josh mckenzie

devastated to learn there's no level of drawing ability where the thing you're drawing becomes real and you get to hang out with it in real life

when i was a kid, i had very treatment-resistant acne and i didn't really care. like i didn't love it but whatever. now as a grown man, if i get one zit, I walk around like i'm the phantom of the opera

the first seven episodes of the CARRIE show were alright but that eighth one was such a mess, dude. if you didn't want to make Carrie, then make something else.

i guess i don't want to say too much because it's relatively new so i won't go into specifics, but it seems there's a recent aversion to tragedy in narrative because tragedy is sad and terrible, but that's very much the point. you should feel bad about it because it was terrible

unasked-for opinions about the films i saw at ANIMATION IS FILM 2026: - Ghost - end of night was cerebral and slow to open up to the viewer, and while it had some compelling visuals occasionally, i think it shook out to anime Catcher in the Rye which ultimately wasn't my favorite

- aaand lastly Cherry and Virgin was a movie about two virginal adult artists trying to figure out how to come together as a couple. The story's cute and a little gross (in the human way) but it's formally audacious and with a lot of character and that really elevated it

unasked-for opinions about the films i saw at ANIMATION IS FILM 2026: - Ghost - end of night was cerebral and slow to open up to the viewer, and while it had some compelling visuals occasionally, i think it shook out to anime Catcher in the Rye which ultimately wasn't my favorite

- The Violinist was the other standout at the festival. Visually it wasn't one of my favorites, but the story was heartbreaking and informative, particularly about the pacific theater of WWII, and it was the only movie this year that had me sobbing. big recommend

unasked-for opinions about the films i saw at ANIMATION IS FILM 2026: - Ghost - end of night was cerebral and slow to open up to the viewer, and while it had some compelling visuals occasionally, i think it shook out to anime Catcher in the Rye which ultimately wasn't my favorite

- Avatar Aang was an entirely servicable story elevated beyond belief by the design, story and animation teams who made the shit out of that movie. it looks so unbelievably good and I want to thumb through it frame by frame

to piggyback: you would be amazed how much you can do w/ less. 3s and 4s aren't even "poor" animation quality necessarily, especially if the posing's good. people think everything should be on 1s or that everything should be a series but a short film done with strong posing and less frames is great

less frames! shorter runtime! lower ambitions, for god's sake, so it can exist

ANIMATION IS FILM DAY 1!

in my adaptation of CARRIE, i would simply have nobody ever being mean to Carrie. then she won't have to get psychic and kill everybody. narrative solved

incredibly important advice. i think an additional fringe benefit to your emotional well-being is these dedications to yourself and your personhood can stave off the gordian knot of tying your entire self-worth to your unsustainable productivity drive which is just a journey to infinite pain

Armend Knights of Guinevere I need you so bad

every now and then my cut Prowlatron boards from Earthspark make the rounds on Japanese and Korean Transformers fan twitter and it warms my heart

i was recently talking to a close friend who spent some of her summer at a lesbian summer camp and got to meet other women of all ages and backgrounds and hear from them and their stories, and wow i felt the ache inside for real for that one

as a long, long, longtime fan and participant in Posting, there are many many posts that rattle around in my skull but I think the one that surges through my consciousness the most often is the "jealousy professor" fragment of the impeccable Koko tweet

ok so after 30 bazillion years, I've updated my ipad and I think Procreate's changed how they're handling my preferred brush and I'm not loving it!! i wish i didn't do this!!