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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 1d

Promises made, promises kept 🤦🏻‍♂️

Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 2d

Feel like a lot of people will want to know this 👇 #filmmaking

Now Go Make A Movie! @nowgomakeamovie.com · 2d

By chance, I was in a store and met a Disney exec, so I took the opportunity to ask them why doesn’t Hollywood want to make movies anymore? Their answer cracked my brain a little, but I am not so perplexed anymore. Hope this helps you too…🧵 /1

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 2d

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!

Adapting Games into Animated Series and Films

Civic Auditorium | Maureen Fan, FERGAL REILLY, Patrick Osborne, Clay Kaytis, Jony Chandra, Katherine MacDonald
Recent animated game adaptations have crushed it with fans like Arcane or at the box office with Sonic. Making them is hard though: these games have rabid existing fanbases much larger than comics, the games are still ongoing, some have thin story, and Hollywood + games have had a storied history with many previously failed film adaptations. Hear from the creatives, who adapt these beloved IP into animation, share how they do it well.

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 2d

“Fuck AI”

— Guillermo del Toro

🎥 Vanity Fair

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 4d

Imagine how good I would be at life if I did everything right the first time.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 8d

Okay, let’s go again.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 11d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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🕷️Gory Thing🕷️ @korybing.bsky.social · 9d

If you accidentally post AI slop and are told “hey that’s AI” the correct answer is to go “aw shit I didn’t know” and delete it. Not “oh oops oh well, watcha gonna do” and keep it up because it’s giving you engagement. Stop it.

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The Animation Podcast @animationpodcast.com · 18d

They should heed the words of the irrepressible Disney animator Ward Kimball:
“Walt’s dead, and you missed it.”

Reuters @reuters.com · 24d

AI hologram of Spider-Man creator Stan Lee debuts at L.A. Comic Con reut.rs/3KlW0tD

AI hologram of Spider-Man creator Stan Lee debuts at L.A. Comic Con

Wearing a green sweater and tan pants against a bright blue screen, Marvel comic book superhero creator Stan Lee will return to L.A. Comic Con in holographic form to meet fans of his characters including Spider-Man, Hulk, Iron Man and Thor.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 21d

I’m working on building up something like that again. Remember the random guy that showed up eating a pickle and refused to talk? Good times.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 21d

Remember during the lockdown how we started new hobbies to keep our minds occupied in order to stay sane? I’m feeling the same need right now.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 21d

I sat in one this weekend!

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 24d

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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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · Sep 21

Haven’t glanced in Fallon’s direction since

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Now Go Make A Movie! @nowgomakeamovie.com · Sep 18

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.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · Sep 14

a man with long hair is sitting in front of a laptop computer

ALT: a man with long hair is sitting in front of a laptop computer

media.tenor.com

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · Sep 11

Fewer studios = fewer movies

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · Sep 11

Someone was great a de-upholstering.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · Sep 11

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

A raggedy-ass used office chair left at the curb for a week with a piece of tape on it that says, “FREE!”

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · Sep 11

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

darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · Sep 11

i wrote this post in july two years ago when blue sky had around 200,000 total users and i thought i would ask again

tell me what u are doing
be proud of what u do and share it here

darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · Jul 27

tell me what u are doing
be proud of your work and share it here

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · Sep 10

This was so satisfying

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · Sep 9

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!!!!!!!

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · Sep 8

OpenAI confirms they're helping make an AI-generated movie called 'Critterz'

• Goal is to finish production in 9 months
• Budget is ~$30M
• Plan is to debut the film at Canne
• 'Paddington 3' writers penned the script
• Art will be fed into Chat GPT 5 and other image models

(via WSJ)

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · Sep 9

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.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · Sep 8

OpenAI confirms they're helping make an AI-generated movie called 'Critterz'

• Goal is to finish production in 9 months
• Budget is ~$30M
• Plan is to debut the film at Canne
• 'Paddington 3' writers penned the script
• Art will be fed into Chat GPT 5 and other image models

(via WSJ)

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Now Go Make A Movie! @nowgomakeamovie.com · Sep 9

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.

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · Sep 9

"Decorado" animated feature film is coming in Spanish theaters on October 24.
Directed by Alberto Vazquez (Birdboy, Unicorn Wars), and based on his short film.
Full trailer >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=V71F...
Artbook >> www.catsuka.com/shopping/ind...

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · Sep 9

Absolutely! Why not make more good things. Or give me $30mil and I’ll make an awesome original animated film.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · Sep 9

This is a possibility.

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