Siggi Sigmond

Siggi Sigmond

@siggimation.bsky.social

Animator (They/them) Film | TV | VFX | Game Cinematics Comic and Plein air painting enthusiast. Mostly posting fanart and my cat's bullshit. No AI 🇨🇦🇺🇸🏳️‍⚧️ Certified Gremlin ™️ ArtTag: #Siggisart

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It FINISHED! I'm happy with what I managed to come up with for the smoke. It really adds the character the scene needs That being said, I never want to do fx sim again. #siggisart #siggimation #Animation

Having the power to vote makes me giddy. For the first 9 years I lived in Canada I had no say in civic or provincial elections. Now that I have a voice, I will not shut the fuck up. #butnabyvotes #electionsbc #voteorange

When I heard the news, I was surprised at how not-surprised I was. I'm grieving but I'm not shocked. BioWare meant so much to me as a gamer and an animator. My creature-work on veilguard is a some of the best animation I've ever done. A genuine career best. BUT www.gamespot.com/articles/bio...

gamespot.comBioWare Is No More, But Its Impact On Queer Representation In Video Games Will Live On ForeverQueer representation in video games wouldn’t be the same without BioWare.
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BioWare was, for all its successes and failures, a company full of people who strove to make art that connected on a deeper level with its players. The characters and the stories are timeless because they made us care. The profits came because of their investments, not despite it.

What's worse is, from everything I've seen? Mass Effect 5 was something to be excited about. I only got a few glimpses in the early days of its development but what I saw made me hopeful. Now it's gone. 30 years worth of stories and characters and human connection? Gone. Fuck this.

When I heard the news, I was surprised at how not-surprised I was. I'm grieving but I'm not shocked. BioWare meant so much to me as a gamer and an animator. My creature-work on veilguard is a some of the best animation I've ever done. A genuine career best. BUT www.gamespot.com/articles/bio...

gamespot.comBioWare Is No More, But Its Impact On Queer Representation In Video Games Will Live On ForeverQueer representation in video games wouldn’t be the same without BioWare.

Ever since the Saudi-buyout was announced, I saw the writing on the wall. BioWare was never EA's most profitable venture. Despite its amazing catalogue of hits, the expenses often meant profit couldn't be maximised. The labour that it takes to bring any RPG to life is astounding.

Games are expensive. Games that dare to tell complex stories featuring queer characters are risky. Private equity is allergic to both of those. They want a guaranteed profit, a repeatable success with as little spent on labour as possible. That is antithetical to what BioWare was.

Working from home makes it easy for me to overwork myself. Talk myself into working on days were I really need rest. I'm so glad I didn't listen to that impulse today. I slept for 12 hours and I'm still exhausted.

My little arsonist harpy. It's nice to see how much my skills have improved in the last 4 years. I love this concept, maybe enough to bring it back? #siggisart #ocsky

This law isnt going to protect women and girls. It's going to target queer people, trans people and the kink community disproportionately. All while actual perpetrators of sexual violence remain unfettered. Any sexual material made by consenting individuals should be protected.

UK Politics News // Papernaut@ukpolitics.papernaut.co

THE INDEPENDENT: From 6 November, UK law will ban porn depicting strangulation, incest and adults pretending to be under 16, following cross-party pressure over its impact on women and girls. - by Harry Taylor

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Patreon just broke over $13,000! A little more and they'll reach their goal of affording more animators! If you can, please chip in whatever you can and help support this amazing show! #MonkeyWrench #Animation #IndieAnimation www.patreon.com/cw/MonkeyWre...

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Zeurel@zeurel.bsky.social

Honestly, after such a long and costly development time on ep 6, if we can't get our support up to at least $15k a month on patreon we're gonna have to switch to animatic format with the fights animated inbetween. I can't afford an ep like that again lol.

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Character design work by Katsuhiro Otomo for Harmagedon (1983), dir. Rintaro, Madhouse/Project Team Argos This job was Otomo's first in the anime industry, and the realistic style he used here had a huge impact on other artists

A tattoo artist moves back to his home state only to encounter his high school bully playing bar gigs with his shitty band. Do I have a story for them? Will I finally have time make the comic? We'll have to wait and see. My current contract is demanding. #siggisart #comicaet #characterdesign

*over here Jfc. Will I ever learn to spell check?

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I don't want to be Dr. Gatekeeper over hear, but the minute anything gets popular enough to turn a profit? Scalpers descend. The obvious solution is to become a niche supervillain, build a program that sells scalpers corrupted tickets, and steal the money/give the pass to a fan that wants it.

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ToonHive@toonhive.bsky.social

Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon are officially sister networks for the first time in HISTORY. The two networks now share a parent company following today’s completed merger to form Skydance.

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If you don’t mind a self-plug, I make a sapphic werewolf x monster hunter comic that I host on Wordpress. I update every Friday and there’s currently over 60 pages up! bsky.app/profile/sper...

🐺My Werewolf Girlfriend is out! 🥕 If you’re looking for Les Miserables X Stardew Valley but with toxic werewolf yuri, this comic is for you! Please go give it a read, I am doing this project completely independently, so please share! mywerewolfgirlfriend.com #webcomic #yuri #werewolf #comics

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Very revealing dive into the government’s plan to make anime/manga/games a pillar of the economy. Japan already is a “story superpower.” If it wants to stay that way leaders need to tackle structural problems rather than pray for AI magic to fix them. annatachibana.substack.com/p/japan-want...

annatachibana.substack.comJapan wants to be a “story superpower.” Can the people who make the stories afford to keep making them?I opened one ministry's plan to make anime and games a 20-trillion-yen export. The people who make them were mostly in the footnotes.

Went to my partner's show on Sunday. It was casual enough that I could play with some gesture drawings at à picnic table while I watched. #siggisart #lifedrawing #gesturedrawing

You know what? Let's all start bringing our sketchbooks to sports games. Let the artists invade! We'll take over the stadiums! Anyways, Wriggly field was so special to me as a kid and it was great to be back there with my family. (The Cubs lost. All was right with the world) #siggisart

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Our feature artist/tutorial today is this MAGNIFICENT animation, by the talented James Baxter! Note how each of the THREE SECONDARY MOTIONS are slightly OFFSET to emphasise different parts of the action: HAIR jumps UP, SKIRT billows DOWN, RIBBON wraps ROUND! #anime #2danimation

Concepts like "purity tests" are DEEPLY routed in fundamentalist Christianity and rape culture. They don't work because the world doesn't operate on a good/bad binary. Decolonize your mind. The more you radically accept the human condition for what it is, the easier it will be to spot toxicity.

Olivia Hill@machineiv.bsky.social

"PURITY TESTS!" I'm not purity testing anyone. I'm saying YOUR STRATEGY KEEPS FUCKING FAILING AND KILLING US. If "democracy is at stake," CONVINCE POLITICIANS TO DO THINGS PEOPLE ACTUALLY WANT. "I can't do healthcare but I can do genocide and calling trans women men." That don't cut it.

This morning I was rereading some early passages from a story draft. I got to the end of the passage and I was upset. I wanted to know what happened next. Unfortunately I have to write that bit. Fortunately. I get to write that bit.