chrismcd.bsky.social
Animation director/designer working in music videos, TV & film. Author/designer of art books. Sketchbook fanatic. Cartoon illustrator & teacher. chrismcd.com
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yeah it is not either/or black/white it is an opportunity with a lot of exposure for some people to make changes that collectively are progress. Or think about their actions for the first time. Like old dads. Think about some old dad making a change. Good for that dad.
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Reading other posts from a weird āit will do nothingā perspective. I think it can be a beginning for a lot of people. Canāt submit to defeatism. Itās an opportunity.
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Everyone can do what they can to make small changes, and it will make a difference. So many of our habits that have been captured by massive corporations that are undermining our country can be dropped.
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In other words the final stage has none of the flat, graphic cartooning of the original, and none of the generic but cartoony expressiveness of the 90s/00s revamp. That weird yellow hair thingy on the Rick Krispies guy always comes to mind. They render the hell out of that.
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This is great I was going to talk about the cereal mascot evolution in a character design class in a few weeks coincidentally. I've noticed in the final stage the art often has hardened into non-flexible poses and expressions and everything is over-rendered, outlined, and ignores its graphic origins
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In two weeks this video went from a crazy warning to a documentary
youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no
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Quasi at the Quackadero on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZDa...
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"Food" on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPZU...
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"Son of the White Mare" trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQpI...
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Sally Cruikshank. Her work exudes pure fun. It answers the question, what if an animator remembered to have fun? And you can tell they were having fun? Quasi at the Quackadero is one of her famous films. Oh, dig those special Cruikshank ducks.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_C...
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Jan Å vankmajer. I love his short "Food" especially. Incredible mixed media stop motion, and a lot of that media tends to be meat, and pixilated humans. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_%C5...
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Oh! And of course they have a handle here. Follow @are.na here for many more perspectives.
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Yes, and without ads and without investors. I really like what they wrote on their front page are.na. Four full time and one part time person run this software.
I recently started using Zotero for research and that is super. But this is more like a public facing mind map.
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Looks like you can see user channels without signing in. OK, so if you look at just one of my collections, make it Visual Mega Dump, over 15K images to tickle your optic nerves:
www.are.na/chris-mcdonn...
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I pay for this service with an educational discount because I really like what they are doing and I find it fun and useful. There is a free limited use version.
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Article by @garethwatkins.bsky.social for @newsocialist.bsky.social
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"Instead of talking about taking money from artists, talk about how it makes them look cheap. If hurting and offending people is part of the point, then we can take that fun away from them by refusing to express hurt or offence, even if we feel it."
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"Laughing at people who treat AI art as in any way legitimate works. Talking about AIās environmental impact or its implications for the workforce will not work - they like that, it makes them feel dangerous."
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"The right wing intellectual project is simply to ask: āwhat would have to be true in order to justify the terrible things that I want to do?ā"
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This article is very good. Expresses so many things I've been trying to synthesize. Thanks for sharing!
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Iāve seen a sprinkling of posts on here recently proclaiming how people should post or not post in relation to the current insanity as if they donāt understand people use the internet in different ways and some of those ways arenāt catered specifically to them.
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I hope more people think on how the people pushing this stuff are aligned and cozy with the hard right Trump government currently gearing up their extralegal concentration camp in Cuba.