🎄Ian, merrily up on high🎄
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Check out all the cool animation stuff I worked on!
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#animation
#showreel
#portfolioday
Merry Christmas, I got underpants because I'm 39 years old.
December 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Merry Christmas, I got underpants because I'm 39 years old.
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Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
December 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
Ah yes, ancient Greece, known for its brown rags and vacuformed plastic armour
December 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Ah yes, ancient Greece, known for its brown rags and vacuformed plastic armour
Really missed an opportunity to push Andrew Tate's unconscious body out on a raft to international waters, to be picked up by Romanian authorities.
Or sharks, either is fine.
Or sharks, either is fine.
December 23, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Really missed an opportunity to push Andrew Tate's unconscious body out on a raft to international waters, to be picked up by Romanian authorities.
Or sharks, either is fine.
Or sharks, either is fine.
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James Baxter’s 2D animation in ‘The Wonderfully Weird World Of Gumball’ new episode.
December 22, 2025 at 5:45 AM
James Baxter’s 2D animation in ‘The Wonderfully Weird World Of Gumball’ new episode.
Breaking news: I've been told the wheels on the bus go open and shut, all day long.
December 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Breaking news: I've been told the wheels on the bus go open and shut, all day long.
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Mr. Beast, all my friends and I were saying how good at boxing you’d be
December 21, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Mr. Beast, all my friends and I were saying how good at boxing you’d be
The best thing about accidentally getting a 2-year-old into Godzilla is that she naturally pronounces it "Gojira".
December 21, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The best thing about accidentally getting a 2-year-old into Godzilla is that she naturally pronounces it "Gojira".
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For anyone unfamiliar, from his Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy book
December 21, 2025 at 4:07 AM
For anyone unfamiliar, from his Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy book
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“What radicalized you?”
Being alive in the world with eyes?
Being alive in the world with eyes?
December 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
“What radicalized you?”
Being alive in the world with eyes?
Being alive in the world with eyes?
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this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
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Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
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just a collection of "inevitable" multi-billion dollar tech that was going to be the future of everything until everyone in the audience who was supposed to just get on board said "lol no"
December 17, 2025 at 5:42 AM
just a collection of "inevitable" multi-billion dollar tech that was going to be the future of everything until everyone in the audience who was supposed to just get on board said "lol no"
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🎶I don't want your ai garbage
I don't want your ai trash
I don't want your ai slop
You can put it up your aaaaaaaasssssssssss
I don't want your ai trash
I don't want your ai slop
You can put it up your aaaaaaaasssssssssss
December 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
🎶I don't want your ai garbage
I don't want your ai trash
I don't want your ai slop
You can put it up your aaaaaaaasssssssssss
I don't want your ai trash
I don't want your ai slop
You can put it up your aaaaaaaasssssssssss
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Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
December 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
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According to an article from 2016, one of the movies available to Astronauts for viewing on the ISS is Spirited Away. This means Spirited Away has a non zero chance of being the first anime to be viewed in space.
December 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
According to an article from 2016, one of the movies available to Astronauts for viewing on the ISS is Spirited Away. This means Spirited Away has a non zero chance of being the first anime to be viewed in space.
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‘The Amazing World of Gumball’ creator Ben Bocquelet confirms James Baxter 2D animated Gumball and Darwin in a new episode:
“[It’s] James Baxter, the greatest living hand-drawn animator.”
“[It’s] James Baxter, the greatest living hand-drawn animator.”
December 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
‘The Amazing World of Gumball’ creator Ben Bocquelet confirms James Baxter 2D animated Gumball and Darwin in a new episode:
“[It’s] James Baxter, the greatest living hand-drawn animator.”
“[It’s] James Baxter, the greatest living hand-drawn animator.”
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December 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
"we're only using it to generate reference instead of going through books" okay but that is ALSO bad
December 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
"we're only using it to generate reference instead of going through books" okay but that is ALSO bad
Yes yes much discourse on the internet today but also I BECAME A DAD FOR THE SECOND TIME!
December 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Yes yes much discourse on the internet today but also I BECAME A DAD FOR THE SECOND TIME!
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Using gen ai for text and asset placeholders is not solving a problem; games have been made for decades with regular placeholders. studios using AI this way are just testing the water to see what more they can get away with - which will inevitably mean laying off skilled workers, to make worse games
December 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Using gen ai for text and asset placeholders is not solving a problem; games have been made for decades with regular placeholders. studios using AI this way are just testing the water to see what more they can get away with - which will inevitably mean laying off skilled workers, to make worse games
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Regardless of how it’s used, a company has to give someone like Sam Altman money to use their AI bullshit so at best you’re just bankrolling the world getting worse
December 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Regardless of how it’s used, a company has to give someone like Sam Altman money to use their AI bullshit so at best you’re just bankrolling the world getting worse
God dammit. We really can't have nice things, can we?
sigh
December 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
God dammit. We really can't have nice things, can we?