Ivan Miguel
@ivaninovuelven.bsky.social
Motion Graphics AD
I take squares and, pow! I turn them into circles.
I take squares and, pow! I turn them into circles.
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A must-read post for #Ghibli fans
Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki didn't start as the artists they became. Surviving the brutal world of TV anime in the '70s changed them and their style.
They made classics like Heidi and Anne of Green Gables and found their own paths, as we explore:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-pressu...
They made classics like Heidi and Anne of Green Gables and found their own paths, as we explore:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-pressu...
July 29, 2025 at 7:18 AM
A must-read post for #Ghibli fans
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When Teachers, Librarians, Vaccines, Big Bird, and Rainbows are your enemies...
...you might just be the 👉 BAD GUY 👈
...you might just be the 👉 BAD GUY 👈
With all that’s going wrong in this country, this is the regime’s priority?
July 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
When Teachers, Librarians, Vaccines, Big Bird, and Rainbows are your enemies...
...you might just be the 👉 BAD GUY 👈
...you might just be the 👉 BAD GUY 👈
Repost with an image from your comfort film.
June 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Repost with an image from your comfort film.
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Lab-kept bumble bees roll small wooden balls around for no apparent purpose other than fun, a 2022 study reveals.
Learn more on #WorldBeeDay: scim.ag/4dAwCuD
Learn more on #WorldBeeDay: scim.ag/4dAwCuD
May 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Lab-kept bumble bees roll small wooden balls around for no apparent purpose other than fun, a 2022 study reveals.
Learn more on #WorldBeeDay: scim.ag/4dAwCuD
Learn more on #WorldBeeDay: scim.ag/4dAwCuD
New York folks!
Tonight at 8:PM ET our short is projected together with other international animated shorts as part of @animnightsny.bsky.social Check the following link for details and free tickets 🎟️
lu.ma/3270gn67
Tonight at 8:PM ET our short is projected together with other international animated shorts as part of @animnightsny.bsky.social Check the following link for details and free tickets 🎟️
lu.ma/3270gn67
Animation Nights New York (ANNY) at The Gutter Spare Room! · Luma
Watch a curated program of animated short films from all around the world.
Animation Nights New York is a monthly screening event and annual festival based in…
lu.ma
May 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
New York folks!
Tonight at 8:PM ET our short is projected together with other international animated shorts as part of @animnightsny.bsky.social Check the following link for details and free tickets 🎟️
lu.ma/3270gn67
Tonight at 8:PM ET our short is projected together with other international animated shorts as part of @animnightsny.bsky.social Check the following link for details and free tickets 🎟️
lu.ma/3270gn67
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“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
nymag.com
May 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
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Alice Guy-Blaché, an early director who made thousands of films (at one point, her studio was putting out three a week!) but was erased out of the story of early cinema history...
www.acmi.net.au/stories-and-...
www.acmi.net.au/stories-and-...
Alice Guy-Blaché: female filmmaking pioneer
Alice Guy-Blaché was one of the first people to make a narrative film, and she helped create over a thousand films as either director, producer or writer.
www.acmi.net.au
April 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Alice Guy-Blaché, an early director who made thousands of films (at one point, her studio was putting out three a week!) but was erased out of the story of early cinema history...
www.acmi.net.au/stories-and-...
www.acmi.net.au/stories-and-...
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From: The Little Mermaid (1968), dir. Ivan Aksenchuk, Soyuzmultfilm
March 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
From: The Little Mermaid (1968), dir. Ivan Aksenchuk, Soyuzmultfilm
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Here some process, BTS and composition on “The kid, the bridge and the god of night” that I had previously shared.
February 27, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Here some process, BTS and composition on “The kid, the bridge and the god of night” that I had previously shared.
When does “absolute Martian manhunter” arrive to Spain? This looks amazing and a source of inspiration.
February 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
When does “absolute Martian manhunter” arrive to Spain? This looks amazing and a source of inspiration.
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"Avatar: Seven Havens" new animated series (set after "Legend of Korra") is in production.
deadline.com/2025/02/avat...
deadline.com/2025/02/avat...
February 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"Avatar: Seven Havens" new animated series (set after "Legend of Korra") is in production.
deadline.com/2025/02/avat...
deadline.com/2025/02/avat...
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"If the Titanic Sunk Today" by illustrator Pierre Brignaud.
h/t @jimmypalmiotti.bsky.social
h/t @jimmypalmiotti.bsky.social
February 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
"If the Titanic Sunk Today" by illustrator Pierre Brignaud.
h/t @jimmypalmiotti.bsky.social
h/t @jimmypalmiotti.bsky.social
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Using AI makes you worse at your job, btw.
“Users with access to GenAI tools produce a less diverse set of outcomes for the same task, compared to those without. This tendency for convergence reflects a lack of personal, contextualised, critical and reflective judgement of AI output"
“Users with access to GenAI tools produce a less diverse set of outcomes for the same task, compared to those without. This tendency for convergence reflects a lack of personal, contextualised, critical and reflective judgement of AI output"
Microsoft study finds AI makes human cognition “atrophied and unprepared”
🔗 www.404media.co/microsoft-st...
🔗 www.404media.co/microsoft-st...
February 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Using AI makes you worse at your job, btw.
“Users with access to GenAI tools produce a less diverse set of outcomes for the same task, compared to those without. This tendency for convergence reflects a lack of personal, contextualised, critical and reflective judgement of AI output"
“Users with access to GenAI tools produce a less diverse set of outcomes for the same task, compared to those without. This tendency for convergence reflects a lack of personal, contextualised, critical and reflective judgement of AI output"
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¿Sabíais que el logo de Turespaña (el Sol de España) no es de Miró?
Bueno... sí lo es. Pero no lo hizo él. Bueno, sí. Pero no lo hizo para Turespaña. Y es un logo famoso en todo el mundo pero no es un logo... son dos carteles.
Os cuento 👇
Bueno... sí lo es. Pero no lo hizo él. Bueno, sí. Pero no lo hizo para Turespaña. Y es un logo famoso en todo el mundo pero no es un logo... son dos carteles.
Os cuento 👇
February 8, 2025 at 8:17 AM
¿Sabíais que el logo de Turespaña (el Sol de España) no es de Miró?
Bueno... sí lo es. Pero no lo hizo él. Bueno, sí. Pero no lo hizo para Turespaña. Y es un logo famoso en todo el mundo pero no es un logo... son dos carteles.
Os cuento 👇
Bueno... sí lo es. Pero no lo hizo él. Bueno, sí. Pero no lo hizo para Turespaña. Y es un logo famoso en todo el mundo pero no es un logo... son dos carteles.
Os cuento 👇
The kid, the bridge and the god of the night.
February 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The kid, the bridge and the god of the night.
The association of female comic-book artists from Spain @autorasdecomic.bsky.social, wrote a manifesto against the indiscriminate use of image generative Al, also they did a lot of cool drawings (and I wished in the motion community it would exist a similar kind of unity)
January 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The association of female comic-book artists from Spain @autorasdecomic.bsky.social, wrote a manifesto against the indiscriminate use of image generative Al, also they did a lot of cool drawings (and I wished in the motion community it would exist a similar kind of unity)
“The Spanish government removes the law decree to regulate AI due to the backlash of the sector of culture,”. The draft would have provided collective licenses to AI companies to use massive amounts of artists’ work without needing individual artists’ approval or having to compensate them for it.
January 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
“The Spanish government removes the law decree to regulate AI due to the backlash of the sector of culture,”. The draft would have provided collective licenses to AI companies to use massive amounts of artists’ work without needing individual artists’ approval or having to compensate them for it.
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The Clint Eastwood music video is iconic—it helped to turn Gorillaz into a phenomenon. But how was it made?
Director Pete Candeland goes deep into that process in our new issue, talking anime influence, early CGI and three months with almost no sleep: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/making-the...
Director Pete Candeland goes deep into that process in our new issue, talking anime influence, early CGI and three months with almost no sleep: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/making-the...
January 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The Clint Eastwood music video is iconic—it helped to turn Gorillaz into a phenomenon. But how was it made?
Director Pete Candeland goes deep into that process in our new issue, talking anime influence, early CGI and three months with almost no sleep: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/making-the...
Director Pete Candeland goes deep into that process in our new issue, talking anime influence, early CGI and three months with almost no sleep: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/making-the...
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Animated opening of "Severance" Season 2, by Oliver Latta (aka Extraweg) again ♡
Full video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKT5...
Interview >> www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
S01 OP >> www.catsuka.com/news/2022-03...
Full video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKT5...
Interview >> www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
S01 OP >> www.catsuka.com/news/2022-03...
January 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Animated opening of "Severance" Season 2, by Oliver Latta (aka Extraweg) again ♡
Full video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKT5...
Interview >> www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
S01 OP >> www.catsuka.com/news/2022-03...
Full video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKT5...
Interview >> www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
S01 OP >> www.catsuka.com/news/2022-03...
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Liam Wong Archive Collection, available via Volume 👀 ☂️ https://vol.co/collections/liam-wong-archive
January 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Liam Wong Archive Collection, available via Volume 👀 ☂️ https://vol.co/collections/liam-wong-archive
One of the only possible issues of a Miyazaki movie is not having the chance to enjoy his amazing watercolors.
Uno de los pocos posibles problemas de una peli de Miyazaki es no tener la oportunidad de disfrutar sus increíbles acuarelas.
Uno de los pocos posibles problemas de una peli de Miyazaki es no tener la oportunidad de disfrutar sus increíbles acuarelas.
Concept art by Hayao Miyazaki and Nobuo Tomizawa for Sherlock Hound (1984–1985), dir. Hayao Miyazaki and Kyosuke Mikuriya, Tokyo Movie Shinsha
January 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
One of the only possible issues of a Miyazaki movie is not having the chance to enjoy his amazing watercolors.
Uno de los pocos posibles problemas de una peli de Miyazaki es no tener la oportunidad de disfrutar sus increíbles acuarelas.
Uno de los pocos posibles problemas de una peli de Miyazaki es no tener la oportunidad de disfrutar sus increíbles acuarelas.
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McCarthyism redux
The actors will serve as his “eyes and ears” while helping improve Hollywood, which Trump called “a great but very troubled place."
Trump Reveals Hollywood A-Listers Who Will Serve As Special Ambassadors
The actors will serve as his “eyes and ears” while helping improve Hollywood, which Trump called “a great but very troubled place."
www.huffpost.com
January 16, 2025 at 8:43 PM
McCarthyism redux
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This is a strong example of what can be done with digital comics when you're willing to push both form and content beyond what's been done before.
The author, Kristen Radtke, is here on Bluesky at @kristenradtke.bsky.social.
H/T @austinkleon.bsky.social for bringing it to my attention. 🙏
The author, Kristen Radtke, is here on Bluesky at @kristenradtke.bsky.social.
H/T @austinkleon.bsky.social for bringing it to my attention. 🙏
In this digital comic, Kristen Radtke explores the history of baby tech — the tools and devices that allow parents to surveil their newborns.
How to watch a baby
A digital comic by Kristen Radtke.
www.theverge.com
December 10, 2024 at 1:07 AM
This is a strong example of what can be done with digital comics when you're willing to push both form and content beyond what's been done before.
The author, Kristen Radtke, is here on Bluesky at @kristenradtke.bsky.social.
H/T @austinkleon.bsky.social for bringing it to my attention. 🙏
The author, Kristen Radtke, is here on Bluesky at @kristenradtke.bsky.social.
H/T @austinkleon.bsky.social for bringing it to my attention. 🙏