I'm Alex, digital artist and prop maker for the UK film industry. Art Director @noshortrests Concept Artist on @FalloutCascadia Instagram: Partialtadpole

Joined December 2009
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It’s been two years since I started selling my Skyrim Dragon Priest masks and thanks to my wonderful customers, I’ve learned and improved so much in that time. So, here’s something to truly showcase the new and improved paint jobs customers can expect!
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Film industry’s in a rough place right now and a lot of us are feeling it. I’m opening commissions again adding new work to my store. Deckard’s PKD blaster is now up on Etsy (link below). Made to order, screen-accurate, industry level finish. Custom options available too. ❤️
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No AI in my work, but im broke, if you'd like to learn my technique and support me making more my back catalogue, project walkthroughs and tutorials are available here all in a single bundle £5 or whatever you'd like to pay ;) alexjaybrady.gumroad.com/l/G… #Dune
No AI in my work, but im broke, if you'd like to learn my technique and support me making more my back catalogue, project walkthroughs and tutorials are available here all in a single bundle £5 or whatever you'd like to pay ;) alexjaybrady.gumroad.com/l/G… #Dune
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Prop Modeller: 70% of my industry is unemployed. (I’m available for commissions!)
Content Creator: 70% of my body is bad takes.
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I know this was a silly post, and I enjoy it, but also I need work 😂😩😭
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I just wanna make dope stuff for you @fable @WeArePlayground !
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Who do I need to contact at @fable to build some official props?
Jun 7
Fable launches February 23, 2027. Become the Hero you want to be in an immersive open-world action-RPG where each choice shapes your journey, reputation is everything, and fairytale endings are never guaranteed. ✨ Pre-Order to receive the Pre-Order Content Pack, featuring the questionably heroic Chicken Suit and a collection of charming in-game gifts: fablethegame.com *Pre-orders open later today #Fable #FableTheGame #XBOXShowcase | @WeArePlayground
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I haven’t watched Hathaway yet, but this is a pretty damn good incentive. (I also need to rewatch Gundam Wing)
Gundam Wing episode 1 if it had the Hathaway needle drop
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"Cornered" commission art
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I made a fake taxidermy tiger 🐯
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Gonna have to keep an eye out for this one!
A TV series adaptation of the ‘ATOMFALL’ game is in the works. The series follows a man who wakes up with no memory in the Quarantine Zone of England’s Lake District established after a nuclear incident. (Source: Deadline)
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Was genuinely interested in looking for work on this. Now I’m not.
Noah Hawley says his ‘FAR CRY’ series won’t be adapting any of the games as he thinks audiences skip the story cutscenes in those games. “When you play a video game, you only really move forward through the gameplay section, and then you have these cut scenes that you can skip, so when you go to adapt those games you have to be aware that makes the human drama kind of irrelevant to the storyline.” (Source: Deadline)
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Is he suggesting that AI films will be so shitty that we’ll be begging for human led art? Y’know, like we already are…
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Says AI in Hollywood Will Get People to 'Care More About Human Creators, Not Less' variety.com/2026/digital/col…
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The live-action movie adaptation of #ELDENRING, produced by the studio A24 in partnership with Bandai Namco and filmed for IMAX, is slated for release on March 3, 2028. Production will begin in Spring 2026, and the full cast has been announced. Learn more: bnent.eu/EldenRingMovie
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A human consumes about 2,000 calories per day. Over 20 years, that’s roughly 17,000 kWh of total food energy. Training GPT-4 consumed an estimated 50 GWh of electricity. That’s 3,000 humans worth of “training energy” for a single model run. And GPT-4 is already dead. OpenAI retired GPT-4o from ChatGPT on February 13th. The model that took 50 GWh to train got less than two years of flagship status before replacement. The human you spent 17,000 kWh “training” for 20 years produces economic output for the next 40 to 60 years. The amortization window on GPT-4 was shorter than a car lease. Now look at what replaced it. GPT-5.2, released December 2025, is OpenAI’s current default. The GPT-5 series consumes an estimated 18 Wh per average query according to the University of Rhode Island’s AI Lab, up to 40 Wh for extended reasoning. That’s 8.6 times more electricity per response than GPT-4. With 2.5 billion queries hitting ChatGPT daily and GPT-5.2 now the default model, the inference math gets staggering fast. Even at a blended average well below 18 Wh, you’re looking at daily electricity consumption that could power over a million American households. This is what Altman is actually doing. OpenAI hit $13 billion in annual recurring revenue but still isn’t profitable. They need you to think of AI energy consumption as natural and inevitable, the same way you think about feeding a child, because the alternative framing is that they’re burning through enough electricity to rival small countries while racing to build 1-gigawatt Stargate data centers. The food analogy makes the energy costs feel biological and unavoidable instead of what they are: an engineering and business choice that scales with every model generation. The comparison sounds clever at a fireside chat in India. It falls apart the second you do the arithmetic.
🚨 SAM ALTMAN: “People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model … But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.”
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To all the companies shutting down the artist and investing in AI instead of REAL, PRACTICAL TOOLS, I wish you a very
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retweet if you actually just fucking hate AI
Spotify is partnering with ChatGPT 🎵 • Will personalize music and podcast recommendations • Available on an opt-in basis
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Nicolas Cage says "protect yourselves from AI." “There is another world that is also disturbing me, and it’s happening right now around all of us — the new AI world. I am a big believer in not letting robots dream for us. Robots cannot reflect the human condition for us. That is a dead end if an actor lets one AI robot manipulate his or her performance even a little bit, an inch will eventually become a mile and all integrity, purity and truth of art will be replaced by financial interests only. We can’t let that happen. The job of all art in my view, film performance included, is to hold a mirror to the external and internal stories of the human condition through the very human thoughtful and emotional process of recreation. A robot can’t do that. If we let robots do that, it will lack all heart and eventually lose edge and turn to mush. There will be no human response to life as we know it. It will be life as robots tell us to know it. I say, protect yourselves from AI interfering with your authentic and honest expressions.”
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