Pixel 🤷‍♂️

Professional prettymaker, animator and all around smiley dude.

[Pixel 🤷‍♂️ @pixelpusher101]

@imane Charity Navigator is a website that checks a non-profit's IRS forms to see how impactful they are. It might help

[Pixel 🤷‍♂️ @pixelpusher101]

@imo_drew Noooo. Ok depending on when you're going, visiting a hot springs is great. I went to Sainogawara Park in the town of Kusatsu. There's many to choose from though!

[Pixel 🤷‍♂️ @pixelpusher101]

@imo_drew Saido in Tokyo. I've never been but it's rated one of the best vegan restaurants in the world (according to happycow anyways lol)

[Jade Law @jadel4w]

I’m not doing any portfolio reviews this year and ending my mentorships.
Apologies to those I didn’t get to but here’s things I found myself going over multiple times:

> Most of you were graduates. Your universities failed to prepare you for the industry. Most of you didn’t know basic industry workflows and the most common thing was to point you to YouTube/discords to help you learn things that should have been foundational. Your degree means nothing when applying for a job and if you don’t have a job within 6 months of graduating consider binning everything you have and starting over fresh.

> 32/38 portfolios I reviewed were from artists that had no idea what they wanted to ‘be’. Nobody actually had a conversation with them as students about what sort of job they really wanted. This should be the first thing to consider when building your portfolio. You NEED to be passionate about the work you do as it shows in your art.

> The reality is that there is soooo few entry level jobs right now and I had to tell most people they simply weren’t good enough yet. It’s competitive but not impossible. Nobody had been honest with them before. Being an artist does require some thick skin, you need to be realistic about your skill level and if it’s at all useful to a quality team. Don’t let it put you off. Keep improving, keep doing art. The only way you won’t succeed is if you give up.

> 3/4 great pieces is better than 20 mediocre pieces in your portfolio.

> generalists are useful in most teams but don’t see it as ‘master of none’ but being adept at a broad range. Being kinda mediocre at everything doesn’t mean you’d be a good generalist.

> few studios will give a junior a visa. If they do it’s usually for specialists.

> blender is fine.

> if you post work on a public discord and don’t take feedback well, chances are the professionals in those servers will notice and write you off if they see you apply to their studio.

> fanart is fine but stop slapping big franchise logos on your art to make it look official in the thumbnail.

> Don’t model from AI generated concept art. If you use human made art you can contact the artist about their intent if somethings confusing. Most concept artists love supporting 3D artists.

I’ll add to the thread if I think of others

[Pixel 🤷‍♂️ @pixelpusher101]

@mayohiga1 No Cow has the best vanilla one I've tasted!

[Pixel 🤷‍♂️ @pixelpusher101]

@Twitch Spend $35 at a food truck for that hit of nostalgia 💸

[Pixel 🤷‍♂️ @pixelpusher101]

@fuslie It was so awesome getting to meet you!

[Pixel 🤷‍♂️ @pixelpusher101]

@mayohiga1 My absolute favorite procreate brushes are from here https://t.co/clNXvTv0il There's a bunch to choose from and I'm sure you'll find something that'll work for ya.

[Pixel 🤷‍♂️ @pixelpusher101]

@imo_drew You could try calling the airline and seeing if there's anything they can do. Either to give a travel voucher or request to change the departure date. Sometimes they can help if you explain the situation. 😢

[Pixel 🤷‍♂️ @pixelpusher101]

@CrystAAHHL Gamecube startup sequence

[Pixel 🤷‍♂️ @pixelpusher101]

@imo_drew I'm so stealing this

[Pixel 🤷‍♂️ @pixelpusher101]

@LilyPichu I was just thinking the same thing

[Brian Birmingham💙 @BrianBirming]

I wasn't intending to make this public, but apparently its in the news already, so I'd at least like to set the record straight. I am no longer an employee of Blizzard Entertainment, though I would return if allowed to, so that I could fight the stack-ranking policy from inside.

[Pixel 🤷‍♂️ @pixelpusher101]

@imo_drew And then in that same con, I was waiting to see the Warcraft movie preview and you were texting me furiously that you met Nadia outside and I wanted to bolt out lol.

[Pixel 🤷‍♂️ @pixelpusher101]

@imo_drew Yes! And then we took a pic with him afterwards and Reynad photobombed us lol

[Pixel 🤷‍♂️ @pixelpusher101]

@imo_drew I owe a lot to the Hearthstone scene. Lots of memories made because of it. Those days were like the golden age of Twitch memes too.

[Pixel 🤷‍♂️ @pixelpusher101]

@Sydeon @DominicKeravel he's worked with Valkyrae and Blau in the past and i think he would be a good match for you!

[얏 @yap_miliy]

#포켓몬SV #NintendoSwitc

[Pixel 🤷‍♂️ @pixelpusher101]

@DominicKeravel @CrystAAHHL Why do you have a portrait of John F. Kennedy on your tree?

[alex norris @sillyalexnorris]

oh no