Charmaine Verhagen

@charmainevee.bsky.social

Director in Animation- Storyboarding/writing/design - swag

My big beef with Lightbox is where is the weirdo art and panels? Every time I go it’s real homogenized feelin’ but maybe I’m not looking hard enough? I mean I should know it’s an “industry” and studio show and people are trying to appeal to the overall and be able to sell and get work.

It seems like my scanner is obsolete now which just… pisses me off, hahahaha. I hope I can find a work-around (latest driver did nothing) otherwise, I dunno man. It’s in perfect condition, it’s all fucking stupid. Smdh

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

When I had to take the ferry a bajillion times because I lived in Vancouver and dated someone on Vancouver island, I hated it but damn if I don’t miss being in a boat and looking at the glistening wake as we navigate through the little islands.

After looking at a bunch of portfolios, I have determined Slideshare is AWFUL for viewing storyboards. If you’re using it to host your boards and embedding them on your portfolio site, I’d suggest looking elsewhere I personally use Speakerdeck and I’ve had no problem viewing boards hosted on there

My feet are killing me from anime expo. All I bought were stickers, so many stickers because I’m trying to get rid of things instead of accumulate more. Tho it’s fun to look at figures, and I’ve never seen the anime but god Lum is the coolest anime design ever. I don’t know her but I love her.

It’s corny but I love talking about tattoos. I love tattoos!!! I can talk about them for so long. I wish I was good enough to tattoo but I’m pretty sure my hand is far too shaky and it would be way too much pressure to not permanently fuck up someone’s skin.

A24 announces that they want to put storyboard artists out of work. That's what the headline should be written as. Becuase we should be honest about what these AI "tools" are trying to do, and who it is trying to circumvent. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Google Invests $75 Million in A24 to Develop AI-Powered Filmmaking Tools

A24 and Google have struck an AI research partnership that will see the independent studio work to develop new AI-powered technologies for filmmakers.

variety.com

I’ve seen Backrooms 3x because different people wanted to see it and I still like it, it ain’t perfect but I had such a good time being fully along for the ride and scared (I get scared EASILY) the first time. Subsequent viewings have been fun and by the 3rd viewing I remembered the jump-scares, lol