Nicholas Kole
@FromHappyRock
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Character Design/Illustration ~ Jesus-following Hobbit ~ š erkshnrt's ~ Spyro, Bandicoots, #ProjectDragon, Disney Lorcana, now @studiomdhr
Vancouver, BC
Joined March 2012
My project, that I've been pouring my heart and soul into for 3 years, has just been cancelled at phoenix labs and myself and the entire incredible team have been fired. We were weeks away from announcing- I'm just numb and heartbroken, but I'm definitely available for work now
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this still one of the coolest things anyone has ever said
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Lmao soooo structural integrity was not top of mind, and my pumpkins underbite is growing RAPIDLY
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This whole video is beautiful. He sees it clearly, with eyes unclouded, without any further context necessary. His first impulse is to tell them a story about a real human being's pain. Some people see a grump, I see grace & a master of his craft speaking truth without flinching.
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āslug eraā I whisper as I lay prone on the sidewalk after a rainstorm.
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I canāt believe we get to be actually excited about an art program announcement in 2023
Over 10 years ago we changed the creative industry. Now, weāre ready to do it again. Join us online or in-person on September 8 for a Procreate Special Event held at Playgrounds In Motion, London. #Procreate #InMotionLondon. Learn more at š
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If you flip every word in āmanic pixie dream girlā you get ādepressive demon nightmare boyā and you think āwell thank goodness THATāS not a thing at least-ā but then you
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Cannot believe I get to draw lion king fanart for a living š»
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I woke up this morning and decided to do blasphemy, so anyways here's kermit as a sonic oc
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WELL. Our cancelled project of the last 3 years is officially, truly dead as of today (internal attempts to save it failed), and the embargo on the whole body of portfolio work has been lifted. RIP Project Dragon. Brace yourselves for the largest ever art bomb of work I loved šļø.
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If you teach or mentor art students who, for example, want to work in "TV Animation" (or any creative industry)- it's vital you teach in a way that accommodates the vast range of what The Best Art In The Industry looks like, and therefore what A Great Portfolio looks like
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Alright, weāve got to get this straight because people seem confused- . if youāre 1-17 youāre Gen Z.If youāre 17-30 youāre Millenials.If youāre 30-50 youāre feral hogs and best not touch my children.
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āLooks like weāve still got some things to do after all, old friend.ā. Dragons may age differently than Dragonflies, but best friends always stick together šš.Spyro & Sparx, all grown up! Spyro took up with the balloonists to see the worlds. (Unofficial fanart).#SpyroReignited
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idk if I've tweeted about this before, but my Petra design winding up somehow in Winx Club is wild
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me every time, without fail, when someone shows me AI generated āartā
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Very first job, in a room full of senior dudes, I was told to āmake the elves sexierā and when I did that as elegantly as possible w max respect to established lore & worldbuilding I was told āno, like a stripperā and āI can send you reference lolā and Iāve never forgotten.
What experience in the workplace radicalized you?
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I keep walking away and then circling back to try something else (classic palette, anyone?) Ugh I love Nintendo and Zelda and Ganondorf and this art style and-
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Deviantart betrayed us all, and we should still be all the way mad about it imho.
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Their faces say ātake my lore seriously, childā, but their hairdos say āI was originally drawn on the office whiteboard at 11pm mid-crunch to make the design team giggleā.
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Spent some time tonight streaming and drawing Stitch, a great ethical hero of mine š
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The difference between ātheyāre so much better than meā and āthey are climbing a fundamentally different ladder than I amā is such an important distinction to learn.
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If any NFT bros want to do one good thing in their entire life, they could go ahead and mint & sell every frame of this intro. Marvel has no copyright claim to AI generated images.
The opening credits of āSECRET INVASIONā are made by A.I. (Source:
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I donāt know who needs this out there, but I made you some jpegs for your replies
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You can now follow me in the perfectly ethical platform: the woods. Follow me in the woods. I am walking into the woods.
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What if the ocean just got up and. flew away?. Jellybots digital art book releases tomorrow :))
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My DnD character, Herbitha Finfine! Sheās an all-baking, all-embroidering, all-worries midwestern Tortle Druid, based on my mom š
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@Forspoken Who me? Yeah Iām a freakin GOD as it turns out. Shyeah Iām all about that axe life. That handsome devil next to me? Fam, thatās literally my BOY. He can thank me for his good looks AND formative trauma. Itās not easy fighting heCkin VIKINGS. But Honestly? Being a parent ragnaroxx
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Designing a whole mess of baddies based on musical notation for Soundfall was fun brain work
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Alright, letās start things off š. Project Dragon was a cosy sandbox survival crafting multiplayer rpg- a buildable world made of blocks inspired by minecraft filled with fantasy characters and quests inspired by breath of the wild, and I loved working on it dearly
WELL. Our cancelled project of the last 3 years is officially, truly dead as of today (internal attempts to save it failed), and the embargo on the whole body of portfolio work has been lifted. RIP Project Dragon. Brace yourselves for the largest ever art bomb of work I loved šļø.
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May I be the first to say: ASSDDHJJSHZHNDMDHBZKKLSH.
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somewhere, probably in Vancouver, a miserable team labors miserably for miserable bosses who will at best throw them a pizza party to boost morale as they all try not to think of the āhot dog buns breasts should be biggerā email they received from the client.
A āSAUSAGE PARTYā sequel series is in the works for Amazon Prime Video.
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The first 40 The last 5.minutes of minutes of.Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Direct:
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12 years ago today, Brian Jacques the author of the Redwall series passed on. Tonight I happened to finish this months-long tribute to his book Martin The Warrior, the first book I ever fell in love with, and it feels fitting . Thank you with all my heart, Brian š
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Drawn in 5 minutes (pardon the mess) to try to help a friend, by illustrating what life-drawing has to do with cartooning!
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Digital artist: Iām not good at watercolor, itās so hard! Youāre amazing. Aging Painter: Yes, it is hard and takes years of impressive mastery. Youāre right to admire me. Also Aging Painter: Iām not good at computers. DA: yeah, theyāre-. AP: If I cared to try, it would be easy.
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AHHHH!!! I DREW THAT!!.
The first cards for Lorcana, Disneyās answer to Magic: The Gathering, are spectacular
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art job is: work harder than you ever have on best thing you've ever made and then one dude is like "sick thanks!" and then nobody sees it and then the project is cancelled and you're never allowed to show it.
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If your innovation is illegal, and comes with an enormous human cost, maybe you didnāt crack shit and you deserve to be sent back to the drawing board.
āImpossibleā to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
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What even ARE quadrupeds. If you animate quadrupeds and you know what youāre doing you are my hero.
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Show me two images youāve made where you feel like you could be mistaken for two completely different artists!.
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Cory Loftis is with us š my heart is so full seeing the whole community have each others back like this
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heck with your most popular art, show me your least popular art that you actually think deserved better.
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*frantically rings the animation dinner bell*.
"Klaus" is now available on Netflix. And it's free without sign up for 3 days in some countries (like France).
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sketchbooks can, and probably should, be an ugly mess.
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This is so carefully written and thoughtfully phrased and I mean zero disrespect to the OP, but this well-meaning advice to make art specifically to court the algorithm makes me so, so sad to see
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THIS. THIS. THIS!!!!.
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When we were wrapping up Spyro, my art director Josh asked me to create a commemorative poster as a gift for the team to celebrate finishing the games!
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Thereās just never gonna be a good time now to post this, is there?
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The whole TL privating because of scammers has a strong cowboy-town-all-the-shutters-closing-one-last-guy-at-the-saloon-nervously-cleaning-a-glass-as-the-bad-guy-walks-in energy.
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If anybody at any US or Canadian game studios is looking for a great concept artist in a hurry- Svetlana is very talented, caught up in the tragedy right now, and looking urgently for work. You can reach her at:.morteraphan@gmail.com
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So thereās no reason there should be Mantalings in Splatoon except that they would be SO DOPE I THINK and anyways this is my new oc please be nice to them
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Genuinely embarrassing that our community saw an AI generated piece of theft and decided āletās turn this into a DTIYS, thatāll show em!ā.
If you do this youāre just doing fanart of AI output and profiting off of Gen AI. You can write āfuck AIā on this all you want but you are legitimizing its use and supporting Gen AI.
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Screw it Iām gonna put this on blast: YES absolutely you should feel bad and stop. THIS is what weāve all worried about from the start. That the profession of inventing, discovering, exploring & expressing with our art might be replaced with tracing ai garbage to fix its mistakes.
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This is bigger than yoghurt.
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Crash 4 is out on Switch! Hereās an illustration I did for the team to celebrate the launch last year- itās about time!
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Meet Parson! He's a snowman with a magic scarf, and he's here to deliver your hot chocolate šāļø
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The most powerful adulthood jutsu to protect your loved ones is mastering the art of ājust a heads up- Iām a little tired and grumpy right now, and it has absolutely nothing to do with you, but I probably wonāt be a great conversational partner for a bitā.
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If you donāt believe in your movie enough to actually *make* the art, why on earth would I pay to see it? Jingling meaningless visual keys in our faces is not filmmaking.
āLATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVILā seemingly uses AI-generated art for certain cutaway transitions in the film.
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