Repatriating a body is an incredibly incredibly expensive process. We ultimately couldn't afford the cost to do so with my dad - so please contribute if you can to Luis's family. It's incredibly meaningful.

If a billionaire biohacker getting an autoimmune disease is what leads to there being enough research to uncover the cause of (and potentially cure) autoimmune diseases, I think that’s a net positive.

I have enough board game friends to know that if a billionaire became a Board Game Person™️ the entire premise of Yu-Gi-Oh! is completely feasible

Nothing convinced me more of awards shows being a load of horseshit than BRAT not winning Album of the Year when it was *literally* the Album of the Year

dreamcast forever 🌀

I cannot overstate the effect having Blue Eye Samurai on my resume has had. Me as an artist and my ambitions are taken seriously to a degree they NEVER were before.

Being outside your comfort zone is good! Its how anything worthwhile and interesting in life happens. That being said, I’ve been outside my comfort zone for so long that I am very much so looking forward to the two weeks I have scheduled of doing nothing but being in my comfort zone. Exhausted

Sounds like AI is a huge liability and billionaires are mega-crybaby about it as per. "established studios with a positive track record see a "catastrophic" 40% to 60% drop in sales when they use AI"

Literally everyone wants new stuff - execs, development, creators, audiences. The struggle is that the top dogs holding the purse strings are cowards and refuse to accept that

after years of suffering under trumps destructive actions it is great to see democrats finally uniting and going on the strong offensive to *checks notes*

I love this quote by Ira Glass. I think about it often. "But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer." <- Read the whole quote but this I love.

Storyboard artists, often closest and most integral to realizing a director's vision, are a relatively cheap part of the process. Often their role is disparaged, or not even understood. And yet one of the main goals of AI in film production seems to be to replicate what they do.

I don’t really actively write so much as my brain just randomly begins to play a movie and I quickly jot it down

It’s both humbling and enthralling to be on a show where everyone is giving it their all No one person is responsible for how good this show is. A strong foundation helps, but it’s cumulative talent and passion at work in every step of the process

Editors are amazing I can tell a pretty solid story with my boards alone, but editors make it *sing*

Egg salad on a baked potato slaps It’s really just potato salad when you think about it, but the combination wigs people out

it is really important to be loud about this stuff because it's typically kept very quiet to enable people to go "See? Nothing happened, it was just people being dramatic"

I never would have guessed that working on a pitch and telling people about it/asking them to participate would be such a “dreaming you left the house without pants on” ordeal I’ve been 100% successful in my endeavor so far, but still. Absolutely mortifying

I have got to stop turning in the world’s scratchiest thumbnails and going “trust” I always deliver but girl, really

"We already live in a world where you walk outside and there are billboards and signs that are obvious AI slop. That’s become part of our visual reality. To me, generative AI feels less like innovation than a symptom of a broader cultural and economic rot." I like this kid.

And old animated doodle of some Ashlanders tending to their silt striders :] #morrowind #tes #theelderscrolls

Departing for Thrax.

what we're seeing isn't just the rise of youtubers, the dominance of horror, or some indie groundswell, it's because hollywood's 20 year reliance on franchises no one under 40 gives a shit about has finally come home to roost

Doors of Portsmouth.

No discussion of Hollywood is complete without discussing this revolting trend. The people who make what art are running out of places to work, and their slices of pie are being handed to useless, out of touch executives.

No, but, okay, he's not just right on an ethics of art level. He's right in that the only reason these creators are greenlit for these projects is because these are being seen as tech demos. You're not being valued for your art or creativity. You're a fucking sign spinner.

If AI was the only way to sell an original then maybe your pitch just wasn’t all that good. Maybe you should’ve gone indie instead of selling your soul to the devil that turns people’s drinking water brown and is emitting untold amounts of Co2 into the atmosphere. Maybe you should give a damn.

The animation chat has me thinking one telling thing - in the years since AI arrived, there's not been a ground-up indie phenomenon, like we saw with earlier tech (Flash, etc). It hasn't unlocked anyone's creativity. For all the anti-gatekeeping rhetroic, nothing anyone cares about has been born.

This pretty much sums it up: 1/2

Just me and my infected spider bite vs the world

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I almost exclusively draw women on most of the shows I work on because I’m particularly good at realistic acting with women, which is a great problem to have but is also causing a skill gap. I need to practice boarding dudes at some point

When I’m inevitably unemployed again I really want to take another stab at Riven and take notes this time, as I realized about a quarter of the way through that it’s a Taking Notes IRL Or Else You’ll Get Lost sort of game

I need to watch more Ryan Gosling movies. The man’s really a great actor

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I cannot even begin to tell you. How fast you will move to the top of my ballot. If you publicly antagonize AI.

Genuinely though, what is up with Paramount/Nickelodeon that stuff gets leaked constantly from those studios? Its a pattern there

Amen.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

I need young folks to know: this is really cool. Let them have this. You can keep your mouth shut for two weeks. It's ok. Two weeks won't kill you, and it could show the general public that indie animation has a place, and that these things can exist somewhere other than YouTube.

Animation folks could really do to be a bit more confident in themselves and their work. It serves you well to have confidence! People respond positively to it!

If you think this is exhausting, imagine being Iranian.

It’s time for Mike Johnson and John Thune to do their jobs and reconvene Congress. Recess doesn’t get to continue while Trump is threatening to annihilate 100 million people. If Thune and Johnson refuse to do their jobs, Schumer and Jeffries must bring Democrats back to DC to end this war.

I don’t care what the fucking death cult wants, I DON’T want to see the end of the world in my lifetime!!

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We need to impeach and remove him. He is a madman, the world will not survive indulging him any longer. What does it take??? Do the Republicans really want the death and destruction of millions, if not the planet, to be their legacy? Is that how cowardly they are?