his analysis is: "AI models are excellent at learning from existing output, but not at creating art that connects. Or as he put it, mastering a technical task is “knowing how to work; art is knowing when to stop.”" so not Sora, making movies. doing some technical tasks in service of creativitiy.

The book Inside UPA is a visual tour of one of the greatest animation studios of all time. With its author's permission, we've shared the whole thing online for free. Our latest issue dives into the book and UPA's place in animation history: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/stepping-i...

Silvio Lorusso quoting Karl Kraus: ‘I know that everything is futile when the house is burning. But I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who were supposed to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, Shanghai would not be burning.’

Dreaming of new pictorial spaces 💭

A work in progress technical drawing I made of Eastend Western's studio furniture, made of two desks under which two smaller desks on wheel reside for modular usage.

We're on Colossal today: www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/isam...

Our hand-painted films for the Noguchi Museum are now live on YouTube! Discover how kids might have enjoyed Noguchi’s unrealized playground designs for NYC. Bon cinéma... youtube.com/playlist?lis...

🎥 ↑ 🎥 ↓ Extract from our animations for the Noguchi Museum

It's raining on Noguchi's Contoured Playground. A meditative loop painted on celluloid, and a homage to Hockney taken from our films for the Noguchi Museum. On display until September.

Swimmer clock design

Smoking in live action is the equivalent of boil in animation

I'll post more about this project over the coming days/weeks..!

It was truly a dream project. Co-directed with @jackcunningham.bsky.social, we wanted to echo the material richness of Noguchi’s models. To do so, we turned towards traditional animation techniques and painted over 1,800 celluloids.

Noguchi's playground designs exist mainly as beautifully cryptic maquettes. Viewers might wonder how kids would have played within such structures. Our animated films explore the question in narrative and abstract ways.

Last week, we launched five animations at the Noguchi Museum. If you're in NYC, their new exhibition is on until September and explores Noguchi's relationship with the city, and his rejected playground designs.

Still from my film "Colorimetry in Motion" (2013)

Looping film for Loro Piana from 2024

A busy start to 2026... animations for the Noguchi Museum incoming 🚨 artdaily.com/news/189662/...

Happy New Year!

This year, @jackcunningham.bsky.social & myself launched our film, art and design studio Eastend Western and we’ve been so busy since we haven’t had time to share any new work. If you’re in Canada and spot these Wealthsimple ads, we handmade them over the summer in our compact but mighty workshop.

Some of my old drawings lost to time, collected and sent back to me by Season Cheng.

Nostalgia for our old studio space

The Battle of San Romano by Georges Schwizgebel vimeo.com/656704401

Still can’t believe 16:9 is a nostalgic ratio

You can enjoy Kawamoto’s beautiful puppet films right here: archive.org/details/kiha...

The Rest is History repeating that Disney invented animation makes me doubt the accuracy of everything they talk about: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwPa...

Listen to Nicolas and watch that fantastic short. And if the YouTube link doesn’t work in your country, this one might do the trick www.dailymotion.com/video/x9tpkqc

Go watch the best short film of the year, now available on YouTube: youtu.be/2Mqa4zfJdx4

That is, there is no broad "AI jobs apocalypse," as AI is too unreliable and limited to do jobs that demand accuracy or empathy. But plenty of managers will use it to try to replace human art with cheaper "good enough" AI art. So it does appear that bosses embracing AI are hitting creatives hard.

‘One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats’ Iris Murdoch

Brilliant thread by Michèle

Seasons change, 32 seconds of animation gets made.

On set with @jackcunningham.bsky.social

On the phenomenology of inflatable frog costumes by David Graeber

Big Mari trays, mini Mari trays

Pattern cutting

The animator's skills being transfered to furniture/product design has roots in Disney's imagineers, for those of you wondering why you're following this account when all I'm posting is obscure technical things and not cartoons..!

Upcoming construction project is brewing in the studio to make our space more useful

Medecine box design in black MDF

Well now I have to go rewatch One Battle After Another on the big screen because it’s that good

Don Hertzfeldt has curated 'Animation Mixtape,' an 85-minute anthology of animated shorts, which premieres at the IFC Center in New York today. We spoke with him about spotlighting standout work and why focused distribution matters for shorts. www.cartoonbrew.com/animators/do...

Artists like @nicolasmenard.com will appreciate this.

There are many “moods” to be had in Montreal.

Look at that capital ‘G’.

Interpolation and crime

Over the moon to announce that my short film Wednesday with Goddard (2016) is part of Don Hertzfeldt’s Animation Mixtape, screening in cinemas across the US and Canada. What’s more: it includes a never-before-seen Bruce Bickford film! Book now — www.inkfilms.com/films/animat...

Speaking of, I was at the British Library browsing "Who's Who in Graphic Art Vol. 2" (Clivo Press, 1982) and found one Québécois (Georges Beaupré) and one Inuit artist (Pitseolak Ashoona). They explain how in Canada, there isn't a large number of great artists born there because it's a young country

NFB logo, star of the show (2018)