Cartoon Brew has an animations test for Genndy Tartakovsky’s Popeye , plus some conversation with Tartakovsky about what happened. The full animatics were unfortunately taken down, but you can read the conversation and watch the test here. (Thanks, Ed!)
At Storming The Ivory Tower, Sam Keeper has a thoughtful essay on AI-generated art. “Much of the art, though, comes from interpretive ambiguity that both the prompter-curator is faced with and must make decisions about in terms of culling and framing images, and which the end viewer is […]
Enjoy this free horror story, “In Hades, He Lifted Up His Eyes,” by author and friend of the Gutter James Bennett! You can also listen to it ready by Veronica DeGeneres–just got to the top of the sidebar here!
Watch the first ten minutes of Shin Ultraman for a limited time here! (Thanks, August!)
Takashi Murakami talks about how the pandemic and the online world influenced his art. “Murakami’s interest in the metaverse during the pandemic accelerated whilewatching his son and daughter, 11 and 8 years old, respectively, play the Nintendo video game Animal Crossing: New Horizons. His daughter was admiring fireworks […]
The Universtiy of Oregon has a sweet collection of calligraphy fragments. “This exhibition introduces two gems of UO’s collection of Japanese calligraphy: the album of calligraphy known as tekagami in the collection of the Knight Library Special Collections and UO Archives (SCUA), containing a total of 319 examples; […]
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