Hand animating a TEENY clip for a YT video and I feel so… EMPOWERED. Creating something from scratch – FOR MYSELF, BECAUSE I WANT IT TO EXIST – feels like a giant middle finger to everything wrong in tech and entertainment right now. Trying out Clip Studio Paint for this, and I’m mostly liking it.

What a deal! Can’t believe no one’s taken it. 🤮

In the absence of work, I’m writing and recording a video series about what I’ve learned making movies. I’m in the midst of publishing my first thing: a YT Shorts series documenting my experience writing a screenplay. After that, I’ll be publishing longer form videos. It’s here: @nowgomakeamovie.com

This was so satisfying

Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio had a budget of $35 million and every single character was moved one frame at a time by a human being. What the fuck are we even doing!!!!!!!

Adjusted for inflation Spirited Away cost $22 million to make. The Triplets of Belleville cost $16.5 million, Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers cost $14.28 million, and Oscar winner Flow cost only $4 million. These critically acclaimed, made by real people films, cost less than this pile of actual vomit.

Burn the AI Slop movies projects because we can have things like Decorado made by humans. There are thousands of people with good ideas and the talent to make them. Support them.

Fuck Open AI. Fuck Cannes Film Fest. Fuck the writers of Paddington 3.

Does anyone know of a 2D animation app that does flipping the way it happens on paper: going from drawing 2 (the inbetween I’m drawing) to 3 (next drawing), to 2 to 1 (prev drawing), back to 2. Basically a hotkey that goes: 2-3-2-1-2 Does what I’m asking even make sense to anyone?

Fuck this bullshit

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

Today my wife told me my tiddies are shrinking. That’s a win, right?

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Dragon con remains undefeated.

Whether he had a stroke or not, I’m really enjoying the silence this week.

Maybe he should make less money.

As this account becomes more personal about hobby stuff & opinions, I’d like to direct you to my other accounts for… Animation: @animationpodcast.com Filmmaking: @nowgomakeamovie.com Or follow all three 😃👍

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Writing a Screenplay - Day 4 The daily journal continues, with 8 pages written!

AI is good for one thing: to remind us that it’s good to use and sharpen your own brain and to use it for what it’s for – to think, problem-solve, and most importantly, to create and grow. Don’t give the experience of that gift away.

In an act of preserving my sanity, I keep creating. And I make videos about it.

🤦🏻‍♂️ TL/DR version: “Barr, the attorney general at that time, said in 2020 that Mr. Trump’s assertions of widespread fraud couldn’t be proven.” Also: “Trump’s latest comments came after he said that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had discussed the issue during their summit on Friday in Alaska.”

Latest Writing a Screenplay vid is up. Finished re-reading the book, so I’m on to actual writing!

When game ads pop up in an app and they bait you with how terribly they play so you think “I could do better than that, gimme that game!” It makes me think if those terrible as seen on tv ads

So SO glad I dumped everything Meta this year. Do not miss it one bit.

This is masculinity too

I’m starting a new YT Shorts series - Writing a Screenplay. Follow along with my daily video diaries. Writing a Screenplay - DAY 1

I got AI’d in the drive thru. I asked for a sausage egg biscuit with cheese and got a biscuit with a fried chicken patty.

Ya know, for posterity, I should really film my wife @mlagokaytis.bsky.social talking to customer service. Every time, it’s a pure masterclass on so many levels I could only dream of for myself.

WORST advice I ever got: “When someone asks you if something is possible, always say yes.” Everything is not always possible & you shouldn’t put it on yourself to make it so. When it’s not, explain what is possible & the cost of making the request happen. Put the decision (and cost) back on them.

Unmuted someone because I thought “why did I mute THIS person?” Then my feed flooded with their constant posting. Ah, NOW I remember.

Today I learned that smishing is phishing with texts (the sm from SMS). For both the new word and the act, I’ve had enough human race for today thanks.

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

Meanwhile on my other channel…

Something worse than Watergate happens pretty much on the daily now.

RIP, Prince of Darkness

The ONLY upcoming emoji that matters:

Ya know what the difference is? If the politicians we vote for are on the Epstein List, we want them to go to jail too.

I hope the Epstein Files get at least half as much demand as The Snyder Cut.

Insanity

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

A personal policy: I don’t watch movie trailers. I don’t need to see what’s in a movie to know I’m interested in that movie. I hate seeing jokes in advance of finding out how they fit in a film. Plus, most trailers lie about how good a movie will be. Also, I won’t look at a menu until I’m seated.

“Uncorrected data”

After all these years, the @newbeverly.bsky.social has an offer I can’t refuse. Excited about watching my first movie(s) there tomorrow (Wednesday) night. Anyone else gonna be there?

Would you say my zipper was down all day, or just the five minutes before I discovered it?

If you fall off your roof with no shoes on and your wife doesn’t see or hear you, does it count?

How the West Was Won (1962) #filmlocations at Convict Lake, CA

Thread 👇

I need a stool so I can sit in front of the oven door and watch the bakes

hey remember when a rich ceo died then when they caught the suspect they made a circus of it like they found osama bin laden and charged him with terrorism but less than weeks ago two democrat lawmakers and their spouses were shot as literal assassination to shift control and everyone already forgot