I just want to add you'd be helping me afford a vet visit for Freyja who's currently not doing very well, she's stopped eating and has a bad case of alopecia 🙏
thank you for reading/reposting!
I built a petition — to show Riot what this community can offer: designers, artists, marketing, finance, content creators, all ready to help keep this game alive.
And more importantly, what's in it for Riot.
Please share. Details below.
Sign: https://t.co/pGKOcwwp98
#Save2XKO
Many people ask if we use AI in our pipeline. The answer is on the screen. 🖼️
Every frame, every detail, and every animation was crafted by artists. Human artists, above all.
I really hope AI can play my AI games for me soon so I can get back to watching AI make art and create music so I have free time to work the mines for more precious ram and ssd crystals to make the machines happy
From 1997 to the early 2000s, I was a young mangaka, between the ages of 24 and 27.
During that time, I created a manga about the dreams and purity of people who draw and love manga, and at the same time, about the pain that comes from the outside world.
The title of that work was 'TOON', and the name ‘Boichi be TOON,’ which I now use publicly, was taken from that work and given to me by a friend who remembered it
It is truly, truly an incomplete manga.
But within it remain records of who I was at the time, of the artists and aspiring creators who were suffering, and of the world we lived in.
Over the past few days, I came to feel that I should show at least a part of this record to all of you.
Because these are painful memories, opening this work again is a difficult and distressing act for me.
Even so, I believe it may be needed—just a little—in the world we live in now.
After discussing it with my friend in Canada, we will translate and share a few scenes.
I sincerely apologize that it will be shown only in English.
Once everything is ready, I will release a portion of it on Instagram.
I am also planning to give this work as a gift to my friend.
Because that friend has treasured this work even more than I have.
When we meet, I will hand over the original manuscripts.
I truly hope that they will remain in my friend’s care.
From now on, I will begin sharing small parts of what I have with the people I love.
Because I love them.
If you love someone, you must give and share something.
However no matter how it is justified—whether as the public good or the will of the majority—taking something by force is not love.
You know... love is the most fundamental good that comes from our heart and soul.
Everyone knows that!
I have to add my voice to the chorus: there is nothing more insulting, disempowering, or a surer sign that you’re working with hacks (& there are many, wedged into middle management in AAA) than receiving an AI moodboard as a concept artist, and I need to talk about it