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Oh almighty goddess Amaterasu, of all that is good!

Some time ago I started playing the Okami remaster, I totally fell in love with it!

I had to draw our godly doggo, although with few untrue elements, I just didn't care and was lazy lmao.

Eerie winter photoshoot, with the amazing Eriko-san modelling a superb nihongami in her natural grey hair.

I have already posted some of her photoshoots here (see 1 / 2), Eriko-san is always so refined with her silver hair she chose not to dye (if I understand correctly her haircolor is due to vitiligo, so great to see this variation represented!)

I hope that someone, somewhere, voluntarily and unironically ends up spending New Year’s Eve reading the new chapter of my GRINCH x TONY THE TIGER Fanfic.

It has been read by a nun, blessed by a priest, and received rave reviews up to and including my personal favorite: “the best fic i’ve ever read in bible class“

…wait does the priest thing mean my cursed fic has technically been exorcized

Milky Way Fence

wait, has izaya ever sworn in cannon? i suddenly cannot remember if he had or not,,,,

Yes.

Izaya made a swore.

I’m taking L’s you did not even know existed

GO WHITE BOY GO

Heres a google drive folder filled with art book pdfs, if anyone has some others that you'd like me to add to it thats missing, please let me know and send me the link

So Netflix is releasing this animated movie but here’s the thing - all backgrounds are done in AI. No actual BG artists were hired or credited for this work.

And here’s the kicker - I gave them too much credit. I realized that not even the AI users are credited apparently. Check this out:

“+Human”. No names, no nothing. 

I know it’s tempting, but please don’t hate-watch this thing. Numbers equal profit even if the people watching are just doing it to mock. Don’t give Netflix and other studios even more incentive to fire more animators and replace them with machines trained on their work and skill. 

Hilarously, the excuse used is ‘there aren’t enough artists’. That’s not true - there are more than enough artists, but the real issue is that no one wants to pay a living wage. Here’s a short video about the reality of animation in Japan.

The biggest winners in this equation at the end of the day are the AI infrastructure owners - owners of Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, etc. Do not feed this machine, it creates more monopolization of entire industries, raises a powerful few and dehumanizes the rest.