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JC Tecklenburg
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Freelance Motion Designer, Problem Solver, Human.

He/Him | Chicago | jctecklenburg.com
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Snowgraph turns 10!

Join us for our 10th annual winter getaway Jan 30–Feb 1. A weekend of cabin hangs, board games, skiing, and friends old and new.

Sign Ups are NOW OPEN!
forms.gle/41sR86PwZZvP...

More Details at www.SnowgraphChicago.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF!

Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal
Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008...
www.tcj.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Thank You
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Dang Sanda is a sleeper hit. Way better than it has any right to be
November 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM
This Wednesday! See you there!
November CMAG Meetup @Headquarters, River North!
Date: Nov 5th, 2025
Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: 213 W Institute Pl, Chicago, IL 60610
Things are cooling down, so it's time to head to the arcade to button-mash some new connections and plans for the remainder of 2025.
November 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This entire animation is contained within this single image!

Each frame is given a unique grey value and then stacked. It looks like a depth matte but it contains temporal information instead.
October 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Crystallization

#AE #Particular
October 31, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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As a huge New York Style Hot Dog fan for years, felt compelled to recreate the poster in a high resolution and managed to find the original photo used in the texture

Many thanks to folks from VGPC for help with identifying blobs, especially Prominos and TBemme

bekoha.github.io/yakuza/New%2...
October 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I will not not outsource thinking to a computer that can only guesses at what I probably want.

My decision making is what produces my product. Every decision builds and refines the work until I have something worthy of being hired to create.
October 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Not been on here in a while!!! but wanted to update what I've been up to recently! I've started running a cosplay drawing group in London.
October 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Listen to me. Listen. If you're making images that will only be displayed on screens, YOU HAVE TO LET GO. You can calibrate your screens perfectly, but then 25k people will see it on their shitty $50 monitors or cracked phone and its out of your hands. Don't think of it. Achieve enlightenment.
October 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Is this the endgame of "Cats&Soup?"
中秋節快樂!
Jung chow jit fai lock!
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!!
October 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Wine Chicago

I was reading Drops of God on a flight into O'hare and had a moment of inspiration.

All rigged up with Dominik Ruckli's Match Size Modifier capsule. Plus a procedural meniscus. #C4D #Redshift #AfterEffects
October 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
A quick BTS of the wine transition.

Dominik Ruckli's match size capsule keeps a cube at the right size and position at the center of the wine mesh. Then I boolean them.

You can see a plane showing the tracked footage FOV parented to the surface. I morph between the two cameras!
October 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Wine Chicago

I was reading Drops of God on a flight into O'hare and had a moment of inspiration.

All rigged up with Dominik Ruckli's Match Size Modifier capsule. Plus a procedural meniscus. #C4D #Redshift #AfterEffects
October 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
C4D Tip. If using the Point xpresso node with a primitive object, use a child correction deformer as the object input instead of the primitive. It won't work otherwise.
September 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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exceptionally late to this but i finally caught Hundreds of Beavers on @jct.bsky.social's recommendation and

it should be required viewing for any game developer

i probably undid my surgery from laughing so hard

5 stars
September 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Akane Banashi is incredible.

How do I explain that a plain storytelling performance is the hypest, most satisfying reveal after months of build up?
September 22, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Finally got around to modifying Mikey Borup's After Effects Tutorial to mosaic a lack-of-detail instead of luma.
September 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Iteration = time to build, rethink and refine existing material.

Change = new parameters that require new solutions/script.

Change does not build upon ideas, it swaps them for new ones, demanding everyone involved in the process to react and restart based upon this new premise.

4/9
September 16, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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New blog post online :)!

"Walk cycles, but easy"

gotibo.fr/blog/walk-cy...

#b3d #animation #blog #tutorial
July 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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This is a wonderful post explaining how to make animations feel "right" (or why sometimes you don't need to animate at all). 👇

emilkowal.ski/ui/you-dont-...
September 15, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Gotta love that point in a project where professionals discus how to appease the ghosts living in the project files.
September 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Wow.

Infinity Castle goes hard
September 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM