Ryan Hobbs

What's your fave weapon? I always liked the King Bible. Love having an aura of spinning death around me.

Southern three-banded armadillo - Wikipedia

Sorry I can't give you an exact for-sure answer, but you can read up some more on Wikipedia as a starter as you follow the armadillo's creature journey. :) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souther...

I'm glad you liked the episode! It was a fun, silly, simple little one. Shapes!

I don't think we ever specified, but there is a southern three-banded armadillo species that lives in Argentina. It and the Brazilian three-banded armadillo are the only two types of armadillo that can roll into balls.

My animation students are starting an independent project for the next few weeks and I'm glad to see their excitement, enthusiasm, and creativity as they discuss with me what they want to do, and I advise them against the dreaded Scope Creep. A good day.

Duly noted!

If someone hasn't seen the first, is there any issue watching Smile 2 alone, if its a superior version? Or does it not make sense if you haven't seen the first?

...Does the dog get killed?

I will give them this, being comfortable doing everything in an app is partly a strength, because sometimes I get very anxious doing things on an app that are to me Sit Down Actual Computer Time tasks. Like booking an airplane ticket, I need more screen real estate than a phone offers!

Ironically, with a lot more animators working remote, proper file organization knowledge is more important. You're not just opening the scene in-studio off the server and hitting 'save'. There's more having to zip, upload, download, label diligently, did you put it in the right folder, etc.

I'm having this memory of even a decade ago where some gamers are like 'oh no, the autosave corrupted, so I have to replay the game!' and I'm like, what about your other saves? The manual ones? I'm basically a save-scummer while playing computer games so not manually saving would feel weird!

My understanding is, us millenials had to know about file folders and saving and so forth or you couldn't function on a computer in the 90s / 00s.

Now a lot of apps handle file organization in the background, obscuring how it works so younger folk don't have to learn it.

Is that glib, or accurate?

My condolences. 😞

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

I've signed several of these petitions. Always worth keeping an eye out for! 👍

Step one: Plant zucchini.
Step two: Develop taste for all things zucchini, it will not stop.
Step three: Milk your zucchini walls for additional comic strips, possibly including the phrase 'milking my zucchini walls'.
Step four: ??
Step five: Profit (or Prophet).

Your cultural impact is now assured! You've made it, dude.

"Wiigii!"
"It's an old code, sir, but it checks out."

Gerald McBoing Boing's father has his son hoisted under his arm, as they stand next to a bird cage in the park.

I recall my first show, 2005's Gerald McBoing Boing, the dad had a plaid texture through his entire torso. Nobody expected (client included) that it would move accurately within the body, it was a very graphic-style show. So THAT was fine.

Outside of that one exception, plaid texture nooo! ; _ ;

Both are good, but if I had to choose- waffles.

Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

#nsfw #censorship #canpoli

@acvalens.net

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Stanhill, Lancashire, 1764. Wear and carpenter James Hargreaves invents the Spinning Jenny, the first practical spinning-frame, to make the tedious task of producing cloth a little bit faster. He doesn't know it yet, but this will destroy the world. Spurred by inventions like his, the industrial revolution will transform everything -- work power, the wealth of nations. Society as we know it began here, and it wasn't great for everyone. But a group of weavers and textile workers saw this future coming. And did their best to prevent it.

"Curse you spinning jenny, you ruined everything!" The standard narrative does that LUDDITES were foolish lunatics who, in fear of technology, decided progress was bad, and started hitting it with sticks. But the truth is entire ways of life were being destroyed. Previously, skilled craftsmen were respected for the time and effort it took to do their work. The entire family usit would form a cottage industry - creating something valuable, and command a decent living. But when a machine can work 10 times faster its owner can charge less for the prodcts- craftsmen couldn't compete and were left out of work almost overnight. And as factories became a fixture of the british landscape, these now unemployed labourers often ended up working the factories that had just destroyed their way of life. Britain was the most prosperous nation in history, factory owners became extremely wealthy and influential. But the people doing the actual work saw almost none of it.

Factory work paid little, since "the machines" did "the real work" human labourers were deemed unimportant and replaceable. FUN FACT!: Factory owners preferred to hire ORPHANS since less people would notice if they were maimed or killed on the job! Now the owners quickly realized the workers might notice they did all the work for almost no pay. If they went on STRIKE or ARGUED FOR HGHER WAGES, this would threaten their tremendous wealth. In 1799, Parliament passed the Combination Act, which made FORMING TRADE UNIONS, COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, AND GOING ON STRIKE ILLEGAL. Organizing against the rich became a crime.

If you were living through it, opposing the industrial revolution wasn't techno-phobia. It was SELF-DEFENSE. The combination act forced unions underground into secret societies. And the greatest secret of all was their leader - Ned Ludd. Ned had been a folk character for years. In one version after being whipped by his master, he smashed two knitting frames in a rage. In more fanciful versions, he then escaped to the Sherwood forest, here he lived among the animals as their king. Some versions specifically call him 'Much Better Than Robin Hood'.

Happy Labor Day!

Today we're bringing you The First Union, as told by HBomberguy (@hbomberguy.bsky.social) and illustrated by Skutch (@skutchdraws.bsky.social) It's the dawn of the industrial revolution, and of the way many of us work...

Have you ever heard of the term "Luddite" from an elder?

Asking for a crumb of context: Why is there sexy Watto everywhere today? What prompted this? Does it in any way relate to the hopes of Trump's demise, or is that just an unrelated thing happening at the same time?

And what does it have to do with sexy Watto? Why is there a sexy Watto? o_O

Yeah, the streaming boom between 2015-2021 was an aberration. I recall that brief period having times struggling to find enough animators for the work, rather than enough work for the animators. Most of animation's history has not been so abundant, as you say.

it's crazy that being like "how do i explain gay couples to my kids?" isn't an unthinkably embarrassing to say in 2025. it's actually incredibly easy to explain, that should be like indignantly saying "how am I supposed to explain to my kids where the sun goes at night? did a bird steal it?!"

Superman was a gosh darn good movie! Lots of heart, excitement, and laughs. ❤️

Damn near everyone comments on me using lightmode instead of darkmode for the UI in ToonBoom Harmony. But it's easier to see the information! Dark red on dark grey doesn't stand out as easily as dark red on white/pale grey! It used to be default, since TB Concerto! #ToonBoom #Animation

Thanks, I hope it's up your alley. :)

Was it good? What was the tone?