The concept art for Hey. Is so delightful, so much movement is communicated in one image and it has this charming old Disney animation feel, feels like something that would’ve been animated on cells back in the day
Thank you for inspiring me! I have hope of being a black creative in the indie/animation industry!
Congrats on reaching your original goal and here's to hopefully reaching the stretch goals! 💜💚
[ #fanartㅤㅤㅤㅤ ]
AI Data centers:
-polluting Black and Brown neighborhoods
-killing the environment
-promote misinfo and graphic hate speech
-deteriorate the entertainment industry
-destroying the economy
All simultaneously btw
Enough about the money, get these data centers off the planet!
me in this thread: "AI is affecting my very specific job as an artist in the animation industry"
ppl: "so true!"
me also in this thread: "AI is also affecting Black and marginalized communities"
ppl: "uh hey actually this affects ALL of us not just Black people"
I'm calling for girls, gays, and theys. We should put money all to blk women lead and women lead comics. I think we center women, queer, and trans indie stuff. Because, at the day women and LGBTQ lead indie has a hard time selling
Remember that AI is steeped in ✨Environmental Racism✨ a lot of data centers popping up are in poor Black communities. Because the land is full of “undesirables,” the government is ok with sacrificing the health and wellness of these people for the sake of “progress.”
As nice as it to see Jorge Gutierrez drop the AI project, it left a bad taste in my mouth. He knew what he was getting into. He was vehemently anti-AI just last year and still proudly announced this project. He wasn’t ignorant. He knew how bad AI was.
Even if we pretend for a moment that Generative AI isn’t destroying our environment, poisoning the water supply of rural Americans, or is built entirely off of stolen labor- Jorge HAS to understand, as an industry veteran, that AI is actively replacing working artists. Gen AI is
the obsession everyone has with black people and black culture but the endless need to deny, disparage, and downplay us when discussing problems that directly affect us needs to be put on display and denounced collectively.
If you want actual animation & art done by actual artists then I’m gonna shamelessly self plug my two projects bc this is pissing me off so bad😭 check out @TheNikolaevs (adult animated sci-fi) and @CupidCartoon (lesbian romcom) if any of this art interests you FUCK OFFFF