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Brandon Williams
@stupidartpunk.bsky.social
⚡️Episodic Director | Story Artist | Professor⚡️ Solar Opposites | Emmy Nominated Star Trek: Lower Decks | Mortal Kombat | Apple And Onion (he/him) *This account is Rated R*

Opinions are my own and do not reflect those of my employers.
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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!
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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I love listening to Aardman artists talk about their stop motion work.
Behind the scenes of their Wallace & Gromit x Barbour Christmas Film 2025.
>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_6x...
November 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Predator Badlands fuckin ruled!
November 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Shouting “BOO” after the Google AI ad at Predator got a good laugh from the entire audience.
November 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Patlabor: The Movie
November 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Nobody was incredible. China is absolutely destroying the animation game. We’re cooked. Go see it asap
November 9, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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It's incredible that we let billionaires bloviate about their policy views without throwing tomatoes at them. We know what they want, they want policies that work for a few dozen people and immiserate the other 300 million. Not interested!
November 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I keep trying to pitch Blue Sky to my students. Tryin' to get some younger folk on here. I think it would be good for everyone. Lets make Blue Sky a place for artists!
November 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Guillermo del Toro refused to use VFX for the ship in 'Frankenstein' so they built one from scratch ⚓️

"The ship is a character ... I didn't want the audience to go, 'Oh, this is all digital' ... once you introduce that, it's like a license for people not to believe things"
November 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Building the highwayman shot from Over the Garden Wall (2014), created by Patrick McHale, Cartoon Network Studios

Storyboards by Patrick McHale, animation by Nick Cross
November 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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bluesky branding refresh unveiled
November 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
In a world of Coke-Cola AI slop Christmas ads be a hand made charming Wallace And Gromit holiday ad.

youtu.be/X_6xpABXBM8?...
Wallace & Gromit x Barbour | Christmas Advert 2025
YouTube video by Wallace & Gromit
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November 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Humans imbue words with power like spells. It’s not the machine thats thinking, it’s the person projecting.
there is not. it is using a (highly complicated, multidimensional) statistical model to guess the next word in the chain

that is ALL it is doing

that is ALL it CAN do

there is no difference between valid output and hallucination

it can’t search its data, or demonstrate creativity or insight
November 8, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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as a computer scientist, i am BEGGING people to realize that there is no cognition inside of an LLM

no reasoning, no thought process, no self-awareness

I read a lot of arguments (for AND against) LLMs, and both sides seem to think there’s a consciousness or intentionality or even a moral alignment
November 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
That interest rate is pure insane evil. Get the Girllitine.
The Flex Loan, a new type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial in Tennessee, allows residents to borrow up to $4,000 at a 279.5% interest rate.

It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders.

(Published May with @tennesseelookout.com)
This Lender Said Its Loans Would Help Tennesseans. It Has Sued More Than 110,000 of Them.
The Flex Loan, a type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial, has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. Tennessee lawmakers declined to rein in the lending bu...
www.propublica.org
November 8, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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every piece of mass-market software these days feels like living with an unruly pet where you have to constantly stop what you're doing to check if it's secretly eating plastic under the dresser again
November 7, 2025 at 2:27 AM
‘Die My Love’ was a fuck FILM. Felt like a modern adaptation of ‘A Women Under The Influence’ and the comparison made me like both films more.
November 8, 2025 at 7:15 AM
I need to start punching media literacy into these fucks faces
“0% woke shit”

a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time
November 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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November 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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A LOT of industry folks need to take "I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit" to HEART.
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
So if you open a video on FB reels there will be a little semi transparent ad at the bottom. This happens every time. On top of ads that sometimes play before or during videos as has been the norm for a while. And its all shit. Everything social media sucks ass.
November 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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I think this take on the sandwich guy trial is correct. our system is built assuming that prosecutors will show appropriate restraint. the sandwich guy case went on for way too long and that in and if itself should be raising alarm bells www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sand...
November 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Honestly alot of the companies and studios that are embracing “AI” are ones Ive already chilled on over the past few years. You can feel when somethings been rotted by corporate fuckery. Im sorry but I couldn’t get into FF7 remake. It should have looked like the og anime concept art not high rez cgi
November 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM