More importantly, an amazing person who shaped a humane philosophy that the studio carried from its founding until now, and in the hands of his family, into the future. People who crossed paths with him remember both small acts of kindness and his ahead-of-their-time views on animation production

All my condolences about the passing of KyoAni founder & president Hideaki Hatta. No exaggeration to say that he's been one of the most important individuals in the history of this industry, especially if you consider that he also had a hand in IG's inception www.kyotoanimation.co.jp/information/...

dustydaggers.the-comic.org made a beat little comicfury site for my comic book Dusty Daggers in preparation for issue #2. if you never got to read #1, now you can easily!

as some of you may know i run a discord called "world animation!" unfortunately due to the trials of moderating a discord we've had to make our invite process somewhat selective. if you're interested, here's a quick guide on how to join! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Telecom Animation Film is getting dissolved and absorved by TMS Entertainment. As far as I remember, they had been in debt for a long time so it doesn't come as a total surprise, but it's still a sad news. Lupin the IIIRD The Immortal Bloodline was basically their swan song gamebiz.jp/news/421008

made a music video of cartoons i think you should see before you die. highly biased, personal, and non-comprehensive youtu.be/6T5bsHjb-dE?...

made a list for easy access to some of my favorite posts on ben ettinger’s defunct anipages blog. let me know if there’s any i should add! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

year in review

I don’t think an anime opening has ever made me laugh so hard.

NO KINGS.

The fun part is they all have their own tricks! Kitanohara did something similar with objects rather than characters. Ota turned digital effects like sparkles, shading, reflections, etc into clearly drawn effects... then it all contrasts with the physical backdrop. "Handmade" from a different angle!

The ways CITY's creative width becomes specific technical choices is also fascinating. Given how stylized everything is, each director basically adapts to the "level of technology" of the series. Ishidate started by translating photography ideas like being out of focus into the drawings themselves

One of CITY's greatest achievements is pushing veteran artists to tackle new challenges. Joji Unoguchi started as an in-betweener in the 80s, became a leader of KyoAni's budding BG art crew, then spent decades as art & 3DBG director His role in CITY #05? Creating a diorama to set the episode into

jammin my way outta #OIAF2025 soon...thanks for hangin out @vertecks.bsky.social @ibcf.bsky.social @aaronlong.bsky.social

(It's because it apparently has a gag page by me in it, which would be cool to see. The one with DUCK TWACY cameo)

I'm on a trip outside my home country, and since it was very recently Chile's national holiday, i thought of giving it a farewell by giving the girls from Azumanga Daioh a good ol' chilean "asado." I love these characters and i thought of no better way to honor them.

anyone else at #OIAF?

Praying and manifesting for the eventual Warner Bros. x Pokemon crossover... there's potential here!!!!

A friend asking if I could draw Porky and Daffy as Pokemon (Tepig and Ducklett!) spawned into a fantastic conversation that I immediately had to immortalize

we've come a long way from the simple days when the school principal merely suplexed a deer

Happy Bugs Day! Going through some old art for the occasion. He's tricky and aloof with me, but rewarding on the chance I can pin 'im down!

(The movie is 'Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam'.)

I can't believe how underappreciated this movie is. I don't think I'd even *heard* of it until just today.

Her fondness for Nightow and now the willingness to direct a Corocoro adaptation paint a clear picture of Rie Matsumoto's taste for juvenile chaos. If her more idiosyncratic pitches are fated to die, getting her back on something she enjoys is a pretty good deal!

those famous screen lovers

going to stream r.o. blechman's "the soldier's tale" at 7 PM PST tonight in the world animation discord, arguably one of the best animated films made in the USA. check out this stellar sequence animated by fred burns! www.sakugabooru.com/post/show/87...

a beautiful day (music is Untitled Work on Electronium Synth Machine by Bruce Haack)

pretty literally no seams understood exactly the strengths of black and white

Thanks, Zaslav

in honor of various "fan lyric" videos to instrumental songs that never had lyrics, here is my own "fan lyric" video for my favorite cartoon theme song, the 50s BARNEY BEAR intro

Here’s a Tex Avery-directed Raid commercial from 1969, featuring the voices of Paul Frees, Mel Blanc, and Dick Tufeld for ya…

As for me, I have no personal desire to be in Los Angeles. (WARNING: this video contains flashing photos that last 2 frames per second of 30fps video)

we can't even function when we're not in a band

when osamu tezuka saw the daicon iii animation, he famously said "there certainly were a lot of characters in the film...there were also some that weren't in the film." akai and yamaga, realizing the implication of tezuka's remark, made sure that daicon iv did not omit muttley.

brilliant scene from chuck jones's "two's a crowd" that conveys the extent of the director's funny cynicism--claude cat's acting is entirely convincing and observant of heartwarming interactions with cute puppies, while in fact only murder is on his mind!

in a good world all the executives would be begging at studio khara’s door for anno to direct a series of 40s MGM-budgeted tom and jerry shorts

this is for the first time that Tomcat's Big Adventure will be screened in North American at Texas theater, Dallas. there similarities between Tomcat's Big Adventure and PopoloCrois, Ryutaro nakamura was previously involved directed animated cutscene & Game Art of the first Popolocrois game on PS1.

👍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldLd...

retouching and reposting old art, here's a look at "what if lupin III had aged realistically from his debut" obviously based on sean connery, since lupin III's design was mostly based on connery's bond

Early birthday present for a friend! I had a lot of fun modeling the rendering after Tom McKimson’s Little Golden Book illustrations. Now go see these two on the big screen while you can!!

grumpy old marxist daffy, for whom time hasn’t passed since the 70s

Zettai Shonen #19: I can only say "this show is so damn cool" so many times. Just a whole ass ep talking about what it means to be an artist

NEWS: THIS "BLUE SKY" ACCOUNT IS NOW DEDICATED TO FLICKY

friz freleng should have written his own cartoons more often