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Marketer & designer. fCMO @ Brotege, washed YouTuber (750k). Work: Hollister, Febreze, Starbucks, Red Bull etc

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Pixel art was MADE to be viewed on a CRT TV. The blooming, scanlines, etc are part of the image that smooths it out, blends colors together, and gets rid of the harsh edges. The original game artists created everything with that analog distortion in mind, so the raw pixels aren't necessarily what they intended you to see. Don't get me wrong, raw pixels can look cool too! And if you like that look, then by all means go for it. But it's worth trying a nice CRT shader on them to see if you might like it even better!

Pixel art was MADE to be viewed on a CRT TV. The blooming, scanlines, etc are part of the image that smooths it out, blends colors together, and gets rid of the harsh edges. The original game artists created everything with that analog distortion in mind, so the raw pixels aren't necessarily what they intended you to see. Don't get me wrong, raw pixels can look cool too! And if you like that look, then by all means go for it. But it's worth trying a nice CRT shader on them to see if you might like it even better!

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Alternating between nihilism and unflinching belief in myself 1000 times a day Midjourney → Seedance 2 in FLORA ©

Alternating between nihilism and unflinching belief in myself 1000 times a day Midjourney → Seedance 2 in FLORA ©

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AI video is waaaaay better than most people realize. I came with this stupid idea for a terrible PS1 game with hideous textures and a jumping catfish... 30 minutes later, I had this. It's almost exactly what I had in my head. Between Nano Banana, GPT Image 2 and Seedance 2 you can pretty much create anything you can think of, with more granular control than people realize. It's not perfect but it's VERY good and I'm really excited to see the wild shit that new creators do with it!

AI video is waaaaay better than most people realize. I came with this stupid idea for a terrible PS1 game with hideous textures and a jumping catfish... 30 minutes later, I had this. It's almost exactly what I had in my head. Between Nano Banana, GPT Image 2 and Seedance 2 you can pretty much create anything you can think of, with more granular control than people realize. It's not perfect but it's VERY good and I'm really excited to see the wild shit that new creators do with it!

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The wizard tricked you into stepping through the portal, promising you thrilling adventures. But instead, you found yourself trapped in the schizophrenic demon's game. You long since lost track of time... has it been minutes, years or centuries?

The wizard tricked you into stepping through the portal, promising you thrilling adventures. But instead, you found yourself trapped in the schizophrenic demon's game. You long since lost track of time... has it been minutes, years or centuries?

89,008 次观看 • 22 天前

My general rule: the "cooler" a job is, the less it pays and the worse the working conditions are. Eg, a record label or small brand might pay you $1500 for the same work that Starbucks would pay $20k for (I've seen it firsthand many times). It's just supply and demand... tons of people want to work in music, fashion, entertainment, sports, etc., so they pay badly because, well, they can. A lot of the people are also bad at their job, unprofessional, or straight up psychotic and abusive. If you REALLY want to work in a "cool" industry, go for it - but only do it for a couple years. Don't stay there, because the ceiling is low. Take that experience and go to a mainstream company where they'll pay you way more to do the same work with people who aren't insane.

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I did about 200 designs for Hollister (maybe more) back in 2009-2013. It was a HARD place to work: crazy pace, and the CEO reviewed everything down to the tiniest detail. But the designers were INSANELY good. I was easily in the bottom 20%... very humbling experience! Also, the product back then was legit the highest quality ever made at any price point, so I learned a ton from that. Definitely not easy or chill, but if you ever get the chance to work on a truly world-class team that will push you to your limit like that, you should do it at least for a year or two

I did about 200 designs for Hollister (maybe more) back in 2009-2013. It was a HARD place to work: crazy pace, and the CEO reviewed everything down to the tiniest detail. But the designers were INSANELY good. I was easily in the bottom 20%... very humbling experience! Also, the product back then was legit the highest quality ever made at any price point, so I learned a ton from that. Definitely not easy or chill, but if you ever get the chance to work on a truly world-class team that will push you to your limit like that, you should do it at least for a year or two

38,606 次观看 • 1 个月前

Finished this desktop app that does CRT shaders and VHS/composite video distortion 🙌 I was tired of doing those in separate apps, so I figured I'd just put them together. AFAIK, it's the only one that does both at this level of quality and control. It supports images and videos, with VERY granular control over every parameter from subtle to completely obliterated. To be clear, I'm a dummy. This is just hacking together two existing open source projects that are the best in the world at what they do: NTSC-RS for the TV effect, and the CRT shaders from Retroarch. Download link in the replies 🧵

Finished this desktop app that does CRT shaders and VHS/composite video distortion 🙌 I was tired of doing those in separate apps, so I figured I'd just put them together. AFAIK, it's the only one that does both at this level of quality and control. It supports images and videos, with VERY granular control over every parameter from subtle to completely obliterated. To be clear, I'm a dummy. This is just hacking together two existing open source projects that are the best in the world at what they do: NTSC-RS for the TV effect, and the CRT shaders from Retroarch. Download link in the replies 🧵

34,158 次观看 • 3 个月前

The masculine urge to spend dozens of hours beating impossibly difficult, entirely optional RPG bosses, even though the loot is worse than what you had mid-game. Midjourney → Seedance 2.5 in FLORA ©

The masculine urge to spend dozens of hours beating impossibly difficult, entirely optional RPG bosses, even though the loot is worse than what you had mid-game. Midjourney → Seedance 2.5 in FLORA ©

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If you watched MTV, VH1 or Fuse in the 2000's you saw Justin Harder's work many, many times. This is his 2004 reel, and probably my single favorite design artifact of all time. He's pretty lowkey these days, but his work blew EVERYONE away back then and he was one of the most copied designers of the decade (myself included). IMO a lot of this stuff would still look fresh as hell if it came out today, and he definitely deserves his flowers for being such a huge part of that and era/aesthetic that so many people loved. AFAIK he's not on here, so I can't tag him.

If you watched MTV, VH1 or Fuse in the 2000's you saw Justin Harder's work many, many times. This is his 2004 reel, and probably my single favorite design artifact of all time. He's pretty lowkey these days, but his work blew EVERYONE away back then and he was one of the most copied designers of the decade (myself included). IMO a lot of this stuff would still look fresh as hell if it came out today, and he definitely deserves his flowers for being such a huge part of that and era/aesthetic that so many people loved. AFAIK he's not on here, so I can't tag him.

39,905 次观看 • 5 个月前

COMING SOON TO PS1: Tony Squawk's Pro Skater 🛹 Featuring Chad Molluska (definitely not the octopus version of Chad Muska), Bam Marsupial and more! Backgrounds, graphics and characters are Nano Banana, videos are Seedance 2 and workflow is Figma Weave There's a few rough spots, eg the voices are slightly inconsistent, lip sync is a little wrong in one shot, etc but overall I'm pretty happy with it as a proof of concept! Might build this out into a full cut scene/level some time.

COMING SOON TO PS1: Tony Squawk's Pro Skater 🛹 Featuring Chad Molluska (definitely not the octopus version of Chad Muska), Bam Marsupial and more! Backgrounds, graphics and characters are Nano Banana, videos are Seedance 2 and workflow is Figma Weave There's a few rough spots, eg the voices are slightly inconsistent, lip sync is a little wrong in one shot, etc but overall I'm pretty happy with it as a proof of concept! Might build this out into a full cut scene/level some time.

41,440 次观看 • 6 个月前

Shipped a bunch of updates for my VHS/CRT app this weekend- it looks SO GOOD when you zoom in really close and see what a difference it makes. One of my favorite details is the tapered edges on every row when there's a really high-contrast edge. Most CRT shaders don't do this. This doesn't have the aperture mask enabled, but that's an option too, as well as full control over all the parameters of the TV/VHS pipeline (composite noise, edge crawl, chroma loss, etc etc). To be transparent, this glues together two existing OSS projects (NTSC-RS and Libretro) so full credit to them for doing the hard parts!

Shipped a bunch of updates for my VHS/CRT app this weekend- it looks SO GOOD when you zoom in really close and see what a difference it makes. One of my favorite details is the tapered edges on every row when there's a really high-contrast edge. Most CRT shaders don't do this. This doesn't have the aperture mask enabled, but that's an option too, as well as full control over all the parameters of the TV/VHS pipeline (composite noise, edge crawl, chroma loss, etc etc). To be transparent, this glues together two existing OSS projects (NTSC-RS and Libretro) so full credit to them for doing the hard parts!

10,463 次观看 • 1 个月前

Ever wonder what’s in the back room at Hot Topic? → Midjourney (characters & backgrounds) → Everything else in FLORA © : → Nano Banana Pro (character edits) → Gemini Flash TTS (dialogue) → Seedance 2.5 (video)

Ever wonder what’s in the back room at Hot Topic? → Midjourney (characters & backgrounds) → Everything else in FLORA © : → Nano Banana Pro (character edits) → Gemini Flash TTS (dialogue) → Seedance 2.5 (video)

11,658 次观看 • 1 个月前

Music video for "Death 2 Real Metal" by my band ENPEDESTALMENT 🔥🔥🔥 Let me see some hammers 🔨🔨🔨 Edit by @ihateFXK

Music video for "Death 2 Real Metal" by my band ENPEDESTALMENT 🔥🔥🔥 Let me see some hammers 🔨🔨🔨 Edit by @ihateFXK

62,757 次观看 • 2 年前

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