I feel bad for anybody who entirely pivoted to YouTube Shorts, because YouTube really fucked those folks over early this year if our numbers are indication lol

Surprising "twist" reveals in stories: sometimes good, often boring when you know it's coming, at worst nonsensical. Dynamic-shifting, consequential story developments based in characters making believable choices: always good regardless of whether the audience is actually surprised.

I had a stress dream that I was moving again. I've moved like 5 times in the past decade, and it might end up being 6 if things don't go well lol

It shocks me how many businesses still don’t seem to get that Trump’s cultural revolution did not actually happen

We're in talks with the vet for Matilda's dental procedure! Meaning I need a MASSIVE break from coms once my current open slots are taken up. There are 3 Com Slots left open before I closed up until May. Message me on Discord to secure a slot!

Friendly reminder that any Dem presidential candidate who doesn't plan on enforcing consequences for these people is a non-starter. They're murderers who are undermining and attempting to break our entire system of government. There has to be consequences if we don't want this to happen again.

Not only is "I got mine" evil, it's also self-destructive.

The richest 10% of Americans own roughly 87% of stocks. The richest 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks. It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.

I'm sick of these fucks trying to do this shit And it's always a fucking bipartisan bill

i know it can be hard to stomach the constant shitstorm the government throws your way but becoming a defeatist and giving up arent options, you have to call and email and make your voices heard if you want change to happen

Why do people keep mentioning clavicles

"How DARE you say who you wouldn't vote for!" That's why we hold primaries, dipshit. You can't scold people into unity. It's the party and candidate's job to unify people. Step 1 towards that goal is actually listening to what they're fucking saying.

I haven't finished this video yet, but it really underlines to me why Musk and Trump really are kinda the same guy. Not only in being insecure rich kids who never got over not getting hugged by their evil nazi dads, but also in how they used entertainment to sell their "brand" as successful men.

It's a struggle to not be smug about never liking Elon Musk, but I soldier on We all have our burdens to carry

The other day when I bemoaned vibe coding some ai bro asked "have you TRIED vibe coding?" "Have you TRIED achieving nothing while creating bad code with cryptic errors?" No, actually I haven't. That's not appealing to me. I learned a long time ago it's better to understand what I'm working with.

Trump has launched three more boat strikes this week, bringing the total death toll to 177. Remember: No judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're taking Trump's word for it. This is murder. We must not lose sight of this lawlessness.

I really shouldn't still be awake right now, but at the core of my being is a guy who deeply resents sleep being a physical necessity

Spent like 14 hours almost nonstop creating my own toon shader in Blender 5.1 from scratch lol I think it was worth it, though. Should give me everything I need, and anything it doesn't have I can just add

In an era where video game adaptations both in film and anime are so huge, it's still kinda wild that there's no Kingdom Hearts anything.

Tbh dude's full of shit Not only did he double down on being a bully, but this is also the same guy who showed up to demand the dreaded poors don't get to live near him He doesn't want to be one of them, but he already has been for a while

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If an action/comedy weird west cartoon with anime bullshit sounds like your sorta thing, that's what I'm currently working on in my off hours www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw7D...

My instinct is always to hold as much as possible back until the final video is done, but I'm not sure that actually helps me lol So here's a fun shot I animated tonight #indieanimation

Isn't it ridiculous that in January Trump invaded Venezuela and kidnapped their leader, and he's done so much wild shit since then that it's hard to even retain that information?

How does humanity persist in the Pokémon games? Even the most major cities don't even crack a population of 1000 people. There's too few in any given region, the genetic pool is likely very shallow. It's a precarious situation to say the least.

My instinct is always to hold as much as possible back until the final video is done, but I'm not sure that actually helps me lol So here's a fun shot I animated tonight #indieanimation

Again, if you have a Substack, the best time to switch away was months ago -- but today's the second best time.

Congrats to the land my surname comes from for ousting their fascist. A bit jealous tbh, but congrats

I want to see that Aang movie as much as the next guy, but no way in hell I'm gonna pay Paramount a dime right now.

my one contribution to the discourse: until there is universal basic income and universal healthcare globally, you are gonna have to either fight for those things to exist or support indie animation with your dollars because we still exist in capitalism.

It's always a little wild to me when someone is offended when you don't emphasize some battle feat in One Piece. Unless it's story relevant I genuinely don't care, I cannot comprehend the person who reads One Piece for the fighting.

Sure, but also the 2008 market crash we never actually recovered from correlates with that data fairly easily. Most of us have been struggling to find financial stability and baseline comfort for over 15 years

If you have Angelfire or Tripod webpages, or Angelfire email, back it up now. A shutdown within the next 27 days is coming but they have not given us an exact time yet.

Tbh it's fairly infuriating to hear tech people talk about "vibecoding" positively when the past year of software for me has been plagued with shit I need for work seriously breaking in nearly every update

I think Bruce Springsteen should prove it Where's his longform birth certificate

remember baby nut remember when baby nut do you remember we all called him baby nut

I have a lot of relatives in Alberta. "it's just Alberta/Texas is not different from "it's just marginalized people in THOSE places that don't matter" and listen: it's a very easy slide from those people THERE don't matter to those people don't matter *anywhere*

That's fair! It took me a good while to get the hang of them, even with experience in other node-based workflows. Here's how I conceptualize it, if it helps:

As a former little boy: I did not care. I did not give a single shit. I liked to see cool people punching stuff, I did not give a single shit what gender each Power Ranger was. I watched and liked The Power Puff Girls and Kim Possible. Kids are not born with these hangups. They're learned.

REALLY APPRECIATE THIS CAUSE IT IS ONE OF MY FAVOURITE VIDEOS EVER ❤️

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Oh, also for those wondering what the (messy) process is: it's mostly me doing my best to filter out the lineart with luminance values along with some erode/dilate nodes adjusted to whatever works best for the shot. The individual nodes change depending on the shot's needs.

Last night I spent a few hours seeing if I could reverse-engineer modern anime compositing techniques in Davinci Resolve using old One Piece footage. There's no doubt still some room for refinement, but I'm pretty happy with the results so far!

Nobody who cares about our future more than their ego would do this. We need a fresh candidate who promises moving forward into something better, not the candidate who infamously said she'd do nothing differently from Biden. Trump sucks, but the status quo before him was also shit.

Are we sure it didn't hallucinate that?

Any amount would help, Im sorry to keep asking for help and Im working on commissions right now I just wont be paid right away.

Freaks, we've been acknowledged by big company. We made it. www.youtube.com/trends/repor...

Compositing/Color Grading may be the greatest gift the digital age has given filmmakers and animators. And the greatest curse.

This is not important in the grand scheme of things, but it'd be nice if Trump took a week off from being an evil monster man so people could maybe take a small moment to enjoy majestic pictures of space.