Tom Smith
@tomsmithcartoon.bsky.social
Director and Storyboard Artist. Co-creator of King Cockroach Live streaming every Thursday night on twitch.tv/bossbugkc
aw fuck I forgot to post for #indieanimationday ironically because I was too busy working on my #indieanimation. anyway Sublo and Tangy Mustard mascot friends they live in Toronto blah blah blah you know the deal. new episode in a couple of months, it's boarded but I still gotta animate it
In college I remember feeling like "Man, I wish animation didn't have all these frames you have to draw." but not realizing that the only thing that mattered was timing and poses and nothing else at all and I congratulate every animator who figured that out and ran with it.
Animation Obsessive@ani-obsessive.bsky.social · last mo.From: High Noon (1988), dir. Viktor Kubal, Slovenská Filmová Tvorba
A Big Walk is like what I imagined thethe future of video games would be as a child.
The "centrist" think tank Third Way is looking to pay someone between $140,000 and $150,000 to spend their days trying to dig up dirt on DSA members. They're trying to sell this gig as "anti-extremism" work, which I find completely disgusting.
What happens if a creator streams your game and is opted in? Does Twitch think it has the right to feed a developer's game into its AI slop factory? This has deeper ramifications than it seems on the surface.
Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 5d agoTwitch now uses your channel to train generative AI by default. You can opt out of some training here: www.twitch.tv/settings/sec...
I have seen a movie in a completely empty theater twice. The first time was Monkeybone. The second time was also Monkeybone.
Extraordinary story from @josepagliery.bsky.social following Rogelio Bolufé, one of the Cuban hunger strikers in ICE camps as he becomes a third-country national expelled to Guayaquil, Ecuador, one of the most dangerous cities on earth. www.notus.org/national/dhs...
No ID, No Money, No Way Out: DHS Deports a Man to a Country He Doesn't Know
The Trump administration sent Rogelio Bolufé, a Cuban national, to a cartel city in Ecuador with no means of escape.
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Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Hello animation friends! I am looking for work - I have over a decade of experience as an imaginative writer, voice over performer, and creative producer. I'm open to any and all opportunities: I've worked as a Staff Writer, Lead Writer, Executive Producer, voice actor, development, freelance!
Worst thing about this is that it smears all the artists who worked on the actual movie. You spend months to years of your life working on a film, then marketing does some dumb shit like this and now that’s what people associate with your work. They’ll assume your movie is filled with ai shit too.
Henry Gilbert (Beloved Podcast Personality)@talkinghenry.bsky.social · last wk.New dispatch from Hell:
Cancelled my ToonBoom Harmony subscription. It was already very hard to justify when I'm not regularly getting paid to animate, and this rate increase was the last straw.
Tonight, King Cockroach continues his fight to the surface in Half-Life. Tonight will feature the debut of our new headcrab-themed Hype Train filled with new animation and interactivity! Live at 7 PM Pacific / 10 PM Eastern on twitch.tv/BossBugKC
Why the fuck is toonboom raising their SBPro subscription by like 200$
For King Cockroach's Half-Life run I've done some of the most complex re-theming to date. Excited for everyone to see it, tonight at 7 PM Pacific / 10 PM Eastern on twitch.tv/BossBugKC
Yep. Earlier this year I was interviewed by Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media is aiding the Trump administration’s Epstein cover up.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2w agoBanks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS
Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...
It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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ICE raids continue in our communities. If you see immigration enforcement in your neighborhood, report it by calling the LA Rapid Response Network! #SomosCHIRLA #StopTheRaids
Wife and I keep giggling innapropriately during House of Dragons because Lord Ormund reminds us of Dennis from IASIP
tonight at 7 Pacific / 10 Eastern! twitch.tv/BossBugKC
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World's greatest VTuber (the V stands for Villain). The final boss of Twitch. Complete episode archive available on Patreon.
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King Cockroach@bossbugkc.bsky.social · 3w agoKing Cockroach starts a new job at the Black Mesa Research Facility in Valve's classic FPS Half-Life! This month-long arc will conclude with a BossBugKC EXCLUSIVE ANNOUNCEMENT that you won't want to miss! Thursdays at 7 PM Pacific / 10 PM Eastern on twitch.tv/BossBugKC and youtube.com/@BossBugKC
“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Super cool to see the character I helped introduce 5 years ago getting so prominently featured alongside The Simpsons. youtu.be/2iI8iZg8pos
The Simpsons x Fortnite Reload | Trailer
YouTube video by Fortnite
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Woof, too real
Carolina A. Miranda@cmonstah.bsky.social · 3w ago"The vast majority of people who work in film and television are not studio executives, nor are they famous actors. They are, overwhelmingly, blue-collar workers, freelancers, and small businesses. And they are in free fall." newrepublic.com/article/2136...
Thinking today about how AI democratizes the art of being an insufferable dillweed executive producer.
Whatever this is, it does not look like a functioning internal design document. Likely some half-assed filler text added by a marketing exec's underpaid assistant. Still, a lot of highly paid people likely had to sign off before this made it to SDCC. Bad look for PSKY, really sucks for the artists.
Rick@combattlerrickv.exportaud.io · 3w agoI dont know if this is brazen or it has just become so normalized that people who use the stuff don't see it anymore but the text that opens the final paragraph on the right on the big slides for your sdcc presentation is WILD
