Reddit seems to have introduced sitewide AI moderation bots that are sweeping up users and outright banning them, without warning or explanation, for crimes like including links in their posts. This has started to hit some pretty well-known artists in r/comics.

It’s inconsistent and unpredictable - which makes it worse, since you don’t know what the rules are. As companies like Reddit give up more and more control to unaccountable machines, this kind of thing is getting more common.

Reddit has always had kind of a strange relationship with contributors and what is often called “self-promotion”. On one hand, it wants Content… But it can’t seem to decide where it wants the content to come from.

It’s nice that we’ve got alternative spaces like this.

Anyway, have some links:

          • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            17 hours ago

            okay the part before the muppets, that looks like claymation, not computer animation, just with way too many FPS to make the animation smooth. the lip flaps are great. I LOVE IT

            • Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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              16 hours ago

              The artist did a reaction video and went through his process. It’s real clay, scanned into 3d and animated in blender I think.

              • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                14 hours ago

                i will not name the claymation studio I was cameraman for (because Shitass Ryan (who got the name for leaving me off the credits on our HBO projects, so i’m the only dude out of our group without an imdb page) who ran the studio and directed all the projects) but there’s a distinct look clay has. It’s in the eyes and the mouth.

                lip flaps are so fucking hard. it’s the hardest part of animation. the fact that they are almost perfect in this video, i want to doxx the animator (please don’t) just so i can send them a holiday fruit basket.

                  • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                    13 hours ago

                    oh thank you so much. I haven’t animated, like, anything in a couple decades. i was secretly hoping this was Shitass Ryan but he is a successful illustrator now. Can you believe that guy? Shits out his own ass. We worked back in the “editing means cutting 35mm with scissors. Oh cool what’s this two tracks at the same time VHS/super8 machine?” era. before we got our hands on that machine we had so many camcorders and VCRs wired together if we wanted to do digital editing anyways. you know the 90s. Seeing folk with iMacs in college that could upload a 30second clip from VHS for editing in an entire day, that was mind blowing.

                    the movie super8 was a love letter to us specifically. i’m so vain i think it’s about me. but like, us, our generation of filmmakers.