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The Animation Podcast, the original since 2005, created by Clay Kaytis. Reboot (Season 2)… imminent. https://linktr.ee/animationpodcast
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I’ll be at Lighbox Expo this Friday, speaking on a panel at 3:30 - Adapting Games into Animated Series and Films - with my Angry Birds directing partner Fergal Reilly @f3rgal.bsky.social. Hope to see some familiar and new faces there!
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“7 little hand-drawn animated shots - how hard can it be?”
This is the first - and maybe the last - time I do cleanup, color, and tones (shadows) on my own animation. I’m really enjoying it, but it’s taking FOREVER! Doesn’t help to have three characters, either. (It’s for an upcoming YouTube video.)
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I hope I’m not wrong, but I’m going to go out on a pretty stable limb and say an animator colleague of mine animated that - Bill Waldman. Good on ya, Bill! People like your stuff! Wonder if he’s still working?
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2025 NBA Champions. Tribute animation by Antoine Tran.
www.instagram.com/toine_tran/
I love seeing indie animation go for it. Worth a watch to see what’s possible.

NIGHTS OF GUINEVERE: PILOT
KNIGHTS OF GUINEVERE: PILOT
YouTube video by GLITCH
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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.
If any animation app companies want a consultant who has helped develop state-of-the-art animation software at Disney Animation, I’m your guy.
While I’m asking, do any apps let you ROLL drawings like on paper? Basically quickly step backward through the previous five drawings and then step forward five drawings to where you started. Again, completely crucial and intuitive way to animate with flow of motion and shapes, and it’s just ABSENT.
Flipping is a very intuitive way to draw an inbetween and it just doesn’t exist in apps AFAIK. Do people really just trace between lines with onionskin turned on and step linearly between drawings? What, are we cavemen???
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?
Doing some hand-drawn animation for myself after a LOOONG break. Rusty, but it comes back. Funny, wanted to do a slow-in, so I instinctively drew a timing chart and it worked! Lots of things are coming back & I’m done w/ a rough pass. Time to tie down. I dunno, just sorta happy and wanted to share.
Sorry for the cross-posting but I’m bad at separating my posts into the right buckets
I remember the day James finished this shot. It took him hours to shoot it on the Lyon-Lamb and we (all the young guys at the time) kept giving progress reports “still shooting”. Then when it was ready we gathered around and he hit play. Jaws dropped, people cheered, then we staggered away awestruck
This is my first time seeing these but I can understand the fandom
BAMAN PIDERMAN ARE FINALLY BACK HOME UNDER @smallbu.bsky.social'S ROOF!

Truly a day of celebration for indie animators everywhere...
#FizzVsComics
BAMAN PIDERMAN - Episode 1 - Find Da Sandwich
YouTube video by SmallButera
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Before the Dumb & Dumber/Ace Ventura double-feature @newbeverly.bsky.social last night, they played “Of Fox and Hounds” (1940 Tex Avery) & a flood of memories came back when I heard that famous line: “Which way did he go, George?”
We said that ALL THE TIME in my family.
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"Which Way Did He Go, George?"
YouTube video by Kevin Nguyen
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I worked with Rosaemary @travale.bsky.social on the Peanuts specials. Happy to see fellow creatives creating for themselves. Give Rosaemary and Craig a follow here and on YT!
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Happy 88th birthday to the greatest fictional character of all time
In 1994 I would drive around LA with John Aoshima and Sean Jimenez to go to every figure drawing class we could find to build up our portfolios. Then we all got jobs and now 30 years later I’m here still cheering on John!
‘Ultraman: Rising’ co-director John Aoshima signs overall deal with Warner Bros. Pictures Animation. Aoshima is also guest directing on season two of Netflix’s ‘ Blue Eye Samurai.’ Full story on Cartoon Brew: www.cartoonbrew.com/animators/ul...
I always get excited for a new Sylvain Chomet film. Such a unique filmmaker. I still have that dog from The Triplets of Belleville seared into my memory.
First poster for "Marcel & Monsieur Pagnol" french animated feature by Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets of Belleville, The Illusionist...).
A biopic about one of France's greatest writers.
Premiering at Cannes Festival. In french theaters on October 15th.
Amazing to hear I was a small part of your artistic journey. 🙏
I think I’m gonna have to buy the EX version for a little animatioOOON.
Clip Studio Paint (v4) is doing a release sale for only $23.40 for a perpetual license.

Check it out at: www.clipstudio.net/en/

Full disclosure: CSP will be a sponsor of LBX this year but they didn’t ask us to do this (and we don’t do social ads for sponsors anyway), we just wanted to share 😀
CLIP STUDIO PAINT - More powerful drawing.
Your go-to art studio for illustration, animation, manga, & webtoons. Fully packed with customizable brushes & tools. Draw on your smartphone, tablet, and PC.
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Now that Bluesky allows 3-minute videos, it is my responsibility to post one of the greatest moments in animation c/o Blue Seed. I will be forever grateful to
@rookery-ceramics.bsky.social for sharing this with me. #blueseed #animationcels
Thanks for humoring my curiosity.