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Zakuga Art

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Founder of #SupportHumanArtists | No gAI | Senior Art advisor @ Artistree | Amazon & USA Today bestsellers cover illustrator & concept artist #SupportTraffickingVictims #SupportAbusedChildren

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Ville Sinkkonen @villesinkkonen.bsky.social · 3d

Spiky drake

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Zakuga Art @zakugamignon.bsky.social · 5d

All this to steal from artists

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Errol 🦇 🏳️‍🌈 @eerieseymour.bsky.social · 10d

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

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Zakuga Art @zakugamignon.bsky.social · 10d

“No one can tell I’m coloring over AI/ smudging it around”

trust me - every artist can tell. We will never hire you.

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Zakuga Art @zakugamignon.bsky.social · 12d

alright, ill be cancelling my sub soon

Zakuga Art @zakugamignon.bsky.social · 16d

Mew mew mew

Zakuga Art @zakugamignon.bsky.social · 19d

I've recently found out there is a "Don't ask, don't tell" with professional AI use. Artists get blocked when asked, and called witch-hunts, but it's known AI use, and they just want to use AI, while still claiming 100% human made.

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𝕲𝖆𝖝 @gaxix.bsky.social · 23d

Hades 2 Melinoë

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Zakuga Art @zakugamignon.bsky.social · Sep 18

Concept I’d like to flesh out more one day - my oc Lili

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Zakuga Art @zakugamignon.bsky.social · Sep 14

Happy to say I had 0 artist friends that liked any posts or followed!

Zakuga Art @zakugamignon.bsky.social · Sep 14

Sean Astin is an amazing person and I’m happy he is president of SAG now

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · Sep 12

exclusion and pin light are my secret weapons. Make a copy of everything flattened, use posterize on it, set the blending mode to pin light and thank me later

Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · Sep 12

Cancelled.

kim_hu: what's y'all's favorite adjustment layers? mine are overlay, exclusion and divide

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Zakuga Art @zakugamignon.bsky.social · Sep 10

Darkness my old friend

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Zakuga Art @zakugamignon.bsky.social · Sep 9

Galadriel, Mightiest Elf remaining in Middle-earth, Lady of Lórien

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · Sep 9

Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio had a budget of $35 million and every single character was moved one frame at a time by a human being. What the fuck are we even doing!!!!!!!

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · Sep 8

OpenAI confirms they're helping make an AI-generated movie called 'Critterz'

• Goal is to finish production in 9 months
• Budget is ~$30M
• Plan is to debut the film at Canne
• 'Paddington 3' writers penned the script
• Art will be fed into Chat GPT 5 and other image models

(via WSJ)

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Zakuga Art @zakugamignon.bsky.social · Sep 6

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Zakuga Art @zakugamignon.bsky.social · Sep 5

The new Shadow Lord Star Wars show looks like it’s gonna be goood

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · Sep 3

Really good watch

youtu.be/YN6BEUA4jNU?...

We Found the Hidden Cost of Data Centers. It's in Your Electric Bill

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

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Zakuga Art @zakugamignon.bsky.social · Sep 1

Anyone that tries to weaponize artists calling out the greatest art heist of all time a “witch hunt” is morally wrong.

tayturs.bsky.social @tayturs.bsky.social · Sep 1

James “ai is just a witch hunt” mulligan

Side facing portrait of belle from Beauty and the Beast with red circles around parts that appear embellished with generative ai

Image of Ariel from Little Mermaid with red circles around parts that appear embellished with generative ai

Image of Stitch from Lilo and Stitch with red circles around parts that appear embellished with generative ai

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Zakuga Art @zakugamignon.bsky.social · Aug 29

I drew this like 11 years ago, when I was just a teen, I still really like it and wanna redraw this.

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Zakuga Art @zakugamignon.bsky.social · Aug 27

The people sitting behind saying keep quite and let others take care of it - there are no others.

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Zakuga Art @zakugamignon.bsky.social · Aug 27

2/2 but who will speak out against AI for the future artists? I’m against the mentality of “I’m secure in my field so I’m not going to create ripples”. If not you, then who? Who are the ones keeping AI from being normalized? Not you.

I feel defeated often. This won’t “take care of itself”.

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Zakuga Art @zakugamignon.bsky.social · Aug 27

I saw a post saying “I’d like to hire an artist for my cover, bc of the AI backlash. I don’t want to hire an artist that is openly against AI however”.

Here is the thing: they would use AI if not for the backlash. They are weaponizing artists speaking out against AI as a bad thing. 1/2

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Zakuga Art @zakugamignon.bsky.social · Aug 26

It says it’s a beautiful dream sake !

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Zakuga Art @zakugamignon.bsky.social · Aug 25

I watched the women’s game and the men’s game last night and oh my gosh, the men and the over emotional drama in tennis