Joel Pigou

Freelance illustrator - open for work!

[Frozensoba (new account) 🐟 @Frozensoba00]

no AI, just hours upon hours on Heavypaint painting individual leaves 💚

[Alex Hirsch @_AlexHirsch]

Glad you asked!

1) LLMs are created by scraping all the art and writing off the internet without creator’s compensation or consent, allowing companies to make billions of stolen labor

2) This tech allows companies to then fire the very employees whose work they stole. It’s like taking your blood and using it to power your robot replacement

3) The resulting auto-generated plagiarism slurry can be extremely realistic, allowing companies, governments, scammers etc to create an infinite deluge of propaganda, fake evidence, scams, revenge porn, and addictive meaningless slop flooding our eyes from cradle to grave, a kind of reality-obliterating internet pollution at a scale beyond human comprehension.

4) That’s not even counting the massive electricity drain of the server farms that are gobbling up land and the impending economic crash when the so called “abundance” promised by Silicon Valley vultures never meets their impossible promises.

LLMs are to societal trust what toxic runoff is to drinking water. And just like the pollution that comes from Exxon Mobile, this disaster is only possible when the government abdicates its regulatory responsibility because it’s been bought off by the CEOs responsible

TLDR:

PROS: You can make Judy Hopps make out with Martin Luther King

CONS: Mass unemployment, the death of reality, a permanent underclass addicted to a digital meth slot machine

[Joel Pigou @pigouart]

@TheReelRandom Unfortunately, I don't believe Inkarnate supports brush assets as far as I'm aware, it's a great program otherwise! You can import custom assets in Inkarnate but you would have to save individual pictures of the brushes from Gimp or Photoshop first.

[🌱 Kat Unsworth @KatUnsworthArt]

It feels very surreal to announce that my @Gnomon_Workshop tutorial has been released! 🤩 I'm very excited to have had this opportunity to share some insight into my work! ✨#tutorial #gameart #characterart #stylized
https://t.co/WHpaw9X3J7

[Sophie Cook | Undoodle @undoodle_art]

I worldmap I created for my friend. It's built on a colossal ship that hops between dimensions, collecting species and detritus from all worlds it visits.

[Christopher Perkins @ChrisPerkinsDnD]

Uh, oh. I’ve been playing with Photoshop again. #dnd #wotcstaff

[Rasmus Poulsen @technouveau_art]

Railships. #Technouveau #digitalart #digitaldesign #art #conceptdesign #photoshop #cgi #sciencefiction #productiondesign #aaagamesdev #digitalartist #blender3d #blendercommunity

[Nadia Whittome MP @NadiaWhittomeMP]

Nottingham-based Lockwood Publishing is making 10% of its staff redundant just before Christmas.

I share the @IWGBunion's concerns that the process they are using is unlawful.

I've written to @LockwoodLKWD. This redundancy process should be halted immediately.

[GamesIndustry @GIBiz]

IWGB union says Lockwood Publishing layoffs are illegal

https://t.co/JEZtKHdgjb

[Lydia Cockerham @lydiacockerham]

I experienced firsthand the tone deaf, uncaring treatment of staff by upper management at Lockwood. It’s long time workers were acknowledged for their monumental role in the success of Avakin. At the very least they deserve the law to be followed. #SaveAvakin #LockwoodLockout

[IWGB Game Workers @IWGB_GW]

@LockwoodLKWD @hallibjornsson 📢 Stop the unlawful sackings now!

Read and share the workers statement:

https://t.co/ah8IN14hDu

[Tom O'Brien @13yren]

I finished a portfolio piece :O

I started work on this a while back and finally got around to finishing it this weekend! #Tekken #LingXiaoyu @marmosetco @pixologic @Substance3D

https://t.co/0EL3JrJTL4

[Sophie Cook | Undoodle @undoodle_art]

this was my submission for 2021 League fanart contest.....but I missed the deadline by a few hours ;-; hopefully some people can still enjoy it though~❄️

#lolartprompts #artoflegends #LeagueOfLegends #LeagueOfLegendsFanArt @LeagueOfLegends

[Sophie Cook | Undoodle @undoodle_art]

Meg is beautiful and mean and she makes me feel a certain way #HadesGame #HadesFanArt

[Joel Pigou @pigouart]

@PonPonPortal hey, of course, please send me a message at [email protected]

[Ethan M. Aldridge @EthanMAldridge]

In the book NAUSICAA: WATERCOLOR IMPRESSIONS, Hayao Miyazaki penned commentary for many of the images. Here are a few of my favorites (thread):

[Tom O'Brien @13yren]

Finally posting some work I did at Automaton Games, please check it out! Currently looking for work :) https://t.co/ygMmXH7W8p
#characterart #gamedev @ArtStationHQ @marmosetco @Substance3D @pixologic

[Joel Pigou @pigouart]

@Hi_ItsPaul Hey Paul! feel free to send me a DM.