🎬 Film concept artist and illustrator. 🎞️ Alien: Earth, Matrix, Marvel, DC, Transformers, Woman King, Jupiter Ascending, 1923, Hunger Games.
Michigan, US
Joined January 2009
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I figured I'd post a little bit of my Matrix Resurrections work here.
These were done under the production design of Hugh Bateup and Peter Walpole, and the direction of Lana Wachowski.
These are some designs from IO, including Niobe's keep and the Morpheus shrine.
Hope you enjoy!
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That escalated quickly.
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🚨 GOOD NEWS: Monterey Park, California has become the first city in the US to permanently ban data centers through a public vote, with 86% of residents backing the ban
Nvidia stock is going to implode in the morning and the entire AI industry is going to continue to fold. No way Jensen keeps his job, good riddance.
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It's so amusing with these pro-AI accounts because its always one of three things:
1. Some kind of threat. "You are getting replaced", "it's here whether you like it or not", "it's inevitable, you can't fight it".
2. "You were told to hate it"
3. A personal insult.
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Lmao, he was fvcking a Chinese spy.
Everyone crying about China this and China that with AI, and the call was coming from inside the house.
BREAKING: Jensen Huang admits affair as Nvidia launches independent investigation into CEO axios.com/2026/11/08/nvidia-…
I think I may have been the only person in the theatre who laughed at the "we're gonna need a bigger bird" line in Wildwood.
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If you want to know why animators are up in arms when someone respected says they “did it the old way” but then it has all the hallmarks of generative AI funkiness, ask them how work has been the last 18 months.
If you’re lucky to find work right now, guess what a lot of it is - cleaning up those AI errors to make it look like it wasn’t used in the first place.
There’s a lot of discussion to be had on where the line is between tools that assist versus tools that generate, but purposely obfuscating what was used and then doubling down on it all isn’t going to move the conversation forward.
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"This was made 100% with local models."
And in the same tweet:
"Opus 5.5 came up with the story, wrote the narration, generated every shot on the Spark, rejected the bad takes, mixed the sound and cut it together."
This was made 100% with local models. Every frame and every sound in this cartoon came from AI models running on an NVIDIA DGX Spark on my desk. No cloud generation, no subscriptions.
"Santa and the Little Lost Star"
All I typed was "make a Christmas short under a minute" (plus "Santa" and "1930s cartoon style"). I didn't write the story, plan the shots or edit it. Opus 5.5 came up with the story, wrote the narration, generated every shot on the Spark, rejected the bad takes, mixed the sound and cut it together.
It took about 4 and a half hours today. The first full cut was done in an hour. The rest was agent directed polishing: 28 video renders, about 3 hours of GPU time, for 22 seconds of finished film.
It was all made in Imagination Studio, a free, open-source local film studio built by @SamJWasserman. This thing is ridiculous. One installer downloads every model you need, and an AI agent can drive the whole thing.
What made what (all running locally):
Video: MiniMax H3 (FastH3) with the Studio 1939 LoRA by @OdinLovis for the golden-age hand-painted look
Title card: MOSS-Image
End card: FLUX3-K
Keyframe fixes: Qwen-Image 2.1
Narrator and Santa's voice: Fish Audio Drama 3
Score: MiniMax Music 3
The "Merry Christmas everyone" song: YuE2 Sound effects: Stable Audio Open
github.com/drowzeys/Imaginat…
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Today I paid a human being to voice a character in an indie game
That's it. That's the post
I can't afford baked goods, so I pay a subscription service to rob bakeries around me to get things a lot cheaper. I can't believe how much bakers are whining about this, they should adapt, this is progress. The entitlement is off the charts.
"I need my artists to work for sub-minimum wage, I need them to ask themselves if it would be better to work in fast food or at a car wash every time they deliver me a commission. Can't have them getting too cocky, I deserve nearly free labor."
My house burned down when I was a kid and when I ended up in the ER at 8am, a chipper nurse walks past and goes, "Smells like somebody had a bonfire!"
What does this remind me of...
Oh! The narcissist's prayer:
"That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, that's not a big deal.
And if it is, that's not my fault.
And if it was, I didn't mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it."
the biggest lie I see here is that AI is replacing talented artists' jobs.
it's not.
if it is, you're not good.
skill-wise or for utility.
we have one of the BEST distribution tools ever made, and anyone who can leverage it to drive business is invaluable.
the development of AI is a net positive for anybody doing creative work.
we're witnessing one of the biggest increases in creative production capacity EVER.
there's more money involved today because it's increasingly valuable knowing what you should create and why.
just look at the number of creative roles paying > $100,000. this wasn't the case 4 years ago.
artists can focus on creative and cool things instead of time consuming technical problems.
if you’re an artist struggling to find work while taking an anti-AI stance, drop your ego. companies hire you for the value you deliver, not the tools you use.
you were never hired solely by your ability to use after effects or photoshop.
but rather for your artistic talent, which doesn't lie solely in tools.
SO BE CREATIVE, AND MAKE YOURSELF VALUABLE!!!
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The amount of non-artists upset by this is unreal. The arts community has taken a massive hit from AI.
My husband had a 20 year career in animation for Disney/Nickelodeon and just like that, poof.
This is a bid to make sure human artists don't give up and disappear.
So just remember this when your 'real job' businesses turn to ChatGPT for a new logo, or ad, or sign... instead of hiring a graphic designer/creative to save money.
If you didn't already think the CEO of Anthropic was an evil lunatic, here you go.
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