Samuel Deats 🌕
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My wife cried watching the trailer and said "I'm just so proud of you" and now I'm 😭😭
Castlevania: Nocturne is coming September 28, only on Netflix. 😊🦇
I PRAY FOR YOU, RICHTER BELMONT. Witness the rise of our gaming icon and vampire hunter prodigy in the all-new Castlevania: Nocturne - premiering September 28, only on Netflix.
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I hate when Twitter briefly shows me something I'm interested in then randomly "refreshes" and it's gone forever
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Where's Popeye in all the 'vs Goku' and 'vs Saitama' debates
Can we all agree that Popeye is the only person who’s truly built different
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Ghosting in anime isn't AI. It's a technique used to pass the Harding Test, which is a test that determines the level of risk for epileptic seizures. Ghosting has been around since well before current generative AI technology.
If you guys are wondering why Mappa changed some things, this very smart woman explains it perfectly!
To sum it up, she spoke to an animator, and it all boils down to Budget🤑, A.I. 🤓and Time. 😵
Also the ghosting this season is because of A.i. 😲😲😲
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The animated show is great. What would a live action version add that we're not already getting?
Just put that money in to the animated series instead.
Universal is still very invested in making a live-action ‘INVINCIBLE’ movie.
(Source: )
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Wes Ball says he wants his live-action ‘LEGEND OF ZELDA’ movie to be like a “live-action Miyazaki movie.”
(Source: )
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Y'all didn't "democratize" shit y'all are just lazy thieves spitting on an entire art form, fuck you
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I'm 38 years old and still learning how to get better at drawing, it's just a thing forever, a never-ending journey, just accept it and keep on keepin' on
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I keep thinkin about AI dudes sayin stuff like it "enables people to create who couldn't before"
That Corridor vid was shot in live action before they ran AI shit over it
Youve literally been able to film a movie on a phone for years. What was stopping you from creating before?
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Just finished an incredible episode of Castlevania! I'm so proud of the whole team, I teared up! 😭 S4 is turning out PHENOMENAL!
As a little gift for Thanksgiving...Here's a couple screenshots from s4.... 👀✨
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The tomato gets me harder with each loop
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I mean, not gonna lie, I might sub for the animation ref 😂
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Now y'all know how artists feel when they flip their work
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A few years ago, before Naruto and Sasuke even had their fight in the manga, I decided to make a fan animation of it! Here's a clip from it!
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Changed the trajectory of my whole life
Key Animation: Tetsuya Takeuchi
Anime: Naruto (2002)
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Burn Generative AI to the ground, sue the shit out of its creators, it's only going to get worse from here, end this now
Netflix has used AI-generated images in a new true crime doc ‘WHAT JENNIFER DID’ to present Jennifer Pan as happy & confident before she was convicted of murder.
Use of AI tools is not disclosed in the credits.
(Source: )
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And on that day, a thousand thousand aspiring animators were born
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If you want to improve, "drawing a lot" isn't the advice I'd give. Think while you draw. Study. Analyze. Tackle weaknesses. Challenge yourself. Try new approaches & techniques. If you're drawing a lot but doing it the same way over and over you're probably reinforcing bad habits.
Artists-- What's the best drawing advice you've been given/learned? (Let's exclude the obvious of just doing it.)
GO!
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Remember how when they first revealed FFXVI they had us believe Clive was gonna be this super angry edgy dude and then it turns out he's the softest fluffiest man with eyes you lose yourself in if
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Hi, *raises hand*, this comes up way more often than it should, but digital 2D traditional animation is still hand-drawn, frame by frame, meticulously--it's just drawn on a drawing tablet/monitor instead of paper. The same principles and effort apply.
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Are you telling me
@Adobe
is scraping people's data AS THEY WORK?? We're working on NDA'd projects, Adobe, what the hell are you thinking!? This absolutely needs to be removed immediately, it's a huge privacy and legal issue, machine learning has NO PLACE in your software.
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Animators: no matter how many great drawings you have in an episode, people will somehow pick the most awkward off-model inbetweens to screenshot. Accept this fate. It's OK. I mean it's not OK but it's OK.
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Animation gets these same jabs of disrespect from live action folks, that something somehow hasn't reached its pinnacle of storytelling till it's been made in to live action, and I find it very, very tiresome.
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Following a lot of artists means whether you like it or not your timeline is never safe in public
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Frieren is, so far, one of the best animated shows I've watched in a long while. Story and direction are top-notch and with beautiful animation like this all over the place to boot.
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This is super incorrect. The vast majority of character animation in 2D animated shows is simply drawn by hand w/o assist. There's no issue w/ using 3D assets or reference to assist w/ 2D work, or to mix 2D and 3D, or full 3D--but examples like below are the exception, not rule.
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You just know studios are trying to figure out how to recapture the bizarre Barbenheimer phenomenon without realizing this kind of freak internet bullshittery can't be manufactured or folks will sniff it out and hate it instantly
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Not sure if I'm doin' this right but I guess I'll join in whatever way I know how? 😅
#sameartist
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We're being looted of our intellectual property and they're bribing the authorities to look the other way
Disney & Universal are paying lobbyists to watch over legislation that would bar them from using a lucrative state tax break if AI is used to displace workers in their film & TV productions.
(Source: .)
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Everyone on here who rightfully reacts with "wow this is fucking gross" I hope realizes this is in essence the same issue visual artists have been raising.
Every art form should be rising up together to stop AI/Machine Learning scrapers in their fucking tracks.
And just like that. The music industry is forever changed.
I recorded a verse, and had a trained AI model of Kanye replace my vocals.
The results will blow your mind. Utterly incredible.
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One of the things I love about 2D animation is how shots like this that in live action or 3D you see all the time and don't really notice, but when it's done in 2D like this, every frame hand drawn, it suddenly has this awesome weight to it
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My old Naruto fan animation I was doin for a while was great practice I feel I leveled up a lot w/ but also got some eyeballs on my work that was an important step that eventually lead to Castlevania. 😄
I'm curious and really want to know - artist folks, do you have an older piece of yours that was a bit of a turning point for you?
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I hate to get real on here for a minute, but... this is not the first death threat I've received for the show. And it probably won't be the last. I generally try and brush it off, but it never really stops being unsettling.
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Gotta wonder what brave soul stood in front of a bowling ball being thrown at them and countered with a water balloon
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So excited for Klaus! Please support this gorgeous 2D animated film (yes, 2D!)!! They're using a unique technique to paint the lighting on each frame of animation. Came out beautifully! There's nothing else quite like it!
after a super mysterious but VERY talented carpenter is discovered by an ambitious postman, it was clear that winter in Smeerensburg would never be the same again. Klaus is coming coming to cinemas 8th november and netflix 15th november - just in time for festivities to begin ✨
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I saw a neat drawing but nope I guess Twitter has decided I should care about the Hungarian Grand Prix
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HEY Y'ALL! I'm looking for in-house 2D animators with a strong handle on anime style work to bolster our ranks on shows like Castlevania! These positions are at our Austin, TX location. If you're interested, go to our website (mutuals feel free to DM!):
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Any actor, director, artist, etc who goes along with this is shooting themselves, their colleagues, and the future of every other talented individual who wants to be a filmmaker right in the foot.
Generative AI is theft on a massive scale, period.
OpenAI has scheduled meetings with Hollywood studios & talent agencies to encourage filmmakers & studios to use AI in their work.
They have already opened their AI video-making software to a few big-name actors and directors.
(Source: )
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In Castlevania ep5 of s2, there's a flashback of Dracula where I designed a whole suit of armor you never get to see 'cuz it's all under his cloak. :D But hey, that doesn't mean y'all don't get to see it!
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Just a reminder: I don't care what school you went to. I don't even look at it when hiring. I only care about your portfolio or demo reel. If you can learn without going to one of these insanely expensive schools, do it.
Calarts students are protesting their $50.8K annual tuition. But really, US animation students everywhere should be protesting. Here are some other animation school tuitions for 2019-20 programs:
RISD: $51.8K
Pratt: $51.7K
Ringling: $48K+ (est)
SVA: $44K
MCAD: $39.9K
SCAD: 37.5K
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Good thread! For complicated action there's an art to sliding the background behind a character to imply a camera move in 2D animation. It's easy for new digital animators w/ an endless canvas to default to B, but often times the solutions forced on paper animation are still best
A thread about something interesting in animation that i don't know how to name ("2D camera flickering issue"?)
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Maybe an unpopular opinion: BG3 is cool but I don't necessarily need every new game that comes out to chase BG3 nor do I think it's healthy for the industry to lean on 100+ hour games with 6+ year development cycles
While Baldur's Gate 3 is being widely celebrated by fans and developers alike, some are panicking that this could set new expectations from fans.
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I had the pleasure of doing Alucard's new design for Castlevania: Nocturne, with
@kloysius
handling the cleans and final model sheet.
#CastlevaniaNocturne
#PowerhouseAnim
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You were on Santa’s nice list this year, so here is a first look at Maria Renard from the upcoming Castlevania: Nocturne.
@kevinkolde
@clivebradley
@AdamDeats
@NetflixGeeked
@kloysius
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@CorridorDigital
Y'all are helping to promote industrial scale intellectual property theft and a direct attack on the livelihoods of the people whose work was stolen to fuel these things--and it sucks a lot, guys
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I dunno man I think it's just a fact that anything you would do with this in live action, any story, any tone, would just turn out 100x better animated
"The Legend of Zelda" live-action film has just been announced.
Directed by Wes Ball (Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Maze Runner).
Produced by Shigeru Miyamoto & Avi Arad.
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A handful of cuts I jumped in to help with during the cocky Trevor brawl in ep7 of s3 of Castlevania! 😄
I love when I get to draw Trevor with a smug grin. 😏
Shout out to the inbetween crew for their lovely work interpreting my often very rushed inbetween guides! 😂
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Castlevania Season 3 is coming back March 5th!! We've been working our butts off on it and I can't wait for y'all to check it out!!
(Hope y'all enjoy the official poster art for season 3! I've somehow kept up the tradition of squeezing in time to do it for this season, too. 😄)
.
@Castlevania
is back on March 5th, and there’s more mystery, murder, mayhem, and vampires than ever.
#Castlevania
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I dunno, the way they're promoting the use of "AI" as a solution to their labor shortage in a short designed to make you sympathize with a *robot dog* to tug on easy heart strings while pushing the agenda feels kinda gross
Maybe just pay people better, damn
Netflix アニメ・クリエイターズ・ベース×技術開発のrinna株式会社×WIT STUDIOによる共同プロジェクトアニメ『犬と少年』のショートムービー。
人手不足のアニメ業界を補助する実験的な取り組みとして、3分間の映像全カットの背景画に画像生成技術を活用！
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It's wild how folks have so little understanding or respect for the massive amount of work that goes in to animation that this absurd competition even crossed their mind, much less made it out here
Pink Floyd are inviting a new generation of animators to enter a competition to create music videos for any of the 10 songs on the iconic album, The Dark Side Of The Moon. For more information and to enter go to
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SEASON 2 of Castlevania: Nocturne is OFFICIALLY IN PRODUCTION!!!
Those are ACTUAL Storyboards, Layouts, and Animation for Season 2. 😁
.... Sorry to keep you waiting. Won't be quite so long this time. 😌✌️
Castlevania: Nocturne SEASON 2 is OFFICIALLY in production.
Thank you to all of the fans - new and returning - who tuned into watch Castlevania: Nocturne. If you still haven't given the series a try, now's your moment.
Castlevania: Nocturne is now streaming, only on Netflix.
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CASTLEVANIA: NOCTURNE, EVERYONE!!!!
meet CASTLEVANIA: NOCTURNE, a new Castlevania series following Richter Belmont
#GeekedWeek
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5 years ago today, Castlevania s1 released on Netflix. Our 1st series, and an adult animated video game adaptation of all things.. Just 5 years ago, video game adaptations were considered cursed, and adult animated shows were mostly comedy shows. I remember being terrified--
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I did a Steven Universe fan animation a couple years ago I don't think I ever posted on Twitter? Figure I might as well!
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Wait till the folks who think 30 year old artists are close to expiration find out many of their favorite anime are animated by some folks in their 50's+
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Fun Castlevania: Nocturne fact: I scribbled the concept art for Alucard's new look on my phone while 30,000 feet in sky
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See y'all tomorrow. 👀🌘🦇
It begins. Teaser trailer drops tomorrow. CASTLEVANIA: NOCTURNE premieres September 28th, only on Netflix.
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I keep forgetting this is coming so yeah you might be on to something there
Hayao Miyazaki is “concerned” by Studio Ghibli’s decision not to market his upcoming final film, ‘How Do You Live.’
“I wonder if it'll be okay without publicity. I am beginning to worry…”
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Burn it all to the ground
Multiple studios are exploring using AI to generate scripts based on books and other public domain IP.
The studios reportedly plan to hire writers to rewrite those AI scripts when the writers’ strike ends.
(Source: )
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Devastating.
Rest in peace, Kentaro Miura. Your work has inspired countless creators, such as myself.
Thank you.
【三浦建太郎先生 ご逝去の報】
『ベルセルク』の作者である三浦建太郎先生が、2021年5月6日、急性大動脈解離のため、ご逝去されました。三浦先生の画業に最大の敬意と感謝を表しますとともに、心よりご冥福をお祈りいたします。
2021年5月20日 株式会社白泉社 ヤングアニマル編集部
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Castlevania Season 3 is now live!!!! GO FORTH, CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT!!
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I don't think the average person realizes in 2D animation a single episode typically has 1,000s, sometimes even 10,000+ drawings
YOU THERE. YES, YOU.
WHAT'S A LITTLE-KNOWN FACT ABOUT YOUR PROFESSION THAT WOULD MAKE OTHER PEOPLE LOSE THEIR SHIT?
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I like to think about all the separate parts that go in to a shot like this:
12 or so cels of Dio for his jump
1 hand-painted foreground building he lands on
1 Jotaro cel
3 hand-painted cityscape paintings
Everything moved independently frame-by-frame to achieve the parallax
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Fun fact: Episode 7 of Castlevania season 2, being the incredibly important episode that it is, has 631 shots--more than double the average per episode (~300). The episode required a huge team of amazing artists & animators to complete, all of whom I can't thank enough. 🙏🙏
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My wife: "Am I spending too much on commissions?"
Me: *looks at commission* they're under-charging, go tip them
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I feel like we as a society gave up on fantasy mechs way too quickly
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Castlevania Season 2 will be on Netflix on 10/26, just two days away! It's also my birthday today so here's a present from me to you: Castlevania Season 2 poster art! Hope you like the new season!!
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hopping on the bandwagon to discuss my true niche: qrt with your most iconic shitpost please
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It's hard watching millions of peoples' work fed to software in the most rapid case of creative theft and exploitation in history, and then just see countless dipshits in YouTube and Twitter comments celebrating it
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CASTLEVANIA WILL RETURN!!!! THE BELMONT LINE CONTINUES!!
The Castlevania Universe is getting even bigger.
An all new series starring Richter Belmont (the son of Sypha and Trevor) and Maria Renard, set in France during the French Revolution, is currently in the works.
#GeekedWeek
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Screw it, gonna repost my super old Steven Universe fan animation here too, DIGGING THROUGH MY OLD ART MAKES ME NOSTALGIC
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Magnetic Rose is incredibly gorgeous; if you haven't seen it, it's well worth hunting down to watch
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Thank you for the very kind Castlevania shout-out 😊🙏
‘The Last Of Us’ Won’t Break The Video Game Adaptation Curse, Because It’s Already Broken via
@forbes
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Here's a run of cuts I key animated for Castlevania ep9 of s3! I posted a snippet earlier, but figured the season's been out long enough to share more. 😀
I also storyboarded this fight (as well as most of the Lindenfeld parts of ep9)--maybe I'll share some if there's interest?
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Now that I've been staring at it while making a gif, this is a good time to point out why animation is fucking hard: this frame appeared on screen for 1/12th of a second.
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My memory of these books was flipping through them, going "Huh", then actually learning how to animate by framing through Naruto 133
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I can't believe it's been a year since we released the teaser for Castlevania: Nocturne! That was... right around the start of animation production?
But now.... Well... Keep an eye out for news very soon. 👁️👁️🌘🦇🔥🐦🪦
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Hey artists:
Don't feel too bad about your shitposts
I've discovered artists from the weirdest, most random stuff that happened to be going around
Helps when your avatar is some of your cool art tho😆
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Fun fact: just a still of a crowd like this can take longer than full blown action shots, pour one out for the animators every time you see a crowd
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Just these kinds of little touches are a big part of leveling up your animation!
Our feature artist/reference for today is this SIMPLY BRILLIANT gif on ANIMATING LOOPS by the amazing
@kinucakes
! The explanation of the differences here using those black line examples is pURE GENIUS!
#gamedev
#animation
#animationdev
#anime
#manga
#conceptart
#characterdesign
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More of my old Naruto vs Sasuke fan animation! Animating clones made me hyper aware of every time Naruto subjected the animators to that. 😶
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*looks at literally everyone on Castlevania team*
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I boarded 12 action sequences for Castlevania season 4💦, but when it came to animation, I focused much of my efforts in s4 doing character layouts and keys for drama shots in an effort to elevate the overall visuals of the show! Here's samples from ep01!
#CastlevaniaSpoilers
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Oh no how many shadows would we have to add to Castlevania if we made a movie
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A peek at the future if every artist in every creative field across the world doesn't band together to burn AI theft to the ground
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That was my first version of Photoshop and it had 90% of the features I use today but ran smooth as silk on my POS hand-me-down desktop, can we go back to that too
Can we go back to a time when we could buy software?
Not subscribe.
Buy.
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This shot of Alucard from season 2 was probably the first time he smiled genuinely in the series, so it was a little tricky for some folks to animate, & I decided to up jump in and animate it myself last-second. It's a simple shot but I'm glad I got to do it!
#Castlevania
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This has solidified my feelings that the very core of AI ""art"" image generation, the way it was built, the way it's used, the entire attitude the users have about it and our art--it is all absolutely vile and disgusting.
Which is worse, using (stealing really) the art of a beloved creator that JUST passed away to generate art or the fact that you want credit for it?
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JOB ALERT!!
We have a handful of full-time Storyboard Artist positions for the new Castlevania spin-off series to fill! If you're interested in throwing your hat in the ring, drop a link to your portfolio in the replies!
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Is it really a FromSoftware game if my character doesn't look like a sculpted stick of butter??
FromSoftware Character Creators
Elden Ring - Dark Soul 3 - Bloodborne
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This was my first page of head sketches for Trevor Belmont once his design had been figured! It took time to figure out how to make him look grim-but-sexy from every angle (and also just how the hell to draw him, to this day he's one of the hardest to draw)
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