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Adobe Guy. Former Technical Director and Animation vfx Supervisor at CBS: "Tooning Out the News", “Our Cartoon President", "Late Show" specials, the film "In and Of Itself". Ask me anything about After Effects.
Not yet: Trump will just pardon her. Need to wait until he's gone.
Frank Oz called me a motherf*cker, but he meant it as a positive thing.
Oh... oh my.
Where the heck did you find this? (That's me in the frame grab)
This was a fun thing to encounter in my feed today.
Wow, thanks! I just wanted to drop in and let you know that I'm still alive, and working on the After Effects team.
In our area turkeys only get aggressive during mating season. A motivated male will stop traffic. Otherwise they are shy/docile.
I'm beginning to think the 49ers may not win this game
Let's throw in NJ for good measure... I love a good Danish
The Texans' offense could have stayed home—their DEFENSE outscored Aaron Rogers 12-6
The Texans' DEFENSE has outscored Aaron Rogers by 12-6. Add in the offense and it's a 30-6 game.
Congrats!
The official Maffitt New Years card for 2026, illustrated by actual human artist Pedro Delgado. Happy New Year! May we all strive to find peace and joy in these complicated times.
READY TO ROLL OUT!
Ready for Christmas Walkies
Our little Christmas cartoon just hit 1 million views on YouTube #theLateShow #Colbert #Offerman #Elmo
I mean, listen to this piece
Our little cartoon last night made Rolling Stone! Lifetime achievement unlocked:
Delivered our 8th and presumably final Late Show Holiday Special this evening. Tune in tonight for some heart-warming hilarity!
We Interviewed Rob Reiner for Tooning Out the News a couple years ago. The cast was nervous to improvise comedy with such a legend, but he leaned in to every joke, made everyone comfortable and made everything funnier. May he and Michele rest in peace, and may his family find comfort.
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He was also an extraordinarily-hardcore alcoholic, who had to travel with handlers who would try to prevent him disappearing on multi-day benders when he toured in various theater roles. A fascinating fellow.
The book "My Thoughts be Bloody" is a great bio of the Booth brothers.
We used to dine at the Old 76 House, where Andre was imprisoned, which is now festooned with Andre and Benedict Arnold engravings (with Arnold's hung upside down). We also visited the nearly farm where Andre was hanged, and which briefly served as Washington's headquarters.
In the pre-internet days SIGGRAPH was the only way to see a collection of this stuff in a full theater with people who shared the same interests. Now everything is online and the sense of shared discovery is long gone.
A lot of the presentations were very technical, but occasionally something magical would slip into the program... and this was definitely one of those times.
The Electronic Theater was always a popular ticket in the 80s and 90s, a chance to see cool new techniques, renderers, algorithms etc. Flocking! Displacement! Physics! Technology was moving so fast back then.
It was thrilling, miraculous, like nothing else that audience had ever seen. 30 years ago today the final film, "Toy Story", was released to the public, and changed the world of animation forever.
The scene featured little plastic army men, on a serious reconnaissance mission to investigate a child's birthday presents.
I was there. 2/3
At Siggraph 1994 (an annual trade show devoted to computer graphics), a little company called Pixar—whose main claim to fame was a 1989 Oscar-winning short called "Tin Toy"—debuted the first few minutes of an ambitious new project. 1/3
They can squeeze into very tiny spaces, so good luck!