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Bob Flynn @bobjinx.bsky.social · 2d

Wow! What a treat, thanks 👍

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The Art of SpongeBob @artofspongebob.bsky.social · 2d

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Free on Nick.com!

Go Fetch! - | Nick

Gary's favorite ball falls into a monster-filled trench.

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Bob Flynn @bobjinx.bsky.social · 2d

Fun! Is there a way to see this (or is it behind the Paramount paywall?)

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Bob Flynn @bobjinx.bsky.social · 4d

You don’t see oval shaped googly eyes as often as you should.

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Bob Flynn @bobjinx.bsky.social · 4d

Even without gen-ai, I’ve often had a concern about anything that smooths out human imperfection as limiting aesthetic potential.

If you go in with the idea that you want to make something as good as this other professional thing (as most of us do), digital ease leaves us prone to be trapped there.

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Bob Flynn @bobjinx.bsky.social · 4d

Good question. Not necessarily, but I do think it risks limiting the range of possible outcomes. Narrowing the scope of what art can do.

Which may or may not be important to any one individual, but it could have broader impact to a healthy culture.

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Bob Flynn @bobjinx.bsky.social · 4d

I have a hunch that all of this calculated talk of the ‘democratizing’ of art via generative outputs speaks more to the idea that a lot of people claiming to be innovators have little interest in making anything new with it.

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Bob Flynn @bobjinx.bsky.social · 4d

Thinking about the digital ease of professional sheen—where you’re able to quickly make something that looks finished, but you’ve leapfrogged over the act of tinkering to make something work.

Not that you’re lazy or impatient by bypassing foundational skills, but that you may not make anything new.

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alexburby.bsky.social @alexburby.bsky.social · 14d

I'm looking for animation work!

-15 years working experience
-9 years in game development
-Helped ship three games, most recently as 2D animation lead on The Plucky Squire

I'd love to animate for your game.

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Bob Flynn @bobjinx.bsky.social · 12d

It strikes me lately that craft, any craft, is about taking good care of something. Taking pride in that care. And by mere proximity, taking care of yourself.

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Bob Flynn @bobjinx.bsky.social · 14d

Yep, here it is. Shared a few mins ago:

bsky.app/profile/rebe...

Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 14d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Bob Flynn @bobjinx.bsky.social · 14d

Man I’m still shining from that sperm whale vid. Uncanny time to be alive where a lucky diver can film a dramatic never before seen event like that and mundanely post it to IG.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 14d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 15d

I've posted many thoughts and clips about Jim Henson and The Muppets (feel free to go back & explore), but on what would have been his 89th birthday, I want to emphasize that for Jim, puppetry was a means to an end - just one of many mediums he explored to express his art…

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Bob Flynn @bobjinx.bsky.social · 15d

Good question. I feel like I notice it immediately when I'm flipping through picture books at the store. Because I gravitate to those books. But names are escaping me at the moment.

Also, hi Meg!

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Bob Flynn @bobjinx.bsky.social · 17d

What movie do you consider “perfect”?

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Bob Flynn @bobjinx.bsky.social · 17d

Just watched the 1978 Superman with my 6yo who immediately asked during the helicopter scene how they did it, and speculated about thin wires we couldn’t see. He could tell it was real.

He’s never asked a single thing about how they made Harry fly on a Nimbus 2000, because he knows it’s not real.

Bob Flynn @bobjinx.bsky.social · Aug 16

It’s that real/fake duality. We know it’s a movie (fake) and that we’re being tricked to believe we’re watching something real. But it was filmed, so what we’re viewing is/was real.

And that’s a fun little puzzle for our brains.

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Bob Flynn @bobjinx.bsky.social · 18d

I liked it! (only just saw it as well) Would be nice to see a follow up where Superman doesn’t constantly have the shit beaten out of him, even though that’s kind of the point.

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Bob Flynn @bobjinx.bsky.social · 23d

This only works if you can eat the bricks.

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Bob Flynn @bobjinx.bsky.social · 26d

I’m cool with them as long as there is candy to be had.

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Bob Flynn @bobjinx.bsky.social · 26d

I'm a digger too, constantly trying to find more cartoons and strips to admire study. Patoruzu is somehow new to me (double thanks, Phil!) and it does look like there's been some conversation on it's likely influence on René Goscinny in creating Asterix.

www.reddit.com/r/Asterix/co...