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Senior Animator @sledgehammergames.com • Prev: Lecturer, worked on some old games • ✝️ • Dad x 3 • Drummer • Opinions are my own. 📍 Brisbane, Australia 🔗 https://linktr.ee/chrisyearn

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I wonder what they're listening to

10.12.2025 23:46 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Even without the...off-ness, it seems a bit weird to be mass-producing such a personalised design. Like it's one thing to have a signature shape or colour or whatever, but the same writing and stickers? That's a bit odd, man

10.12.2025 03:35 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

For the first time in my adult life I'm taking off the entire 6 week Christmas holiday period (this is the standard school break in Australia)

There are so many "holiday jobs" I've been waiting to do, plus lots of family and rest time--I look forward to not achieving half of what I planned 😅

10.12.2025 03:27 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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When you fuckers gonna figure this shit out.

09.12.2025 05:13 — 👍 85    🔁 10    💬 6    📌 1

New reaction gif just dropped

09.12.2025 06:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Donate!

It's #GivingTuesday! This holiday season, please consider donating to the Animation Diversity Foundation to help us run our development programs, like our mentorship and GDC scholarships.

Your donation will fuel our work and help the next generation of game animators to grow.

animfund.org/donate/

03.12.2025 02:37 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 3

Projected earnings

01.12.2025 14:50 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I thought this was satire until I saw the same story from other outlets 🙃

01.12.2025 14:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is amazing...but can you animate it to make it speak??

01.12.2025 02:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Officially looking for work again! My contract ended a week ago so I'm back on the job market.

If anyone is looking for an experienced character technical director for video games, I know a guy (it's me).

25.11.2025 22:11 — 👍 94    🔁 63    💬 3    📌 0
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This T-Rex animation was a demo I did for an online course several years ago; it illustrates my process at the time. I go to spline early and work within the graph editor to refine the basic offsets and weight within the body before adding details on top. 🎬🦖

25.11.2025 15:32 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Damn, so Pluribus is really good huh

19.11.2025 13:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Sam Eagle from The Muppets

Sam Eagle from The Muppets

So who would have played Benoit Blanc??

My pick would have been this guy

19.11.2025 08:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bargaining with tech artists

15.11.2025 06:30 — 👍 19    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

It was in Slack but it was in a DM from six months ago and no longer exists

13.11.2025 10:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

credits that include the names of everyone who worked on the game at any point

11.11.2025 04:32 — 👍 2048    🔁 487    💬 16    📌 10

A "recap" option for players who are picking it back up after a long hiatus

"Here's the story so far, this is what you've unlocked, this is your current goal, these are the controls--ok let's go"

12.11.2025 12:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
"How to Orchid" by Telepathic Instruments
YouTube video by Telepathic Instruments "How to Orchid" by Telepathic Instruments

this is the best product ad I've ever seen

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbO1...

07.11.2025 05:21 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This was a good day to be online. Well done USA

05.11.2025 09:34 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🔥⚔️Another week, another Wicked Animation ⚔️🔥

Starting with a kick that flows into a big greatsword swipe, using the momentum to drive the impact! 🦵💨💥

No Rest for the Wicked by Moon Games Studio 🌖

#GameDev #Animation #3d #game

04.11.2025 10:53 — 👍 43    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Wow, this is a great trip down memory lane...I was in high-school in the early 2000s and was *obsessed* with these stick fight sequences.

I've never thought about it this way but they probably contributed to me becoming an animator. Thanks Mr Zhu!

05.11.2025 00:56 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congrats!

03.11.2025 23:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I really miss when everybody was on one site together, I don't know if we'll ever get that back again 🙁

03.11.2025 23:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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another scene from the film A Magnificent Life (Marcel et Monsieur Pagnol) by Sylvain Chomet, which is out in french cinemas and starting to screen around festivals.. this time i got to animate some animals which was cool! #2danimation #film #animation #linetest #marcelpagnol

31.10.2025 07:06 — 👍 21    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Ken Harris showing Richard Williams his gameplay animation. He's saying, "It doesn't look like much right now but this will be applied in an additive blendspace to the upper-body only, on top of the base player locomotion."

Ken Harris showing Richard Williams his gameplay animation. He's saying, "It doesn't look like much right now but this will be applied in an additive blendspace to the upper-body only, on top of the base player locomotion."

Old school animators often had to wait days to get their work shot to see how it worked in motion, so they learned how to predict how it would look

In some ways gameplay animation is an evolution of this: we often create animation out of context and are thinking ahead about how it will work in game

31.10.2025 03:18 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I read this as "Kinda feel like resurrecting my dead dog" 😮

29.10.2025 00:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

After six years my time at Outerloop has come to an end along others - it’s been a blast!

If anyone needs an experienced Unity developer with 14 years under their belt - specialising in 3D character art and stylized look development then give me a buzz, I’m around!

I’ll link to the others below 👇

21.10.2025 21:27 — 👍 83    🔁 47    💬 3    📌 2

By popular demand, here are the details about our upcoming Animation Jam in November! We're hosting a month-long online community event to give artists space to collaborate on original portfolio pieces. -Mike

18.10.2025 02:59 — 👍 33    🔁 19    💬 0    📌 1

I've been thinking about this a lot recently, and whether studios that are hiring should prioritise people who are looking for work. It would be nice if it worked that way 😔

17.10.2025 00:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This sounds amazing and I want to work on it

14.10.2025 23:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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