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Lucas Nunes

@lucasjn.bsky.social

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Senior Animator at Industrial Light and Magic. Worked on Frankenstein, Mandalorian & Grogu, Andor, Godzilla vs Kong and a few other projects. Opinions my own. He/Him https://vimeo.com/354859947

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Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · Jul 24

Some more T.rex stop motion practice after work. It was getting late and I had no clue how to end the shot, so.. "Boop"

The winder rig in the backgroung is from Kinetic Armatures

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 5d

Vanity Fair asked me to talk about visual effects, and it was my great honor to show off some of ILM’s terrific work over the years.

Todd Vaziri on Vanity Fair VFX
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ILM's VFX Secrets Behind Star Wars, Transformers & More | Vanity Fair

YouTube video by Vanity Fair

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Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · 6d

Oh nice, I animated that big tentacle monster grabbing the trees!

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RJ Palmer 🔜 Lightbox Expo 101 @rj-palmer.com · 8d

T. rex was formally named 120 years ago today. Hell yeah king happy birthday!

#art

Illustration I did of a roaring and/or yawning T. rex with a judgmental rex onlooker in the background. (done for Beasts of the Mesozoic T. rex figure)

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shivana @heyshivana.bsky.social · 8d

my hot take is some of y'all need to stop only reading comics. read prose, go to a museum, learn scrimshaw, wtfever. go be an interesting person first because i can TELL when people don't ingest anythiinnggg else but comics

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 9d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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RJ Palmer 🔜 Lightbox Expo 101 @rj-palmer.com · 9d

Do you guys ever look at a drawing in progress and simply feel so overwhelmed by the amount of work left that it paralyzes you?

Anyways I'm 65 hours into a piece and have not yet completed the drawing step. Realizing there is a reason I put this idea off for 11 years 🙃

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Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 10d

Ptero

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 10d

As we look at this gif of Twig and the Lighthouse, it makes us think of the time we tried to befriend a local crow. Unfortunately, we put out some cat food that the crow deemed unsatisfactory. The rest of the week we were dive-bombed by an enraged bird.

Moral: Appreciate your friends! #KeeperGame

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 11d

I forgot about this #paleoart of Deinocheirus I produced back in 2019 until this morning. Having not looked at it for years, I think it holds up pretty well. And no, it's not got the "feather mountain" look because D. was a big animal in a temperate climate.
#dinosaurs #fossil #paleontology #sciart

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Dr Matt Dempsey @sketchy-raptor.bsky.social · Sep 11

Forgot to announce I have a new paper out this week! Animals that are more front-heavy have thicker, differently shaped forelimb bones to deal with the extra load. Limb bones alone may thus be useful proxies for body shape - but posture complicates things. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Jay @kakapojay.bsky.social · Aug 29

Onto the most fragmentary of the Kem Kem theropods so far, an indeterminate dromaeosaurid known from some teeth and claw material! Size comparison and some thoughts below ⬇️

#sciart #paleoart

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · Apr 25

A large Edmontosaurus regalis is giving the side-eye to a young Tyrannosaurus. Rex that's just passing by.

Digital painting of a large edmontosaurus dinosaur with a pale yellow background. In the foreground is a dark young Tyrannosaurus Rex.

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · Jul 18

"The Wandering Village" animated trailer by Trash Studio & Nippon Animation (Japan) for the video game by Stray Fawn Studio (Switzerland).
Directed by Takuro Suzuki, with Ghibli alums Akihiko Yamashita & Yoshiharu Sato.
Full credits >> strayfawnstudio.com/presskit/she...

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Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · Aug 15

Announcing🏅The illustration accompanying Dearc osteology paper (link.springer.com/article/10.1...) won an art award at the BMC Zoology image competition, under category "Life in Motion"! (read about it here: bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....) 🏅

Two Dearc papers, and all award winners!

Three pterosaurs, Dearc and two darwinopterans, fighting over a squid in a red blue subset

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Lewis LaRosa (he/him) @lewislarosa.bsky.social · Aug 12

Some examples from my art book Carbon Based now live! www.kickstarter.com/projects/oni...

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Natalia Jagielska @nataliajagielska.bsky.social · Aug 1

An illustration I did for a competition in China 🤞Anchiornis

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RJ Palmer 🔜 Lightbox Expo 101 @rj-palmer.com · Jul 31

With all the Gem Dragons I did for Dungeons & Dragons The Book of Dragons, the crystal dragon probably had the strongest foundation to build from so I really made a meal out of painting the skin folds.

This is dragon 4 of 5

Design sheet for the Crystal dragon. It had two tails and saggy skin, mama mia what more could a guy want 😍

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RJ Palmer 🔜 Lightbox Expo 101 @rj-palmer.com · Jul 30

Of all the Gem Dragon illustrations I did for Dungeons & Dragons The Book of Dragons this weirdly proved the most challenging. I pushed myself to paint a type of scales I rarely do here.

This is dragon 3 of 5

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Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · Jul 29

Thank you : ))

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · Jul 25

fxrant.blogspot.com/2025/01/why-...

a tweet that says: CGI in the 2000's looks better than most movies today

"Why does OLD MOVIE's visual effects still hold up?"

shot design
planning and organization
taste
sticking to a plan
appropriate timeline
small volume of work
appropriate budget

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Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · Jul 24

Thank you Jay! I loved your work on WWD!

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Kieran (But Spookier) @toadally.bsky.social · Jul 24

Some really fun commercials with some delightful animations of prehistoric critters youtu.be/SgTmeT_ha2c?...

nissin cup noodles Ice Age animal commercial

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Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · Jul 24

Genius!

Lucas Nunes @lucasjn.bsky.social · Jul 24

Some more T.rex stop motion practice after work. It was getting late and I had no clue how to end the shot, so.. "Boop"

The winder rig in the backgroung is from Kinetic Armatures

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Dr Matt Dempsey @sketchy-raptor.bsky.social · Jul 22

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Alexandria Neonakis @beavs.bsky.social · Jun 16

I took @abigbat.bsky.social ‘s illustration workshop over the past couple months to try to level up my painting game. It was a great experience, well worth checking out. Here’s my final, a cattle wrangler on her diamondback mount
#ttrpg #illustration #fantasy #western

A herd of terrified cows runs through dust in the foreground while above their heads against a blue sky you see the underside of a huge diamondback rattlesnake dragon spreading its wings over the herd with a cowgirl on a saddle on its back spinning a rope above her head

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