Finally updated my reel
Open for any type of Remote 2D, Clean-Up, and Storyboarding.
(May update the reel once a couple of projects I worked on recently are released)
Netflix's live-action 'AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER' season 1 will reportedly have a budget of more than $15M per episode with a season total of more than $120M
Source:
Much like the Spider-Verse example, This is the type of work AI SHOULD be used for, as an actual tool to assist in basic tasks rather than to replace the artist/art completely. Tech bros are to busy trying to be instant artists rather than making painstaking tasks simpler.
I'm looking to pay someone for an AI solution. The job is to help me automate segmentation matting, for use in isolating the teeth and lenses. Below is the ideal result I'm looking for. Email me if you're interested: mail
@jameslee
.art
Chris Meledandri does not agree with Jeffery Katzenberg’s statement on how AI will replace 90% of animation. He believes artists are the most important part of process in creating animation.
The majority of the audience (34%) watching ‘Minions:
#TheRiseOfGru
’ this weekend was between ages 13 and 17.
Analysts call it an “unusually large showing among teenagers for an animated movie.”
(Source: )
Golden Globe nominees for Best Animated Film:
• The Super Mario Bros Movie
• Suzume
• Wish
• Across the Spider-Verse
• The Boy and The Heron
• Elemental
See the full nominees list:
Half Off-Topic, but I honestly wouldn't mind sitting through ads on streamers if they were more like this animation style, or even just animated in general
This should be the perfect case against AI, it can NEVER create something this impressive (First it'd need to steal it directly, then it'd fuck it up into a gross sludge)
"It’s just 3 Pictures"
"It's just the title sequence"
"It’s just 2 Posters"
If this shit doesn't stop getting excuses or doesn't get called out to hell and back for being used, then it'll be far worse than just a poster.
No. More. Cartoons. For. Grown. Men. I can't believe how much I need to emphasize this. You should be watching football and not cartoons. Cartoons make people toxic and neglectful and ruins the lives of those around them. Stop. Quit while you're ahead. Listen to me. I know.
11 years ago today, Disney released Winnie the Pooh (which was barely marketed to begin with) the EXACT SAME DAY as the last Harry Potter film, using WTP's poor performance as a reason to give up on 2D a 2nd time.
2.5 lessons that studios will likely miss from as per usual.
1. Weekly Releases are far superior
2. People of all ages WILL watch Animation
2.5. GREENLIGHT MORE ANIMATED STUFF FOR CHRIST SAKE.
As a celebration of Disney's 100th anniversary, the filmmakers behind Wish did consider going full 2D in a nod to its roots.
Executive producer/writer Jennifer Lee tells IGN why they ultimately didn't take that approach.
The fact that an ORIGINAL ANIMATED SERIES has gotten popular enough to be greenlit for 2 more seasons in an era where any series are lucky to survive past it's "Second" Season (and without a previously industry established creator) is awesome.
Thank you all so much for joining us to watch
#Encanto
! 🦋 Before we say adios, enjoy this animation test of Mirabel by Head of Animation Renato dos Anjos.
Chuck Jones in his later years considered Bugs Bunny "Trans and Beyond the Binary" in support of the Trans Community. Conservatives would lose their shit if Chuck was alive and said this today.
“When we were young, you could watch cartoons without having to worry.”
— Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) again baselessly claims Disney is injecting sexuality into cartoons while stumping for Nevada Senate candidate Adam Laxalt
Arcane
Vox Machina
Invincible
Final Space
Fired on Mars
Scavengers Reign
Smiling Friends
Bob's Burgers
Entergalactic
Apollo 10.5
Bojack
LD&R
Tuca & Bertie
Central Park
Inside Job
Castlevania
Fiona & Cake
Close Enough
Archer
Blue Eye Samurai
Primal
Carol & the End of the World
Can we stop dunking on Illuminations art style for a while now? Up until Mario, 90% of them had Eric Guillon as Art Director/Character Designer/Production Designer.
Of course, they mostly look they same, That's HIS Art Style (and honestly looks really good in hand drawn form)
IT'S ALL ANIMATION ❗❗
IT'S ALL ANIMATION ❗❗
IT'S ALL ANIMATION ❗❗
IT'S ALL ANIMATION ❗❗
IT'S ALL ANIMATION ❗❗
IT'S ALL ANIMATION ❗❗
IT'S ALL ANIMATION ❗❗
IT'S ALL ANIMATION ❗❗
IT'S ALL ANIMATION ❗❗
IT'S ALL ANIMATION ❗❗
IT'S ALL ANIMATION ❗❗
ANIME IS NOT A CARTOON‼️
ANIME IS NOT A CARTOON‼️
ANIME IS NOT A CARTOON‼️
ANIME IS NOT A CARTOON‼️
ANIME IS NOT A CARTOON‼️
ANIME IS NOT A CARTOON‼️
ANIME IS NOT A CARTOON‼️
ANIME IS NOT A CARTOON‼️
ANIME IS NOT A CARTOON‼️
ANIME IS NOT A CARTOON‼️
ANIME IS NOT A CARTOON‼️
@pugha20
@curioscurio
What complaints? that it looks like a hack-job flash animation that only kids who grew up watching peppa pig and newgrounds video could be impressed with?
On one hand, it shows just how powerful Indie Animation can get that this can happen, but at what point should Gooseworx and/or Glitch step in and ask "Hey, if you are going to do this stuff with my/our characters, can we can get just a teeny tiny percent of revenue made for it?"
🚨 The following AI systems are down
OpenAI - ChatGPT
Google - Gemini down
AnthropicAI - Claude down
Perplexity down
DDOS or just coincidence??
#ChatGPT
With all the AI shit that was used to scam people at that Wonka event, THIS storyboard gives a look at something that said AI will never do well, Engage people through storytelling
One of the biggest reasons you'll rarely a 2D film is that it's impossible to pull this last minute horse shit that happens in CG on a daily basis.
Figure this crap out during boarding, and if you need last minute additions, push the film back or pay more to actually do it.
I feel parents have gotten WAY too comfortable treating anything and everything that’s Animated as a Cocomelon type of babysitting tool and not looking any deeper than that.
alex is 100% right at the end, absolute shame on the parents dear GOD this is BAFFLING
cast must have felt so embarrassed, i cannot believe there are parents letting their 9 YEAR OLD CHILDREN watch and say these things, wtf man 😭
cons gotta put age restrictions for these panels
As much as people complain about celebrity casting in animated roles, we should remember the times where they actually start giving roles to actual Voice Actors recently
I know some people seem to not like it when films are past 2 hours now, but it's honestly awesome that now an animated film is allowed to even go past 2 hours at all, they've always been arbitrarily stuck at 90-100 minutes, even though Kids sit through Marvel movies all the time
#AcrossTheSpiderVerse
has a reported runtime of 2 hours and 20 minutes, which would make it the longest-ever animated movie made at a Hollywood studio!
Here's how this compares to other
#SpiderMan
movie runtimes:
We need to give more marketing control to the studios making these films. Especially when marketing teams have no clue how to market original films anymore.
Since this tweet is getting alot of attention, I will also give an honorable mention to movies prior that pushed CG prior to Spider-Verse making Stylized CG popular.
Despite having all the money to produce them, executives will never understand how much audience craves more variety of animation; and even when they do, it's barely promoted and behind a constantly raising paywall.
Reminder that Guillermo Del Toro's Stop-Motion Pinocchio releases on Netflix this December
(That is if Netflix doesn't randomly decide to cancel it for no reason like they have been)
If it gets confirmed the the film has been deleted (I assume they may have and they're waiting for heat to die down before actually saying it), then it's only morally correct that any supposed copies out there should be leaked immediately.
Will Forte has released a statement to the cast & crew of ‘COYOTE VS ACME’, saying it’s unlikely the film will ever be released.
“At the end of the day, the people who paid for this movie can obviously do whatever they want with it. It doesn't mean I have to like it (I fucking
Note to self: NEVER work on any animated projects for Warner Brothers in the near future.
This dipshit in charge needs to be stopped immediately.
#FireDavidZalav
#ReleaseCoyoteVsAcme
Warner Bros just took a $115M tax write-down on projects, mostly related to the animated film division.
No official word on if ‘COYOTE VS ACME’ is part of that write-down.
(Source: )
"More Original Films"
*Release Original Film*
*No one goes to see them*
"More 2D Animated Films"
*Release 2D Animated Film*
*No one goes to see them*
Stop talking, Start WATCHING.
‘COYOTE VS ACME’ is now expected to be shelved and deleted forever.
Warner Bros wanted $75M - $80M for the film and rejected offers from Netflix, Amazon & Paramount, refusing to let them counter-offer.
(Source: )
Footage of.’INSIDE OUT 2’ from
#CinemaCon
reveals there will be a 2D-animated character and an old school video game animated character.
See the full footage description:
@Saberspark
Little Marketing reasons:
1. An excuse not to have a gay main character ever again
2. Make all animation streaming releases only (thankfully, Chepek is out, so that may not be that case anymore)
3. Disney has no clue how to market original films anymore.
Keep
#ReleaseCoyoteVsAcme
trending today.
For any crew members that have access to the film file, nows your time to save the film until a safe time to leak that shit, since I feel Zaslav may not have a change of heart this easily.
It is satisfying that a studio that axed most its animation productions and wrote-off quite a bit of their library of animation, desperately try putting all its money into one film, only to get their ass handed in the 2nd weekend by TWO animated films.