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Principal Artist at Media Molecule.
Rebuilding that art feed. 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 He/him | 🚫No AI
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papapishu.bsky.social
Designer: all right Mr. Del Toro here’s those Frankenstein’s monster designs, real sexy just like you asked for.
Del Toro: (nodding) this is exactly as sexy as I asked for.
October 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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surfwilde.bsky.social
Another role at Media Molecule just dropped! If you know any Principal UI/UX ppl that are looking, let them know!

www.mediamolecule.com/jobs/princip...
Media Molecule | Creators of Award-Winning Games
Our magnificent team of Molecules are the creators behind the multi-award winning LittleBigPlanet, LittleBigPlanet 2, Tearaway, Tearaway Unfolded and our most recent title, and BAFTA award winning, Dr...
www.mediamolecule.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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mediamolecule.com
Last week, we all got together to celebrate three decades of play. 🎉

We shared our memories, played lots, snacked lots and of course, we listened to THAT iconic startup sound! 🎮🎵🍰

Happy 30th Anniversary, @playstation.com 🥳
October 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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nicholaskole.bsky.social
SHAW!!
Hornet from hollow knight silksong
October 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
mbergs.bsky.social
Mm is hiring!! 🚨we're looking for an senior environment artist to build some awesome stylized environments and architecture! 👀🫵 come work with me!

www.mediamolecule.com/jobs/senior-...
Media Molecule | Creators of Award-Winning Games
Our magnificent team of Molecules are the creators behind the multi-award winning LittleBigPlanet, LittleBigPlanet 2, Tearaway, Tearaway Unfolded and our most recent title, and BAFTA award winning, Dr...
www.mediamolecule.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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nicholaskole.bsky.social
obsessed
September 15, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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yumingart.bsky.social
Cabbage
September 14, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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rakeeshsorrel.bsky.social
The official Canadian Petition to reign in payment processor censorship has stalled out just under 10k signatures.

This is a reminder for Canadians, this is an OFFICIAL petition that will be responded to. Show your support in protecting our free speech!

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
e-6695 (Consumer protection) Keywords Censorship Credit cards Internet Pornography E-petition Initiated by Carmen Tam from Waterloo, Ontario Original language of petition: English Petition details Petition to the House of Commons Whereas: Mastercard, Visa, and other payment platforms have been leveraging their power over consumer ability to purchase legal content; In 2021, Mastercard changed its policies to regulate adult entertainment by preventing the use of its payment platform on numerous adult entertainment sites; As of July 2025, video game distribution service Steam now cites rule 15, that “adult only” content is not permitted on the platform if it goes against payment processor’s policies. Steam does not describe what content is defined as “adult only”; As of July 2025, video game distribution website Itch.io has “deindexed” all adult NSFW content from browse and search pages. Users that previously purchased legitimate video games cannot access games that have been removed; and This has set an unsettling precedent of corporate censorship, causing concern in video game development teams, including developers, voice actors, and artists in other creative fields as their livelihoods are in limbo. We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the House of Commons to 1. Stop financial discrimination by payment platforms against legal goods and services; 2. Ensure transparency to consumers about content restrictions and the rationale behind them; and 3. Protect creators' rights to make legal adult content and ensure a fair appeals process for any penalized media.
September 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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jmkeep.bsky.social
Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

#nsfw #censorship #canpoli

@acvalens.net
Petition e-6695 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
September 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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kaseygifford.bsky.social
Adjusted for inflation Spirited Away cost $22 million to make. The Triplets of Belleville cost $16.5 million, Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers cost $14.28 million, and Oscar winner Flow cost only $4 million. These critically acclaimed, made by real people films, cost less than this pile of actual vomit.
culturecrave.co Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · Sep 8
OpenAI confirms they're helping make an AI-generated movie called 'Critterz'

• Goal is to finish production in 9 months
• Budget is ~$30M
• Plan is to debut the film at Canne
• 'Paddington 3' writers penned the script
• Art will be fed into Chat GPT 5 and other image models

(via WSJ)
September 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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mossmouth.bsky.social
This convo I had highlights the difference in what "respect your time" means in games.

A lot of players want to trade time for in-game progress. It's purely transactional: 1 hour = 1 progress

But I want to feel like my actions matter i.e. what I do with time creates progress, not time itself.
Derek says: "In theory, games are the perfect place to teach that failure is not only okay but a necessary stepping stone to success. But now it's so easy to switch to a game with guaranteed progress, so games with consequences for failure are more risky to make, creating a cycle." Other person replies: "IMO the issue is that failure is usually discouraged. At best you just lose time, at worst you get extra punishment (loss of XP for example). Both just feel like you lost (limited) gametime for nothing. IMO also a reason why meta-progression is popular. Respect the player's time" Derek replies: "Hmmm... the thing is, my time feels more disrespected when I realize my actions don't really matter? Like, if no matter what I do, I make progress, that feels like more of a waste of my time, personally."
September 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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anasteiner.bsky.social
I am currently available for freelance work!

I've got 15 years experience in the games industry and I can offer concept art / illustration / character, set or prop design / visual development / art direction!

🎨 www.anasteiner.com
✉️ anasteinerart@gmail.com

Any reposts would be much appreciated! ❤️
September 2, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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aplante.com
we've identified a hole in the greeting card market and i intend to exploit it

#comic
a cartoon of a greeting card cover: big flowery banner that says "i'm dying" - subtitle says: "i'd say i'd miss you, but i don't believe in existence after death" inside page: "so i'll say if there is any, and i retain my sentience, i'll miss you. otherwise, well..."
August 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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passivestar.bsky.social
Sharing all of my blender texturing secrets in this in-depth ucupaint guide, hope it helps 🙂
Texturing in blender with ucupaint
What is ucupaint? Ucupaint is a free and open-source layering and baking addon for blender. It abstracts away the shader graph into a layer stack to allow texturing with layers rather than nodes: The ...
passivestar.xyz
August 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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ianfay.bsky.social
made a tutorial for u
two faces, one is looking straight forward, says NO. Other is looking down, says YES
August 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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madeleinefjall.bsky.social
✨🎉IT'S MY BIRTHDAY TODAY!!! 🎉✨

And I've heard that's the day to ask for reposts of my art 👀❤️

I appreciate every one of you who follow me, comment, like and share what I do.❤️
La belle dame sans merci by Frank Bernard Dicksee version of Hans and Henry from Kingdom Come Deliverance Illustration showing the characters from my book Niketas and Ulvar, but mermaid AU where Niketas is a merman. They are both underwater and Ulvar is dying. A pale changeling sitting in water in the deep dark green forest An easter witch flying on a broom towards Blåkulla, a cat is standing on it as well. Both have glowing yellow eyes, staring into the camera. Birds are flying around them.
August 24, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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gamedeveloper.bsky.social
'Microsoft has no place being accomplice of a genocide:' Arkane union workers demand Xbox maker sever ties with Israel
'Microsoft has no place being accomplice of a genocide:' Arkane union workers demand Xbox maker sever ties with Israel
Arkane Studios' STJV section in France has published an open letter in support of the Palestinian-led BDS movement.
www.gamedeveloper.com
August 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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halisavakis.com
Alright, due to popular demand, let's start talking about the

🎶 Beasts with the fur (with the fur) 🎶

in ✨HERDLING ✨

Here's a 🧵 with the process and tech behind the fur on our fluffy Calicorns:
Screenshot from a test scene in HERDLING showing 3 fluffy beasts of different sizes (one big, one small and one medium-sized)
August 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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okremiok.bsky.social
implemented midi
August 1, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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chrisbaraniuk.com
When I think about the stupid mistakes LLMs make with words sometimes, (cf. the strawberry problem, fabricating quotations, or mixing up terms etc.), there's a well-known Old English riddle that comes to mind.

It's more than 1,000 years old but I think it has something to tell us about AI...

🧵
July 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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mimmymum.bsky.social
🏳‍⚧ 100,000 people marched at London Trans+ Pride yesterday - but the BBC, Times, Telegraph & Daily Mail ignored it completely.

These outlets publish dozens of anti-trans stories a week. But when trans people show joy, pride, and solidarity?

🦗 Silence.

#TransPride #MediaBias

Read why it matters ⬇️
100,000 People Marched at London Trans+ Pride. The Transphobic UK Media Ignored It.
The UK’s biggest news outlets ignored a record-breaking march for trans equality, despite publishing dozens of trans stories each week.
medium.com
July 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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nicholaskole.bsky.social
If I hear you're using vizcom for your concept art, I will find you and personally push you into a locker
July 1, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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caseyexplosion.bsky.social
Let's be 100% clear on this, Microsoft is investing $80 Billion in AI.

This is not conjecture or speculation, it is plainly in their own words back in January this year, they gutted a profitable games division because AI is the new shiny bauble. blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...
None of this progress would be possible without new partnerships founded on large-scale infrastructure investments that serve as the essential foundation of AI innovation and use. In FY 2025, Microsoft is on track to invest approximately $80 billion to build out AI-enabled datacenters to train AI models and deploy AI and cloud-based applications around the world. More than half of this total investment will be in the United States, reflecting our commitment to this country and our confidence in the American economy.
July 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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kthorjensen.bsky.social
The singularity is awesome
Google search for “all you can eat buffet near me” Al Overview To find an all-you-can-eat buffet near you, you can use online search engines like Google or Yelp, specifying "all you can eat buffet near me". These searches will typically provide a list of nearby restaurants offering buffet-style dining, including their addresses, contact information, and customer reviews. You can also refine your
June 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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nooskadraws.bsky.social
🤍🌸💙 ye olde trans rights stickers are back in stock! 💙🌸🤍

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Photo of my ye olde trans rights sticker.
June 18, 2025 at 10:58 AM