Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live, by venezArt. Digital Art. Image created using Reallusion Character Creator 3 and Adobe Photoshop CS5. My goal is always to take on a challenge when creating or developing a new project. With SNL one of my main goals was to have the end product feel like a late-night out… TheContinue Reading
Sony’s PlayStation Store Settlement: What It Means for Digital Creators and Consumers
A $7.85 million settlement could give PlayStation users credits—but the bigger story is about how we buy digital content. If you have bought digital games through the PlayStation Store, you may have heard about Sony’s recent class-action settlement. Sony Interactive Entertainment has agreed to a proposed $7.85 million settlement involvingContinue Reading
ChatGPT Astra: The AI That Doesn’t Just Answer—It Acts
OpenAI’s new GPT-6 Astra could change how we think about ChatGPT, creative work, and AI assistants. For years, the basic AI workflow was simple: Ask a question. Get an answer. Then AI became better at writing, creating images, coding, researching, and analyzing information. Now OpenAI is pushing the idea muchContinue Reading
The Power of the Pointing Finger
How an Ancient Visual Cue Still Commands Attention in Modern Graphic Design Look at a pointing finger and your eyes almost immediately ask one question: What is it pointing at? That reaction is precisely why the pointing hand remains one of the most powerful attention-directing devices in graphic design. LongContinue Reading
Are Your Forms Being Hacked?
A WordPress website does not have to be famous to become a target. It does not have to process thousands of transactions every day. It does not need to belong to a major corporation. Sometimes, all it takes is a vulnerable plugin—and an attacker who knows how to exploit it.Continue Reading
Stay the Course
A Cinematic Prompt Built Around Motion, Pressure & Purpose Some image prompts describe what you want to see. The better ones describe how the image should make you feel. This week’s Prompt Share uses a high-performance race car as a visual metaphor for persistence. Instead of showing a car crossingContinue Reading
Pastiche Editorial Photography
A pastiche is a work of art, literature, music, or architecture that intentionally mimics or blends the style, character, or distinct methods of previous works or artists. Unlike a parody—which mocks or pokes fun at its source material—a pastiche serves as a respectful tribute or homage. [1] Key Characteristics PromptContinue Reading
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash Is Here—and ComfyUI Just Made It a Lot More Interesting
Google’s latest generative video model is moving beyond simple text-to-video generation. With Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash now available through ComfyUI Partner Nodes, artists can bring generation, reference images, editing, scene extension, and high-resolution output into a single visual workflow. The generative video race is changing. For a while, the conversationContinue Reading
Urban Editorial Graphic Design / Experimental Poster Design
What if graphic design looked less like an advertisement—and more like a scene from a film? I’ve been exploring a visual direction that combines: • Cinematic urban photography• Illustrated portrait silhouettes• Graffiti and street-art textures• Experimental typography• Punk/editorial poster design• Screen-print and analog imperfections• Extreme black, white, and crimson contrastContinue Reading
Typography can become part of the body.
I’ve been exploring typographic tattooing as a graphic-design concept—where lettering, illustration, anatomy, and photography collide. Not just words on skin. Think of the body as the canvas, the typography as the visual system, and the tattoo as a permanent piece of editorial design. For this series, I’m pushing the visualsContinue Reading
Seedance 2.5: Is AI Video Finally Becoming a Production Tool?
ByteDance’s newest video model isn’t just about making better clips. It’s about giving artists more control over the production process. By Ruy Machado There was a time when AI-generated video was primarily a novelty. You typed a prompt, watched a strange six-second sequence appear, laughed at the extra fingers, regeneratedContinue Reading