Dirk Erik Schulz

Dirk Erik Schulz

@themrock.bsky.social

Artist from Berlin, Germany

2K followers394 following844 posts

Eric Bauza has died, the voice of the Looney Tunes and a friend of mine. He was one of the few who supported me from the other side of the big ocean, now he has crossed the other big water. RIP my friend and colleague.

I barely took chances in my life, I was afraid, the one time I did my heart and soul was involved and destroyed by the other person. That person never really reflected what damage I took, rather waited for a chance to blame me. It still hurts. And I am afraid to take chances again.

The more people you call followers, the more you feel alone, since most of them are avatar faces who snap the moment you say an opinion they disagree on and you have to deal with worse than feeling "ignored".

Those who defend A.I. as a way to shortcut hard work are the same ones defending dopamines in sports, cheats in competitive games or in school exams and in general love to throw you under the bus to archive the highest goal... the outcome to become successfull is their only vision in the process.

I see in artists using A.I. a positive thing; you see who never cared for art, but just did the "unwanted hard work" for money or career reasons, they always wanted to cheat themselves to the top. They never understood "integrity". Take their "value" in creating art and telling stories not serious.

The show I work on has a very small budget and a small team. We have 1 BG artist, one special pose/character artist/ prop designer (me), 5-6 animators/clean-up artists, one comp artist, one supervisor and one director & one producer who also do the storyboards and edits. We still push the limits.

Years ago I had the privilege designing the logo of Christel Kasselmann, one of the lead figures of aquarisic plant research world wide. She sold a lot plant books. At the 21.08 she died due to cancer... Dear Christel, I hope in heaven you can collect as many new water plants as you want. RIP.

Baby Huey from 1995 is kinda a hidden Gem by some of the former Ren and Stimpy artists and future cartoony directors such as Pet Ventura or Vincent Waller. I still kinda have a love/hate relationship with the show. I enjoy the perfect character layouts, but not the concept.

The mother of my girlfriend died yesterday, 3 years after her father and 4 years after my father have died. All died because of smoking. Her mother was 63, her father 71 and my father 68. Death was very rampant during our relationship. Plz forgive me if I am not very active the next days.

While my team and I work hard with a low budget, with the high change that it does not catch any attention because we are just a small country (denmark) with no high reach into the world, I have to see how people who had all the success and did movies and shows sell me and the industry out to A.I.

And even with the negative press, they still will gain enough support later to do whatever they wanna do and no matter how hard I push and promote it, the project is left to the mercy of the algorithm of the internet and the people who catch it and share it.