Quick apology to everybody who followed me on Twitter and then noticed that I stopped posting on Twitter but then eventually joined Blue Sky and then of course stopped posting on Blue Sky as well.  Sending love to you all. I wish everyone here a wonderful day!

Hey @cathicks.bsky.social !! Look what I found happened 9 years ago? :) :) You look awesome in front of all your puppets. <3

What a year this week has been.

'Ink and Paint' was where many of the women artists at the Disney studio started. I'm happy to still see it around in some form.

Reminder that Klaus exists.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

@ani-obsessive.bsky.social did there 2025 recap of what was definitely a hard year for animation. Even with the few bright spots. They included a link to this article which in a weird way gives me resolve to keep going in 26 animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-pressu...

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

It’s an honor to be nominated and it will be an honor to be absolutely annihilated by K-Pop Demon Hunters.

… and he SERVED ✨

I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

This is what a placeholder asset looks like.

typical bluesky user

Animation by Milt Kahl* | The Aristocats (1970) #penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation

A reminder, now is a good time to go through your follower list and see who's following you. I found some cool people to follow back, and some bots/yucky people to block. Keep you blue skies blue.

In a major post-acquisition loss, Nickelodeon and Paramount Animation president Ramsey Naito is departing, leaving behind a legacy as a thoughtful steward of beloved franchises who kept iconic properties fresh and relevant and fostered new talent. www.cartoonbrew.com/executives/r...

12 seconds from 8 stop-motion films (1968–present) across the career of animator Yuri Norstein

You can learn a lot about somebody from their HOUSE OF DYNAMITE review.

Yes. Yes, yes.

Lightbox is good medicine for anyone working in creative AI right now.

Guillermo Del Toro comparing Victor Frankenstein to AI tech bros… 🤌

I have never seen anything like THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR (Netflix) before. It’s a documentary about a racist woman who shoots her neighboor, all told through police body cam footage. It won best directing (US doc) at Sundance and it’s clear why. I highly recommend it! Trigger: kids in high distress

worth watching all the way through youtu.be/nsZn9AeVBTo?...

💡Come see us at Lightbox 2025, Booth # 925, from 10/24 - 10/26! Nucleus is proud to host a signing at our booth with @lilyseikajones.bsky.social & Entei Ryu We will be debuting new prints & more! Details: gallerynucleus.com/events/1106?... #gallerynucleus #lbx #lbx2025 #lightbox #lightboxexpo

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!” Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

"Tears of the Mountain", the 3rd 2025 graduation short from french Gobelins school, is online. Directed by Luke Ashworth, Yehor Bondarenko, Alp Kurdoğlu, Romane Talva and Ange Yajima. Full film >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB9J...

Drew Struzan! That one hurts. What a loss.

This is REALLY worth a read! It avoids getting stuck on some quick surface level problems with AI art and gets to the heart of things. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

“out of the three mass shooting today”

Oh do people love cartoons? You wouldn't know it by how cartoons are treated

I need you to understand that if you heard a song you liked in the 80s, you couldn’t Shazam it. You couldn’t Google the lyrics. You had to sing it to the guy at Tower Records.

Another library haul gem. Beanie the Bansheenie by Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl" series)and illustrated by Steve McCarthy.

AI has only been useful to me as an artist when kept on a VERY short leash. After the Pixar layoff, I joined a startup making new animation tools. We just released this video reference to anim blocking converter. I hope this helps speed along your blocking first pass! Try it out at getcartwheel.com

Our feature artist/tutorial for today is this wonderful idea on creating COLOURFUL, STYLISED FOLIAGE by the talented @cysketch! Love that in just THREE STEPS you have a bold, characterful approach to your backgrounds and plant life! #conceptart #clipstudio #digitalpainting #manga

"Common Side Effects" sequences animated by Ricard Ubach. www.instagram.com/mr.ubach

Exploring some of my interests in morphing LEGO builds

KPop Demon Hunters! WOW! Rock on Sony Pictures Animation friends!

Elio was the most expensive Pixar film ever made. Ain’t no business like show business! 🎬

Happy Juneteenth bluesky!

This month, a team endorsed by Guillermo del Toro released Mexico's first stop-motion feature. It's 2 hours of pure imagination. The film is called I Am Frankelda, and we've taken a deep look into how it came to be: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-film-a...

Robert Reich on what A Bugs Life teaches us about Oligarchy. youtu.be/0Xi4PHki1jY?...

kermies #art

Animation by Andreas Deja, Alex Kupershmidt & Others* | Lilo & Stitch (2002) #penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation

Just took a weekend trip to LA. Y’all seen that place? They got some cool stuff there. Beach. Other stuff.

I’m not on social media much and I highly recommend that lifestyle.

Library gem of the week. IN A JAR by @deborahmarcero.com

What a day. Also: The Pope has probably eaten at a Wawa.

we will never let you edit posts. you must wear each typo as an albatross. you will bear the weight of your hubris