You don’t really need a budget to do indie animation, the problem is “indie animation” has been reduced to bigger budget/studio works with insane frame-by-frame animation, a big crew/voice cast and a merch line instead of scrappy shit you make in a week by yourself or with some friends in Flash.

I don’t think Trump and his people are capable of engineering “distractions,” I think the mind-numbing chaos we see every day is straightforwardly the result of giving the dumbest, cruelest, most corrupt, most selfish people of a generation near-unmitigated power

The belief in trans rights entering the median voters body as Trump makes gas cost $8/gallon

Rejected Mega Man robot master? #art #animation

"we don't want a million dollars in therapy bills" says the company that threatened to feed Beloved Childhood Toys to the fires of Hell

I like how this describes both Daylight Savings Time and also everything about America.

I used to respect him (Pete), but this is sad and embarrassing for everyone. It was a place I dreamed of working at one time. And now I just feel sad thinking about it. you have the power to make kids feel seen and instead you think “but what about their bigoted parents? What will they think?!”

Eric Andre capturing how I think we all feel these days:

I know it’s not the point but it’s beyond time to stop pretending that “independents” exist. They are just non-MAGA republicans afraid of being yelled at

So I guess Pete Doctor didn’t listen to a DAMN thing Hayao Miyazaki said to him eh?…

Then you're not making art, you're making a product and you're a fucking coward.

The 2020-2021 market boom was truly the worst thing to happen to video games. A bunch of fair-weather investors swept up countless studios, then spent several years realizing you can’t “line goes up” art production and slowly gave up

This is probably the closest we'll get to this administration being sicced by Disney lawyers.

Noem being moved to the very real position of Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas is not entirely unlike Nintendo making Martinet their Mario Ambassador.

Drawing: A voter voting at a voting booth. Political cartoonist: "I'd better label this."

Elon Musk Eat Rocket Fuel Challenge

Manifesting...

Obama is the only president to date born when there were 50 states

*clueless shareholder who just happens to have too much money* "My nephew, he loves that Fortnite. I saw that company makes a billion dollars a hour on Fortnite! Why aren’t we making a Fortnite??" This is how I imagine every needless live-service / MMO game is put into production

this war has already wiped out the stated gains from what DOGE did last year lol

Frustrating, but at the same time, I've used this argument in meetings with studios for why we DON'T need to dumb down whatever a character is doing for the audience. "The people who get it will get it and the people who don't will look it up. It'll go viral as people talk about it" It has worked.

So as the USA and Israel continue to bomb civilians, hospitals, schools etc across the middle east, let’s think ahead a bit. If, heaven forbid, there’s ever another terrorist attack in the USA related to that region, can we please skip the fake-innocent WHY DO THEY HATE US shit this time??

The kids don't know about the Amanda Bynes poster hastily airbrushed to avoid implying she endorsed peace

If you have epilepsy and are curious about Taz-Mania now that it's on Tubi, ALWAYS skip the intro! Yikes!

Remember the 2000s when it seemed like all children's cartoons had been replaced with 4Kids anime? Now is somehow worse.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

I hope everyone that was screaming their heads off about evil video games journalists around the time of the Gates is now dancing in the streets with joy that all of them have been replaced by AI. Good work, buddy! You torpedoed an entire industry because Girl Bad. Thanks so much. Gold star.

I can't animate this project fast enough...

A bear with a nozzle on its head isn't very anatomically accurate for how honey is produced. I propose a new standard for squeeze bottle design.

Following a white man to war because you disliked the sound of a black woman laughing will go down in American history as one of the dumbest acts of self-sabotage ever.

They’d do it a third time while feigning concerns and we all know it.

In the story of Humpty Dumpty it is never said that he is an egg. However, it is never said that he is NOT an egg. This means that any character in ANY story could be an egg unless explicitly stated otherwise. Keep that in mind when you read a Jack Reacher novel

I see that clip going around of "Iran has industrial strength bombs" and not seeing a lot of questions on... uhh... wtf is an "industrial" strength bomb?? Is is a bomb you can get at Home Depot with 80% more bomb in it than you'd get at Target?

Guys, guys, everything's going to be fine. People are already drawing a whole new round of pictures where Looney Tunes characters are angry at the CEOs as we speak!

PEN WARD HAS JOINED THE CHAT AND WE ARE NOW GOING TO RAFFLE OFF HIS DRAWINGS WHEN WE HIT $3500!!! tiltify.com/@karlicartoo... twitch.tv/karlicartoons

If Mr. Reich's son could find it anywhere in his budget to fund and/or license more indie projects via Dropout, that would be helpful. A tiny, tiny bit helpful, but I feel like we're in "do what you can" territory.

How long into the acquisition until the Ellisons burn all the anti-nazi Looney Tunes and just leave us with the racist ones?

Not even a month after trying purge Animate from my subscription, Adobe is now trying to railroad me into a more expensive tier crammed with "A.I." features. I so, so hate this industry-standard company.

This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment. If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

Still looking for work if anyone's got a lead. I know things a kinda slim as of late.

Retread of Tubi's "Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog" cover art, this time with a PRRRROMOTION

This is one of the "I am a millennial on the internet" litmus tests.

I don't think it's a coincidence that @filmcow.bsky.social decided to release this radio play on the day of the State of the Union.

as an independent animator, I think it might be fun if Dropout licensed some of the awesome indie cartoons out there, like Deep Space Discounts, Bridge Kids, Ollie & Scoops, etc. Maybe a multi-series compilation show if licensing short-form cartoon content doesn't make as much sense logistically.

Hey, our "Looney Tunes Cartoons" shorts from a few years ago will be available on TUBI sometime next month! For those who wanted to watch the series and couldn't stand the high paywall of HBOMax, your day has finally come! I hope people finally rediscover the show so many of us worked so hard on!

*shrug* Kids deserve high quality physical media too.