Smilingbandito

The Council of Elrond in Ralph Bakshi’s 1978 "The Lord of the Rings" is a masterpiece of rotoscoping. From John Hurt’s Aragorn to Anthony Daniels’ Legolas, this scene laid the groundwork for all future Middle-earth adaptations. A true cult classic! 🎬

Striking out before you even get to say a word.... Buster Keaton and hat check girl Rosalind Byrne.....

How me and AI collaborate at work

@UncWorldwide @Gossip_Goblin We are all entertainment now.

@Smilingbandito @Gossip_Goblin I unfollowed Gossip Goblin and followed you instead.

There is both a decay and a celebration in what it means to be human in this. The work mirroring the use of the tools itself. Those calling it art, are right. Those calling it the erosion of art are right. It's going to be a very different world in another 5 years.

😁My commentary on one piece does not preclude my commentary on another. Hopefully you're not salty. I'm a fan since the weird creature images and all through your gnome phase. I'm not the guy to tell you to stop, though maybe I don't see the world exactly the same way you do, but I am relieved of that responsibility as the viewer of the work. What it says to me might well be different than what it says to another and potentially not as intended from the person producing it. But I'm here for the ride, even if you rope me off to the hater section. It's a shame though if you do.

@Smilingbandito You’re right we should all be watching the fruit version of love island

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.

A commission I recently did

The Trading Card Ashcans are in!

Mariachi Legends is a brutal pixel art Metroidvania set in the heart of Mexico, where you make a deal with Lady Death for the power to fight against evil, but in exchange for having to hunt down a man who defied her power and became immortal

@thelucentcomic The set-up is the punchline. Nobody does it better than Norm.

GOAT

"Let me tell you about The Mythicals..." My favorite part of all this? Meeting new people that are looking for something NEW with their comics. Conventions are teeming with excitement. If they're not in your plans making comics, you're doing it wrong.

Eventually, truly inspired work will break the ground from under the feet that AI haters believe they stand on. Thus isn't a time to try and hold back the wave. Understand that if you have work that is truly inspired there will always be a place for it. youtube.com/shorts/oK-UBIO…

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@Smilingbandito @Bubba_GeekHero And more delicious!

I don't eat avocado toast, but assuming I ate it three times a week at $20 a serve, that's roughly a $2,500 annual expense. So if the boomers are right, and I cut this hypothetical money sink out of my budget, I'd be able to save up a $100k deposit for a home in just 40 years!

While I edit the letters of my book... You can read Okuri-Inu: Tokyo Blues for free right HERE! linktr.ee/chaoticneutral…

THE MAN WITH NO STRINGS #1 interior art by @OliverIsabedra Follow our lone gunman as he enters into the most deadly poker game of his life. The path of revenge is one paved in bullets and blood. You can grab issue 0 now and the pre-order #1 shipping out in april. LINK BELOW

@thelucentcomic Why do you have to out me like that?

"Hello fellow creator, I see you have new kickstarter, I know I only have 12 followers, but I help you market your project for you!" Hello dickhead, how about you...

Holy shit the bots replying to crowdfunding posts are out of control these days.

Starting next week, I'd love to come on any show to talk about my campaign for the Perfection Collection. So if anyone out there has a podcast and doesn't mind having a stuttering Dutchie as a guest, please let me know. 🙏