S_Armandox 🤡

Sometimes I'm productive and draw... ♒(he/him)
Your friendly neighborhood paint pig !

[Michael @TheMG3D]

Image from 2020 vs 2025 in Memphis, TN

Via: Matter Neuroscience

[Kelski @kelskiYT]

If you need to pay an overpriced AI to *checks notes*… rotate something, adjust shadows, and crop a video for TikTok

Then you clearly lack a single creative neuron to make something actually worth a fuck in the first place

[George Crudo @GeorgeCrudo]

once again, whipping out these. Andrew doesn't seem to understand that so much of the backlash against AI comes directly from the teams of people who actually work on the media being produced. so no, this is not true. it's just something AI booster say with nothing to back it up

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

One thing that really bugs me is people who go, "AI is here, I don't like it either, but we have to adapt," and then they gleefully post AI stuff. Yeah, you sound really cut up and conflicted about it.

[GarbageTrashCan @KPooper2005]

Like The Bad Guys 2 and other recent Universal films from 2025-2026, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie features an legal refusal for the film to be trained for AI programs, as seen in the credits

[Klara @klara_sjo]

It's not Steam's fault they have a monopoly, their competition just keeps shooting themselves in the face while they do nothing and win.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Sure, your eyes aren’t tricking you. That clip looks better than the new trailer, and the reason has nothing to do with talent. The VFX supervisor on Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014? Jerome Chen. The VFX supervisor on Brand New Day? Also Jerome Chen. Same person. Completely different system around him.

In 2014, Chen had 50 effects artists at Sony Imageworks, the largest VFX crew the studio had ever put on a single project. They handled about 1,000 of the film’s 1,600 VFX shots on a $255 million budget. The crew shot on real film (not digital), on location in actual New York City, scanned Times Square with 36,000 photographs of over 100 billboards, and built physical lighting rigs on set so the CGI would match the real world.

Now look at how Marvel makes Spider-Man movies. No Way Home had 2,500 VFX shots spread across 12 studios and about 3,000 artists. The budget was $200 million, $55 million less than TASM2 despite having 56% more VFX shots. Digital Domain, one of the VFX vendors, was delivering final shots days before the December 17, 2021, release. They kept reworking shots into mid-January, after the movie was already in theaters.

Zoom out, and the math gets worse. Marvel released 6 films between 2008 and 2012. From 2023 to 2025, they pushed out 7 films and 7 TV shows. The Hollywood union representing VFX workers reported that Marvel pays artists about 20% below industry average and staffs one person where other studios hire three. Artists described 64-hour weeks and breakdowns on the job. Then, in February 2025, Technicolor, the parent company of MPC (three-time Oscar winner for Life of Pi, The Jungle Book, and 1917), collapsed almost overnight. 4,500 jobs gone globally. The studio had been actively working on Disney and Paramount films when the lights went out.

Brand New Day has four months before release, and trailers routinely show unfinished shots. But the gap between a 2014 Spider-Man and a 2026 Spider-Man has nothing to do with technology going backwards. The industry has been asked to do three times the work for less money per shot while its biggest studios are going under.

[Daniel Warren @danwarrenart]

happy to finally share my new Elden Ring piece for Meatbun's Black Friday sale! Been working on this one for a long time and excited to get it out! For prints and shirts, go check it out at the link posted below-

[S_Armandox 🤡 @S_Armandox]

@jadel4w My god, this artist's ego. :p Bad my ass.
It's straight to the point and very understandable.
I love the smug smiles too!

[Karla Ortiz @kortizart]

They steal your work, they dumb you down, they make your electricity more expensive, they take your water and your livelihood.

But at least you’ll get opportunity of a lifetime: information that according to a BBC study is likely to be wrong 51% of the time! Great “progress” 💀

[S_Armandox 🤡 @S_Armandox]

They want to be accepted so badly, but they have nothing to offer... just empty corpo husks...

[S_Armandox 🤡 @S_Armandox]

What I see is people who failed or didn't want to spend the time it takes to master something. They failed but never forgot and now they are like skinwalkers, trying to be someone but it's uncanny and they dont even understand why...

[S_Armandox 🤡 @S_Armandox]

The shitties part of it is not only that it will cost an exorbitant amount to generate then make change after change until the director says well I guess its good enough... but it will cost even more on the back end, the energy, the water... the people...

[S_Armandox 🤡 @S_Armandox]

The dude made millions and decided to invest, I guess it was never about the art, just money, all business... and its never enough. Greed and consumption...

[Variety @Variety]

#MatthewMcConaughey predicts to #TimothéeChalamet that AI actors will crash the #Oscars: “It’s damn sure going to infiltrate our category.”

“Will we, in five years, have Best AI Film? Best AI Actor? Maybe. I think it could become another category. I’m not sure. It’s going to be in front of us in ways we don’t even see.”

https://t.co/eLZrq7MhcV

[S_Armandox 🤡 @S_Armandox]

The thing is, even after 5 years its still shitty, shinier but no substance... in another 5 might be shinier, but people behind it see only that. They did not spend the time and didn't develop the skill to see what's actually good...

[S_Armandox 🤡 @S_Armandox]

And when this bubble bursts and shit hits the middle and low class with the enormous bills. The same NFT AI shit clanker grifters will be the first in line to complain about it.
You are the reason being on the internet fucking sucks.