That Weilin Zhang essay is fascinating as a blog post. I certainly feel similar aspects of self loathing when it comes to my work. As an essay about animation as capital, it feels like we've been here before, many times over, in fact. Starting Point is that-a-way ->

Oh damn- I still need to watch Votoms!! Interesting that yet another legacy Sunrise mecha series is being revived!

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Ah, what the hell.

Gundam Urdr Hunt movie + Endless Waltz time!!

I didn't grow up with the Golden Age Disney movies, so I'm always stunned that they're some of my favorite animated movies, but also how they always make perfect rainy day background noise for when I'm working on the weekend. Their (mostly) atempotalness lends to this feeling, I think.

Every time I write a narrative of any kind I'm reminded that I'm just a very hokey writer. My bad, all.

Last Night I watched 100 Meters/Hyakuemu, and was completely transfixed by the visual storytelling going on. I love rotoscoping, and it being used in such a pensive narrative about the peaks and valleys of chasing your dreams was a delight. Weighty animation for a weighty story. Watch it now.

Since I draw and edit a lot, for the last two years I make it my aim to draw and edit as little as possible for the last week or so of the past year and don't begin again until the new year has gone on for a few days if I can get away with it. It's very nice, I recommend this.

Happy 2026, Going into this year with all my might. Going to put my all into accomplishing the artistic pursuits I've been working towards for four years now, and I want that hard work to pay off this year! Let's do it, everyone!

HAPPY 2026

2025 Animation Reel. Learned a lot, still have a lot to learn yet. Looking to make 2026 a good one. #indie_anime #rkgk #animation #animationreel

🧵 Thread of some Gundam GQuuuuuuX studies done over the holidays. #Gundam #GquuuuuuX #animation #art #fanart

How tf did they accomplish half of the muppeting on this?? Also loved Michael Caine giving a shaksperian performance.

Watching the Muppets Christmas Carol (idk much about the Muppets but people love this).

New goal: How do you put together an editing reel? I edit way too many videos to not be monetizing it in some way, shape, or form. But my main job has been animation, and while it's not like there's no overlap, it's tough to figure out this particular gap in my applicability when selling my skills.

Shiratori Aira #ダンダダン #Dandadan #rkgk #animation

I was a 2000s kid, so I have that unearned nostalgic reverence for the way mainstream media in the 80s/90s is framed, but I can't decide if it's because I now know more about the economic circumstances & "end of history" context as an adult, or because a lot of it was still around in the 2000s.

now that megaman 12 has a release date we can finally confirm that clarissa explains it all takes place in the year 2027

MEGAMANN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Showing my friend Char's Counterattack for the first time tonight.

Man, I love the 1971 Richard Williams Christmas Carol animation. It's kind of a perfect animated short, lowkey my favorite Richard Williams short film. Check it www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTzy...

MONSTER WORLD IV

Going back in time and convincing child Robert Bork to become a florist so he doesn't grow up to fuck up antitrust and monopoly laws forever and I get to see this monopoly hell dissolve in real time so that the rest of the animation and film industry can get on with their lives. Wish me luck.

Apparently it's been a year since this funny thing happened the night Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX was announced.

Animated fictional pop stars/bands span back to at least 1970 in some shape/form, and I think it's an idea worth interrogating. Simultaneously I think the faux-criticism of "sanding over the industry's rough edges" through something like KPop Demon Hunters is kind of a hyperbolic slippery slope lol.

Shachi dandadan drawing study #shachimu #rkgk #animation

I'm constantly fascinated by how people engage with popular media and how revealing it can be towards one's media opinions depending on what they parrot. A lot of reductive battle shonen takes I see today for example remind me of the reductive Evangelion and K-On takes of the early 2010s.

#godeku #art #rkgk #myheroacademia #頑張れ緑谷出久

This is so true thank you loran

I've been playing Moonlight Shadow by Mike Oldfield so much lately that I'm genuinely scared YouTube's going to cut me off lol

Frieren trend. #Frieren #art #rkgk

Bandai Namco re-release a Tales Of game that's not playable on modern systems challenge.

A Turn A Gundam AMV I made almost two years ago: andrewandthehouseofhorrors.tumblr.com/post/8005649... #turnagundam #gundam #amv

Getting a hankering to watch Eggers' Nosferatu again.

Me watching an ad on Pluto TV: "Is that Chappell Roan??" -Ad cuts to Leonardo DiCaprio.- -It's an ad showing that Titanic is streaming on Pluto TV.- "..Oh." (I've never watched Titanic)

A frame from another in progress Nausicaa animation #art #animation #wip

Blue Box is crazy good this week

Otr of the Flame has somehow survived cancellation up to now so I think I'll have to read more of it and possibly walk back any prescriptive statements I made about it depending on how interesting I find those 11 chapters before my shift today.

Recently re watched Blood Blockade Battlefront, one of my favorites, and inevitably got to once again learn how great the soundtrack is. Especially this song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYPh...

It's done!!! Layout exercise using settei from Little Witch Academia! #art #indie_anime #LWA_jp

Looks like I've missed my chance to see One Battle After Another in theatres. Damn it. But I'm right on time to catch the Director's Cut of Rocky IV, apparently.

I try not to post about this *too* much but if you've worked in animated media of any kind then your job is always occasionally framed in a way where someone at some point will assume you'd be a great elementary school art teacher or babysitter, or what have you. Because animation=cartoons= kids.

happy halloween

I think the funniest part of watching the animation at the climax of the Chainsaw Man movie was going "I remember this from Black Clover episode 63 & 83!" over and over again.

That was good as hell. The Chainsaw Man movie is the first season iterated on in key ways to tell a much punchier story- which works for the scope of the story arc is adapts! I hope a new director is brought on for S2 because I want more new interpretations of S1's ethos! Good time at da movies :)))

Chainsaw Man!!!

I try not to follow too much online discourse, but the fan reaction to One Punch Man season 3 made me realize- it's time to truly put a moratorium on the idea that if you don't like something as a fan, that you can harass the staff to get the quality you want. Sonic movie 1 was years ago. Stop it!

Happy 27th birthday to me! :) I spent the last few days at Lightbox Expo meeting new people, which was quite nice. But now I have to catch an early morning flight home. Glad I managed this trip in the end. Happy to have made it another year, and looking forward to more. :)