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mikeschnier.bsky.social
In Halifax/Kjipuktuk // Content strategy manager at Toon Boom Animation // Editor and livestream host // He/Him // Connecting artists to animation jobs through @cartoonrecruit.com
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To even mention this in a kids movie was unheard-of back then. Like it was huge. They'd do it again in box trolls, but this was the first I think I've ever actually seen be explicitly said they were gay in no uncertain terms.

If anyone needs to hear this, vdo.ninja has been amazing for years, runs peer-to-peer between you and your guests, and is completely free and opensource.

So, uh... I just did a Google search which was not about homework... because I haven't been in school in decades, and I got this pop up from Google. And, like, I actually think there are ways to use AI in school properly, but this kind of advertising from Google seems... super sketchy.

GET EM BOYZ

There's a blurry line between building an audience to sustain your art and fuelling parasocial relationships that really mess people up, and incentives are in place to get as close to that line as possible.

Thankfully: "If you prefer, you can disable support for formatting entirely in app settings."

For those of you who, like me, missed the news because AWN is apparently on the AI/NFT/Crypto-promoter blocklist... ANIME CLUB ANIMATED SERIES! @kcg.bsky.social is, no exxageration, one of history's greatest and most impactful artists and I cannot wait.

Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today. I'm so angry.

This would be right at home in Tomb of Annihilation.

Animation by Milt Kahl* | The Jungle Book (1967) #penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation

It would be bad enough if they were assigning staff to read books they haven't read. The Kafkaesque turn is that the books don't exist.

Well this is typical. All the mainstream press coverage and interviews I read said that the latest model could play Pokemon. They never said how far it got.

I regret to inform you that you're going to have to specify which one.

Oh hey Hulu released the new King of the Hill intro I boarded

I have to go to bed but real quick Ernie has always been in the wrong and Bert has always been absolutely correct to be frustrated by Ernie’s chaotic bullshit

It does legitimately warm my heart that corporate communications are conducted on a platform where users can respond with a poop emoji.

kermies #art

I find it weird that people expect formulaic apologies from public figures and get mad when all of the boxes aren't ticked. Maybe don't incentivise people to follow arbitrary scripts?