#Ringling college

[thewisestdino]

My senior thesis is almost done!! It was a lot of work and I won’t be able to release it for a while but 😭😭 I’ll be graduating soon as well. Me and my thesis partner made a kickstarter to help cover some of the fees that come with making a film here:

[piplupcola]

Some shameless POS literally used AI to steal my friend's animated film

I usually don't post stuff like this but this shit's insane and downright insulting. I graduated from Ringling College of Art and Design in 2022, a pretty well known animation school in the US, and every animation student on their final year of college has to make an animated film for our final thesis. If you have any idea of the animation making process, you would know that making an entire film by yourself in one year is batshit insane and extremely exhausting, to the point where I'm still feeling the effects of the process on my physical and mental wellbeing 2 years after I graduated. Once more, my friends and I did it during the covid period, which was another level of hell. I was literally watching my grandfather's funeral while working in the labs at 2am because I couldn't fly home to attend it because we had to make this film. This film was our lifeblood, the culmination of 4 years of hell at school which was suppose to be our gateway into the industry. Tldr, it's fucking difficult to do, especially on your own.

So imagine 2 years later and I wake up to a bunch of messages on our alumni chat where a dear friend of mine posted a link to a tiktok video of someone literally stealing her entire film and superimpose it shot by shot and claim it as their own ad for their AI game. As animators, we aren't unaware of people stealing our films and reposting them elsewhere. Heck my own film "The End" was stolen from our school vimeo and posted on tiktok BEFORE IT WAS EVEN OFFICIALLY RELEASED, and that tiktok got hundreds of thousands of views while a year after my own real release my film is still struggling in the thousands.

But this

This is a fucking new low.

Can you imagine? A fresh graduate going through literal blood sweat and tears to make a film on their own that is so important to their future in the industry, to get them a job, with a film that represents a part of themselves to the world, just used as fodder for some stupid tech assholes? It's infuriating. It's insulting. It's literally a big fuck you to the hundreds of students who spent their lives toiling to make these films from the heart who are just desperate to get into the industry.

The animation industry right now is in complete shambles. People are graduating from animation schools with thousands of dollars in dept only to be met with a wasteland of minimum wage and lack of funding and competing for jobs with people who have already been in the industry for years affected by the massive layoffs not only in the movie but also the gaming industries. These films we make for our thesis aren't just films made for fun, they represent our lifeblood, our only opportunity to get a job as a graduate in this sea of hell. If you didn't make a good film, chances are you're never even stepping foot in the industry ever. It's our golden ticket that we would put thousands of hours through, sleepless nights and pushing through no matter the circumstances of sickness and pain it caused us.

And now some dumb fucking AI using dickbags see that and decide it's worth nothing.

Here's a link to my friend's real film. Please go watch it and support her work. I'm not even gonna link the other piece of shit tiktok because I don't want that video to even get a single extra view but here's a recording my friend made so you can see this malarkey side by side.

It's heartbreaking to see my friend's film barely getting any views while the stolen garbage is already in the thousands. I hope the person who stole my friend's work and made that shit dies in a fiery car crash and go straight to hell.

I cannot emphasise how we must not let this shit continue to happen. We're living in a fucking dystopia and unless we do something about it and support those affected by it it's only going to get worse. They're already expanded from stealing people's still art to stealing people's entire films, if we don't stop this nothing we create would ever be safe.

My friend's film:

The shameless fuckheads who stole her film:

[vollzeh]

⚡️ Ringling College of Art & Design senior self portrait 2024 ⚡️

[mr-sheridan]

welcome to the brain rot

[animatedshortoftheday]

Bon Appetit! (2022) [2 min] by David Guo | USA

[clowngiirl]

[isawken]

this photo of famed circus clown lou jacobs smoking a cigarette down to the butt while holding a tiny performing dog. smash that like button

[clownery-blog]

[pothosrays]

crow 755

[ollydrawings]

The Vertical Gardener

Capable of holding over 100 plants, this Bot helps you care and maintain your garden. Superstitious gardeners rumor that this bot can feel through this plants’ roots like nerves.

Realistically, I wouldn’t have a personal robot, but this guy makes me smile :)

[hellspawnsparks]

extremely pleased to announce that my senior thesis project is done!! you can view full images on my website at hellspawnsparks.com, or wait for me to post more here :D if you like little guys and ttrpg-style worldbuilding, this is for you!

[whatbecomesofcuriousminds13]

After weeks of waiting and anxiety I can now say I got into my dream school!

[piplupcola]

Mark your calendars! The End will be releasing on Youtube 14TH FEB 2023! ❤🗡

Hi guys! Sorry for the long awaited update! I've been pretty busy with work and stuff that I wasn't able to find time to post updates on my film. Fear not! The End has been making it rounds through a bunch of festivals around the world and I'm so happy people are enjoying it!

And yes! The End finally has a release date and it's Valentine's Day! Please subscribe to our channel @theendanimated on YouTube so you don't miss it when it comes out! Thank you everyone who has supported me so far to help me make this film a reality! 🥰🥰🥰

[madebykalei]

Ringling Museum 🥀

[lisards]

lid is at work & im just chilling on the bed & listening to her roommates chatter away in italian in the kitchen

[animatedshortoftheday]

Bear Hugs (2023) [3 min] by Maggie May Brummer | USA