Erika

Hello! ✨ I'm Erika (formerly Fainder online) I'm an animator (Spine) for videogames, currently working on @animalroyale.com This account is for personal art and hanging out. I like animals of every kind and stylized art, so expect some of that here 😊

Guillermo Del Toro dropping another one liner that’s exactly how I feel about AI slop, the “punishment” is built in

This is how we should see these magnificant animals, not hauled up on a boat or in fillets on a slab. We should no more catch or kill this rare and stunning megafauna than we should trap or kill tigers or whales. Here are some more of Rupert’s photos from yesterday, with his kind permission.

Super Ants beware Super Anteaters arrive October 13th

Slugcats have invaded Super Animal Royale. Our friends @pixilestudios.com and @animalroyale.com gave all the slugcats guns… and the ability to clone themselves. What could be more interesting than giving a wild animal a gun? They also gave them a sweet health juice beverage.

Super Animal Royale x @rainworldgame.bsky.social

Almost forgot I had all these bugs to show as well!

Green-tailed Sunbird for July’s #BirdWhisperer I keep using these for watercolor practice (I should just make more between each entry 😅) #birds #art #watercolour

trying to get in the habit of using colors/watercolors more casually

Most likely my favourite task at work lately was designing catchable fish (and bugs, which I will post another time) 😄

wtf I had a xiaohongshu account for lurking, I decided to upload a profile picture and one (1) random drawing and people are popping up from nowhere liking and commenting on it?? I never got this kind of attention on say, instagram ahaha

I didn't completely forget about #BirdWhisperer ! I messed up on the bottom, alas I still have a lot to learn about watercolor 😃

Our buggiest update yet arrives on June 30th 🐜 Playable Super Bugs, the Museum of Super Natural History, new ways to fish and catch bugs, day-night cycle, a new weapon and more are coming in the Super Natural Update!

Meta: I’m sorry, you can’t advertise that post with the music you chose. We don’t have a license and want to be respectful. Also Meta: Would you like to speed run the destruction of Earth for an image of you as a Studio Ghibli character built from the stolen work of all artists who have ever lived?

I'm hopefully crawling out of the drawing rut that affected me these past weeks. Spent the long weekend in the Alps for a watercolor workshop. Plein air and landscapes are both very out of my comfort zone... it's been interesting and fun!

Usually our midseason updates include a new Super Animal or two, but the Lab Labs may have gone a littttle overboard this time. 🤏 The Alien Overlord Starter Pack, 9 new Super Animal breeds, Discord invites (on PC), 50+ updated cosmetic sounds, and more are live now!!

Eliza McLamb had an apt analogy abt modern fandoms: Fans no longer treat creators as creators. Fans treat creators like stock options they’ve invested in; like they’re part owners of a creator’s work just by *being fans*, and therefore get a say in what creators make/how they act. And it sucks.

Thanks to your support, Thomas hit 100% funded in under 24 hours 🎉 We’re SO proud of how this one turned out, especially the removable hat and jacket and all the little details. Pre-orders are open until May 2nd!

Ordovician doodles

sketchbook acrylic markers fish for a change!

Late night cassowary painting. #sciart

Beipiaosaurus + sinosauropteryx (which should be smaller I think) Why does China have the best dinosaurs

Beipiaosaurus + sinosauropteryx (which should be smaller I think) Why does China have the best dinosaurs

Shocked to see some artists saying that using ai slop as reference is ok. It's really fucking not. Not only are you still using the mashed-up uncredited work of the rest of us artists, but it degrades your whole visual library because it hallucinates. If you do this I do not respect you

My partner just unwrapped this sketchbook he got in a shop in Shanghai where we got some random art supplies and... It has a handle?? Why? And why do I love it?

A friend of mine did a machine learning project like ten years ago where they taught a program to detect invasive plants from drone images. We did not call it "AI", we called it machine learning. Calling it "AI" now is trying to legitimize chatbots and other bunk by roping them in with real science.

Sacabambaspis (I couldn't decide which one looked best 😂) #fish #prehistoric #paleoart #SciArt #doodle

I heard drawing a fish helps with art block. I guess it worked? #fishtheory #garibaldi #doodle

Therizinosaurus, for the sake of keeping up random drawings on my tablet instead of doomscrolling. I had no idea what colors to use, then I remembered my favourite illustration of them (the one in All Yesterdays) has them black. Very convenient since I was out of time anyway 😅

Oh HELL yes! 🔥 OpenAI is pulling the plug on their AI video generator Sora, and with it goes their deal with Disney to bring AI gen to Disney+. OpenAI seems to be in serious financial trouble, what a shame 🖕

The flower for you🌼

A firecrest (Regulus ignicapilla) on some rocks. I'm definitely feeling more confident with watercolors lately, I'll probably just end up being overconfident and screw up the next one XD

Some quick (no ref) Yutyrannus. I really wanted to give it fluffy feet like a ptarmigan

For Banan or for science? 🍌 The Bright Future Update lands on Tuesday, March 31st