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Nicholas Kole

@FromHappyRock

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Character Design/Illustration ~ Jesus-following Hobbit ~ 💜 erkshnrt's ~ Spyro Reignited, Crash Bandicoot 4, Sonic Prime, Lorcana, Principal Concept Art @ PHL

Vancouver, BC
Joined March 2012
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this still one of the coolest things anyone has ever said
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1 year
GOOD MORNING and WOW
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4 years
Day ??? of quarantine
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1 year
This whole video is beautiful. He sees it clearly, with eyes unclouded, without any further context necessary. His first impulse is to tell them a story about a real human being's pain. Some people see a grump, I see grace & a master of his craft speaking truth without flinching
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miyazaki of studio ghibli, upon seeing an artificial intelligence presentation- "i strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself".
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2 years
“slug era” I whisper as I lay prone on the sidewalk after a rainstorm
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4 years
DELIVER US
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4 years
stop: teletubbies redesign
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9 months
I can’t believe we get to be actually excited about an art program announcement in 2023
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@Procreate
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9 months
Over 10 years ago we changed the creative industry. Now, we’re ready to do it again. Join us online or in-person on September 8 for a Procreate Special Event held at Playgrounds In Motion, London. #Procreate #InMotionLondon Learn more at 👀
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@FromHappyRock
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2 years
biblically accurate larry the cucumber
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5 years
If you flip every word in “manic pixie dream girl” you get “depressive demon nightmare boy” and you think “well thank goodness THAT’S not a thing at least-“ but then you
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@FromHappyRock
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6 months
Cannot believe I get to draw lion king fanart for a living 🍻
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2 years
I woke up this morning and decided to do blasphemy, so anyways here's kermit as a sonic oc
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3 years
me and my Pfizer arm when we see someone antivaxxing
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@FromHappyRock
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4 years
SPRASH DRAGDICOOT
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4 years
what a time
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4 months
If you teach or mentor art students who, for example, want to work in "TV Animation" (or any creative industry)- it's vital you teach in a way that accommodates the vast range of what The Best Art In The Industry looks like, and therefore what A Great Portfolio looks like
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5 years
Alright, we’ve got to get this straight because people seem confused- if you’re 1-17 you’re Gen Z If you’re 17-30 you’re Millenials If you’re 30-50 you’re feral hogs and best not touch my children
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@FromHappyRock
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2 years
WHICH WAY, WESTERN ANIMATION?
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5 years
“Looks like we’ve still got some things to do after all, old friend.” Dragons may age differently than Dragonflies, but best friends always stick together 🐉🐝 Spyro & Sparx, all grown up! Spyro took up with the balloonists to see the worlds. (Unofficial fanart) #SpyroReignited
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2 years
idk if I've tweeted about this before, but my Petra design winding up somehow in Winx Club is wild
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1 year
STOP. a smol bean. ok carry on.
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@FromHappyRock
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2 years
Happy international women’s day!
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1 year
intersection
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2 years
me every time, without fail, when someone shows me AI generated “art”
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1 year
your shift, europe
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1 year
good morning best friends
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4 years
Please go away
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@FromHappyRock
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5 years
Oh! .......h-hello
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5 years
I keep walking away and then circling back to try something else (classic palette, anyone?) Ugh I love Nintendo and Zelda and Ganondorf and this art style and-
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5 months
Deviantart betrayed us all, and we should still be all the way mad about it imho
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Genel Jumalon ✈️ C2E2 + Anime STL
5 months
Fuck off @DeviantArt .
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5 years
Oof
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4 years
Their faces say “take my lore seriously, child”, but their hairdos say “I was originally drawn on the office whiteboard at 11pm mid-crunch to make the design team giggle”
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@FromHappyRock
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4 years
Same artist 😳
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5 years
I heard y’all were thirsty, so I rehydrated Ganondorf for you 🥤 #botw2 #ganondorf
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3 years
I-
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4 years
Spent some time tonight streaming and drawing Stitch, a great ethical hero of mine 🙌
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@FromHappyRock
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6 months
The difference between “they’re so much better than me” and “they are climbing a fundamentally different ladder than I am” is such an important distinction to learn
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10 months
If any NFT bros want to do one good thing in their entire life, they could go ahead and mint & sell every frame of this intro. Marvel has no copyright claim to AI generated images.
@DiscussingFilm
DiscussingFilm
10 months
The opening credits of ‘SECRET INVASION’ are made by A.I. (Source: )
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@FromHappyRock
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5 years
I don’t know who needs this out there, but I made you some jpegs for your replies
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2 years
You can now follow me in the perfectly ethical platform: the woods. Follow me in the woods. I am walking into the woods.
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4 years
What if the ocean just got up and...flew away? Jellybots digital art book releases tomorrow :))
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3 years
completely floored by the work of Jade Khoo
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𝚆𝚒𝚣𝚊𝚛𝚍 𝚆𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚁𝚎𝚏𝚕𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙾𝚛𝚋 - 𝙼𝙲 𝙴𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝟷𝟿𝟹𝟻
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5 years
My DnD character, Herbitha Finfine! She’s an all-baking, all-embroidering, all-worries midwestern Tortle Druid, based on my mom 💚
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2 years
@Forspoken Who me? Yeah I’m a freakin GOD as it turns out. Shyeah I’m all about that axe life. That handsome devil next to me? Fam, that’s literally my BOY. He can thank me for his good looks AND formative trauma. It’s not easy fighting heCkin VIKINGS. But Honestly? Being a parent ragnaroxx
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11 months
this came to me in a vision
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4 years
Breaking: @RealGDT presents the marketing team’s latest answer to baby yoda
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4 years
Designing a whole mess of baddies based on musical notation for Soundfall was fun brain work
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5 years
May I be the first to say: ASSDDHJJSHZHNDMDHBZKKLSH
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2 years
somewhere, probably in Vancouver, a miserable team labors miserably for miserable bosses who will at best throw them a pizza party to boost morale as they all try not to think of the “hot dog buns breasts should be bigger” email they received from the client
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2 years
A ‘SAUSAGE PARTY’ sequel series is in the works for Amazon Prime Video.
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4 years
Yowser
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4 years
Friend. Good friend. Good. Baby. Good baby.
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3 years
last one
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5 years
The first 40 The last 5 minutes of minutes of Nintendo Direct: Nintendo Direct:
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1 year
12 years ago today, Brian Jacques the author of the Redwall series passed on. Tonight I happened to finish this months-long tribute to his book Martin The Warrior, the first book I ever fell in love with, and it feels fitting Thank you with all my heart, Brian 💜
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6 years
Drawn in 5 minutes (pardon the mess) to try to help a friend, by illustrating what life-drawing has to do with cartooning!
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4 years
Digital artist: I’m not good at watercolor, it’s so hard! You’re amazing Aging Painter: Yes, it is hard and takes years of impressive mastery. You’re right to admire me. Also Aging Painter: I’m not good at computers. DA: yeah, they’re- AP: If I cared to try, it would be easy.
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2 years
AHHHH!!! I DREW THAT!!
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2 years
The first cards for Lorcana, Disney’s answer to Magic: The Gathering, are spectacular
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4 years
I also may have uhhhh...done a tiny oil self portrait?? #acnh
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If your innovation is illegal, and comes with an enormous human cost, maybe you didn’t crack shit and you deserve to be sent back to the drawing board
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‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
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2 years
art job is: work harder than you ever have on best thing you've ever made and then one dude is like "sick thanks!" and then nobody sees it and then the project is cancelled and you're never allowed to show it
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4 years
What even ARE quadrupeds. If you animate quadrupeds and you know what you’re doing you are my hero.
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1 year
Show me two images you’ve made where you feel like you could be mistaken for two completely different artists!
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1 year
Cory Loftis is with us 💜 my heart is so full seeing the whole community have each others back like this
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2 years
heck with your most popular art, show me your least popular art that you actually think deserved better
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4 years
Big news 👀
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4 years
s h e.
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3 years
sketchbooks can, and probably should, be an ugly mess
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dalia 🌱💖 @ hiatus
3 years
artists, whats a piece of advice you wish someone told you when you first started making art?
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4 years
*frantically rings the animation dinner bell*
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"Klaus" is now available on Netflix. And it's free without sign up for 3 days in some countries (like France).
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1 year
This is so carefully written and thoughtfully phrased and I mean zero disrespect to the OP, but this well-meaning advice to make art specifically to court the algorithm makes me so, so sad to see
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2 months
THIS. THIS. THIS!!!!
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☆ ʟ ʏ ꜱ ☆ (comms open!)
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Made this to just sum up some recent feelings
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2 years
Finally wrapped him up! The spirit of Pumpkin Spice
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2 years
reject tradition
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4 years
When we were wrapping up Spyro, my art director Josh asked me to create a commemorative poster as a gift for the team to celebrate finishing the games!
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5 years
There’s just never gonna be a good time now to post this, is there?
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3 years
The whole TL privating because of scammers has a strong cowboy-town-all-the-shutters-closing-one-last-guy-at-the-saloon-nervously-cleaning-a-glass-as-the-bad-guy-walks-in energy
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2 years
If anybody at any US or Canadian game studios is looking for a great concept artist in a hurry- Svetlana is very talented, caught up in the tragedy right now, and looking urgently for work. You can reach her at: morteraphan @gmail .com
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4 years
You ever just HATE THAT HEDGEHOG?
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5 years
So there’s no reason there should be Mantalings in Splatoon except that they would be SO DOPE I THINK and anyways this is my new oc please be nice to them
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4 years
BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE BE-
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4 years
Brag a lil
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3 years
When u can’t get the rights to “apple”
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3 years
This is bigger than yoghurt
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3 years
Chobani "Eat today, feed tomorrow" commercial animated by @TheLineStudio . Music by Joe Hisaishi.
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5 months
Lmaooo top tier text from mom
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6 years
I swear I don’t know how some of y’all got so basic #bowsette #bowserette #bowserpeach
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3 years
Crash 4 is out on Switch! Here’s an illustration I did for the team to celebrate the launch last year- it’s about time!
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3 years
Meet Parson! He's a snowman with a magic scarf, and he's here to deliver your hot chocolate 🎄⛄️
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2 years
they keep rereleasing it and it sucks
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5 years
The most powerful adulthood jutsu to protect your loved ones is mastering the art of “just a heads up- I’m a little tired and grumpy right now, and it has absolutely nothing to do with you, but I probably won’t be a great conversational partner for a bit”
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If you don’t believe in your movie enough to actually *make* the art, why on earth would I pay to see it? Jingling meaningless visual keys in our faces is not filmmaking.
@DiscussingFilm
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‘LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL’ seemingly uses AI-generated art for certain cutaway transitions in the film.
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4 years
he is LOOKING 👀
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7 months
Saw an ai thing specifically “designed” to produce things in “Nicholas Kole style” and I am trying not to spiral existentially but it feels like my brain is losing grip on the surface of the earth and I’m floating off into disassociation
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2 years
Here comes the boyyYYyy 🎶 hello boyy
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6 years
new equivalent exchange student
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1 year
hahahahahaHAHAHAHA (Sculpt by Jordan knight)
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┏┓ ┃┃╱╲ in ┃╱╱╲╲ this ╱╱╭╮╲╲house ▔▏┗┛▕▔ we ╱▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔▔╲ refuse to time skip ╱╱┏┳┓╭╮┏┳┓ ╲╲ ▔▏┗┻┛┃┃┗┻┛▕▔
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When you’re playing a game and something a character says makes you laugh- you’re responding to the lived experience, craft and sense of humor of a human writer. When you’re noticing the open world feels enticing, quests engaging, content rich- that’s because of human designers.
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Cheers to everyone turning their back on @wacom since they’ve turned their back on us. As we say goodbye, let’s all meditate on this reminder of all they’ve given us
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