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Jim Mortensen

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Supervising Producer @ Disney on NDA | Director, Story for All Mentorship Program (@storymentorship) | Emmy-Nominated. My mom said I'm neat. http://jimmortensen.com

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Pass the cup this way!

05.03.2026 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My wife calls The Pitt "competency porn", and I love it. The world needs more competency porn.

05.03.2026 14:24 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My wife calls The Pitt "competency porn" and I love that term so much.

05.03.2026 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is literally the plot of the Ace Combat 7 game.

05.03.2026 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A panel from dungeon meshi that changed my life

22.02.2026 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 11755    πŸ” 4410    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 48

Holy shit. Yoko Taro + EVANGELION!?

23.02.2026 14:40 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And they didn't hire you? Lame. Gotta be a cash grab then. :D

07.02.2026 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you did a Kickstarter for a Neopets TTRPG, it would KILL. Guaranteed!

07.02.2026 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There is joy in the world again.

29.01.2026 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you want to be a working professional, you have to learn perspective. I can’t tell you the number of storyboard portfolios I’ve looked at with weak or nonexistent perspective. It’s one of the dead giveaways you’re not ready.

11.01.2026 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œBig” year for you!

02.01.2026 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sektori is an incredible video game and I am way too old to be any good at it.

30.12.2025 06:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was walking in Santa Monica eating a Chipotle burrito.

Coming the other way towards me was Weird Al, also eating a Chipotle burrito.

We made eye contact and nodded at each other as we passed, as if to say "greetings, fellow burrito enjoyer."

Perfect celebrity interaction.

29.12.2025 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cameras & Image Capture: Requirements and Best Practices Skip to translations Β  WHY NETFLIX HAS AN APPROVED CAMERA LIST To help creatives produce their best work and create compelling visual experiences for our audience, Netflix requires 90% of a program...

My guess is that Rian Johnson's production company has enough pull that they didn't have to follow the "Netflix Camera & Image Capture Guidelines"? So RJ didn't have to use camera tech they weren't immediately familiar with? partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/art...

21.12.2025 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Do you mean visually? Or "trailer hookiness"-wise?

21.12.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Doubly dangerous for us motorcycle riders, too. The left turn from Central onto the 134 Central exit is a deathtrap.

12.12.2025 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Why did we keep on inventing UIs after ST:TNG invented LCARS? LCARS is perfection. Why keep trying??

07.12.2025 06:10 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion or debate about it but very often the best thing you can say to them is hell yeah and that doesn’t make you dumb it just makes you nice

04.12.2025 03:05 β€” πŸ‘ 7305    πŸ” 1571    πŸ’¬ 115    πŸ“Œ 107
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Scott Wills paints a background for the first run of Samurai Jack (2001–2004), created by Genndy Tartakovsky, Cartoon Network Studios

02.12.2025 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3718    πŸ” 1303    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 46
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#comics #cartooning #monsters #sketchbook

02.12.2025 01:18 β€” πŸ‘ 70    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I feel like my GOTY picks and game habits have dramatically shifted since starting to play games with my wife. And hers have as well.

Like, neither of us would have played The Outer Wilds on our own. But together? It became a magical experience and one of our all time favs.

30.11.2025 05:50 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is the game you played most this year (assuming it came out this year) the game you want to win GOTY?

For me, it’s not. And that feels right? I played Nightreign far more than any other game but I want Expedition 33 to win. Which is worth discussion.

30.11.2025 05:48 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A new Grand Theft Auto VI video was seen millions of times in one day. But it was (another) fake | CBC News A bogus video that purported to show leaked footage of the upcoming Grand Theft Auto VI has angered gamers and raised renewed concern about AI-generated content, after reportedly being seen millions o...

The fact that fake AI generated trailers for movies/games keep fooling people is indicative of just how badly edited most actual trailers are.

www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

28.11.2025 17:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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game design 101

21.11.2025 11:46 β€” πŸ‘ 4205    πŸ” 982    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 39
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the biggest motivation boost

17.11.2025 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5002    πŸ” 1489    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 30

!!!!!!!!!!!

10.11.2025 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
An American Tail poster with lil ol mouse immigrant Fievel

An American Tail poster with lil ol mouse immigrant Fievel

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

05.11.2025 21:08 β€” πŸ‘ 11712    πŸ” 2461    πŸ’¬ 255    πŸ“Œ 295

(go ahead and try to use that password reset code. enjoy my Club Penguin account.)

04.11.2025 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It's not just modal dialogue boxes, it's also in the Layers palette...

04.11.2025 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hooo boy, this is a fun MacOS bug. Every time I go to name a layer, MacOS thinks the text field is an auth code field...

04.11.2025 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0