BRING HER BACK is some grade-A fucked up shit.

XII.XII.MMXXV on Netflix. More to come…

youtu.be/x--N03NO130?... Only Monsters Play God…

QUESTION! If I made an intro to effects class (using only your phone), which types of effects would you want to learn?

If I told you 1 person had the most popular land in Epic Universe, directed the #1 movie on Netflix, AND created a character w/ the biggest Memorial Day opening of all-time – would you believe me? You should, because that's EXACTLY what Chris Sanders just did! www.keysandcurves.com/p/mission-st...

7 DAYS!!! @netflix.com #TUDUM #FrankensteinGdT

This shit is hitting a lot of us HARD today

Eyes up here. Trailer Tomorrow. #Lookup #Superman

Sometimes the hardest button to button is just pressing PUBLISH. Today was that day. Let's get real. Let's talk layoffs. www.keysandcurves.com/p/the-hardes...

What’s up with Animation? We talk about the industry at large, share a jaw-dropping Sonic fan film, and take a look at a very slick new shoe commercial. Check out all this and more in the newest edition of KEYS & CURVES! open.substack.com/pub/keysandc...

Your reminder that Light & Magic on Disney+ is an incredible documentary series you need to watch. What could have just been a behind the scenes look at special effects is instead a heartfelt human story from filmmaker Joe Johnston that has no right to be this good—In season two.

Earth Day•Every Day🌿✨

I stumbled into Substack’s podcast-making capability, so now KEYS & CURVES has short quickcasts where I take a walk and record my musing on animation and motion design topics weekly. Today’s topic? Animated anthologies and why maybe we should be making our own? 🤔 open.substack.com/pub/keysandc...

Good morning! If all you do today is one tiny doodle in the margins of your to-do list, that still counts as making art. Celebrate the small wins! 🎉✏️

This whole “you’re cooked, artists” thing is the equivalent of someone who tried a microwave for the first time saying it’s over for restaurants now. You better quit now all you cooks & chefs and become a plumber because I can make a limp grey salisbury steak in 30 seconds!

I finally got to do official Treasure Planet art for Lorcana!! John Silver for the upcoming Archazia's Island set ✨

Going live with @ecabrams.bsky.social in about 40 minutes! If you're anti-Corporate Memphis, we welcome you to come hate-watch! 😅 (But know that we're in on the joke...) See you on @adobelive.bsky.social! Noon ET / 9a PT 👉 behance.net/adobelive 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Deh...

BREAKING: We're beginning live coverage of this major story. Technicolor, owner MPC, Mikros Animation, and The Mill, is on the verge of total collapse. Over 10,000 animation and VFX workers in the US, Canada, UK and India could become unemployed this week.

In terms of head count, this is how big MPC & The Mill were in June 2024, according to Visual Effects World Atlas: public.tableau.com/shared/9ZQXC...

Writing 4 panel comic strips for a project. Thought I’d take a break & read some early CALVIN + HOBBES. DONT. It is SHOCKING how good Watterson was, right out of the gate. His fourth strip in and it’s jam-packed. Visual puns. Established the dynamic between C+H. A double funny final panel.

The chilling effect continues across VFX shops as Technicolor US seemingly is shutting down operations on Monday – this includes Mikros, MPC and The Mill offices across the country.

I just finished the storyboards for 30s spot for work. Took ~8 hours across a couple days. It was 66 panels total. I've wanted to start a 4-panel slice of life comic for myself and struggling hard 😡 Doing the math, 66/4 = 16. I could do SIXTEEN strips for myself in a day?!? What's my problem?!?

I’ve been building a collection of utility scripts to launch from Quick Menu 3 in After Effects. One opens this Keyboard Maestro palette of additional automations.

It's almost Oscar time – what's your Animated Feature pick this year? If you haven't seen FLOW yet, I highly recommend watching it, it's available to rent and it's amazing. A wordless journey that has some similarities to WILD ROBOT, made completely in Blender! 👀 www.amazon.com/gp/video/det...

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

ChatGPT ad shows generative AI is totally washed. Impossible to tell what it was the first half until it started saying random prompts like "write me a business plan." Two years in and they don't have a better sales pitch than "summarise this article for me." Washed!

These AI commercials don't even have the juice of the crypto ones of 2022. AI is totally washed. Good lord.

That “HE GETS US” ad is funded by an extreme right wing org. Using Johnny Cash’s cover of Depeche Mode’s “Personal Jesus” - a scathing critique of right-wing televangelists preying on the unwary - is a spectacular self-own.

Moon Girl getting recognition in all front at the Annies on the day it officially ends its run is just ughhhhhhhhhhhggh you deserved so much more!!!

They just can’t decide if they want AI to take every job or have us live at the office and pay them directly for essentials.

Anyone associated with BARBARIAN making a new film has my ticket - looking forward to COMPANION!

I hope the #MoonGirlAndDevilDinosaur Kaylas enjoy the finale! 🥹❤️🌙🦖

A couple years ago I worked on some Wumpus' & Friends stickers for Discord. I'm sharing the winter set, it feels pretty right on a day like today! ❄️ #illustration #discord #yeahhaus

here's a Fantastic Four pinup I did back in 2021

I really liked this campaign from KELLOGG’s - how often have you seen marketing where they remove the logo instead of making it bigger?!? www.linkedin.com/posts/mrryan...

If you already know a 3D program, it's weird how daunting trying to add BLENDER to your toolkit can be. That's why I'm so stoked that the team at School of Motion led by @eyedesyn.bsky.social just launched BLENDER FOR 3D ARTISTS today! www.schoolofmotion.com/blog/blender

Hayao Miyazaki's short guide to watercolor painting -- we put this translation together a couple of years ago

Maybe the only way to get people’s attention about how gross this entire scenario is right now is to just lean into the Garbage Pail Kids nature of it all.

One of my favorite people working in comics is writing one of my favorite characters in cartoons and I never want it to end. Please buy two of that first issue and give a copy to a kid in your life - it will make for a memorable first comic!

I’ve teared up at plenty of Bluey episodes in my day but jesus christ the one with Bingo’s outer space dream is like a tactical assault on the sobbing section of my brain

No Star Wars. No Star Trek. Name a favorite sci-fi franchise.

also I can’t believe it’s called DOGE, we’ve normalized so much but it would be like if a gigantic historic thing bringing about constitutional crises were called like “You Done Goofed Institute of Cash Me Outside.”

Is it me? Or is Pinterest overflowing with GenAI? If you are typing a prompt in its most basic form it actually might be better to go straight to a Pinterest search. 🥴 Better/diversified inspiration sources have never been more important. Enter @oddernod.bsky.social with Keys & Curves. ⬖

if you wanna buy my good fucking comic, here it is btw ❤️‍🔥 🫱https://lbink.com/titles/keezy-young/hello-sunshine-a-graphic-novel/9780316509572/ 🫲

Hourly comics part 2

thought it would be funny to watch some Roadrunner cartoons on acid but ten seconds in we're all silent out front of the tv, awed by the desolate beauty of these desert landscapes and struck by the emptiness of the world. should these two lone living souls not seek solace in one another

Do you sell merch for your comic? 🎁 What’s been your best seller, and why do you think it clicked? #webcomicmerch

Really excited about this update for After Effects Beta that makes nulls even more powerful tools. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUnX... More info here: community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...