Beau Pratt
@beaupratt.bsky.social
Artist/Creator | he/they 🏳️🌈
Animator and fan of all things animated!
Animation Instructor & Content Manager @Animation Mentor
Animator and fan of all things animated!
Animation Instructor & Content Manager @Animation Mentor
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but opposing GenAI is not about opposing technology, it's about opposing capitalists.
GenAI is not a technology: it's a massive automation of theft, masquerading as an industry, run by grifters.
Don't hate computers, hate the capitalists behind the curtain.
GenAI is not a technology: it's a massive automation of theft, masquerading as an industry, run by grifters.
Don't hate computers, hate the capitalists behind the curtain.
December 16, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I don't know who needs to hear this, but opposing GenAI is not about opposing technology, it's about opposing capitalists.
GenAI is not a technology: it's a massive automation of theft, masquerading as an industry, run by grifters.
Don't hate computers, hate the capitalists behind the curtain.
GenAI is not a technology: it's a massive automation of theft, masquerading as an industry, run by grifters.
Don't hate computers, hate the capitalists behind the curtain.
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This was a little bending fight I did for fun before I got to actually work on the Avatar movie.
December 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This was a little bending fight I did for fun before I got to actually work on the Avatar movie.
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PSA one of the best ways to support your favorite indie artists is recommending them to others!!!
Uhhh update on this, I got my copy back like a week later, but his dad just texted me saying he wants his own copy?? So I sent him the link to your shop 😁
December 30, 2025 at 2:54 AM
PSA one of the best ways to support your favorite indie artists is recommending them to others!!!
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Canadians (especially cis Canadians), PLEASE take a moment to sign this petition and take action in defence of trans people. It takes less than a minute to sign and verify your signature.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-7027 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
December 29, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Canadians (especially cis Canadians), PLEASE take a moment to sign this petition and take action in defence of trans people. It takes less than a minute to sign and verify your signature.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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just another day in the office
May 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
just another day in the office
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I signed this already but if you havent - heres another reminder!
Canadians (especially cis Canadians), PLEASE take a moment to sign this petition and take action in defence of trans people. It takes less than a minute to sign and verify your signature.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-7027 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
December 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I signed this already but if you havent - heres another reminder!
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Underrated point of discussion with the AI + social media uproar is giving thanks to patrons of the arts, especially non-artists, who are willing to put in the effort to support artists at a time when it has never been easier or more normalized to do the opposite.
December 28, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Underrated point of discussion with the AI + social media uproar is giving thanks to patrons of the arts, especially non-artists, who are willing to put in the effort to support artists at a time when it has never been easier or more normalized to do the opposite.
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THIS. All of this.
To everyone,
but especially to the college kid who shook my hand at my Lightbox booth just to discreetly palm me their business card, say “remember me if any jobs come your way,” and walk away without buying anything
To everyone,
but especially to the college kid who shook my hand at my Lightbox booth just to discreetly palm me their business card, say “remember me if any jobs come your way,” and walk away without buying anything
SO, you want to network but don't know where to begin.
1. DON'T. Make friends instead
2. It's not about what they can do for you
3. Famous people are just people first
4. If you do have to gush, don't just say 'i love your work' , pick one thing and say why. Open ended compliments are awkward
1. DON'T. Make friends instead
2. It's not about what they can do for you
3. Famous people are just people first
4. If you do have to gush, don't just say 'i love your work' , pick one thing and say why. Open ended compliments are awkward
December 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
THIS. All of this.
To everyone,
but especially to the college kid who shook my hand at my Lightbox booth just to discreetly palm me their business card, say “remember me if any jobs come your way,” and walk away without buying anything
To everyone,
but especially to the college kid who shook my hand at my Lightbox booth just to discreetly palm me their business card, say “remember me if any jobs come your way,” and walk away without buying anything
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December 27, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
fortune.com
August 20, 2025 at 4:52 AM
MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
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Knights of the Wandering Castle but it's animated this time!
Worked on this on and off for about a year, check out the full song here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksLH...
Worked on this on and off for about a year, check out the full song here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksLH...
December 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Knights of the Wandering Castle but it's animated this time!
Worked on this on and off for about a year, check out the full song here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksLH...
Worked on this on and off for about a year, check out the full song here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksLH...
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Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).
October 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).
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Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
I had five fascinating conversations for this RPS piece, gathering perspectives on genAI chatbots in games, as seen in Where Winds Meet. Thanks to @meghna.bsky.social, @pyrofoux.bsky.social, @maxkreminski.bsky.social, and @chrisgardiner.bsky.social www.rockpapershotgun.com/horrible-bor...
"Horrible", "boring", and "cheap": Experts pan new chatbot NPCs, but some leave room for optimism
We speak to a collection of developers and AI experts about the potential impact of LLM-powered NPCs in videogames.
www.rockpapershotgun.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
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Love coloring huntress leaves
December 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Love coloring huntress leaves
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Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.
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Happy Hogswatch to all who celebrate. Ho! Ho! Ho!
December 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Happy Hogswatch to all who celebrate. Ho! Ho! Ho!
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I hope everyone has good year end holidays. As we go into a shaky period with the arts in flux and a lot of people are suffering, please never forget the power of your mind, and the joy of engaging in meaningful process. Every day you have the most powerful machine in existence inside your own head.
a cartoon character is playing a piano and has a crown on his head
ALT: a cartoon character is playing a piano and has a crown on his head
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December 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I hope everyone has good year end holidays. As we go into a shaky period with the arts in flux and a lot of people are suffering, please never forget the power of your mind, and the joy of engaging in meaningful process. Every day you have the most powerful machine in existence inside your own head.
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Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
December 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
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One of our BG leads puts pictures of peoples cats in as placeholders, you could be bringing joy into the world with things that already exist instead of using the slop machine
Using Gen AI to create placeholder assets or create concept art steals hours of hard work from the artists who creations were stolen to train said AI without their permission. It is never acceptable whether it makes into a finished product or not. You're still stealing their time and work.
December 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
One of our BG leads puts pictures of peoples cats in as placeholders, you could be bringing joy into the world with things that already exist instead of using the slop machine
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A selection of shots animated by Maël Gourmelen for Klaus (2019), dir. Sergio Pablos, SPA Studios
December 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
A selection of shots animated by Maël Gourmelen for Klaus (2019), dir. Sergio Pablos, SPA Studios
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Another new print for Sac Anime. See you there! #theowlhouse
December 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Another new print for Sac Anime. See you there! #theowlhouse
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this was too funny an idea not to do
December 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
this was too funny an idea not to do
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THE SIGH BEFORE HE TURNS HIS HEAD, HE KNOWS THE INVESTMENT THIS MOVEMENT TAKES. yeah buddy i feel that way too when everyone thinks that having never-ending movement on 1s is the way to go.
the fucking antic sends me. The fact they went this hard on an animation joke ..im EXTREMELY CHUFFED.
the fucking antic sends me. The fact they went this hard on an animation joke ..im EXTREMELY CHUFFED.
December 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
THE SIGH BEFORE HE TURNS HIS HEAD, HE KNOWS THE INVESTMENT THIS MOVEMENT TAKES. yeah buddy i feel that way too when everyone thinks that having never-ending movement on 1s is the way to go.
the fucking antic sends me. The fact they went this hard on an animation joke ..im EXTREMELY CHUFFED.
the fucking antic sends me. The fact they went this hard on an animation joke ..im EXTREMELY CHUFFED.