Austin 🐧🌈 | Brand Design Lead @ Monad | Inspired by bright colors, shapes, and gaming pop culture. @Nintendo World Champion. Pokemon Fanatic
New York City
Joined September 2009
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Class of 2024 ✨🐧— We’re so back.
Highlighting 150+ artists, projects, and moments that inspired me over the year. A love letter to our culture, resilience, and creativity.
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penguitt 🐧 retweeted
Charizard! 🔥 Latest addition to my Pokémon series. Had a ton of fun bringing this one to life and love how it all came together!
#pokemonart #charizard #illustration
penguitt 🐧 retweeted
The issue with “AI bros” is that they lack vision.
They lack intention.
Everytime a new tool drops, everyone races to see what thing can rip off next.
They taunt you as they recreate something that already exists except, faster, cheaper, and slightly worse.
And when you say “this sucks”, they cannot understand that you don’t mean the quality.
The quality is quite good. Sometimes incredible. The quality is not what sucks.
What sucks is that they aren’t making something with intention.
They have a general end goal in mind and type in the words to get there.
But that’s now how good things get made.
When you are making art, designing, making music, solving problems, beauty is a product of not knowing the end goal.
The goal creates itself as you are creating.
Kurzgesagt has 25M subs. Millions of views on EVERY single video 🤯
nobody copies them for a reason: one video takes 1,200 hours and a studio of 50+ animators.
we rebuilt their format with Opus 5.5 + @HyperFrames_ Studio. 100% code.
a full 11-minute explainer. made in ~2 hours. under $50.
want the template? we’re open-sourcing it for free 👇
penguitt 🐧 retweeted
Hi, it's Darshita. I am a designer.
And I'm pitching myself in public 'cause I'm done with a year full of anxiety.
Everyone says design is dead and AI killed it. But the real parasite was hiding in plain sight.
So here's my film, DESIGN IS DEAD. She's bold, fearless and very PINK 💖
Hiring? My DMs are open.
penguitt 🐧 retweeted
I'm asking my followers for a small favor.
Many of you know I absolutely love Dachshunds, and I also dog sit daily. One of the sweetest Dachshunds I've ever cared for, Ringo, is currently battling cancer.
His family has had to stay in Airbnbs out of state for chemo and radiation. Even with pet insurance, the costs have become overwhelming.
I'd love to see this community prove that we can come together for something bigger than ourselves. Bigger than a rug crypto token and bigger than pack ripping.
Even $5 makes a difference. If just 2% of my 50,000 followers donated $5, we'd raise $5,000. I've been in Web3 since 2020, and I'll admit my expectations are low. I hope to be proven wrong.
If you can help, thank you. If you can't, a repost means the world ❤️
gofund.me/a337322d9
penguitt 🐧 retweeted
BREAKING: A new penguin species has been identified for the first time in over 100 years! 🐧
Genetic research revealed that gentoo penguins are actually 4 distinct species, including a newly described species found on the remote Kerguelen Islands. bit.ly/4ACbG1h
penguitt 🐧 retweeted
“I want my art to bring happiness to people.”
That’s one of the reasons I draw.
I’m so glad I put that wish into this piece.
penguitt 🐧 retweeted
Super Smash Bros Melee in MR.
Where the players fight on your own table as a platform. Even hang off the table!
On the Meta Quest.
super smash bros melee is fully decompiled, this project started in july 2020, so it took over 6 years. the progress was hugely accelerated by llms and finished off with astra. it's a very large game with 3.88mb of compiled code.
github.com/doldecomp/melee
