Am I the only person w/ a copy of the Lion King art book from 1994 — or at least the only person with it to bother looking at the production stills in the book for comparison? (pics 1–2 from Ani O article/post, pics 3–4 from The Art of The Lion King) animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-st...

It’s wild how providing much-needed aid to the survivors of the fire - before the government even felt like doing it - is now considered a national security threat

Snowy owl flying

They pick and choose the moments to go hard rather than trying to make every shot stand out. Helps me think about the big picture which is important when you're directing AND boarding AND designing AND animating, etc... Not everything can or should be at 11 all the time.

Watching early Shin-chan episodes always recharges my enthusiasm to animate. There's just something really exciting to me about the balance of formalized rules and economy vs how playful the animators were allowed to be. These are Masatsugu Arakawa.

I had not expected Bloomberg of all outlets to look for an anime angle but Bloomberg of all places found an anime angle

How to make beautiful comics: Step 1: Have something to say. Step 2: See Step 1.

I would definitely be in the "Fuck this shit" camp that walks out during the course, and I'd probably bail on the first day.

@lillywachowski.bsky.social Look what I found in my dad’s recycling bin: #Kawajiri storyboard pages for his #Animatrix ep PROGRAM (faxed 3/13/2001 !!!) I expect to find DaVinci’s lost notebooks in here if I keep digging. (dad, where are the other pages?) #TheMatrix #anime

It's my favorite day! It's the 38th anniversary of the Max Headroom signal broadcast intrusion! 1st incident lasted 25s during the 9PM news on WGN-TV in Chicago; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqge...

*Maxi Jazz voice* God is a DJ

Good morning to Garry Trudeau, who probably spent all night filling notebooks for strip ideas just from yesterday's news cycle alone.

One day I woke up and decided I wanted to do a stop motion animation. So I animated a simple run cycle, printed each frame and stuck them around my city ✨️ (Which btw, I felt super guilty about)

I've seen the trailer earlier, but I'm sharing this to keep on my radar because a) It looks gorgeous b) It's always nice to see hand-drawn animation coming from other parts of Asia, especially Hong Kong c) It's also a nice reminder that Hong Kong's film industry isn't dead

To clarify — writing, journalism, and art jobs make up a relatively small portion of the broader economy, but these are precisely the jobs we're losing as firms try to cut costs and cut out humans. Artists, journalists, illustrators.

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.

And what he finds broadly fits the picture that I've seen revealed in my reporting over the last year—"AI" is not broadly replacing jobs across the economy, but bosses and corporations very much are trying to use it to cut what labor costs they can; that means on art, words, and image production.

How is AI *really* impacting jobs? Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an: -8% drop in all jobs postings -~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs -22% drop in journalism jobs

with Marjorie Taylor Greene being kind of a whack job and magic the gathering rolling every IP it can into the game, it’s taking longer and longer to decipher which one posts about “MTG” are actually referencing lately

Enjoying this cold, rainy Sunday morning bundled up, eating a hot breakfast and drinking a big mug of tea, and contemplating this post as I wither into a tiny prune. 🫠

It is very funny that this Pope is just going to get jerseys from now on. Everyone decided that's what this Pope likes and that is it. It's like if your grandmother got you a puzzle for Christmas one year and you said you liked it so your entire extended family is like "oh that's the puzzle kid"

The feeling of joy seeing old news I missed about Tatsuyuki Tanaka working on a new animation, quickly soured by seeing Tanaka talk about using web3 bullshit to make it. 😔 www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-releas...

Looks a bit like Yoshinori Kanada's style? Not sure if he animated or designed this one.

Puking brachiosaurs are just the timeline cleanse we need on a Friday in the year 2025.

For #FossilFriday & in honor of @alinemghilardi.bsky.social & colleagues' fantastic discovery of a new Cretaceous pterosaur in Brazil in a dinosaur regurgitalite ("fossil vomit"), here's a diagram I made for my book 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (2014) showing the physics of a puking brachiosaur. 🧪🦕🤮🪨

this highlights something my brothers and I independently discovered decades ago: while it can be creepy to play a major key piece in a minor key, you fully enter uncanny valley territory if you play a minor key piece in a major key

*Stares in Uyghur, Tibetan, Hong Konger, Taiwanese, etc.*

A lot of the quotes and comments bring up the rotoscoping, but I wonder how many of them are only looking at how the character moves, instead of the more telling giveaways like a dude with frail-looking arms and v-shaped chest in a t-shirt suddenly becomes normally-proportioned in a button-down.

A ~3 hour timelapse of this morning's plume of lake effect snow totally obscuring the city before blue skies appear. #chicago

Factoring in Pritzker's views on Palestine and Israel, his letting ISP support ICE during the recent invasion, and his opposition to a large-corporation tax that would affect billionaires like himself — I don't think he's gonna cut it as prez. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/11/a...

I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit this should not be controversial 🫠

On this day, we were introduced to 'Central OL', who was photographed on the front line in very nice workwear and shoes, wearing a not-cheap leather handbag. Absolute queen. You can understand why she inspired protest art! Source: TG, Anon (Nov 2019)

Just a reminder that archive .is openly courts right-wing extremists to use their site to coordinate harassment campaigns and to filter any concerns about "preservation" accordingly

Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix. Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!

And now, an important announcement from Captain Jean Luc Picard.

Totally besides the point of this grim article, but I can't help but laugh at Brad Bird going to WB to bring Ray Gunn back from the dead, then Lasseter convinces Bird to direct it at Skydance instead, and then David Ellison supposedly wants to buy WB anyway. www.worldofreel.com/blog/2025/11...

In case everything I typed doesn’t make any sense:

The double splitscreen shot from 1:13-1:42 is one of the most insane shots created during the photochemical era. You’ve got a real woman fondling Maroon and Valiant at both ends of the shot, with the woman’s body hidden by splitscreens that run along the edges of the fluted columns in the BG…

what a headline www.404media.co/nancy-pelosi...

I guess LACMA didn't get the memo that Halloween was six days ago, because I shouldn't be saying "Boooooooo" in November.

I *think* I spotted my first tropical orb weaver during a walk earlier this week. I'm not 100% though — my searching involved looking up "California spiders" and comparing my photo to whatever seemed to bear the closest resemblance.

Another oil change, another proof of life on my mechanic’s cat, who has reached the age of 24.

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

Fan sites like this were fairly common back in the 90s and early 2000s but they're a dying breed today, so it's cool to see one like this still up and active even if I wasn't familiar w/ it back then (never played Roger Wilco). This is what I think of when I hear "web 1.0", not GeoCities templates.