Hello #PortfolioDay! I am queer, self-taught, disabled digital artist who makes personal mythologies. I'm looking for work! Please find me here: 🪷 danielletaphanel.com 🌴 linktr.ee/treelet 📥 [email protected]

it is actually possible to draw something and go "well. I'm pretty displeased with how that turned out." and not have that collapse your entire sense of self worth. it's possible to go "oh well haha" and then enjoy the rest of your day. and, get this: you can still make good art that way

Reviewbrah has HAD IT

The official trailer for Robert Eggers’ Werwulf starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Willem Dafoe and Lily-Rose Depp is here 👀 🐺 In theaters December 25. Add to your watchlist ➡️ boxd.it/SC72

I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.

Debating if I should even make a satirical black comedy short upon realization I might be activating the ‘monkey paw’ or becoming a ‘torment nexus’ ahhh moment.

Hey so fun fact I’m building a webcomic hosting platform that doesn’t suck. You literally just upload your pages and boom, you have a website. The waitlist is open if you’re curious!! webcomic.studio #comics #webcomics

No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.

free father's day hugs for pride 🫂🏳️‍🌈 for many LGBTQIA+ people, a day like today is one that is not celebrated. in a world constantly wanting to dehumanize queer people, I just want to say that you are loved, supported, and accepted here. 🩷

Man coming up with names, regardless for a film, book, sona etc, is and will always be one of the hardest decisions eh.

I remain convinced that this was the point from the beginning. Like it isn't enough to rob artists of their livelihood, they have to feel inferior and give up too, just like the LLMs' creators did.

The animated short film "Nube" (2023) is now online. Directed by Christian Arredondo & Diego Sanchez de la Barquera. The story of a cloud mother and her daughter. >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4qn...

Singaporean artist Leia Ham reimagined LotR as Tale of the Middle Kingdom, since Chinese name for China (Zhōngguó) means "The Middle Kingdom." Her concept art includes the Fellowship, armors, buildings like Bag End, props like Aragorn's banner and Fellowship brooches, and more. #TolkienTrewsday

There's sentiment that "education is too expensive & not worth it anymore" this is a lie, education is worth it, sciences and arts are a common societal good, not a scarce luxury for the privileged few. Education has been privatised & commodified, turned to product rather than a societal necessity.

1/3 of the game industry has lost their job in the last two years. Ubisoft closed two more studios today. Everyone is out of work. To that end I'm starting a new bundle to benefit a layoffs hardship fund. Game devs: please consider submitting your PAID games to the bundle, which will launch in July.

Masahiro Ando called dibs on the storyboard for Tsugai's first big action ep, casually proving he's one of the greatest in this field *and* antithetical to modern trends. So much of this is rooted in Arakawa's original manga, but the organic connective tissue & tweaks for flow sell the experience

"We don't need to be X. It's where people go to be angry at strangers and fight with bots. We don't need to be Reddit. Because Reddit is Reddit. We're Bluesky." There. There's your soundbite.

Oh no 🥺 The French-Iranian artist, comic book author and director Marjane Satrapi, who became world-renowned with the graphic novel and film "Persepolis," has died at the age of 56. She also directed Chicken with Plums (2011), The Voices (2014), Radioactive (2019), Dear Paris (2024)...

Sinners WIP

Perfect Blue mention, my beloved

anyway

4/5

good work class of 2026!! keep on booing corporate AI shills

With all these cool indie animated pilots hitting the scene, it's motivating and reminds me that it's never too late for me to pursue my animated projects. Now is the time to go independent and make those animation dreams come true!

first post on bluesky 🤓

From: Chromophobia (1965), dir. Raoul Servais, Absolon Films

this is an improvised little animation demo to test out some #blender rigs I created. As I refine and improve these rigs, I'll post more tests. introducing Slip, Chester and Peanut 🦦🌰🥜 #animation #artpost

Teaching kids AI literacy - what it is, how it actually works, what the tradeoffs are in using it - would be a good thing. But that's not what's being proposed, they're trying to get it into grade schools to create AI dependency

This will always be one of the top standards for morphing and fluid-material animation to me; equally difficult yet immensely satisfying when done really well, hope to get to this lvl someday.

Satoshi Kon's unfinished last movie is very interesting. It's like Astro Boy gone wrong — the future promised in the '60s is now a post-apocalyptic ruin. Enough material is public (including a storyboard page) to get an idea of Kon's plan. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/inside-sat...

Seeing a lot more rage posts lately. Guys, keep the bsky mentality alive: don't like something? Block and move on. :) You don't want to interact with someone? Block. Someone blocked you? They didn't want to interact with you. That is all there is to it. :) Focus on those who make your day better.

Late night at the art studio

Me sharing my OCs

First trailer for Coyote vs. ACME, starring John Cena, Lana Condor, and Will Forte. The Looney Tunes movie is in theaters on August 28.

Another fan art of @dubbawide.bsky.social ‘s OC, Kaikei, probably the biggest and thickest character he has drawn so far! One of his older and slightly more obscure characters from a comic he has done before. Also not the first time I have drawn him so it was a trip down memory lane!

Submission by Guille Galeote* ( instagram.com/guillegaleote ) for the #CDChallenge - March 2026 theme was #TeapotFighter Presented by IDEA Academy → tinyurl.com/ideacourses #characterdesignchallenge #characterdesign #artcontest #artcommunity

Art will make your big brain big big bigger

Fan art of @dubbawide.bsky.social ‘s Soos, father and sumo wrestler! Been a while since the last time I’ve drawn him! 😊

Things have been pretty harsh project wise. I guess its time again to open commissions again. Would somebody be interested?😞💦 Reworking my commission form.

When it comes to the animation world, there is something that brushed me the wrong way for the past decade and it's when people call an animator or an animation "bad" because it's not smooth like sakuga/anime ; vintage disney era. All animations does not need to be smooth to be called "good".

The late great Bob McKnight's legacy and animation history is in danger of being seized and destroyed. Help donate. gofund.me/ae656c68a

Special illustration for the 5th anniversary of "Odd Taxi". natalie.mu/comic/news/6...

when I see shit like "actually don't engage with these films or support them because someone on reddit said it was a toxic crunch atmosphere", the goal never seems to be reparative, only punitive like do you actually want this to change? or are you just waiting a mythically unproblematic movie

literally every studio making every magical classic animated film you love has treated employees like shit, broken labour laws, hired creeps. it sucks, but try to understand how throwing all our hard work in the toilet because of these shitty people is so existentially insulting lol

some stickmen

commission for @kerokrow.bsky.social :3