Sam Albro

Sam Albro

@samalbro.com

3D modeler and web comic artist. OPEN FOR WORK see my portfolio at http://samalbro.com comics at cockroachman.com https://linktr.ee/SamAlbro

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Wee Lass Reacts
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Good.

ToonHive@toonhive.bsky.social

China’s first AI-generated theatrical film, ‘Sanxingdui: Future Past’, has bombed at their domestic box office, only making $121,000 USD against a budget of $1.5M USD. In contrast, the crudely animated ‘Niu Lai’ made nearly $10M USD against a budget of $200-500 USD.

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lurker.quest
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AUTOMATON WEST@automatonwest.bsky.social

Konami president Hayakawa believes AI “won’t bring a significant change” to the game market. “Humans” and “creators” are crucial for developing innovative…

automaton-media.comKonami president Hayakawa believes AI “won’t bring a significant change” to the game market. “Humans” and “creators” are crucial for developing innovative gamesKonami Digital Entertainment president Hideki Hayakawa discussed AI's potential impact on the market in a recent company report.
Sam Albro
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When I was a kid, I woke up early on a Saturday morning and decided to watch TV while everyone else was still sleeping. I turned on the TV to Star Trek at the exact moment that there was an extreme close up of a Klingon giving a battle roar. I immediately turned the TV off and went back to bed.

Sleepy Hollow Reviews 🎃🐎@sleepingvillage.bsky.social

In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?

Sam Albro
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If you see this, repost with a Sentai team that is not Power Rangers or Super Sentai.

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Sam Albro
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Updating my "Tales of Cockroach Man and Scales" character models for Unreal. I've added cloth simulation for loose fabric and moved from hair cards to strand-based hair using the Ahoge plugin for Maya. #3dart #3dmodeling

Sam Albro
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Mu freshman year of high school, we had a rather basic assignment in English class - pick any fiction book out of the library and write a book report about it. After searching all of class, I found my prize - Piere Boulle's "Planet of the Apes." Finding the work that a classic series of schlock ...

Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

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Sam Albro
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Humans began by offloading domestic labor to their apes, but soon they were also turning away from intellectual labor. And as time went on, like a muscle unused, the human mind atrophoed into a primal state while apes rose to dominance.

Sam Albro
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I dont believe that LLMs have any capacity to reach sentience, but as I see study after study showing AI usage as having a negative impact on learning and critical thinking skills, I can't help but think that silly little ape book might be the most important story I've ever read.

Sam Albro
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Mu freshman year of high school, we had a rather basic assignment in English class - pick any fiction book out of the library and write a book report about it. After searching all of class, I found my prize - Piere Boulle's "Planet of the Apes." Finding the work that a classic series of schlock ...

Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

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Sam Albro
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The movies, a product of the late sixties, were obsessed with the looming specter of nuclear Armageddon, while the book, like influence by mass media and the growing consumer economy, saw mankind's fall from grave differently.

Sam Albro
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In a scene not to dissimilar to the Animus from the Assassin's Creed games, the apes hypnotized a human test subjects to tap into the memories of an ancestors. There were learned that one luxury in particular led to this collapse - the trained ape.

Sam Albro
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Mu freshman year of high school, we had a rather basic assignment in English class - pick any fiction book out of the library and write a book report about it. After searching all of class, I found my prize - Piere Boulle's "Planet of the Apes." Finding the work that a classic series of schlock ...

Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

Sam Albro
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Scifi movies from the sixties and seventies were based on felt like getting away with something. Like those movies, though, the real twist in this story is the ending.

Sam Albro
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The book, like the movie, ended with the protagonist finding out that he was not on a distant planet, but rather in Earth's far future, where mankind regressed to an animal state and apes became intelligent. The mechanism for this twist, however, was much different.

Sam Albro
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I don't need help from slop engines to make my 3D art look 3D animated. I've got that one covered, Lieutenant Commander Stolen Data.

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Oscar Goff
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This is bizarre because I feel like one of the best things about the Carpenter special was the clarity of its premise?

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net

There are currently no active conversations for a full ‘MUPPET SHOW’ series revival. Disney, The Muppets Studio and Point Grey Pictures have had difficulties with deciding on a premise for the series that they can all agree on. (Source: Deadline)

Sam Albro
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My #OcarinaofTime Link model from a few years ago. Really looking forward to playing the remake in a couple months! #Zelda #3dart

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Aalasteir
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Now, presenting THE ANIMATION MEME JAM! With over 2000 USD IN PRIZES! Right on #Newgrounds Make your own animation meme with your OC/OCs, using music from The Audio Portal. Find absolute banger tracks, then animate! hint: use advanced search. aalasteir.newgrounds.com/news/post/16...

aalasteir.newgrounds.comAnimation Meme JamArt by @TheShokBlok There have been way too many movies in the Portal that used copyrighted music, WHICH IS AGAINST THE RULES! It's time that this gets fixed, and we start realizing that there is so m...
Sam Albro
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Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty 3D Artist: I ran the fluid simulation and Maya crashed again ...

Trung Le Nguyen@trungles.com

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Cartoonist: i just drank out of the wrong cup

Sam Albro
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A rough storyboarding exercise, trying out the animation side of Clip Studio paint to better plan out a project.

Sam Albro
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Every time I walk back in from delivering someone's drive up order, I feel like this stick is trying to give me a call to adventure.

Sam Albro
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A work of classic literature is dominating at the box office. The Muppets have an opportunity to do the funniest thing.

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Kieron Gillen
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The animation chat has me thinking one telling thing - in the years since AI arrived, there's not been a ground-up indie phenomenon, like we saw with earlier tech (Flash, etc). It hasn't unlocked anyone's creativity. For all the anti-gatekeeping rhetroic, nothing anyone cares about has been born.

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The Sunflower Club
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Wanna know how to participate in #indieanimationday? There’s no right way to celebrate and share indie animation, but here are some suggestions to get you started if you’re a fan, crew member, or creator!

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Osaka, we 🐇
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"Facism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike."

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ToonHive
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YouTube reports indie animation is taking over: • 61% of Gen Z fans say they enjoy independent animated series as much as or more than studio content • The Amazing Digital Circus trended in 8/12 countries after just 4 episodes • 50% of viewers watch animated content in other languages