Katie Rice @katiejrice Twitter profile

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Katie Rice

7 years

I'm Katie and I do comics with my partner! I also work in animation doing boards/design, but I can't post that stuff yet. :] #VisibleWomen

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

6 years

Happy to announce that I get to be a director on the upcoming Animaniacs reboot! Can’t wait to spend more time with the Warner Brothers (and Warner sister).

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Katie Rice

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5 years

I have to work all weekend, but I suppose it’s okay cause last weekend was nothing but these two

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Katie Rice

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2 years

Returning to Twitter just in time for Twitter to explode to show why I haven’t been on Twitter much lately

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Katie Rice

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6 years

The visible women hashtag is great, not just because it means my feed is filled with beautiful art, but because it shows me that an industry where I often felt voiceless and invisible is starting to change.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

7 years

No regrets.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

7 years

Hey also, @arianelange of Buzzfeed deserves a huge shout out. For six months she's been doing countless interviews, scouring blogs and books, and wading through giant piles of emails and transcripts, all to corroborate our stories and keep us safe by making our case air-tight.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

3 years

It's pretty weird sharing an industry with the abusive child-stalking mini-cult leader you escaped from, I'll tell you hwhat

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

3 years

When I worked on Mighty B, I boarded a funny bit where Bessie's hair caught on fire. S&P flagged it, and I was so sad at first, but changed it to her entire head being engulfed in flames and that passed.

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3 years

What's everyone's favorite S&P calls? Mine is "finger guns" not allowed

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

6 years

tiny trio

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

6 years

Imagine hiring someone knowing that in doing so, you'd also have to write a letter to every employee ensuring he's safe now

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

3 years

Pretty cool :)

Cartoon Network Studios Debuts New Animated Shorts Program

Cartoon Network Studios debuted a new iteration of its animated shorts program, Cartoon Cartoons, its first dedicated shorts initiative in over a decade.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

6 years

Males aren't toxic. Toxic males are toxic. Toxic behavior is asshole behavior. Be a good dude, don't be an asshole.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

4 years

Found some doodle-girls hiding in the Storyboard Pro margins today.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

6 years

1. Outed my abuser 2. Hired as a director for first time 3. Got a haircut I don’t hate

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

4 years

Doesn't it say something that other countries are celebrating right now too?

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

4 years

Added some color to those doodles from yesterday. These are two in-progress designs of a handful that I’ve been working on for something personal lately.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

7 years

Deepest love and respect for @TopographicFish . We were brought together as girls with the same weird, funny ambitions. Instead of nurturing our friendship we were pitted against each other by an egotistical pervert. He's not in control anymore.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

4 years

Having a hard time finding actual art I did for #Animaniacs since most of it was in the form of notes that were passed on to my team, but here's a few P&tB panels I dug up. I really like drawing these guys. First two panels got cut, but that's okay!

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

5 years

Artist confession -Trouble drawing dudes, backgrounds, vehicles of all kinds -Barely draw outside of work -No idea how real perspective works -Copied a drawing out of an anime magazine and told my friends it was original work in 10th grade

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

4 years

I don’t want to waste too much time talking about the HHJJ documentary. But I do want to address one thing before I move on with my life.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

3 years

1) My work computer exploded, and since I’m just waiting for an IT hero to save me, I’m gonna dump some in-progress designs from my iPad. I’m designing an ensemble of 7 for a personal thing, here are 5 that are going in a direction I like. Emphasis on WIP.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

4 years

My #animationjourney . Leaving off lots of development design work that no one will ever see, and including the Camp W short even though it didn't get greenlit cause I love it! Cursed projects featured at appropriate size, all others were fun :)

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

4 years

Found an abandoned doodle on my iPad last night and inked it up.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

3 years

Inked the drawing from before, kinda like the sketch better but that’s normal. Gonna pose a link to the video in the next tweet.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

4 years

We would’ve loved for it to have been picked up, but still I’m really happy @AdamWallander and I were able to make a completed short. It was an awesome experience!

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@Jaq_artz

4 years

I still hope we get to see one of Katie Rice's works animated one day, she deserves it, the Camp Weedonwancha short was a delight

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

6 years

Sounds fair. Hope you like the show!

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

5 years

I don't care if JK keeps drawing and selling shit to his remaining fans, but I wish he wouldn't "like" and leave comments on 13-15 year olds doing fan art. It's the 2019 equivalent of saying "Hey, any fans want to talk?" in an 1996 AOL fan forum for kids (cue sad trombone)

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

5 years

I don't remember what the hashtag was for this and I don't have time to go look for it, but here's mine

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

5 years

I don't know if showrunner or creator is in the cards for me, but if it is (and I hope it is!), I just want to say somewhere that I would make being conscientious and fair a priority, every day.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

6 years

Having trouble putting together words to describe how I feel about this quote in the NYT. Happy. Sad. Relieved. Overwhelmed. Freed. Loved. Thank you @TopographicFish .

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

7 years

First day back! Feels good.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

4 years

Realized I can FINALLY post the pile of Animaniacs work-doodles I've been saving...only to realize most of them are locked away in my quarantined WB office. I'll find some art to post soon though! I'm still a bit overwhelmed (in a good way) by the response!

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Katie Rice

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4 years

Also, thanks entire animation community for being so united and vocal about crappy stuff.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

3 years

These guys again. Extra messy edition

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

6 years

"...bringing back some of these disgraced players, wherever they lie on the bad behavior spectrum, is putting women on the losing end of the equation again. It makes their stories and pain irrelevant." #LoseLasseter

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

3 years

Found a typical example of my process on my ipad. 1) Select a doodle. 2) Ink it 3 different times 3 different ways. 3) Decide the original is better. 4) Abandon all 4 and forget about them until later when you feel like you need to post something art-y.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

6 years

Boss crawled under my desk. He cried under there for a few minutes and I finally told him he had to get out. While crawling out he farted, dropped the horrible smelling strawberry Muscle Milk he’d brought with him, and burst into laughter. I had to clean it up.

it is literally illegal for you to read my profile

@ChrisCaesar

6 years

what's your most insane boss story? extra points for shit that seems unbelievable but Actually Happened

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Katie Rice

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4 years

I'm a day late, but they finally showed a sneak peek from the show I was working on! One of the coolest and hardest working crews I've ever had the pleasure to work with. Props to @BluDragonGal who boarded this part!

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@TheAnimaniacs

4 years

😲 @Hulu did it. They- they actually did it. Check out our @NY_Comic_Con exclusive clip! #Animaniacs #NYCC

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Katie Rice

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4 years

My cat squeaked and squeaked until I got up and followed her upstairs to where she led me- the room where the sun usually comes in, so she can lie in it. Little bug, if I could turn on the sun for you, I would :'|

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

6 years

Thinking of drawing a series of profile shots of characters I like right now. Here's Peggy and Luanne from King of the Hill, a show I somehow missed when it was on but am loving a whole ton now. Thanks, Hulu! #CharacterProfiles #HoYeah

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

4 years

The first "real" drawing I did of Cindy, aside from very very rough storyboard drawings that I pitched to the crew, before @GenevieveTsai and @BrookeRegalado7 polished and turned the design to make it work for TV (love those two).

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

6 years

Storyboard Tips & Tricks by @jimmortensen is a really great resource for people interested in learning to storyboard, and for those already storyboarding. I recommend!

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

6 years

I have some thoughts about the Ren and Stimpy documentary, "Happy Happy Joy Joy" that's coming out soon. The first thought is "I really hope the title is meant to be sarcastic." The second is "why would anyone want to put a pedophile in their movie?"

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Katie Rice

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4 years

To groom someone is to dismantle a person's sense of self, then rebuild it from the damaged parts so that it serves your own selfish purposes. It is so cruel. Don't do it.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

4 years

Anyone can be taken in by a conman...but he wasn't even a GOOD conman. Dumb, unfunny, charmless, cruel. A lying rich bully buffoon. I didn't realize how bad so many people were at spotting sociopathy. In this case, SUPER OBVIOUS sociopathy, for years even before now!

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

6 years

Some of my buddies are getting blowback from the article, and I wanna quickly address it. I'm absolutely not telling anyone how to feel or who to be angry at, but those guys are my friends and I'm thankful that they backed us up.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

5 years

Notebook doodles from today

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

6 years

It's pretty cool to see that some of what I did actually made it through development! My designs were based on the original Harvey style characters and Emily Brundige's ( @TwittyEmily ) original designs and concepts, which were adorable.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

5 years

So cool.

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@NickTyson

5 years

Emma Shih, a great subtle & comedic animator on #SpiderVerse , shared some of the video reference that she shot. Such appealing performances that translated so well onto the characters! See the whole video here:

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

4 years

Just a few things: Black lives matter. Donate if you can, sign the petitions, read one of the hundreds of resources your helpful friends are posting if you don't understand something.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

5 years

It takes me out of the story sometimes when I hear sound effects that are overused. Like I’ll be watching a show and they’ll use the same horse whinny 5 times in an hour, sometimes within the same scene. Screams, door creaks, meows, can’t we get some new ones?

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@tomryanauthor

5 years

What’s your film/tv pet peeve? Mine is when every single secondary character appears front and centre at the graveside during another character’s burial, whether they were connected in the story or not. It happens all the time and it drives me nuts!

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Katie Rice

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4 years

Disneyland should change their Hall of Presidents so that when it’s trump’s turn to talk, it just plays YMCA and the animatronic does this dumb dance

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

7 years

Meeting doodled a cute and short waitress

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

6 years

Something that really annoys me: a known jerk in the industry comes up in conversation, and a peer says something like "I've heard stories about them being horrible, but with me they were super nice!" The person saying this is ALWAYS an equal to the jerk, never a subordinate.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

5 years

A very doodley preview of something new @AdamWallander and I are working on ☺️

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

6 years

Another little weirdo that keeps popping up in my notebooks.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

6 years

This trailer coming out also means I finally get to move a bunch of drawings from the password protected section of my portfolio into the regular design section, which is here, if you wanna see more:

Katie Rice - Character Design

A lot of the projects I've designed for are still in development (though there is a password protected section on here you can request to access), but here is a sample of work I can show you, both...

katiejrice.myportfolio.com

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

3 years

I could be good friends with this cheetah.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

6 years

Getting messages asking me if I am okay. I am! I’ve had a long time to work through this stuff, and since the article I have been feeling stronger than ever. I am pissed though, and more than ready to fight if I need to.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

7 years

I'm gonna be taking a break from Twitter for a bit, but I'll be back eventually. I realize this is the place most frequently used to get in touch with me, so I'll be posting all news updates to the Camp W site and my Patreon in the upcoming weeks.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

5 years

oh my god I just spelled "silhouette" correctly on the first try for the first time. Only took 37 years to learn

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

6 years

Gabe has apologized to me for not saying anything back in the day. And he always made it 100% clear to me that when Robyn and I were ready, he would be there to back us up, and he was.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

6 years

Yay, I'm finally part of the club!

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

2 years

I'm not saying anything new or profound, I'm sure people a million times smarter than me have put it more eloquently, but it just seems like tech evolved way too fast for humans to keep up emotionally and socially

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

5 years

C'mon, it's gotta be middle, right? These characters can point, wear rings, and gesture with their pinkies. The one thing they can't do? Flip the bird.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

6 years

Just saw that John’s “apology” made it to Cartoon Brew. It dropped during a vacation to try and get away from this shit, and thus I haven’t had a chance to really respond. But I’m angry, and disturbed. And I’m not done with it all, apparently.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

6 years

Took a break from work to doodle my beloved Skyrim characters

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

4 years

For years, all I’ve wanted was for everyone to know what John’s done so he can then go away forever. But now, when he’s at last facing the music, he’s still the conductor.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

6 years

I wish we had been able to finish the pilot we did for Camp W as well. It only made it to animatic. It really felt like one of our comic storylines, only with so much more time for silly jokes and character interactions. <3

Adam Wallander

@AdamWallander

6 years

Feels like this should see the light of day.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

4 years

Some more on Starbox, then back to work! Since I went straight into storyboarding without doing real designs, the genius @GenevieveTsai came up with some amazing design concepts for Starbox based on my super rough panels, which I'll post some examples of in this thread.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

4 years

What an incomprehensible decision...those working at Blue Sky deserve better than this. I'm so sorry.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

6 years

So many things are awful, but I finished watching Aggretsuko last weekend and I'm still thinking about how goddamned delightful it was. Cute and good and relatable.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

5 years

I've stopped drawing for myself lately, and the result is that my art has stagnated a lot. Instead of being mean to myself about it though, I'm going to appreciate that in that time I've improved in other ways, like story telling, problem solving, and communicating.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

5 years

One thing I need to work on more is being more spontaneous and allowing my first-instincts back into my drawings. I used to draw very freely, but at some point, a weird fear of my art being "bad" or "incorrect" crept in and stifled me a bit.

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Katie Rice

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8 years

Drawin' merms #GeekGirlCon

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Katie Rice

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4 years

Everyone’s making me miss drawing my big volatile girl today!!

Matías Bergara

@matiasbergara

4 years

@katiejrice I did one too, many years ago! Was (and am) a biiig fan from way back when.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

4 years

This is the photo that inspired Starbox and Cindy. The idea that a being advanced enough to travel to another planet ends up naked and holding hands like a toddler with dumb humans is very funny to me. I laugh every time I look at this thing.

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Katie Rice

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3 years

Sometimes it feels a bit like having a black eye that everyone is too polite to ask about. I’m not afraid to talk about it, and it doesn’t hurt unless I poke it. And the story of how I got it is sad, but also pretty interesting, if you enjoy dark humor anyhow.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

4 years

Was inspired to do some very rusty gesture drawings today while browsing pose reference from @AdorkaStock . Highly recommend following and/or donating to her Patreon!

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

6 years

Also, @gabe_swarr was practically a kid himself when shit was going down at Spumco. I don't blame him for being afraid to say something. We were all socially weird, screwed up kids in what was more or less a cult.

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

3 years

Shaggy unicorn colored girl from my IG today

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

4 years

This is one of the reasons I've been so excited for Animaniacs to finally premier- people need to see the incredible designs GT and her design crew were coming up with. I think we all leveled up as artists just being exposed to these guys' talent. Keep 'em coming!

Genevieve Tsai

@GenevieveTsai

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Benedict the Dragon! He was so fun to design! Here are some early concepts and my final turns, as well as construction guides as ref to help board artists and animators get a feel for his shapes! #Animaniacs

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Katie Rice

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6 years

Anyone who is consistently cruel to their employees, or service people, or whoever they perceive to be sitting lower on the totem pole than themselves is not a nice person. Even if they were nice to you. And you gotta watch for that crap if you're in a position of power!

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@katiejrice

9 years

Gonna try and keep up this time! #inktober #inktober2015

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@katiejrice

6 years

Trapped on Splash Mountain. Been staring at Brer Bear’s ass for ten minutes

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Katie Rice

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4 years

This year I'm thankful for the block button. I don't want to be retweeted, liked, or tagged by anyone into unforgivably inappropriate stuff, so if I see it I'm blocking you immediately. Happy Thanksgiving!

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Katie Rice

@katiejrice

6 years

Keeping up with my #CharacterProfiles by drawing this sweet, adorable kid. I'm sure you've heard it a bunch by now, but Into the Spider-Verse was amazing. Everyone involved should be super proud.

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Katie Rice

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6 years

Some people are worried that my ballpoint pen/lined paper meeting doodles are the new designs, but don't worry, they're just that- meeting doodles. Me having fun. :]

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@katiejrice

6 years

I’m getting lots of nice messages but I can’t respond to them all!! So here is a photo of Luna!

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@katiejrice

5 years

Today was a rollercoaster. Not a "whee!" one, but a bad, the-cart-is-coming-off-the-rails one. Reading this grounded me. I had a really bad feeling about how our stories were going to be handled, and now I can at least stop speculating and worrying. Thank you Daniel.

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6 years

Thank you so much for this, @FullFrontalSamB and @kaitlinfontana ! So much love and respect for @Cheyenne_Curtis , @ashlynanstee , @sketchshark , Paula, and everyone who does what they can to make our industry better and safer. <3

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@POPSUGAR

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These heroic women risked it all for each other. 💪 @FullFrontalSamB

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6 years

At the veterinary clinic for a check up. Luna has predictably found a hiding spot.

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4 years

@GailSimone “You’ll never succeed without me”

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4 years

It’s also about John. When the directors take his words at face value, when they claim to understand him, they are mistaken. When they sympathize with him, they fail his victims, and they fail to understand that they’ve been manipulated, as we all were.

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7 years

Found a sexy post-it drawing from before the holiday break

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4 years

Since people are talking about it today, here's the link:

Camp W finished short

Nickelodeon approached us to develop our comic into a possible show idea, and this is the short we made to show what the look of that show could be. We also ...

www.youtube.com

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3 years

Yeehaw, just got my second shot!!

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6 years

If you agree, please show your support with the #LoseLasseter hashtag. Let's make our voices heard. We don't want to work with harassers, and we shouldn't have to!

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