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Kim Herbst

@kiwifruitbird.bsky.social

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Illustrator | Senior Concept Artist | Art Director | She/her 💖💙❤️ posts/opinions are my own www.kimherbst.com https://www.kimherbst.com/shop Tags: #pixelcat

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Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · Nov 6

Hello new followers! I ...think I was added to a Starter Pack or list somewhere possibly maybe?? Here are a few 'hopeful' themed pieces I've drawn in the past because I think we need it today. ❤️‍🩹

Illustration of a boy on a purple hill of plants, with smoke behind him, a single white flower glows in his lap

Illustration of a dark helmet shattering apart from a man's head as wings spread out from the man's head

Illustration of a large, dark woman standing in a landscape of line trees behind a bridge, light glows from her hands and billows up into the sky with a crescent moon.

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Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 1d

More older #darktober pieces -

Illustration of a masked ward protecting a girl in a white dress

Illustration of demonic hands reaching for the Master Sword in a stone

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Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 12h

...entirely stopping work to listen to the heavy rain since this only happens like 5x a year now.

Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 1d

One gal: you draw comics??
Me: I drew *ONE 40-page comic* that I had to get out of my system. Kudos to comic artists who make it past the one haha

Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of Gen-Z folks were excited to come across my Zombies Can't Swim comic during the Art Walk yesterday, that a local artist drew one and had it professionally printed - definitely felt good they're interested in comics 🥹

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Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 1d

..I had this last year when developing multiple game art styles for testing and a handful of responses came back saying 'this is AI Art' - it's a buzz word a LOT of average folks are gonna toss around. Keep creating, keep working on your projects ❤️

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Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 1d

gamedev engineer: "Update your Unity version."

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 1d

..been using Duckduckgo via Brave and Firefox as a result. Not as good on image searches but I can still use 3rd-party extensions.

Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 2d

Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 1d

Ugh same - I feel lucky we finally got a series out of this.. albeit a canceled one 🥲

Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 1d

..I feel like we all need to go back to scrapbooks with physical photos. Really learn to parse down a big collection and then make a fun evening of memories put together or somethin. No more storing thousands of pics.

Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely thisss

Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 1d

More older #darktober pieces -

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Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 1d

Every time I watch it now I'm trying to figure out how the puppeteer is positioned in the scene as well haha

Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 1d

When you find out this film originally was in a *made-up fantasy language,* and they had to go back and fill in a script in English via a confused test audience, on top of the amazing puppetry... Just, that level of fantasy is incredible.

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 1d

"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...

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Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 2d

All the tips here are great (I used to make flash web games at the start of my career!) - you can set a frame number of a Symbol (when you set it as a Graphic) basically as your key frames. Also can set 'anchors' for paper puppet style motions :)

Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 3d

Us weird freaks will be at the 2 Blocks of Art Walk this Sat the 11th! #HumanMadeArt

Poster illustration for sketch the block pop up market on October 11 2025 11am to 6pm at IAMA 1025 Market St San Francisco

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Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 4d

Ahh that's a good one!

Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 4d

For gamedev, I ask this so many times in terms of AAA games vs mobile games - how is this character gonna be viewed? Big screen? Tiny screen? What's the gameplay about?? 2d? 3d??

Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you 😭

Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 4d

Ah god I have to print signage and price all my prints for Saturday why did I agree to an Art Walk there's so much to dooooo

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Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 4d

..I fucked up the protein powder to oatmeal ratio for breakfast this morning. It's like an omen for the rest of the day. Potentially good things for me but it's going to be bland/horrible every step of the way.

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Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 5d

More #darktober - Was maybe a year or two ago since I made a #unicorn for these, may as well add another.

black and white illustration of a macabre, unnerving unicorn with a long tail

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Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 5d

thank you!!

Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 5d

More #darktober - Was maybe a year or two ago since I made a #unicorn for these, may as well add another.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 6d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 6d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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