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If you're interested in directing, animation, filmmaking, screenwriting, or any combination thereof, 🎯 - by @ClayKaytis.com https://linktr.ee/nowgomakeamovie
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My take pt. 2: In this streaming reality, if it takes ads to make profits, and profits allow for more movies to be made, it’s a trade I’m willing to make, because making more movies is better than what’s happening now. (I hate all of this, but it’s sadly where we are and where we are heading.) /END
My take pt. 1: Covid and shorter theatrical-to-streamer release windows broke the moviegoing habit (I hate that, but it’s true). Now, people simply prefer streaming at home. /8
Ironically, streaming is going to turn into the old ad-supported broadcast/cable tv model because it worked. Those made a shit-ton of money because they had the audience. Now advertisers want to reach the massive streaming audiences. /7
After years of battling uninterrupted binging, Netflix made people ad-averse, but over time, especially with the popularity of YouTube, people are gradual becoming ad-tolerant again. (Interestingly, the one kind of ad people don’t mind is on sports.) /6
That’s why Disney+ is now bundling with Hulu and ESPN, so they can sell/push ads through the same portal at once. Netflix has an ad-supported tier. Amazon Prime has ads. Because they make more money from advertisers than from subscribers alone. Expect a lot more ads in all of our futures. /5
They’ve realized that to make money in our new streaming reality, they need the big revenue that only comes from ads. /4
The most profitable model out there by far is YouTube, because… eyes and ads. The second most profitable is Hulu, because, again… ads. /3
They said everyone put everything into streaming to chase Netflix’s success, but they’ve all realized there’s no money in streaming – it’s a break-even business. They can only make so much content for the money they’re getting back from streaming. /2
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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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!
I filmed a remake on my Sony BetaMax camera when I was a kid, so… yes.
“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 love seeing indie animation go for it. Worth a watch to see what’s possible.

NIGHTS OF GUINEVERE: PILOT
KNIGHTS OF GUINEVERE: PILOT
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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.