djinn machine

djinn machine

@basaltbrain.bsky.social

animation director // my trash account for fanworks, production stress outlet // sometimes nsfw // free palestine north african trans freak from the 90s, all pronouns https://djinnmachine.straw.page/

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I will never, ever consider my audience when making art. You are a disgusting flesh piano I manipulate to make the noises that please me. That’s the Rob Delaney promise.

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maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me

YALL........... I'm getting funding for writing a script for my next animated film finally. I've been trying so hard and getting nowhere since the last one and things are finally starting to move!

Here we are! Spoilers for all previous chapters ofc, the rest is my conjecture based on what I think works narratively. Enjoy! (reposted bc bsky messed up the image order lmao)

good news, freaks, I'm printing a small run of Casting Call, with some updates to the art! double good news, I'm also working on a part 2, and you can expect a minimum of 25 new pages of gay old men coming sometime in the next month or two 👀

All my work deadlines have been dealt with, and for the first time in a while I have nothing coming up. I have money just enough to last a couple of months. It's so frustrating that even after crunching for months on end, as soon as I have time off the financial fear paralysis is back immediately

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Hello all, my big fat stupid motorcycle that I love has racked up a $2000 vet bill, but since FanFest season is rapidly approaching I figure I can cushion a bit of the blow by perhaps doing art for folks looking to get stickers & stuff made, I set up a commissions page over at ko-fi.com/coelasquid

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It's turning you into a client, and not a very good client at that. A client can have taste, sure, they can be a great connoisseur or an art, or they can know nothing besides their instinctive "like" reaction, but an artist commissioning a work (even in great detail) isn't an artist. (4/5)

The work of transformation from idea to material is why a client goes to an artist. And why they go to AI now, because it's an artist that won't have their own ideas or cause any friction, or say 'no' when they ask for endless revisions, and to the undiscerning eye is just good enough. (5/5)

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it's understanding why you like it to minute details, how it makes you feel and how it does it, it's an analytical process that goes beyond the instinct. Taste as an artist is creating an internal cohesive library of inspirations, a repertoire that becomes muscle memory that you can draw on. (2/5)

The very basic skill of art-making (be it music or visual or anything at all) is the skill to translate an idea into something external to you, the moment of transformation where things turn from thought to matter through your action, and AI is stealing it from you. (3/5)

I hate the way AI grifters use the language of "taste" to sell their product. Cultivating a taste is essential to making art, and it's something that you have to do very actively in order to make it useful. Taste isn't just liking something, (1/5)