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🐉 Panoptos 🤖 @panoptos.bsky.social · Oct 20

Hi hello! I'm a fantasy and sci-fi artist in Australia! 🐉🤖👽
Links to my profile on other sites can be found through my carrd, and my commission status will be in my bio!
panoptos.carrd.co

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S ∆ R E N ✦ 杰敏

@sarenstone.com

Because I guess it requires repeating - we kiss robots here, but that does NOT include genAI and LLMs.

They are not sentient, they are not real intelligence. They are built upon the stolen work of generations of passion and skill, and the exploitation of poor communities and the environment.

An illustration in pink and cool greys featuring Adra (they/them) kissing Criticality (he/him) on the 'cheek'.

January 4, 2026 at 12:16 AM

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cofi-beans.bsky.social

@cofi-beans.bsky.social

My bard dragonborn Warbler : D #bg3 #art

September 2, 2025 at 10:39 AM

🐉 Panoptos 🤖

@panoptos.bsky.social

Apologies for the lack of art these last few months btw!
The lead up to Christmas was insane with my work, and the combination of time and energy was so hard to come by.
Plus I've gotten sick so much lately too, an awesome side effect of working customer service 🥴👍
Hoping things cool off now!

December 30, 2025 at 12:10 AM

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@panoptos.bsky.social

“You better not be a medieval scripture dragon when I get there”
The devious Ginger:

December 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM

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RJ Palmer

@rj-palmer.com

The thing thats so insidious about using AI this way is that one of the main ways artists get hired are studios looking for art references and they find us and reach out.

This is removing a major avenue to get work if they can just generate nameless derivations of our ideas.

Swen Vincke @LarAtLarian

Holy fuck guys we’re not "pushing hard" for or replacing concept artists with AI.

We have a team of 72 artists of which 23 are concept artists and we are hiring more. The art they create is original and I’m very proud of what they do.

I was asked explicitly about concept art and our use of Gen AI. I answered that we use it to explore things. I didn’t say we use it to develop concept art. The artists do that. And they are indeed world class artists.

We use AI tools to explore references, just like we use google and art books. At the very early ideation stages we use it as a rough outline for composition which we replace with original concept art. There is no comparison.

I talked about how we use ML here if you would like to know more:
https://gamespot.com/articles/baldurs-gate-3-dev-embraces-machine-learning-for-tasks-that-nobody-wants-to-do/1100-6531123/

We've hired creatives for their talent, not for their ability to do what a machine suggests, but they can experiment with these tools to make their lives easier.

December 17, 2025 at 12:32 AM

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Virensere

@virensere.bsky.social

I got older today! Wow! Creeping closer and closer to my 30s! (okay its past midnight now, so yesterday, but i'm only 13 minutes late posting this)
For mine birthday, may i request a little share of my work, as a treat? 🥰

December 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM

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S-Kinnaly : Comns Open

@s-kinnaly.bsky.social

Inspired by "Jane Doe" from Chainsaw Man movie. More Kay & ND-5~ #StarWarsOutlaw #ND-5 #KayVess

December 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM

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@panoptos.bsky.social

Bringing back this piece I did of my hero and partner from my #pokemon #mysterydungeon randomizer, as I recently came back to it to finish the post-game!
#pmd

December 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM

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Baron!

@baronboar.bsky.social

Within the hidden fortress of Kell mountain the Waizentrum forces confer with their protectee. The artefacts they bring to his discerning eye seem valuable, but Vinod clearly has a more important tasks to tend to.

An illustration of a fat brown dragon lying on a round white rug surrounded by books, magic artefacts and small anthro rats. He is in a stone room. He is smoking from a pipe that creates a large plume of white smoke, the pipe is perched between the phalanges of his wing. He's giving a frustrated look towards one of the rats talking to him. His hands are using a brush to translate text from a book onto a scroll.

#dragon #fantasy #firnus #vinod #saintsoffirnus #illustration #furry #rat #anthro #furryoc #fantasyoc #worldbuilding

November 29, 2025 at 3:11 AM

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Sinto_J

@sintoj.bsky.social

Hello! After an entire year, I finally finished working on this animation! And apologies for being silent for long periods of time recently, but I was completely locked in😁
It should premiere this coming Friday, 2:00 PM PST. More details in the video link below 👍
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7_9...