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Tad Stones

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Started @ Disney Feature Animation in 1974. Best known for the Disney Afternoon, Rescue Rangers, Darkwing Duck, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, among others. Also, two Hellboy Animated features. Retired and selling art @ cons when they invite me.

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Whoah! I just checked the web preview page and my piece sold! This is a link to the preview, but as nice as the images are it's better irl. www.copronason.com/hellboy24/

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Terrific show with a variety of mediaincluding sculptures. Some really surprised me, not by the content, but by the quality of execution. That sounds condescending. I mean some were good, I was taken aback. The gallery has limited hours but so worth a visit. Search CoPro Gallery, Santa Monica.

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If you're in the Los Angeles area, consider stopping by the CoPro Gallery this evening to hang with Mike Mignola and a bunch of other artists featured in the show.

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I was a consultant on the TV special celebrating Donald's 50th anniversary. I was supposed to make sure the duck maintained his classic personality. I thought it especially ironic when I got this cel as a thank you since i don't think of Donald doing caligraphy or signing notes, 'All my love."

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In many of my interviews promoting the Darkwing Kickstarter from Dynamite comics, ( www.kickstarter.com/projects/dyn... ) I've said I'd like Amanda Diebert to write a Morgana 6 issue series. But if I had a say in the artist, Lissette would be top of the list, at LEAST for cover art if not interiors.

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Miami is nice, so I’ll say it twice 🌴 Joining other Lorcana artists at Miami TCG this October!

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I lost track of the single issues.

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As a kid reading comics, I often skipped over the caption boxes. That's no excuse for me missing this shout out in Negaduck #5. Boy do I feel dumb. But thanks, Jeff! @jeffparker.bsky.social

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Questions must be posted on the reddit thread. Follow the link.

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I hope the crossed banana and sword is a tattoo. It historically means, "No slip ups!" Also, very apeeling.

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My fear for the debate is that the rules could keep him in check enough that he'll look like a near normal candidate. There's no crowd to egg him on or reinforce his leaning into his crazy.

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I've never been to a Trump rally, just listened to reporting by people whose job is to go to many of them. After the rally, depending on their viewing habits, they won't see his continual nonsense. They'll get a general impression that he's still their guy. The boredom of the live event fades.

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I think most of the people at rallies treat him as Elvis level entertainment. They laugh and cheer at his most outrageous antics. If they really disagree with something they brush it off as a bit, that he wouldn't really do it.

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Turning on Netflix, hitting "skip recap", then "skip intro", then "skip episode", then turning off Netflix

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Protip for the younglings, slide a thin panel of sheet metal behind your drawing surface so you can harness the magic of magnets!

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We get the mild but it is sooo good and very easy to prepare.

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I've done both. You're probably right that it works better here to just reply to each. Different habits from different sites.

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3/3 But the crying will not have the dramatic impact as it would if we rarely see the character cry. Again, not talking about the expression of grief in real life, but about how it is used to tell a story.

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2/3 If you take the extreme indicator and make it a common moment, the audience loses the sense of scale. We're not sure what he finds unfortunate vs sad vs truly heartbreaking. At what level a character cries can be and indicator of their personality.

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I would same the same of any gender (in a TV series, not talking real life). Think of any of the last four doctors who displayed a huge range of emotions. When they cried, or even got misty-eyed, it carried dramatic weight - the top level of sadness. 1/3

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If a character cries in almost every episode of his series, tears cease having any emotional impact.

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I'll be doing a Live Stream interview with Nick Barrucci, owner of Dynamite Comics. This Friday, 06/14, 4:00PM Pacific/7:00PM Eastern, everyone else, do your own math. I think this is the right link. Original art!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CQn...

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We didn't hit the bats! We weren't even trying to. They swoop over to check them out then went back to bug eating.

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Loved Fall Guy. Maybe the one handing out good things is being too harsh.

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We used to "hunt" bats at the end of our block in the 50s. We'd throw rolled up newspapers as high as we could. The bats swooped around the papers as they fell. Watching a bat spiraling down around your newspaper was so cool, like you had performed some sort of summoning spell!

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Yeah, but you haven't really lived until you're a dumbass in your seventies.

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Greg! It's obvious that you have caught an image of a dead plant, haunting it's seedling! It's Cottingley all over again!

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You are absolutely right. I was mentioning at lunch to someone that some of the AI models let you include "in the style of" a specific artist while others don't allow it. But if the personal data is connected to the family photo, that image could definitely pop up.

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Had a wonderful lunch in Pasadena today with Joe and Gay Haldeman, who are here for the SFWA Nebula Conference. But we never thought to take a selfie, so as far as the internet is concerned, I guess it didn't happen. Darn, it seemed like we really enjoyed ourselves.

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I've said it before that it's weird to me that saying a product uses AI is seen as a positive marketing ploy, when there's so much coverage over glue in the pizza topping fiascos.

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But an artist knows that huge chunks of work will dry up. Bookcover designs, advertising layouts, lettering, editorial illustrations, etc.. They might not be as unique as what a talented artist would make but for a market looking to cut costs, it may be "good enough." 2/3

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I don't think a kid's image will show up in a generative fill picture. All the images inform the AI, it's not a cut and paste thing. People play with Meta:AI imagine like a game. Instead of playing a star fighter, you're playing an artist. Except it gets boring faster than a regular game. 1/3

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3/3 Feature people moved to TV like the shorts animators did in the 50s. Games are a new landscape. The most successful folks were eager to learn new things. Grab the opportunity!

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2/3Some animators couldn't make the transition and moved in to storyboarding. Some second string animators, who had been held back by their weak drawing, surged to the top ranks.

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After The Little Mermaid and Roger Rabbit, universities all over beefed up or started animation programs. The industry swelled with the new talent. Then Toy Story happened. The industry changed. Pixels replace pencils. 1/3

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So what is the state of employment in the TV animation industry right now? For instance, for someone who's done three seasons or so of two different shows, are they finding continuing work? What's the situation for those who entered the industry around 2019?

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