Fangtooth Animation

Follow for animation and vibes. My website: https://www.fangtoothanimation.com/ My email: [email protected]

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For a class project I made an interactive game with a pachycephalosaurus who works in a mail room. It was a lot of fun. This is the sketch for the pachycephalosaurus.

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Me: My resume might not be perfect, but at least I didn't use AI haha.

AI bot reading my resume, wiping angry tears out of its eyes as it puts it in the reject pile: hahahaha yeah at least you didn't do that.

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Super Mario Galaxy Movie

I just saw the Super Mario Galaxy movie. It was quite good. I was not expecting all of the cameos. It was a good day to be a Super Mario Galaxy and Smash Bros fan.

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In case you haven't been asked today, what's your favorite dinosaur?

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Teen Titans (2003) is so funny to me

It hadn't really occurred to me until I recently started reading some Nightwing comics how absurd the premise of the animated tv show was. I didn't even know that the characters had civilian names, like Kory and Victor and Garfield. In the show any alter egos might as well just not exist. The Teen Titans chose to have no identity outside of their roles in the team. They are going to call each other names like Robin and Beast Boy and not ask questions. There are a couple points in the show where it seems like someone wants to bring up Batman and Robin doesn't want to talk about it, but no one ever even questions that Robin is just some guy wearing a mask. The rest of the team can't really integrate that successfully into society, too robotic, too green, etc. But Robin has none of those limitations. And instead of leveraging that as a means to go undercover in various roles and act the part of a regular person, he is going to wear a mask 24/7 including around his teammates, wear bright primary colors, and pretend to be a superpowered masked villain when he does feel the urge to go undercover. Honestly I don't think it's bad writing I think it's just a really funny take on the Teen Titans world.

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expect clouds

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I like this.

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Some sketches from reference of Nightwing.

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Dinosaur robot in front of Fukui Station, Japan, by 爆戦@KEBIISHI LINEAGE

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I think the main thing that could make winter easier to deal with is if there were dinosaurs to hang out with.

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The Value of Personal Animation Projects

Lately I've been reading Your Career in Animation: How to Survive and Thrive by David B. Levy (incredible book so far by the way) and he really emphasizes the importance of working on personal projects on the side even if you have a steady studio job. He gives a lot of really good reasons for this, like not getting typecast into just one genre and actively improving your work. It's so interesting because I think a lot of times personal creative projects are viewed more as, for lack of a better term, unemployed behavior. I feel like a lot of people just starting out get told to work on personal projects so that they can get a steady job. I am currently in that zone of working on personal projects before landing a job. That said though, I think I prefer the perspective that personal projects should be a part of your life no matter what job you're in. Obviously there are times when you have too much on your plate and you can't focus on them as much, but having a little something you're working on because you want to is such a wonderful part of being a creative.

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Multiple Journals

I have perhaps an absurd number of journals that I'm using concurrently for different things. Sometimes the high number leads to me feeling discouraged when some of my journals go a long time without updates. However, I more often find it quite beautiful to have a physical representation in front of me of what I am choosing to cultivate in different seasons of my life. For example, right now I'm using my hobbies journal and my reflections journal most frequently because of new years excitement. Other times I might be drawn to my quotes journal more often or one of my writing journals. I don't keep any journals perfectly, but I find them a lovely physical record of what I've done and what I've thought. I think these journals taking up physical space is a good reminder that the things I choose to do and have chosen to do and will choose to do are very real. Sometimes it's easy to think if you don't make it to a certain goal, that hobby or action didn't count for anything, but it happened and it's real and that's a wonderful thing.

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A character sketch I made ages ago that I never ended up using.

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Generative AI Being Framed as Technological Progression in Creative Fields is Misleading

A lot of people act like AI is just a the natural next step for creatives to latch onto. They say things like going from paper to digital was a change in technology, so maybe AI is just the next step for artists. However, what digital technology did was solve problems for artists by giving them a new tool. With digital art, artists now have the ability to endlessly manipulate works without worrying about running out of materials and being able to edit non-destructively. Digital art has its fair share of problems, sometimes the ability to edit endlessly is problematic, but it solved some problems artists were dealing with by handing them a tool. That's been a trend throughout art history. Making new kinds of paints and canvases and desks and pencils have helped artists over the years to create art in new ways, unhindered by problems that were previously insurmountable. People have said that AI is just the logical next step in this progression.

I disagree.

For a tool to be useful, it needs to solve a problem. What problem is AI solving? Perhaps it's saving time. Maybe it's making the creation of art more convenient. I find those things to be fairly unimportant problems when it comes to creating art, since art is largely a product of creativity and passion and doesn't need to be put into the expectation of taking the same amount of time to create as a microwave burrito. Just for the sake of argument though, maybe it is solving a bit of a problem. However, the way AI solves this problem is using a method that humans have already been using. Simply by stealing art. We all know that AI has been trained by taking people's art without their consent. So not only is this not solving much of a problem, it doesn't solve it in a groundbreaking way. It's not the next step, it's just art theft repackaged and being pushed at the masses.

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Timelapse of my landscape study.

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This is an animation I made with my original character Nova.

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This is an animation I made in Maya using the Azri rig from gameanim.com

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Background study I did :)