Gotta Go Back to Go Forward
It's a shame that Instagram and Twitter have shit the bed so hard. Because they were invaluable resources in the art community especially when it came to staffing. In my job, I have to periodically look for storyboard artists to hire. And Instagram, in particular, was a great way for artist to post accessible, digestible, uniform portfolio work. Even if it wasn't official portfolio work, it would give you an idea of what the person's art was like and usually it would have a link to an official portfolio. Recently, I had to look for Storyboard artists and I still kind of defaulted to scrolling around on Instagram. Seeing who board artists, whose work I admired but were unavailable for employment, were following. And it lead me to new talent I wasn't aware of previously. But, also, Instagram has lost and is continuing to lose users due to their shitty policies of the algorithm only pushing video content and the possibility of your work being scraped for Generative-AI tra