsky.social
FYI, Titmouse recently opened an animation studio in Paris.
December 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
yannboyer.bsky.social
It's 10pm here, I'm still working because I wasn't entirely satisfied with today's drawing, and I read countless news snippet about genAI slop being pushed with obscene amount of money. Why am I even bothering ?
December 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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kaseygifford.bsky.social
I hope the ocean of rancid pornography/pointless brainrot that comes from this deal was worth spitting directly in the face of artists, animators, and craftsmen. You know, the people who actually built the mouses empire with human creativity and devotion to their craft.

deadline.com/2025/12/disn...
Disney Inks Blockbuster $1B Deal With OpenAI, Handing Characters Over To Sora
Disney will make characters from 'Frozen' and 'Star Wars' available to Sora under $1B deal with OpenAI.
deadline.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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thespaceshipper.com
While Coca-Cola, McDonald's, and others are the subject of jokes with their hideous AI-generated ads, a French ad produced by Montpellier-based studio Illogic has won over audiences beyond France's borders with this animated short film that reminds me of...
A cute wolf in an animated Intermarché ad
December 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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everydaymerlin.bsky.social
LOOKING FOR WORK!! i’m merlin and i’ve worked in animation, games and comics as a visual developer and illustrator 🫶🎨 past clients: netflix, d&d, magic the gathering, volta

🎨 www.artstation.com/merlin-gg

📧 [email protected]
December 2, 2025 at 10:54 PM
yannboyer.bsky.social
Here's hoping this one is not as blatantly mysoginistic as the previous one because that really was a turn-off for me.
December 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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cedricmas.bsky.social
31 % des 16-34 ans «se sentent plus puissants» quand ils ne portent pas de préservatif, 32 % pensent que les femmes doivent respecter leur refus d’en porter et 16 % voient dans ce mode de contraception «un signe de faiblesse».
Le danger du masculinisme (ép. 4389).
www.publicsenat.fr/actualites/s...
Santé sexuelle : Sidaction s’alarme de la montée en puissance des discours masculinistes auprès des jeunes - Public Sénat
Pour la journée mondiale de la lutte contre le sida, l’association dévoile les résultats inquiétants d’un sondage sur la sexualité des hommes en France : l’essor des discours de domination masculine a...
www.publicsenat.fr
December 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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margauxbaralon.bsky.social
Attendez, vous voulez dire que la culture, dont on coupe allègrement les subventions dans les collectivités locales, contribue à faire tourner l'économie ? Qui aurait pu prédire ?
November 30, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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celechii.itch.io
last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far

i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
comparison between apple's finder icon and mine. apple's is the split blue and white smiley face, mine is two blue and white anime girls making out comparison between discord's icon and mine. mine is like a screaming cat on a blue/purple slimy background comparison between celsys's clip studio paint icon and mine. mine is similar but rotated with some comic styling and pink and blue highlights comparison between mozilla's firefox icon and mine. mine is similar but looks closer to the old firefox icon and brings back the little arm and gives the fox a cute little smiley face
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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alariko.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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catsuka.bsky.social
Studio 4°C Friday : "Mind Game" movie (by Masaaki Yuasa) is back for free on Youtube in 212 countries (see links in comment).
November 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
yannboyer.bsky.social
Oh non
November 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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thespaceshipper.com
Julien Gauthier's work on Númenor is fantastic.
November 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
yannboyer.bsky.social
Un paquet de yaourts nature
November 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_G1...

The Movie Magic show changed my life as a kid, it's 100% this. Before that I wanted to be a camera operator for nature documentaries.
November 24, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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thomasragon.bsky.social
Anatoly Kokorin (1908-1987)
November 24, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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socksthewolf.com
Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have.

Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.

If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.
python.org Python Software Foundation @python.org · Oct 27
Please read our statement, share it with your networks, and support us if you can. www.python.org/sponsors/app... psfmember.org/civicrm/cont...
October 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM