Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.

if you haven’t watched tokyo godfathers yet this season, the story starts on christmas eve but it ENDS on new year’s day - so you aren’t too late! and it’s on tubi for one more day! go go go!

Sharknife is coming back!!!!!!

Stranger Things 5 would have hit HARD 3 years ago. It’s still fun, I can’t help but enjoy it.

A hater with integrity anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Culture was basically taken over and seeded to the right when Trump won in 2016. And it feels like we’ve finally hit the peak and culture is sick of these whiny jerks. 2026 we start shifting it!

here's a tip... the woke media will tell you that the "Canons of Human Proportion" should just be 8 heads high. But I like to subtlety depict giant women and often like to go for about 10 heads high

One of the most underrated design skills in games is graphic design for things like decals and fake branding for posters/stickers/flyers/books/props/signs/displays. We take this stuff for granted and yet they are very much a world building detail that adds so much more life to environments.

Now (re)watching: ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981) #filmsky

all bluesky not having an algorithm means is that all the adhd hyperfocus sickness of the mind posters finally don't get deboosted anymore; free of our shackles we can force everyone to read 50000 posts about blorbo a day every day

We just have make 2026 better huh?

Stan is the real deal and was very fun to work with on Lower Decks!

Unfortunately the economy might be going back to 2009 too

deadass?

think about miss piggy's place in popular culture and she's just universally acknowledged as a total babe. now think about the fact that this was a gag ("lipstick on a pig") when the muppet show started. she is a pioneer that moved that needle via sheer grind she really did this. she's really her.

My mother in-law a retired public school art teacher was telling me how when Photoshop first came out a bunch of the schools started laying off art teachers only to have hire them back a few years later.

Going into 2026…

I know its hack to complain about airport food and drink prices but also what the fuck!? Why do we tolerate this shit?

And by providing them with data and free entertainment while they continuously spit in our face, we're showing them it's working. Boycott is the only way to actually, meaningfully fight back. I'm not judging any one individual for staying, or being unwilling to risk a boycott. I get it.

🧵 Guys, edit image button wasn't made to stop you creating. They WANT you to create and, more importantly, to keep uploading to X. They NEED training data and free entertainment for their userbase, and they don't give a damn whether you're providing it happy or full of spite and rightful fury.

people complaining about bsky algo wont survive pre-tiktok social media, this is literally your last chance to grow organically like we did nearly a decade ago. its easier to grow on bsky, even with zero followers your posts are seen, no hashtags needed! this is great for artists

Anyway. They spent the last decade telling us STEM degrees were the future and the Humanities were worthless then they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build a glitchy Humanities robot.

remember when we all tried to migrate to mastodon that one time and then the people there were really preachy and hostile to us? that's some of you here right now

In thinking about what you can do this year, keep this in mind: Showing up at protests has real impact!

A lot of people in the replies are referring OP to some very helpful resources. But that really misses the point that this should be a simple search query on ANY search engine. Enshitifcation to the max!

oooohh!! Animation Paper is releasing a new beta for free with a bunch of great new features like transforming shift-and-trace cels and brush smoothing and stuff like that, love to see it #2danimation animationpaper.com/help/questio...

I’ve curated a starter pack to make it easier to find artists working in animation on Bluesky! (If you qualify but aren’t on this list let me know, I will fill it up until it hits the 150 limit!) go.bsky.app/KDYTiwF

Hate staring at a blank page? Here's 6 methods that help me generate ideas.

Remember what’s important today! (That there’s a Solar Opposites Christmas special about the aliens being sucked into the movie Jingle All The Way that I wrote without having watched Jingle All The Way, but I got pretty damn close to guessing what it was about.) (I did watch the trailer.)

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate! Peace, love, and champagne! 🎄🥂

The Elephant is so good you guys, please watch it. Three animation teams made a short film in three acts where none of them got to know what the other teams were doing. The result is a bombastic yet meditative interrogation of death and identity in a senseless universe. A real cartoon-ass-cartoon!

Let me reintroduce myself! Im Brandon, I work as a storyboard artist and director in the LA animation industry I love drawing my boy Wukong Im developing many projects I hope to share with you all one day! My dream is to make an animated martial arts feature Re-Repost your art on Bluesky!

For no reason in particular you should share some of my artist starter packs to help out refugees escaping hell go.bsky.app/79aS32C

If you're an artist coming over from Twitter because of this bullshit they added, first of all: Really genuinely sorry they fucked you like this & I think it's extremely reasonable to be crashing out HARD right now Second: I'm gonna offer Bluesky tips and encourage ppl to share starter packs here

Zero tolerance is the ONLY and FITTING response to genAI being used in production of media. Sure, you might think it's too harsh. Sure, they might've only used it for early stuff in development, etc Listen, it's not even a SLIPPERY slope, there is NO friction at all unless we speak out against it.

Perform empathy. Please. Perform the fuck out of it. It's so good to act with kindness. I hope it penetrates to a place where you feel it, too, but if you must act some way, act the right way. I'm not here to judge your authenticity, I just want you to be kind, thoughtful, and mortified by meanness.

James Baxter is one of the only living animators on planet earth that could make a joke about squash and stretch/follow-through animation this good. I lost my shit at the extreme smear bit when Gumball turns around.

The Arnold and Carl Weather’s Predator bicep arm shake greeting should be the next major standard emoji

When Netflix didn’t renew ‘Dark Crystal Age Of Resistance’ thats when I knew where we were headed.

Watched The Neverending Story for the first time since I was a kid. It’s not very good but there are some charming elements and cool scenes. Its from that tactical fantasy genre of the time that I kinda miss and wish we could update.

BREAKING: Down

logging on

People all complain about movie runtimes but what’s a film you wish was longer? For me its Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. I could sit through another hour and set piece of that!

Watched One Battle After Another now that its on HBO and the movie moves. You do not feel the run time at all.

Oh God, James Ransone died by suicide. I really liked him as an actor. Whenever he showed up in a movie, my partner and I would always excitedly point out that Deputy So and So was here.

People yelling at journalists about paywalled articles is what reminds me nobody has any conception of what a systemic problem is

As told by the late dancer and choreographer Agnes DeMille.

I've literally never met an artist who was in an awkward stage of their development that didn't push through to something cool and well- realized provided they kept learning and trying. the only exceptions are early 2000s webcomic artists who chose to be frozen in amber