Except they wouldn’t have been paid to imitate an AI. They’d have been paid to make ugly and unsettling imagery. The fact that AI can do that by accident (and is good at basically nothing else) doesn’t change the fact that a human could have done it better.

then all of human writing and art-making is plagiaristic too.

He knows that he’s already rich so if other artists get fucked over by this garbage tech, it won’t effect him.

“Writers don’t deserve fair pay because they’re not willing to join me in mindlessly worshiping AI” is exactly the sort of take I’d expect from people hopping onto the latest post-NFT techbro fad.

I’m sure that the actual artists who worked on the original Secret Invasion comic series appreciate that not only will they not get credit for this show’s existence, Marvel made the effort to spit on their entire profession, even though the studio would not exist without artists.

As Pixar’s creative director, John Lasseter was involved in EVERY movie Pixar has EVER released. Yes, all the great ones, but also crap like The Good Dinosaur, Monsters University, and Cars 2 (which he directed!)

Zootopia also has a much more interesting setting. A city where every kind of mammal lives together has a lot more potential than a city with four kinds of inhabitants. The background is packed with details showing how the needs of so many different creatures are accommodated, all of which feeds back into the movie’s…

I feel like Pixar reached the natural conclusion of their “what if X had feelings” era when they made Inside Out and just had the feelings themselves be the protagonists.

Elemental looks like a commercial for heartburn pills.

Elio looks quite promising going by the new trailer. And Lightyear’s problem wasn’t scifi, it was that the whole concept felt forced, and contrary to the image Buzz as a character has built over the last 25 years. In Toy Story 1, where Buzz spends most of the film thinking he’s the “real” Buzz Lightyear and not a toy,…

It’s Kravin’ time! Is...is that anything?

Strange World isn’t a space movie. The characters travel to an uncharted part of the planet, which turns out to be, well, strange. It doesn’t have much in common with Lightyear except that both of them lost tons of money.

As far as I can tell, Junteenth is only really a day off for government employees and people who work at banks. That’s not a small number of people but it’s certainly not enough to really make this a “holiday weekend” in any practical sense.

The designs are just so off-putting and the entire setting seems to have been contrived just so they could have the central joke of “ha ha woman fire, man water! Gender funny!”

Their next movie is called Elio, which from the trailer looks like it has potential, at least. After that, looks like Pixar is going to be pumping out sequel after sequel for a while.

Better idea: tell the supposed grown-ups in Hollywood to make movies worth paying for.

I can’t help but think that Across the Spider-Verse kneecapped both these movies. The amazing stylistic flourishes of the Spider-Verse movies really make Pixar’s house style feel a bit too bland and safe; it seems like every other studio is branching out with different styles (look at the painted style of the upcoming…

I still remember two months ago when right wing media was furious because Across the Spider-Verse featured a trans flag in one scene, and the main character proudly sports a Black Lives Matter pin in another scene.

Sneak preview of season 7's premiere:

This dude really wrote six angry paragraphs about Reddit drama and ended it by calling other people “keyboard warriors.”