Katherine Garner

New EWJ pic - guess I should post it here too. The algorithm right? I'm not good at being visible - I love EWJ, but won't draw him for a bit...I need to practice humans! Earthworm Jim was created by @DougTenNapel

That reminds me, I need to make my dad watch the 90's Tarzan animated film. He's on the fence about it, but basically it's a Phil Collins animated soundtrack. Gorgeous...They were cooking back then.

Man, I was rewatching that Sonic CD animation earlier, and it still baffles me how good it is. It's like the intro for the original Thundercats - one of the most dynamic and gorgeous things. Maybe I'm daft, but that was done with little to no modern technology and it still slaps

@svenstoffels Also learning 3D! It's so much fun to be able to create 3D art. For years I told myself I could never do that. People just have to try stuff, get over the fear.

@svenstoffels He does hit on similar thoughts I have too...I think skill and the joy of creating art and having freedom of expression should be protected. Man, back in the day as a kid I used to think digital art would be all pixel based, so I learned pixel art. Everything is mental now.

He's not completely wrong. Generative AI lacks any process of creation, and therefore cannot be considered art. AI can become a tool to assist in the creation of genuine art. But neither is most of the slop that "artists" have been churning out over the past decade. A decade of top-down, socially engineered, committee-approved corpo slop propaganda turned artists into a production line prompted by HR departments. Too afraid to express genuine truth and meaning. So AI didn't replace artists, they replaced themselves.

@IsaiasBeatles Heck yeah. I think he's gonna go full evil in this one.

@RocketWorm I saw the teaser! Eggman is BACK!!🤩

Everytime a He Man trailer or sonic the hedgehog thing drops, I excitedly tell my parents...they don't share my joy, but it won't stop me. I have to geek out to someone darn-it.

My sister recommended "Animation Paper" @AnimationPaper the other week. I tried that out a little today. It's nice to use because the menu isn't confusing, you can just start animating - a bit like a flip book/tracing paper. It's free beta atm.

The best thing about having siblings is that we get to go bonkers though.

Last night sketching strange things for the heck of it. There's a few more, but I was informed they're a bit too gross to post apparently.

Used to play the demo for that game over and over just to see this intro. Still slaps. youtu.be/c_k5pZ2OYJ4?si…

Sonic CD "Sonic Boom" playing in the teaser trailer for Sonic 4 is a flex. Loving it...wonder If they'll have the full song in there.

@ArtistALoiacono @otisframpton yup.

@RocketWorm @otisframpton I've learned over more than the last decade that there is the type of person it's impossible to get along with, no matter how amicable or polite you are. They will complain about any tiny inconvenience to them and give you absolutely no consideration.

You can never have too much sax. youtu.be/gBt9hczSbbc?si…

@otisframpton Hold up, last two - my younger self wants to butt in with some olde fan art from decades ago.

@otisframpton 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

I like drawing eyes.

@GPrime85 Great, now everything can look like uncanny valley nightmare fuel.

I say again: AI is the death of art. Why hire artists when you can generate "assets" on command? Why even have players? Why not put the controller down and have Alexa play the game for you? Seventy dollars, please 💸

@Senompatch @Skyebrows It's not the people, it's the pencil pushers. I don't like talking politics much on here, but the more I see of it it's concerning. We've had things bad for a long time. I saw things turning to indoctrination 20 years ago when I was in art school.

@RocketWorm @Skyebrows that makes me sad. Love the land of my ancestry

I wish we had a braver "leader"...that's all I'm probably allowed to say about that.

@Senompatch @Skyebrows Hah interesting! Yeah it's not what it used to be.

@RocketWorm youtu.be/3B4524ot5BM?si… @Skyebrows put together a whole montage of memes based on what's going on over there (and a ton of cultural nods). Made me patriotic for the old motherland, and my family left there two or three generations back.