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Some action sequences from "The Legend of Hei 2" animated movie (China, 2025).
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Yes it’s a big part of my personality shush it makes me happy to look at and remember working on this show
Paint by Addison Bell, AD @arthurloftis.bsky.social and I don’t remember who did the layout

🌸"Poppy Forest Magic School"🌸

I wanted to do a more finished painting on watercolor paper mounted on 5x7 wood panel.

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The A-to-Z of Action Animation Saturday July 26, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm PDT Room 9 The artists, writers, and producers of The Animation Guild, Local 839 discuss the ins and outs of action animation. What makes the animation medium so uniquely suited for the action/adventure genre? How do you write a good fight scene? How does an animation director build tension? How do you visually elevate the action? These questions and more will be answered by Animation Guild veterans including Kevin Burke (Ninjago: Dragons Rising, Legend of Vox Machina), Katie Kaniewski (Young Jedi Adventures), Alex Deligiannis (X-Men '97, Rise of the TNMT), Servan Castillo (The Mighty Nein, Invincible), Brandon Williams (Star Trek: Lower Decks), and Shannon Denton (Monster Forge Productions, Kingdom Riders). Moderated by Dan Salgarolo (Transformers: Cyberverse, Transformers: Robots

If you’re going to #sdcc and you want to learn some insights about action in animation stop by this panel Im going to be on!

Sat 7/26 1pm Room 9

It is so, so important to learn to understand the difference between A Gross Thing That Freaks Me Out, versus A Thing Which Causes Actual Harm In The World

because as long as you can't navigate the difference, your disgust is a lever that can be used to manipulate you

Colour illustration with a composition of [most of] Travis Willingham's Critical Role characters: [from top clockwise] Grog taking a swig from a tankard; Bertrand Bell looking smug and pointing his cane at Grog's chest; Macaroni reaching for his bow and pointing and yelling...; at Chetney, who has a chisel drawn and is doing the "I am watching you" V-fingers; and Fjord is knocked slightly off-balance from Grog's arm that's resting on his shoulder.

An illustration showing several iconic Critical Role NPCs in a group shot. In the foreground, sitting on / emerging from a dry tree throne, is Delilah Briarwood, wearing a cocky expression. A red string is tied to one of her fingers, and the other end of it is wrapped around the neck of Pâté, who's flying closest to the viewer with a happy expression on his bony face. Gilmore and Essek are standing behind Delilah, Gilmore holding out his hand with a wide smile to a slightly coyer Essek. And behind them all in the centre, Artagan stands with his hands in prayer, looking at the viewer with a smile and a cocked eyebrow.

A digital illustration of Sam's characters. A floating Bigby's Hand fills the top half of the canvas, with a smiling Scanlan reclining on the thumb and finger, playing a lute. Nott is crouching on the other fingers, leaning down to gingerly untie a money pouch from an unsuspecting Taryon Darrington. The latter is leaning forward and away from her, and petting the cable updo atop FCG, who's cheerfully waving at Taryon.

Taliesin's characters standing in a group against a light green background. Ashton is sitting on his hammer in front, giving the horns and smiling punkishly at the viewer; above him The Owlbear (from The Darrington Brigade) is pointing his finger menacingly at Percy, who is standing cross-armed and looking unimpressed while discreetly reaching for his pistol; above and behind them Caduceus is leaning on his staff, hand on hip, looking down at Ashton with a gentle amused smile; behind him, half-faded into the background, Molly is standing with his back to the view, looking back over his shoulder.

All 8 #CriticalRole cast specials - 2/2
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An illustration of Laura Bailey's characters against a pinkish background. In the foreground Jester is sitting on the floor and slyly offering a cupcake to Vex, who is sat legs crossed on a floating broomstick, and eyes Jester with skeptical smile. Behind them stand Imogen and Farriwen (from the Darrington Brigade one shot), looking suspiciously at each other's hair and arm markings.

Colour illustration with a composition of [some of] Liam O'Brien's Critical Role characters: Buddy the Ogre is sitting in the middle and smiling adoringly at Vax, who is sitting cross-legged on Buddy's right knee and poking him playfully in the chest. Buddy's left arm is holding a distressed-looking Caleb slightly above the ground, and the platform on his back has Orym smiling gently at Frumpkin and holding out a flower towards him.

A group shot illustration of Marisha's characters. Keyleth has a hand on her chest, slightly taken aback by Beau, who's leaning on her staff and wiggling her eyebrows suggestively at the druid. Slightly lower in the frame is Laudna, puppeteering Pâté on black ichor strands and bending forward to gesture at him while speaking. To her side, Hazel Copperpot (of the Darrington Brigade) is holding up the metal horn of a phonograph to capture her voice.

A group shot illustration of Ashley's characters. Fearn smiling with her arms around Yasha and Damian (while deftly swiping one of her daggers), and Pike is in the front striking a muscle pose.

I don't think I've ever posted the whole set together, so here they are, all 8 #CriticalRole cast specials - 1/2
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YouTube video by Spry Fox Spirit Crossing - 14.2 Trailer

Hi everyone! We're Spry Fox. 🦊

As some of you may have heard, we've been working on our newest project: Spirit Crossing, a cooperative life-sim focused on friendship & community.

Let's take a look at the world we've been crafting:
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This is why I will never get a mullet

NO burn it all

If anyone is curious what we’ve been up to, here’s a great video covering some of the new stuff :)

I believe you can still sign up if you want to help test a pro social community sim (aka nonviolent MMO)

hot take but something like 80% of every stylized 3d game out there could stand to lower the saturation on their grass.

Sure there's a time and place for having saturation cranked at 99%, and that place is a few frames of UI or VFX and basically nowhere else.

Colorful =/= high saturation

Old piece I did for a landscape zine called “Streets of” - I did Morocco. I love the quality of light and temperature play on these old walls.

Oh damn Justin this is beautiful ❤️

Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy - Reactor Perihelion and its crew embark on a dangerous new mission at a corporate-controlled station in the throes of a hostile takeover… Novelette | 7,540 words They were still three hours out when Perihelion...

The new Murderbot short story is up at Reactor Magazine: reactormag.com/rapport-mart... Edited by Lee Harris, art by Jaime Jones.

Funny analogy, but I feel like that’s pretty standard! A lot of our teachers were doing that when we were in school. It was a selling point!

At ease, recruits! Bardel Entertainment is currently searching for a Layout Supervisor in #Vancouver. Interested? Apply here: ​

Up and at 'em, recruits! DreamWorks is currently searching for a Production Assistant in #Glendale. Interested? Apply here: ​

With how many layoffs we’ve had over the past several years, remote work should be the default. Requiring relocation at this point is unreasonable for the risk that we’re just going to get laid off two months, six months, a year in.

This Sunday 7-9p PST JUNE 29! A free virtual concert fundraiser for
@trevorproject.bsky.social 🧡streaming live from Rebecca Sugar's instagram and tiktok. With songs from "Steven Universe" "Adventure Time" and more. Help keep LGBTQ+ crisis services available for LGBTQ+ young people.

Take a minute to appreciate the absolutely immaculate background artwork from WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT.

Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit

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Hooooooooly yes

“Females are too emotional to be in leadership” they say as the richest man in the world and the president of the United States cry tweet in an online beef

I would also recommend using the 5 calls app if you want an easy step by step script. So many reasons to oppose this fuckery, AI legislation is just one of them

You can't be pro-unions and also pro-AI. AI is the ULTIMATE scab.

I thought I'd put it out there - I am currently on the lookout for Art Direction roles! I have AD'd two large RPG projects, Humblewood and Daggerheart, and would love to continue working in the TTRPG space. ♥️

❗❗LOOKING FOR A FULLTIME COLOR DESIGNER for a 2D TV SHOW❗❗ (I know I have some in my network, but please free to repost)

-Has to have Show/Film credits, worked on a production
-Intermediate to Senior Role

This is a Paid Gig. Do not DM or email.
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are you tired of hearing the most annoying, ill-informed, rumour mill takes on animation, film, and media in general?

do you wish you had SOMETHING to explain and debunk it all, made by industry pros??

WELL YOU GOT IT. AND IT'S SOOOO CLOSE TO BEING FUNDED.

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