I'm moving onto post production and lemme tell you editing something you made yourself is nice but also really tough if you have a bit of a self-doubt problem because you *have* to look carefully at the thing you just made even if you're too scared to. 😭

I needed one W tonight and that was finally FINALLY deciding how i was gonna animate the combine power effect. I just needed to mess around in CSP but I think this will be the style I'm going for (plus I always imagined the red part expanding like that and I'm so glad it's now real)

oohhh making special effects has not been easy for me...

Emotional Crying Cat Meme

Alt: A kitten closing it's eyes, with tears streaming down its face

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I had a conversation w a Lyft driver a few weeks ago that I still think about. I hope this musician, eager to share her art, finds her way to teaching. While the conversation started rocky, Im glad she got an opportunity to talk about her ambitions. Piano teachers are way more valuable than A.I.

Yeah....i think im gonna need to get like a VFX artist's opinion on my effects at this point because i literally cannot come up with anything better than this rn and i'm not content with it lol

So I'm still not getting calls into work, payments are kicking my account down and needless to say... adulting is hard. I need a bit of help. Updated my kofi goal to accommodate everything. Any help is appreciated, thank you! Cashapp Venmo Kofi Partreon #mutualaid #helpsky #helpfolkslive2026

Roya Shahidi | Looking for work@rsdream12.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Still on the brutal job hunt and expenses are biting me in the butt. You guy's support truly means a lot to me in this rough period. Any and all help is always appreciated CashApp Venmo Kofi #mutualaid #helpsky #helpfolkslive2026

The JumpHero animated series has an updated logo, in part because I wanted to do something ✨new✨ but also because the license for the last font only let me use it in comics or I'd have to pay for it

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

More of the same info but here's my newsletter I said I was gonna do 😊 buttondown.com/marlenesanto...

I say this humbly but I am quite happy that the concept of a JumpHero cartoon exists in the same timeframe as us getting new episodes of IDWBAMG. Great era for fans of protagonists like that

Interesting...👀👀 youtu.be/1dpA8UZL9x8?...

Are you and your webcomic affected by the impending Tapas shutdowns? In light of recent events, the CartUn journal has published a new guide on webcomic hosting and moving platforms. journal.cartoonist.coop/webcomic-hos...

Holy moly thank you everyone for making this a reality I wrote a blog post here jumpherocomic.com/blogarchive/... but plan to get to my newsletter later tonight. My heart is just so full. Thank you so much.

I MADE JUMPHERO AGAIN ❤️💜💫@marlenesantos.com · 5d ago

On Monday I'll finally be revealing what my secret cartoon project is via a 14 second teaser trailer. If you're a fan of the kind of stuff I currently do, then you'll totally want to watch this youtu.be/1dpA8UZL9x8?...

Look at my lawyer dawwwwwwg I'm going to jail 😭😭😭

Yall i finished coloring next is some effects and shading 🥹

My students both respect and fear me lol

On Monday I'll finally be revealing what my secret cartoon project is via a 14 second teaser trailer. If you're a fan of the kind of stuff I currently do, then you'll totally want to watch this youtu.be/1dpA8UZL9x8?...

Coming soon...

YouTube video by Marlene Santos

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Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

listen: there's a level on which I don't like "hallucinate" for ai because it's inaccurate. there's another where it's offensive that we are shrugging off so "hallucinations" when we absolutely don't human ones. and another where calling it hallucinations is making it harder to look up human ones

BY THE WAY if anyone needs help with making your own website for your comic, reach out anytime! I've been so involved with this stuff for the past couple of years and I would be super excited to provide my advice.

I MADE JUMPHERO AGAIN ❤️💜💫@marlenesantos.com · last wk.

I heard the new about #Tapas and just know I am currently coming up with plans. I just wanna wait until we get more official information. JumpHero should be business as usual, I just need to think of the best way to archive my older works.

If you're planning to move your webcomic from Tapas to Wordpress, know that the good people of Leeto, the dev behind the webcomic-frindly theme Toocheke has developed a plugin to import your whole story including dates! leetoo.net/import-your-...

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Tapas is reportedly shutting down. If you're a creator who's published on Tapas, this guide walks you through pulling your own series

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I heard the new about #Tapas and just know I am currently coming up with plans. I just wanna wait until we get more official information. JumpHero should be business as usual, I just need to think of the best way to archive my older works.

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

it's important to let your characters be mentally tortured

Trying to make my end credits look nice and plentiful

Artists have been saying this for years now, it's astonishing how some people do not understand. I guess it's because they don't have their jobs and livelihood threatened by it (YET).

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 2w ago

This is why I hate "just a tool" so so so much. You can make a calculator without access to every calculation. You can make photoshop without access to all photos. Someone show me a genai tool that didn't require all of our labour in its production. It's plagiarism software.

never make me a rough animator, i absolutely screwed something up that now the current clean animator (me) will have to fix

before any of you freak out, let this bunny remind you that fortnite has gone full AI for a while now, and the ceo of epic (tim sweeney) fired his staff for it, and has zero shame in it i stopped playing this game a very long time ago, and you can and should too. don’t give in

Nintendeal@nintendeal.com · 3w ago

Sora is coming to Fortnite this week

a note from nel. One successful tour on the books! onward and upward from here