Em Void
@coherentvoid.bsky.social
Artist, scientist, wanderer. Grasping at dreams I refuse to abandon.
Blindly pursuing classical animation without much in the way of rigid instruction or guidance. Sooner or later, it's all going to work out.
Blindly pursuing classical animation without much in the way of rigid instruction or guidance. Sooner or later, it's all going to work out.
I'm really happy when I'm animating.
Unreasonably happy.
Unreasonably happy.
November 21, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I'm really happy when I'm animating.
Unreasonably happy.
Unreasonably happy.
The thing I kept experiencing during my drive across the gulf coast is that the world is really big.
I had forgotten, but the real world is way bigger than it seems based on what you see online.
The internet we see is actually very, very small in comparison.
I had forgotten, but the real world is way bigger than it seems based on what you see online.
The internet we see is actually very, very small in comparison.
November 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The thing I kept experiencing during my drive across the gulf coast is that the world is really big.
I had forgotten, but the real world is way bigger than it seems based on what you see online.
The internet we see is actually very, very small in comparison.
I had forgotten, but the real world is way bigger than it seems based on what you see online.
The internet we see is actually very, very small in comparison.
I attended an animation training class last week and got artist block. It blew my whole assignment and I thought I failed.
But somehow, fighting that pushed me through some deeper issues that I didn't know I had and I'm more inspired than ever.
But somehow, fighting that pushed me through some deeper issues that I didn't know I had and I'm more inspired than ever.
November 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I attended an animation training class last week and got artist block. It blew my whole assignment and I thought I failed.
But somehow, fighting that pushed me through some deeper issues that I didn't know I had and I'm more inspired than ever.
But somehow, fighting that pushed me through some deeper issues that I didn't know I had and I'm more inspired than ever.
Just want to point out that I got the high score at the Star Fox kiosk at Toys R Us when it was released. My score stood for nearly 10 minutes!
November 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Just want to point out that I got the high score at the Star Fox kiosk at Toys R Us when it was released. My score stood for nearly 10 minutes!
So glad I drove 2500 miles across the south instead of flying.
I saw a fog shrouded bayou.
Hundreds of crows congregating in New Orleans.
A massive bridge emerge from the mists around me.
The experiences helped recharge my creative batteries.
I saw a fog shrouded bayou.
Hundreds of crows congregating in New Orleans.
A massive bridge emerge from the mists around me.
The experiences helped recharge my creative batteries.
November 18, 2025 at 9:11 PM
So glad I drove 2500 miles across the south instead of flying.
I saw a fog shrouded bayou.
Hundreds of crows congregating in New Orleans.
A massive bridge emerge from the mists around me.
The experiences helped recharge my creative batteries.
I saw a fog shrouded bayou.
Hundreds of crows congregating in New Orleans.
A massive bridge emerge from the mists around me.
The experiences helped recharge my creative batteries.
I salvaged animation class but I now need to take the character that gave me art block at a critical time and ... rend him asunder in a coming animation.
I have now created an animated nemesis for my real world self.
I have now created an animated nemesis for my real world self.
November 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I salvaged animation class but I now need to take the character that gave me art block at a critical time and ... rend him asunder in a coming animation.
I have now created an animated nemesis for my real world self.
I have now created an animated nemesis for my real world self.
My conscious mind is like a cricket riding an elephant, incessantly chirping about how far it's walked despite being largely unaware that elephants exist.
What really carries us through life remains unfathomable to me.
What really carries us through life remains unfathomable to me.
November 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
My conscious mind is like a cricket riding an elephant, incessantly chirping about how far it's walked despite being largely unaware that elephants exist.
What really carries us through life remains unfathomable to me.
What really carries us through life remains unfathomable to me.
So apparently I have a heretofore unknown crippling social anxiety. I blew the entire animation class, unable to produce anything, and now I think I'm going to retire in abject humiliation.
November 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
So apparently I have a heretofore unknown crippling social anxiety. I blew the entire animation class, unable to produce anything, and now I think I'm going to retire in abject humiliation.
I didn't realize how dark the Twilight Princess manga goes in issue 1.
I need to brush up on my Japanese study.
I need to brush up on my Japanese study.
November 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I didn't realize how dark the Twilight Princess manga goes in issue 1.
I need to brush up on my Japanese study.
I need to brush up on my Japanese study.
Early Caturday. Comfy kitten.
November 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Early Caturday. Comfy kitten.
Why is it that feeling happy makes me paranoid that something is horribly wrong?
Wtf is up with this civilization?
Wtf is up with this civilization?
November 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Why is it that feeling happy makes me paranoid that something is horribly wrong?
Wtf is up with this civilization?
Wtf is up with this civilization?
I'm (very slowly) making a game where you solve mysteries. I think that some minor changes will allow your detective avatar to commit crimes and even frame innocent people.
Whaddya think? Should I allow players to be evil Jessica Fletcher too? Or is that too much for a pseudo-cozy game?
Whaddya think? Should I allow players to be evil Jessica Fletcher too? Or is that too much for a pseudo-cozy game?
November 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I'm (very slowly) making a game where you solve mysteries. I think that some minor changes will allow your detective avatar to commit crimes and even frame innocent people.
Whaddya think? Should I allow players to be evil Jessica Fletcher too? Or is that too much for a pseudo-cozy game?
Whaddya think? Should I allow players to be evil Jessica Fletcher too? Or is that too much for a pseudo-cozy game?
How much of Disney's Wonderland art style was designed to work around technicolor advances?
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
How much of Disney's Wonderland art style was designed to work around technicolor advances?
I just realized that today's my unbirthday.
I nearly forgot and missed it.
I nearly forgot and missed it.
November 6, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I just realized that today's my unbirthday.
I nearly forgot and missed it.
I nearly forgot and missed it.
I forgot how good Twilight Princess was.
November 5, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I forgot how good Twilight Princess was.
I think I've figured out an ethical and appropriate way to use AI models in hand drawn animation, but it is still faster just to draw it all out.
In fact, I need to draw more to get the AI to work for me. It only saves at team-level scale.
In fact, I need to draw more to get the AI to work for me. It only saves at team-level scale.
November 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I think I've figured out an ethical and appropriate way to use AI models in hand drawn animation, but it is still faster just to draw it all out.
In fact, I need to draw more to get the AI to work for me. It only saves at team-level scale.
In fact, I need to draw more to get the AI to work for me. It only saves at team-level scale.
When I was a kid, Nintendo Power sent me a free copy of Dragon Warrior for the NES just because I was subscribed to the magazine.
I just remembered that and thought it was a cool thing to do.
I just remembered that and thought it was a cool thing to do.
November 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
When I was a kid, Nintendo Power sent me a free copy of Dragon Warrior for the NES just because I was subscribed to the magazine.
I just remembered that and thought it was a cool thing to do.
I just remembered that and thought it was a cool thing to do.
I dislike AI.
But I am starting to worry that artists may end up removing their voices and stories from the culture if we refuse to negotiate with what is likely to become a permanent media shift.
I have no ideas other than to start making artist-centric AI adjacent tools.
But I am starting to worry that artists may end up removing their voices and stories from the culture if we refuse to negotiate with what is likely to become a permanent media shift.
I have no ideas other than to start making artist-centric AI adjacent tools.
November 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I dislike AI.
But I am starting to worry that artists may end up removing their voices and stories from the culture if we refuse to negotiate with what is likely to become a permanent media shift.
I have no ideas other than to start making artist-centric AI adjacent tools.
But I am starting to worry that artists may end up removing their voices and stories from the culture if we refuse to negotiate with what is likely to become a permanent media shift.
I have no ideas other than to start making artist-centric AI adjacent tools.
What if we need to leave exact galactic-relative spacetime coordinates for time travelers to come to now?
Maybe if we measured enough and recorded it, time travelers would start coming.
Maybe if we measured enough and recorded it, time travelers would start coming.
October 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
What if we need to leave exact galactic-relative spacetime coordinates for time travelers to come to now?
Maybe if we measured enough and recorded it, time travelers would start coming.
Maybe if we measured enough and recorded it, time travelers would start coming.
I know I'm underslept because I saw a dog with its tail up and thought, "what a weird reverse unicorn."
Then I had to explain to myself everything wrong with all of that.
Then I had to explain to myself everything wrong with all of that.
October 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I know I'm underslept because I saw a dog with its tail up and thought, "what a weird reverse unicorn."
Then I had to explain to myself everything wrong with all of that.
Then I had to explain to myself everything wrong with all of that.
All the cat toys and the only thing kitty wants is to carry his ikea bee around everywhere.
I seriously find this bee all over the place.
I seriously find this bee all over the place.
October 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
All the cat toys and the only thing kitty wants is to carry his ikea bee around everywhere.
I seriously find this bee all over the place.
I seriously find this bee all over the place.
It would actually be kind of terrifying if an alien civilization just started building a dyson sphere around our sun and totally ignored us. All we could do is watch in impotence.
October 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
It would actually be kind of terrifying if an alien civilization just started building a dyson sphere around our sun and totally ignored us. All we could do is watch in impotence.
So much of our lives seem to be formed by us forcing contradictory ideals together, irrationally.
Like forcing together two magnets in oppostion, desperately trying to hold them in a stable configuration.
Until our strength is gone and it simply flings apart.
Like forcing together two magnets in oppostion, desperately trying to hold them in a stable configuration.
Until our strength is gone and it simply flings apart.
October 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
So much of our lives seem to be formed by us forcing contradictory ideals together, irrationally.
Like forcing together two magnets in oppostion, desperately trying to hold them in a stable configuration.
Until our strength is gone and it simply flings apart.
Like forcing together two magnets in oppostion, desperately trying to hold them in a stable configuration.
Until our strength is gone and it simply flings apart.
I'm really turning over how all that mattered at the end of my mom's life were the memories she could physically hold.
It's telling me something about how the distant and intangible elements of society which constrain me are as mere vapor.
Uncomfortable but meaningful emotion day.
It's telling me something about how the distant and intangible elements of society which constrain me are as mere vapor.
Uncomfortable but meaningful emotion day.
October 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I'm really turning over how all that mattered at the end of my mom's life were the memories she could physically hold.
It's telling me something about how the distant and intangible elements of society which constrain me are as mere vapor.
Uncomfortable but meaningful emotion day.
It's telling me something about how the distant and intangible elements of society which constrain me are as mere vapor.
Uncomfortable but meaningful emotion day.
Found the box of affairs from my mother's passing.
I'm struck by how precious little there is left when an entire life ends.
I didn't realize, all which remained were a handful of bank cards and a few pictures of me. That's all she was holding at the end. It was all that still mattered.
I'm struck by how precious little there is left when an entire life ends.
I didn't realize, all which remained were a handful of bank cards and a few pictures of me. That's all she was holding at the end. It was all that still mattered.
October 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Found the box of affairs from my mother's passing.
I'm struck by how precious little there is left when an entire life ends.
I didn't realize, all which remained were a handful of bank cards and a few pictures of me. That's all she was holding at the end. It was all that still mattered.
I'm struck by how precious little there is left when an entire life ends.
I didn't realize, all which remained were a handful of bank cards and a few pictures of me. That's all she was holding at the end. It was all that still mattered.