🤘🏿🏳️‍🌈Kalen Whitfield🏳️‍🌈🤘🏿 @JazLyte Twitter profile

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🤘🏿🏳️‍🌈Kalen Whitfield🏳️‍🌈🤘🏿

7 months

For the pinned, my new storyboard portfolio film 'Punk Ass Pirate Donkey' is out there doing crimes! 12-minutes of pulpy, ass-driven cyberpunk goodness💚 Watch it here!:

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Copypasted advice on getting started in professional storyboarding: It's a crime that if you google "animation storyboards," Storyboard Pro is mentioned nowhere, and the image search is all goddamn fucking pencil drawn boards. HAVE THIS FOR FREE:

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he talk >:D

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4 years

NOTHING TO LEARN HERE IN THIS CARTOON, AMERICA.

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4 years

atla continues to be scarily relevant

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shaking the rust off (not animating Dumpster Fire, just using a light shot to mess around with full motion/color again)

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Western cartoon aesthetics I seriously fucks with.

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"The only people who are allowed to speak their mind honestly about a product are people who agree with me" starter kit

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mains #MultiVersus

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@JazLyte

3 years

LOOK AT THIS FUCKING YOGURT COMMERCIAL. I swear ad animation outside of the States is literally just an excuse for the world's most boss artists to go berserk in ways mainstream narrative animation never trusts. Would love non-ad films that look like this, even shorties.

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@thelinestudio

3 years

Here's the extended "Dear Alice" project, with a completely unique score by long-time Ghibli composer (and absolute legend) Joe Hisaishi!!! Say waaaa!! 😍🤯 #joehisaishi #animation #2danimation

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2 years

My new film Dumpster Fire is up! Ya'll have seen me animate lots of fights, but what about 14 straight minutes of PASSIVE AGRESSION? >:D

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@JazLyte

7 years

#drawingwhileblack Yoo, I'm Kalen, I'm an indie animator making raunchy, sakuga-inspired, queer internet cartoons/comics! Full time storyboard artist to pay the bills!

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3 years

jack-o-asses

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@JazLyte

2 years

Feel bad about not creating your own original content or personal projects? Here's some advice if you're an artist, professional or otherwise on the matter that might help!

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@JazLyte

4 years

This was so goddamn satisfying.

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@JazLyte

5 years

Do literally anything with that comic/novel/cartoon idea right the fuck now. You're NEVER going to "feel like it" until you've seen yourself finish something. Being prepared for it is just a willingness to suck for a while, and if you don't have time draw it on the goddamn toilet

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@JazLyte

2 years

This film is the first time I've ever scored something from scratch, have a slice of the vibe 😈

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2 years

A massive percentage of animation professionals also draw smut/horny shit or have drawn it avidly in the past. So much so that no one here is actually surprised or bothered by it.

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2 years

YOU THERE. YES, YOU. WHAT'S A LITTLE-KNOWN FACT ABOUT YOUR PROFESSION THAT WOULD MAKE OTHER PEOPLE LOSE THEIR SHIT?

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2 years

Only 28 more shots lets goooo! 🤪

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2 years

first 3D test 🤘😈

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@JazLyte

4 years

Nobody younger than you has any responsibility to performatively study music/film from decades before they were born. Giving people shit for not knowing pop culture from your generation makes you look so pathetic and desperate to be respected for shit you had no hand in.

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Boy, Princess Mononoke sure fuckin hits different in your mid-30's with a real, experiential understanding of mass human stupidity and greed. The social shit in this movie is not fantastical or unbelievable at all 😐

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4 years

Seeing Wallace in the Scott Pilgrim comics at 15 was the first time I'd ever seen a gay character portrayed as cool/likeable/not a comedic punching bag. I had absolutely no concept that being gay was even a respectable option before that. ART INSPIRES LIFE, MAKE THAT GAY ART.

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@StelLizard

4 years

To all the gay men who are animators, writers, comic artists, etc. who want to create something. PLEASE Write that gay love story! Make that cartoon with a gay lead! Draw that comic! The only way we’ll ever get good representation is if we make it ourselves! I believe in you!! 💖

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prolly this bih

🖌️ Thumbnail artist🖌️

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1 year

ARTISTS you can only use one Art picture to convince people to follow you. Which art piece you using? OK GO UWU

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Advertising my account with one animu

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Advertise your account with one animation

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5 years

New Kill Wolfy animatic dropping next month for all you weirdos who like pre-production, taking a break from the new Hyenaville to update my storyboard portfolio B) I'll thread more info about what this year's hustle is.

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4 years

STORYTELLERS. LISTEN. If you're going to set your story in a fantasy world with its own rules, daily activities and status quo, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, let the audience get a feel for this shit before you start introducing things that are special exceptions or break the rules.

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Lil' tetherball. Maybe not May 1, but soon lol

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"Yo wait--" "Yup that's a fuckin furry"

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'Professional Storyboarding' by Anson Jew is a REALLY good start for that, and will set you straight on what's top priority. This book will also help you understand what drawing-related things to practice and research as well.

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Orehoof is just a ass trying to make a buck. Watch him do d o n k e y business in this 12-minute cyberpunk film!

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spent an inordinate amount of time last night trying to get nerdy possum boi's hair right

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@JazLyte

4 years

Here's that thing Disney made the mistake of letting my ass loose on B]

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@DisneyTVA

4 years

Look what just roared in: The series logo and concept art for @Marvel ’s #MoonGirlAndDevilDinosaur , coming to @DisneyChannel in 2022!

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This is Punk A. Orehoof. He does, in fact, still do the thing.

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@JazLyte

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Making cartoons is about entertaining YOU first, self-indulgence is the key to activating yourself as an artist. Cartoons might be a team-driven medium, but "fitting in" should be your last priority. Do you while challenging yourself skill-wise and people will want you there.

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@JazLyte

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I am sick of "self-aware" fiction content, I only want fiction content that is completely unaware of itself, up its own ass, lost in its own sauce with no fucking idea that it's being watched. "Self-awareness" is something artists do more often out of fear than actual fun.

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warmup coonery

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this shit is starting to vaguely resemble a cartoon now

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@JazLyte

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ight Blender's 2D tools kinda spittin

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@JazLyte

4 years

Focus on your scenes and portfolio content, if your portfolio's on point you will find work. Do not get lost 'networking.' A good place to start is at cinematic principles and filmmaking, because that's 75% of storyboarding - the drawing part alone won't get you very far.

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6 years

all character color is done, just needs bg paint, I am fucking sweating.

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3 years

This scene is fucking phenomenal, hits so goddamn different at 31 lmao

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just to have some art at the top of my timeline :P

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slowwwwwly but surely

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Fun fact - my first animation job was FOX ADHD. If you ever watched that shit, here's a thread of all the shorts I directed while there!

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"bitch..."

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7 years

My new movie HYENAVILLE: Free Ride is complete! Check that shit out here luscious people!

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@JazLyte

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Nah, just animate. Hundreds of animators more technically skilled than these three dudes - of all nationalities and races the world over - have elevated the medium since their day. Take your pick of inspo, there's more than just 3 corporate-affiliated western white dudes.

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"aye, can ya'll crack my back right quick?"

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@JazLyte

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🐺Daily animal fact: Gay eldritch werewolves have many more options for getting cooked than we do.🐺 More info in my new short film, Night Walkies. Click here to support LA werewolf conservation:

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