Ammy Doodle

“When your foster kittens match your decor! Exhausted from their first day exploring their new foster home.”

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Fantastic [Mangekyo] (kaleidoscope​) kimono printed with fluorescent inks by Aguri Sagimori, beautifully modeled by Shizuki.  

(you can see more of this kimono here)

東方26 - くるみ/Kurumi

A Bat plush Stimboard for @battmeat ! With a night theme!

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So Netflix is releasing this animated movie but here’s the thing - all backgrounds are done in AI. No actual BG artists were hired or credited for this work.

And here’s the kicker - I gave them too much credit. I realized that not even the AI users are credited apparently. Check this out:

“+Human”. No names, no nothing. 

I know it’s tempting, but please don’t hate-watch this thing. Numbers equal profit even if the people watching are just doing it to mock. Don’t give Netflix and other studios even more incentive to fire more animators and replace them with machines trained on their work and skill. 

Hilarously, the excuse used is ‘there aren’t enough artists’. That’s not true - there are more than enough artists, but the real issue is that no one wants to pay a living wage. Here’s a short video about the reality of animation in Japan.

The biggest winners in this equation at the end of the day are the AI infrastructure owners - owners of Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, etc. Do not feed this machine, it creates more monopolization of entire industries, raises a powerful few and dehumanizes the rest.

Eerily beautiful modern nihonga paintings by Matsuura Shiori (she also does a lot of bijin-styled art, some hinting at wlw!). For her take on Japanese monsters, the pieces shown here are:

One of the most beautiful jorougumo depiction I’ve ever seen (the tangled butterflies in her spiderweb-hair <3)

A banquet going amok because of mischievious rokurokubi and nopperabou, and their tsukumogami (animated objects) suite

A falsely serene Otsuyu from the Peony lantern ghost story

Crokery tsukumogami and a very curious investigating cat

Make-up tsukumogami and sleeping white cat (maybe a bakeneko as hinted in the mirror)

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This is my favorite genre of Touhou gifs. Does anybody know where these are from?