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Owen Richards

@owenrichardscgi.bsky.social

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Graphic artist specialising in game and space art. Currently trying to learn animation so I can make silly CGI videos.

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Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · Feb 24

I am highly concerned and aware of what is going on politically at the moment. I am using this platform to have somewhere to get away from all that.
Because of that, please do not be offended if I don't follow you back on mostly politicaly themed channels. Thank you.

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Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 9h

... and if you do, you probably shouldn't be discussing the details of it on social media.

Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 14h

That would be a better result for all of us and for them.

Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 14h

I can't fathom it at all. They say that Doctor Who is 'Woke' now and ignore that John Pertwee ran around time and space with a hippie chick fighting inequality, injustice, corporate interests and championing the environment. But yeah, tell me how suddenly, Jodie and Ncuti are 'woke'. Clowns!

Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 14h

I do. Don't tell Civvie though!

Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 14h

Highly recommended!

Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 14h

Can you imagine Malcolm Tucker, completely flustered and lost for words? Rendered speechless at the antics of Boris and Liz? It's worse than Monty Python, but it's REAL. And the 'real' is just what we've seen. What was in all the WhatsApp messages that disappeared? What happened that we didn't see?

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Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 18h

Also: "AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!"

Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 18h

Being eccentric is a great British tradition. They look like the cast from an amateur Doctor Who video. Again, nothing wrong with that, but it's very strange to portray this as the future of Torydom. Unless this is a "We've come to praise Caesar" situation. Or this IS the future of Toryhood.

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Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 18h

COVID, Trump, Boris and Liz all conspired to kill comedy stone fucking dead. Those poor bastards at The Onion can't keep up with how far we've sunk into a real-life Idiocracy.
You know that if Liz Truss ran again, some people would actually vote for her. God help us all.

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Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 18h

Nobody gave del Toro the money to make his Lovecraft film and we are on our THIRD Sonic the Sodding Hedgehog film, so I'm afraid I'm not as hopeful as you are on that point. 😥

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Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 18h

You can't say that artists need ethical and legal treatment and in the previous statement declare that viewers "don't care if what they are looking at is AI".
Especially when the AI industry is all about abusing copyright left right and center.

Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 19h

OMG! Apollo Remastered is just amazing. I've got a copy and it's just unbelievably gorgeous.

Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 19h

Is this real?

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Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 21h

Yes please, I have a large family and I will drop hints like a B52.

Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 21h

Apollo Remastered has to go on the list. www.apolloremastered.com

Apollo Remastered - The Ultimate Photographic Record

The ultimate photographic record of humankind's greatest adventure. Remastered from the original flight film, the Apollo photos are the highest quality ever produced and feature in a book and exhibiti...

www.apolloremastered.com

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Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 1d

On the subject of cats, I used to think you could just avoid the Nazis and trolls. The thing is that social media loves "engagement" so it will deliberately try and force the trolls with normal people just to stir things up. Twitter is the worst of these.

Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 1d

THIS site has generally been good. Even then I replied to someone's reply to another post and got dogpiled like it was twitter.
Twitter, Facebook, Imgur and even reddit make me sad every time I log in.
Social media has destroyed society in general.

Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 1d

So: "I want you to come in to the office so I can talk to my secretary and she can describe you all sat at your desks to me."

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Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 1d

I keep having these ideas for videos that pop into my head. It takes years to make a video and I have one of these ideas at least once a year. I did the math and I get depressed.

Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 1d

(holds hand up guiltily)

Davis Bickford @davis.social · 2d

If I had twice the time, I’d still be time-broke because I’d find twice the things to not have time for.

Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 1d

The stretch and bounce on the eyes!

Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 2d

All those amazing Blender geometry node setups that are great and they are really cool, but no way a normal human could spend time noodling all that up.
I much prefer nodes to a menu system, but after a certain number of connections, this bear of little brain says "Does not compute!"

Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!

Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 2d

"Underfunding" also lessens the impact of the fact that in a lot of cases, the NHS is being deliberately underfunded so that various people can profit off of a private healthcare system. This is not just "Oh, we need to give the NHS more money" but this is a deliberate choice made for personal gain.

Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 3d

For decades, "game journalists" have been seen as people who just parrot back publisher's press releases. There have been a few who have bravely lifted the lid on how the sausage is made, but they are relatively rare.