Hi everyone! I am AVAILABLE FOR WORK again! If anyone has any leads/are looking for characters designers please reach out. Union work preferred.
I have 8 years of industry experience and 7 in a leadership capacity. I am well versed in both 2D and 3D pipelines. Portfolio in bio!
Hi, real character designer here.
Outside of the blatant theft happening here, what you don’t understand is how designing characters works.
You lack the foundational knowledge to know what is appealing and what isn’t.
🚨
#PromptShare
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Let's dive into a hand-drawn
#prompt
to generate various expressions of cartoon characters. This prompt is as useful as it is versatile.
A character sheet of different facial expressions for an [character description], vintage Disney animation, white background,
#WillyWonkaExperience
organizer Billy Coull says the event ruined his life
"I have lost my friends. I've lost the love of my life. I was made out to be the face of all evil. And genuinely, that's really not the case"
He received 'hundreds and hundreds' of hate messages and has
Expression Sheets is what real character designers do when we need to show the range of emotion a character can hit and what they look like from multiple different angles.
An expression sheet where the character is a different design each time is useless and a waste of time
The little symbols -if I can even call them that- were once letters “a,b,c..” that the real artist whose works you stole used to identify their multiple exploration passes.
You would know that if you knew what you were doing.
This page of theft on the other hand also lacks the understanding of what a useful designer should actually do here.
See, if you did understand this, you would know that this page is repetitive. You have basically the same expression over and over and over with a changing face
You’re playing at being an artist by stealing work and calling it your own. You lack the knowledge to effectively make design decisions since you rely on stolen work to make them for you. The kicker is that you could become an artist if you picked up a pencil and worked at it.
Another artist signature regurgitated on your page of theft.
Your cat is missing an ear - maybe something you yourself could have caught had you bothered to pick up a pencil and draw it yourself.
It could have been a cool design choice, but I doubt you could get that creative
My Carol & Eric explorations along with my final designs for the characters. Hope everyone is enjoying the show! Catch Carol & the End of The World on Netflix now!
These horrors are worth calling out. See when designing characters you learn that the eyes are the window to the soul. These eyes are misshapen and devoid of any life.
Now you could design characters who are misshapen and fill them with life but you you’re very off the mark rn
Sharing more of my work from
#carolandtheendoftheworld
with a more varied batch for
#PortfolioDay
Early dev work for the dogs and Janette, exploration for Carol from Ep.4 and a hand guide for the show.
I’m available for freelance so feel free to reach out!:)
Reminder that DreamWorks has been laying off artists over the last year and the animation for this was done overseas for cheap. It’s not the overseas studios fault that DreamWorks has chosen to pay them next to nothing for 30sec of animation a week - so please be kind
Unionize every industry and take the money back from rich. My heart goes out to all these workers that break their backs every day and see nothing in return
NEW: Disneyland workers are exposing the reality of their jobs.
“The magic starts to fade away and you’re just left with not being able to pay rent, permanent injuries, and management who doesn’t value or respect you.”
Today they start voting on a union to bring the magic back.
The show that I have put 4 years of my life into and have been supervising on for the last year is finally announced.
Here is the announcement image that myself and the bg and paint supervisors made.
This is an incredibly special show and one the animation world sorely needs!!
🚨NEW SERIES ALERT 🚨
@aliwong
is co-Executive Producing & starring in JENTRY CHAU VS. THE UNDERWORLD, a coming-of-age supernatural action series for
@netflix
, created by showrunner/EP Echo Wu! By the art alone you can tell it's gonna be a RIDE. We're so hyped to be a part of it!
This is exceptional character work. Every one of these designs has a life and specificity to it that is S-Tier. This is animation moving on to new horizons.
The comment section however is filled with mind-numbing takes from people who still describe art direction as animation🙄
After April and Splinter I worked on populating NYC. Again the main note was "specificity", to make characters that covered the spectrum of diversity of NYC, we looked especially at Alphabet city and MidTown.
#tmnt
#mutantmayhem
#animation
#visdev
Hey
#PortfolioDay
! I'm Kal! I'm a Character Designer & Art Director based in LA. I love comics, superheroes & being a part of diverse stories. Currently I'm a Character Design Supervisor @ Titmouse.✌️
Could’ve have hired an artist to do these for $1000. Now instead you can watch this movie burn through thousands if not millions more in potential audiences seeing your movie.
Y’all didn’t learn with Secret Invasion last summer huh - this shit has no place here
The ‘LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL’ directors confirm that AI is used in the film.
“We experimented with AI for 3 still images which we edited further and ultimately appear as very brief interstitials in the film.”
(Source: )
Hey
#PortfolioDay
! I'm Kal! I'm a Character Designer & Art Director based in LA. I love comics, superheroes & being a part of diverse stories. Currently I'm a Character Design Supervisor @ Titmouse.✌️
A mysterious planet is hurtling towards Earth, the end of the world is imminent. While everyone is off to pursue their wildest dreams -- one quiet and always uncomfortable woman stands alone.
Carol & The End of the World starring Martha Kelly premieres December 15.
Worked for years to help launch a show - drawing characters, bgs, storyboards, etc. All with the hopes of getting to art direct the project of my dreams. Project is bought, the studio loves my art, but I am deemed not experienced enough to art direct.
‘YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN’ will be long-form animation storytelling that will like “a cut from the Steve Ditko era of comics”
“Peter’s relationships brew when the stakes rise in that first season, things feel really tragic, dangerous & pretty incredible”
(Source:
Hey hey! Our first look at Jentry! I was Character Lead on this and before that worked on the pitch for 2 years✨ Excited for the world to meet our girl!
Ali Wong stars in and exec produces Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld, an animated series following a Chinese-American teen living in a small Texas town, who finds out a demon king is hunting her for the supernatural powers she’s been working her whole life to repress.
Bowen Yang,
Warner Bros. Discovery is preparing for a new round of layoffs, hitting DC and Cartoon Network, along with other divisions of Warner Bros. Television Group. The layoffs are expected to be comparable to the wave that took place in August.
Since I’m not currently on the hunt for work, I’d love to also spotlight other artist currently looking for opportunities on Portfolio Day!
Please share your amazing work below✨
Live-action remakes in the works:
• Bambi
• Moana
• Hercules
• Pokémon
• One Piece
• Your Name
• Death Note
• Lilo & Stitch
• Snow White
• The Aristocats
• One Punch Man
• My Hero Academia
• How To Train Your Dragon
• Avatar: The Last Airbender
Hi all! Late
#portfolioday
post from me here. The wonderful show that I have been Character Supervising on finally wraps on Dec 1st and I’ll be available for work then.
Please reach out if you think I would be a good fit for your project!
Check the link in the bio for more🙏
The show that was Character Lead in has been finally announced!
It was a labor of love and I am excited to share more with the world when the show comes out on Dec 15
"Carol & the End of the World", an upcoming new adult animated series coming to Netflix on December 15.
Created by Dan Guterman (Community, Rick and Morty).
Animated at Bardel Entertainment Inc.
The show is described as a "love letter to routine".
Hi everyone! I am AVAILABLE FOR WORK again! If anyone has any leads/are looking for characters designers please reach out. Union work preferred.
I have 8 years of industry experience and 7 in a leadership capacity. I am well versed in both 2D and 3D pipelines. Portfolio in bio!
I’m so proud of this show and all the work our amazing team of artists did! Hope you all check it out tomorrow! Trust me when I say Carol is something special!
A mysterious planet is hurtling towards Earth, the end of the world is imminent. While everyone is off to pursue their wildest dreams -- one quiet and always uncomfortable woman stands alone.
Carol & The End of the World starring Martha Kelly premieres December 15.
Hey all! I’m on the hunt for character opportunities! I’m experienced in 2D & 3D and comfortable with many styles! Please hit me up if you think I’m a good fit!
Any retweets are very much appreciated!✌️🥹
Hi everyone! I am AVAILABLE FOR WORK again! If anyone has any leads/are looking for characters designers please reach out. Union work preferred.
I have 8 years of industry experience and 7 in a leadership capacity. I am well versed in both 2D and 3D pipelines. Portfolio in bio!
First look at Kartoon Studios's Winnie The Pooh.
An animated holiday movie, titled ‘A Hundred Acre Christmas’ is set to premiere on December 24, 2025, on Amazon Prime Video.
What absolute dog shit devoid of life and soul.
How anyone at all can look at this and think - “AH YES THE FUTURE” is beyond me.
This is what y’all want to kill the planet over?
Hard to imagine anything worse for a student then going to an expensive ass art school and being taught bs like this. This isn’t helpful to your growth as an artist
It’s really depressing to see an Arts Educator take this stance. The AI “iterations” are not only unethically scraped from other creatives they also have too much confusion and too much design mistakes. It’s completely frakensteining his original sketch.
How is this okay? How are we here? We are just okay with these scumbags taking everything while we fight for a basic living? What does Zaslav do that garners $50 mill? What do any of them do? They couldn’t tell you what makes a good movie if you put a gun to their head
After Warner Bros took various cost-cutting measures including turning movies into tax write-offs and refused to pay actors & writers for months, David Zaslav’s 2023 pay package is now at $49.7M, a 26.5% increase from 2022.
(Source: )
Any issues to be had with the general quality of this can be taken up directly with execs and CEO’s at DreamWorks and NBC Universal - not the artist doing their best to survive
Hey
#PortfolioDay
! I'm Kal! I'm a Character Designer & Art Director based in LA. I love comics, superheroes & being a part of diverse stories. Currently I'm a Character Design Supervisor @ Titmouse.✌️
Hi, this is your daily reminder that Adobe absolutely sucks and is incredibly anti-consumer. I’ve been using
@Procreate
for the last 6 years and for $12 you can have the better professional drawing software that won’t nickel and dime you and steal your work to feed its ai.
So am I reading this, right?
@Adobe
@Photoshop
I can't use Photoshop unless I'm okay with you having full access to anything I create with it, INCLUDING NDA work?
And if you are looking at this and going “wow the quality is not what I was hoping for from the Megamind sequel, I don’t want this at all!?” Then boy do I have news for you about your AI in animation projects, cos this is gonna look like SpiderVerse next to those
@AaronBKoontz
An artist literally re-made their ai image into an illustration by hand over night. It would have cost $1000 to get three images and taken no more than a week.
The movie is released this week, not 2 years ago. Plenty of time to right the wrong.
@MarMai1
If there is any group of people that should have known better it is them. I really enjoyed their content every week, but the betrayal of picking AI over an entire industry of artists is to big to ever forgive.
Netflix has used AI-generated images in a new true crime doc ‘WHAT JENNIFER DID’ to present Jennifer Pan as happy & confident before she was convicted of murder.
Use of AI tools is not disclosed in the credits.
(Source: )
#AcrossTheSpiderVerse
is a miracle. I don’t know how this movie is this good - how it is this creative. It is a miracle that it exists, but our world is better off for it. I can’t put into words how much I love it. Best Picture, cut and print.
An adult-animated series ‘THE UNDERVALE’ by ‘Rick and Morty’ executive producers Matt Roiler and Dan Harmon is in the works at Netflix.
The series follows a single mother of two kids who runs a haunted hotel with the help of her estranged and deceased brother.
@TomCaulfield01
I loved that thread! I thought it was incredibly helpful and eye opening for issues I’ve never had to consider. I shared it throughout our team and we are all trying to make sure that the worlds we are designing are respectful and accommodating to people with disabilities.
Paramount has seemingly written off ‘BIG NATE’ and the ‘RUGRATS’ reboot.
Both shows have been removed from Paramount+ and their existence has been completed wiped from the Nickelodeon website
With all due respect - Not wanting to be replaced by AI while creating work that in a few years will be decided needs a live action remake so you can make millions more off of the IP while not paying the original artist a dime for creating the blueprint is very disturbing to me
Everything happening over
@Meta
has been incredibly disheartening. I’ve been really looking into Cara and I think I’m close to making the switch. We got on these platforms when they were entirely different products and it’s time to migrate somewhere where we won’t be stolen from
Yeah wtf is this. I got rejected for opting out??? So what now? I quit using instagram forever and just accept that every image I ever posted is going into their machine?
@CorridorDigital
Making AI YouTube videos off the back of artists’s style is theft. Every single person at your company should know better. Shame on you all.
‘ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE’ is tracking to earn $115M in the film’s domestic opening weekend.
The would be a 70% increase from the first film’s opening.
Read our review:
I guess we are just going frame by frame on Velma now and tearing it apart?
Tons of incredibly talented people worked on the show and made something fun. Might not be your cup of tea, but I’m sure you can find better use for your time than just spouting nonstop hate online.
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos says they've "never canceled a successful show."
"A lot of these shows were well-intended but talk to a very small audience on a very big budget."
(Source:)
Hi all! Just jumping back on here to say I’ll be looking for work in 1 month! If you need any character work, please reach out!
All shares are much appreciated🙏🥺
Hi all! Late
#portfolioday
post from me here. The wonderful show that I have been Character Supervising on finally wraps on Dec 1st and I’ll be available for work then.
Please reach out if you think I would be a good fit for your project!
Check the link in the bio for more🙏