The Adobe Illustrator iPad app is wonderful—I’m pleasantly surprised.
I have a love/hate relationship with the desktop version, but this mobile version is streamlined in a way that makes it enjoyable to use.
I’ve been using Adobe Fresco a lot lately.
For me, an iPad and Apple Pencil won’t replace a Cintiq and stylus…
…BUT, Fresco is really growing on me. Great interface. I love using the Kyle Webster brushes I’m used to.
Working on art on-the-go has made my line choices looser and more spontaneous.
AI-crafted art is officially ineligible for copyright protection because it doesn’t have a human creator. That is great news.
I love wooden rollercoasters, they’re the best! Reminds me of The Phoenix—Got to ride that last year and it was just as fun as I remember!
I heard Darth Vader has a high Midi-chlorian count. I assume that has something to do with sex stuff.
Adobe says Animate is now “in maintenance mode” meaning it won’t be discontinued or have access to it removed. Details below.
That’s a relief because Adobe Animate allows me to do some really fun stuff in the comic I’m working on. It’s a great, truly helpful tool.
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Details here:
So disappointed that Adobe Animate is being discontinued.
It was an amazing software not just for animators but for background designers and children’s book illustrators, for example.
Adobe is going to shit but I didn’t expect them to do something this stupid. Blech.
I pinned up an “away message” on Twitter. Taking a break from that hell site for a while, but I’ll still retweet posts that point out and push back against fuckery.
Gonna be posting here and on Threads a lot more!
Starfleet Academy’s premiere episode really started working for me once Robert Picardo & the cadets appeared.
It’s a good pilot episode, but the opening scenes were tough to get through. I’m sure it’s all necessary to set up what’s coming up in the season, but it just wasn’t clicking for me.
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I will be releasing my debut self-published comic in 2026.
I am so excited for the New Year and to share this comic with readers. I’ve had a blast writing and illustrating it. This opening chapter features characters I am psyched about—Can’t wait for readers to meet them. :)
I love, love, love Star Trek: Picard Season 3.
What a stellar season of TV.
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Yesterday I sent out my first email newsletter!
I’ve contributed to email blasts and I’ve sent out newsletters for day jobs in the past.
This is the first newsletter I’ve sent out that’s entirely by me. Exciting. :)
Here’s a feel-good story about Francine The Lowe’s Cat:
If you watch The Chair Company, be ready to descend into madness. You won’t be able to stop watching this show.
The day players make this show great. They are hysterical and some are legit scene stealers.
Can’t wait for season two!
“Yuki’s Revenge,” the Fortnite x Kill Bill short, is a singular experience.
I can’t think of another property that’s done a similar thing.
The Fortnite elements didn’t take me out of the story per se. It’s hard to imagine David Carradine gelling with all that. Fortnite aside, it was a fun short!
I like the premiere of Pluribus. I’m really intrigued to see how season one plays out given its premise.
It has an X-Files vibe in a refreshing way—In terms of the show’s humor esp. toward the end…not so much the sci-fi angle. The actor Seehorn’s character talks to at the end absolutely kills it!
GDT’s Frankenstein is a gift—It’s like unwrapping a Christmas gift that you already know you’re gonna love.
Here’s a timeline cleanse—An example of good SFX makeup.
If Mike Marino designed this makeup, he’d sure as fuck have an inexplicable cleft scar.
The SFX makeup designers gave Frankenstein’s monster a lip scar but they do it in the right way & they don’t punch down at a particular group.
How nice!
A cleft scar doesn’t have to be exclusively slapped on to outcast characters.
Know what it looks like and ask yourself, “Why the fuck does this character have a cleft condition?”
The common denominator, I’ve found, is it’s a lazy and insensitive creative choice.
I hope Hollywood does better.
This is such a Bluesky topic btw—Spotting something problematic & speaking up about it.
Cleft conditions are, very understandably, not on peoples’ radar. I hope that changes when it comes to shitty SFX makeup choices.
A cleft scar does not need to be presented as a glaring fucking outcast trait.
I don’t think there will be any pushback by viewers. I don’t think viewers will look too deeply at this problematic design choice that Marino continues with.
If you or someone you know has a cleft condition, you might see a worrying trend here! Yikes!
I have a sneaking suspicion that SFX makeup artist Mike Marino is doing the makeup for Robert Eggers’s Werwulf. I bet I’m right about it. Take a look at the set photos of Lily-Rose Depp.
It reinforces what I’ve said about The Penguin’s problematic design on The Batman.
Friendship needs to be celebrated because it lets beautifully dumb moments happen.
If you like improv, you’ll appreciate how this movie lets its performers just go for it.
I started watching The Paper. It’s charming as hell.
It isn’t trying to be The Office. It does its own thing really well.
In case you’re considering switching to Email Octopus like I am:
EO integrates with Shopify and BookFunnel. Good deal! I think they’ll be my new newsletter provider.
I’ve been testing out EO today—So far it seems like a solid alternative to Mailerlite!
I’m disappointed with Mailerlite. They dropped their free email subscriber capacity from 1000 to 500. Lame.
I’m looking into Email Octopus. Probably gonna switch to them.
More inspiration:
“We're Kinda Different,” a fantastic short by Ben Meinhardt.
So funny and charming. Great storyboarding that keeps the scale of the character in mind.
Watch it here:
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