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Alec Longstreth
Alec Longstreth
@AlecLongstreth@mastodon.art  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago

Regulate A.I.!

It took 38 hours to animate this loop (over the last three months) and I'm releasing it with a creative commons license so that others can use it!

© 2025 by Alec Longstreth is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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“REGULATE A.I.!” is in the upper right corner. A giant artificial intelligence robot hovers over the scene. It has two smoke stacks spewing plumes of carbon dioxide smoke into the atmosphere while eight tentacles reach out into the world to steal art, writing, music, videos and comics, which it dumps into a funnel on the top of its head. The robot’s eyes alternate lighting up “A” and “I” while it’s mouth is a giant conveyor belt with toxic green A.I. dreck sliding out at regular intervals, each emblazoned with the “star” icon preferred by tech companies to represent A.I. In the lower left a writer loads a piece of paper into her typewriter. She begins to type, only to have the page snatched by the A.I. robot. The writer watches her writing go into the machine, then bravely takes out another sheet of paper and tries again. In the lower right a cartoonist sits at his drawing table. He fills up the page with six panels only to have the robot steal his page. He grabs another page and tries again. In the lower right hand corner is the signature of the artist, Alec Longstreth.
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Kookie 🍪🇵🇸
Kookie 🍪🇵🇸
@kookie@chaosfem.tw replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago
@AlecLongstreth Wow! I love it, you can really feel the misery on that woman's face. good job!!
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Alec Longstreth
Alec Longstreth
@AlecLongstreth@mastodon.art replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago

I documented the creation of this loop from concept sketch all the way through final animation in a series of free Patreon posts: https://www.patreon.com/collection/1466364?view=expanded

(You can download the original GIF which is attached to the final post)

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Alec Longstreth
Alec Longstreth
@AlecLongstreth@mastodon.art replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 months ago

I did the animation with Toon Boom Harmony and then did all the digital "ink and point" with the Pixquare app, which is really great!

#animation #handdrawnanimation #2danimation #traditionalanimation #gif #animatedgif #animatedloop #loop#noai #ai #regulateai

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