Laura N-Tamara
@laurantamara.bsky.social
Working in animation by day, painting watercolours by night.
French-Indonesian in London, UK.
www.laura-ntamara.com
French-Indonesian in London, UK.
www.laura-ntamara.com
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"Takamura Mukuo - The Pioneer of Anime Background Art" exhibition is coming (April 2026, Sasebo, Japan).
A legendary BG artist (Galaxy Express 999, Sailor Moon, Manie Manie, Kamui, Harmagedon, Gauche the Cellist...) who died in 1992 at the age of 54.
More info >> www.instagram.com/mukuo_takamu...
A legendary BG artist (Galaxy Express 999, Sailor Moon, Manie Manie, Kamui, Harmagedon, Gauche the Cellist...) who died in 1992 at the age of 54.
More info >> www.instagram.com/mukuo_takamu...
December 14, 2025 at 10:48 AM
"Takamura Mukuo - The Pioneer of Anime Background Art" exhibition is coming (April 2026, Sasebo, Japan).
A legendary BG artist (Galaxy Express 999, Sailor Moon, Manie Manie, Kamui, Harmagedon, Gauche the Cellist...) who died in 1992 at the age of 54.
More info >> www.instagram.com/mukuo_takamu...
A legendary BG artist (Galaxy Express 999, Sailor Moon, Manie Manie, Kamui, Harmagedon, Gauche the Cellist...) who died in 1992 at the age of 54.
More info >> www.instagram.com/mukuo_takamu...
Alright I'm done with "I am in Eskew" (was great !), and I still have an Animation film to finish making, what other audio horror fiction podcast should I get sucked in all day long ? Monotone, depressed narrators preferred pls.
November 26, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Alright I'm done with "I am in Eskew" (was great !), and I still have an Animation film to finish making, what other audio horror fiction podcast should I get sucked in all day long ? Monotone, depressed narrators preferred pls.
Gotta keep that manual comp pass !
Pixar designed Toy Story to be printed on physical film. The Disney renaissance movies were the same.
Today, it's hard to see them as they were meant to be seen. The versions on streaming and home media aren't quite the same films that ruled the '90s:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-st...
Today, it's hard to see them as they were meant to be seen. The versions on streaming and home media aren't quite the same films that ruled the '90s:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-st...
November 11, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Gotta keep that manual comp pass !
oh no I found my bsky password again and now there's another platform to endlessly scroll and get notifications from 🫣
November 11, 2025 at 11:06 PM
oh no I found my bsky password again and now there's another platform to endlessly scroll and get notifications from 🫣
Reposted by Laura N-Tamara
Il y a un an sortait Vertigéo chez Casterman. Après 10 000 exemplaires vendus, d’autres récits vont arriver ! Actuellement, je travaille avec le talentueux @jane-eve-sky.bsky.social sur le projet Asimov. Un one shot de rétro-SF cyberpunk, qui n’est pas encore signé, mais qui se profile bien ;)
May 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Il y a un an sortait Vertigéo chez Casterman. Après 10 000 exemplaires vendus, d’autres récits vont arriver ! Actuellement, je travaille avec le talentueux @jane-eve-sky.bsky.social sur le projet Asimov. Un one shot de rétro-SF cyberpunk, qui n’est pas encore signé, mais qui se profile bien ;)
Starting to have Annecy envy goddamnit.
April 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Starting to have Annecy envy goddamnit.
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To achieve legal and/or medical transition in the UK, people are REQUIRED to live IN PUBLIC in their preferred gender, FOR A PERIOD OF YEARS. Or they will be refused support.
CAN YOU UNDERSTAND that doing that is being made ILLEGAL?
CAN YOU UNDERSTAND that it's making BEING TRANS illegal?
CAN YOU UNDERSTAND that doing that is being made ILLEGAL?
CAN YOU UNDERSTAND that it's making BEING TRANS illegal?
I had live 'as a man' to prove I deserved treatment. That involved using male facilities.
If you don't do that, they won't let you transition. I had to bring someone to be interviewed to 'prove' I wasn't just sitting in the house in a suit.
See what they're doing, now?
If you don't do that, they won't let you transition. I had to bring someone to be interviewed to 'prove' I wasn't just sitting in the house in a suit.
See what they're doing, now?
April 22, 2025 at 9:16 AM
To achieve legal and/or medical transition in the UK, people are REQUIRED to live IN PUBLIC in their preferred gender, FOR A PERIOD OF YEARS. Or they will be refused support.
CAN YOU UNDERSTAND that doing that is being made ILLEGAL?
CAN YOU UNDERSTAND that it's making BEING TRANS illegal?
CAN YOU UNDERSTAND that doing that is being made ILLEGAL?
CAN YOU UNDERSTAND that it's making BEING TRANS illegal?
Random but nice that once every few years, some orgs contact me to screen "The Witch's Mask", my RCA grad film from 2017. Guess there aren't THAT many films about witchy Indonesian lore out there ?? This is the second occurrence it'll be screened as a taster with a live action horror afterwards.
April 21, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Random but nice that once every few years, some orgs contact me to screen "The Witch's Mask", my RCA grad film from 2017. Guess there aren't THAT many films about witchy Indonesian lore out there ?? This is the second occurrence it'll be screened as a taster with a live action horror afterwards.
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur... Really enjoying this documentary radio programme about the history of rise of fascism in Europe. Sound design is really good too (in French sorry !)
Documentaire : la montée du fascisme en Europe – France Culture
PODCAST. Histoire et décryptage de ma montée du fascisme en Europe. Une série audio extraite de l'émission LSD La Série Documentaire de France Culture.
www.radiofrance.fr
April 15, 2025 at 1:36 PM
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur... Really enjoying this documentary radio programme about the history of rise of fascism in Europe. Sound design is really good too (in French sorry !)
Reposted by Laura N-Tamara
Satoshi Kon was a master filmmaker -- and a master storyboarder. His detailed sketches were blueprints for his movies.
Take Millennium Actress. He spent nine months boarding it alone, on a quest to make a great film with a small budget. We explore:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-satosh...
Take Millennium Actress. He spent nine months boarding it alone, on a quest to make a great film with a small budget. We explore:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-satosh...
April 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Satoshi Kon was a master filmmaker -- and a master storyboarder. His detailed sketches were blueprints for his movies.
Take Millennium Actress. He spent nine months boarding it alone, on a quest to make a great film with a small budget. We explore:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-satosh...
Take Millennium Actress. He spent nine months boarding it alone, on a quest to make a great film with a small budget. We explore:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-satosh...
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✨ This is our love letter to 11 years of Wednesday Studio.
Yin & Yang is our ode to creative partnership- a visual poem about collaboration.
🎶 Lush by Northern Telekom
🎧 Sound design by Tom Drew
Released (naturally) on a Wednesday 💫
#YinAndYang #WednesdayStudio
🎬 Watch → vimeo.com/wearewednesd...
Yin & Yang is our ode to creative partnership- a visual poem about collaboration.
🎶 Lush by Northern Telekom
🎧 Sound design by Tom Drew
Released (naturally) on a Wednesday 💫
#YinAndYang #WednesdayStudio
🎬 Watch → vimeo.com/wearewednesd...
Yin & Yang
We made something just for us, now we’re sharing it with you. To celebrate 11 years of working together, we created a short film called Yin & Yang. It’s…
vimeo.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
✨ This is our love letter to 11 years of Wednesday Studio.
Yin & Yang is our ode to creative partnership- a visual poem about collaboration.
🎶 Lush by Northern Telekom
🎧 Sound design by Tom Drew
Released (naturally) on a Wednesday 💫
#YinAndYang #WednesdayStudio
🎬 Watch → vimeo.com/wearewednesd...
Yin & Yang is our ode to creative partnership- a visual poem about collaboration.
🎶 Lush by Northern Telekom
🎧 Sound design by Tom Drew
Released (naturally) on a Wednesday 💫
#YinAndYang #WednesdayStudio
🎬 Watch → vimeo.com/wearewednesd...
Belated #PortfolioDay !
I'm Laura, an Animator and Director blending 2D and watercolours :). Watch my films on my website 🌸
🎬 www.laura-ntamara.com
✉️ laura.ntamara@gmail.com
#2danimation #watercolours #tvpaint #painting
I'm Laura, an Animator and Director blending 2D and watercolours :). Watch my films on my website 🌸
🎬 www.laura-ntamara.com
✉️ laura.ntamara@gmail.com
#2danimation #watercolours #tvpaint #painting
April 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Belated #PortfolioDay !
I'm Laura, an Animator and Director blending 2D and watercolours :). Watch my films on my website 🌸
🎬 www.laura-ntamara.com
✉️ laura.ntamara@gmail.com
#2danimation #watercolours #tvpaint #painting
I'm Laura, an Animator and Director blending 2D and watercolours :). Watch my films on my website 🌸
🎬 www.laura-ntamara.com
✉️ laura.ntamara@gmail.com
#2danimation #watercolours #tvpaint #painting
Absolute wonder, this
I've always loved the opening of "Kaiba" and its song ("Never" by Seira Kagami).
www.catsuka.com/player/kaiba...
www.catsuka.com/player/kaiba...
April 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Absolute wonder, this
The bit that chills me the most of the AI/Ghibli slop debacle, is that image posted by the US govt. Not just sucking out the substance and spitting it out like an empty shell, but using it to say the reverse of the authors' intentions. We remember the "Better a pig than a fascist" line from Porco
March 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The bit that chills me the most of the AI/Ghibli slop debacle, is that image posted by the US govt. Not just sucking out the substance and spitting it out like an empty shell, but using it to say the reverse of the authors' intentions. We remember the "Better a pig than a fascist" line from Porco
Reposted by Laura N-Tamara
I been invited to a friend's place and one kid was doing AI on their tablet. Told them that it's bad and the father asked me why. Explained and also said real art have more soul.
He wanted to make a dinosaur playing basket-ball, I drew this for him. They loved it so much, the dad paid me in the end
He wanted to make a dinosaur playing basket-ball, I drew this for him. They loved it so much, the dad paid me in the end
January 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I been invited to a friend's place and one kid was doing AI on their tablet. Told them that it's bad and the father asked me why. Explained and also said real art have more soul.
He wanted to make a dinosaur playing basket-ball, I drew this for him. They loved it so much, the dad paid me in the end
He wanted to make a dinosaur playing basket-ball, I drew this for him. They loved it so much, the dad paid me in the end
Reposted by Laura N-Tamara
Concept art by Hans Bacher for Aladdin (1992), dir. Ron Clements and John Musker, Walt Disney Feature Animation
March 30, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Concept art by Hans Bacher for Aladdin (1992), dir. Ron Clements and John Musker, Walt Disney Feature Animation
Ngl the "Atlantic editor is in the group chat" memes are giving me life.
Texts from a group chat in which top government officials discussed a deadly missile campaign with flagrant disregard for civilian casualties and seemingly no knowledge of the journalist in the room set off a meme trend lampooning the Trump administration.
The “Signalgate” Memes Have Entered the Chat
Users are lampooning government officials’ flippant discussions of a deadly assault with no apparent knowledge of the journalist in the room.
hyperallergic.com
March 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Ngl the "Atlantic editor is in the group chat" memes are giving me life.
No escape for this innie.
A one hour loop of the stop motion infinite staircase — set to ominous music — is now up on YouTube to complement your dystopian feed www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8jY... #animation #loop
INFINITE STAIRCASE (1:01:00)
YouTube video by Eastend Western
www.youtube.com
March 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
No escape for this innie.
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Kiyotaka Oshiyama ("Look Back") has directed a beautiful 4-min short entitled "Aka no Kiwoku", to promote the disaster-hit Fukushima prefecture (where he was born).
Full film >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAsy...
Full film >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAsy...
March 27, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Kiyotaka Oshiyama ("Look Back") has directed a beautiful 4-min short entitled "Aka no Kiwoku", to promote the disaster-hit Fukushima prefecture (where he was born).
Full film >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAsy...
Full film >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAsy...
Reposted by Laura N-Tamara
The family of comic creator RE Burke, aka Becky Burke, have issued a detailed statement about her recent detention nightmare in the United States, asking for it to be shared
Comic Creator RE Burke: Her Visa Story
Full family statement after her welcome return to the UK
downthetubes.net
March 23, 2025 at 7:33 AM
The family of comic creator RE Burke, aka Becky Burke, have issued a detailed statement about her recent detention nightmare in the United States, asking for it to be shared
Bits from "Immersion Sauvage", a French animal doc for which I made the animations ! Premieres tonight on @UshuaiaTV/streaming on @canalplusat.bsky.social . Backgrounds in watercolour, 2D Animation on @tvpaint.com comp in AE. Tradigital ! #TVPaintcommunity #2D #TVPaintAnimation #tradianim #animation
March 14, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Bits from "Immersion Sauvage", a French animal doc for which I made the animations ! Premieres tonight on @UshuaiaTV/streaming on @canalplusat.bsky.social . Backgrounds in watercolour, 2D Animation on @tvpaint.com comp in AE. Tradigital ! #TVPaintcommunity #2D #TVPaintAnimation #tradianim #animation
Reposted by Laura N-Tamara
"All You Need Is Kill", the new japanese animated feature by Studio 4°C.
Directed by Kenichiro Akimoto (Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko).
Based on the light novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, which already inspired "Edge of Tomorrow" movie.
aynk-anime.com
Directed by Kenichiro Akimoto (Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko).
Based on the light novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, which already inspired "Edge of Tomorrow" movie.
aynk-anime.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
"All You Need Is Kill", the new japanese animated feature by Studio 4°C.
Directed by Kenichiro Akimoto (Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko).
Based on the light novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, which already inspired "Edge of Tomorrow" movie.
aynk-anime.com
Directed by Kenichiro Akimoto (Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko).
Based on the light novel by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, which already inspired "Edge of Tomorrow" movie.
aynk-anime.com
Still don't know what to use BlueSky for (lol) so I guess we'll keep it a bit like my old barely used Twitter : occasionally scream into the void about niche things I like. Hopefully pivot to art and stuff at some point. For my work it's still instagram and website atm : www.instagram.com/niwakins/
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March 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Still don't know what to use BlueSky for (lol) so I guess we'll keep it a bit like my old barely used Twitter : occasionally scream into the void about niche things I like. Hopefully pivot to art and stuff at some point. For my work it's still instagram and website atm : www.instagram.com/niwakins/
One of my favourite shorts, from the "Manie manie" anthology ! Bring back the 90s Omnibus format. "Magnetic Rose" from Memories also a classic. Remember seeing images in the glossy pages of Animeland when I was a kid and being haunted, would be years till I'd find a viewable version online.
From: Labyrinth Labyrinthos (1987), dir. Rintaro, Madhouse
March 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
One of my favourite shorts, from the "Manie manie" anthology ! Bring back the 90s Omnibus format. "Magnetic Rose" from Memories also a classic. Remember seeing images in the glossy pages of Animeland when I was a kid and being haunted, would be years till I'd find a viewable version online.
www.cnc.fr/cinema/actua... Article (in French) on Pierre-Luc Granjon's Alexeieff-Parker pinscreen film "Les Bottes de la Nuit" which I LOVED. Most pinscreen films I've seen were beautiful and dreamy, this one had heart, dialogue, characters and was funny. Really vibed with the tiny anxious creature
« Les Bottes de la nuit », un film jeune public fabriqué avec...
Signé Pierre-Luc Granjon, ce court métrage a été réalisé au moyen de l’écran d’épingles du CNC. Premier film destiné aux enfants fabriqué avec cette technique, Les Bottes de la nuit est à...
www.cnc.fr
March 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
www.cnc.fr/cinema/actua... Article (in French) on Pierre-Luc Granjon's Alexeieff-Parker pinscreen film "Les Bottes de la Nuit" which I LOVED. Most pinscreen films I've seen were beautiful and dreamy, this one had heart, dialogue, characters and was funny. Really vibed with the tiny anxious creature