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Clay Kaytis
@claykaytis.com
Director-Screenwriter-Animator
A Christmas Story Christmas🎄 2 Peanuts Specials🥜 The Christmas Chronicles🎅🏻 The Angry Birds Movie🐤 Disney🐭
Also me on bksy: @animationpodcast.com @nowgomakeamovie.com

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As this account becomes more personal about hobby stuff & opinions, I’d like to direct you to my other accounts for…

Animation: @animationpodcast.com
Filmmaking: @nowgomakeamovie.com

Or follow all three 😃👍
At this comic shop in Santa Barbara I appreciated the real spiderwebs getting in on the theming.
December 17, 2025 at 4:57 AM
So weird to see this. We had this exact lithograph framed and hanging at the entrance to our kitchen for all of my years in school.
Michel Delacroix (French, b.1933)
"Nuit de Decembre," 1980
Lithograph
22.75 x 30.5 in
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
December 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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I feel I can somehow, for myself, soften the blow of Rob Reiner’s death by reflecting on how impactful his work was in my life, specifically through the films he directed throughout my Jr. High and High School years. Stand By Me showed me what real friendship could be. 1/5
December 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Apparently The Christmas Chronicles played in Regal Cinemas across the country for one day this week. Weird, and cool. I found out from a Google alert.
December 13, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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So sick & tired of all these assholes selling out to AI. Disgusting. Disgraceful.

You want to help students create, tell them to draw & write, let their imagination run wild on the page. You don't push the thieving machine.

Also, fuck AI!!!
December 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Man, sounds like it would have been easier to just make an ad the usual way.
December 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Just like he empowered our country’s “hidden” racism to crawl out of the shadows for everyone to see, he’s revealing how corrupt the world really is through everything he touches and everything that dares touch him. Gross.
December 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Amazon’s new AI (Boris, or Basil, or Bobo, whatever) told me the product I was searching for was no longer available on Amazon. So I went to the product’s company website, clicked the “Buy on Amazon” button and there it was… on Amazon. AI is a scourge.
December 1, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Let’s GOOOOOOOOOO!
December 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
You know what’s weirder than seeing a driverless car? Seeing a driverless car being driven by a person.
December 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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The Christmas Chronicles is warming up early on Netflix this year!
November 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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I wonder if The Macy’s Parade will ever bring the Angry Birds Red balloon out of retirement. The photo on the left was the last time I saw him in 2018, when we were designing the balloons for The Christmas Chronicles. @f3rgal.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Finally reached the end of my first draft and the final video in my Writing a Screenplay series!

Writing a Screenplay - Day 30 - FADE OUT / THE END
youtu.be/47ySFDYjKks
Writing a Screenplay - Day 30 - THE END
YouTube video by Now Go Make A Movie!
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
What a nice reminder. Thanks @david-william4.bsky.social! & here I was going through the day with zero awareness that today’s the anniversary of A Christmas Story Christmas! To commemorate, here’s a photo from right before filming the first shot and another of the last shot before we wrapped.
November 18, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Apple should just go all in and rename the Apple Watch the Apple Timer because that’s all I use mine for.
November 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Every time I vacuum up a bug or spider, I like to think of it as the beginning of a heartwarming animated adventure about returning home.
November 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
We got a super soft rug for around our bed so the dog would have traction to jump up at night, but now she always sleeps on the rug. What have we done???
November 13, 2025 at 5:45 AM
That 🎄🎅🏻 mood is right around the corner!
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Glad to see the Super S is still going strong
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I’ve seen a dog sneeze, and a dog choke/gag, but I don’t remember ever seeing a dog cough. Do dogs cough?
November 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
November 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This @thomasflight.nebula.tv vid on GenAI is worth watching.
Why Does AI Art Feel So Wrong?
YouTube video by Thomas Flight
youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Writing a Screenplay - Day 25 - I finished my first draft! What’s next?
Writing a Screenplay - Day 25 - I finished my first draft! What’s next?
YouTube video by Now Go Make A Movie!
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM