Richard Smithson

New year, New Showreel! Here’s hoping 2025 is a more prosperous year for animation,🤞 vimeo.com/1047439359

Despite the significant investments ploughed into artificial intelligence it has provided “zero payoff” to corporate America outside of technology, according to Apollo's Chief Economist Torsten Slok. Read more: bloom.bg/3UO2c30 📷: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg

It is disgraceful that Andy Burnham took an hour out to appear on Gogglebox just to raise money for Stand Up To Cancer. If he's going to do a TV show he should do what I did and pocket £1.5million for eating some kangaroo bollocks.

Man I hope this comes to pass, but Wildwood isn’t looking like it’s gonna hit big 😩

Ai isn’t a tool, it’s a thief

Keep it going folks, 50 mill opening would be best!!!

🚨 OOPS: A Republican congressional candidate in Minnesota accidentally published what appears to be an AI prompt on his campaign website admitting Trump is “not popular” and instructing the campaign to avoid focusing on him.

Alright well uh, this is my uber. Just gonna scoooooch by ya there heh, anyway see ya

But of course. (Worth remembering that Trump remains the only president of the modern era who thinks it is appropriate to interfere in other countries' elections by endorsing candidates).

At this point in time, I believe we in the UK need to get a grip that America is actively against us now, if they are propping up Russia’s war machine, we need to take drastic action in decoupling ourselves from them

Legendary animator Loyd Price has sadly passed away at 64. He spent more than 30 years at Aardman, with credits including ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas,’ ‘Flushed Away’, ‘The Pirates! Band of Misfits’, ‘Wallace & Gromit.’

Ex-Congressman Matt Gaetz is accused of sex trafficking. www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/10/15/e...

Is anyone even surprised by these racist and sexist Reform revelations? When you lay down the welcome mat for these wrong’uns …what do you expect?

Sketch for detectives having their annual social hang out 🔍

Old doodle of one of my fave villains, when season 5 finally came out

Oh it’s #portfolioday well here’s a few doodles I did this year, also an animator with plenty more to see on my website www.rgsmithsonanimation.com

“The amount of oil you are buying you could have easily bought from Canada. “But it’s easier to be nice to Putin than Mark Carney?!” Trump’s US-Russia diesel deal has left Jon Sopel with one question: What does Putin have on him?

It’s genuinely sad to watch. The President is so weak and incapable of negotiating a real deal that he just posts fake ones on social media and hopes people believe him, until every party involved puts out a statement calling him a liar. We’ve never seen weakness like this in the Oval Office.

Ray Gunn is classic Brad Bird, I’ve missed this angle of animation, when it feels like someone wants to make a film that happens to be animated #LFF

First film of #LFF Rogue Trooper! Great start, wonderful to see a big mad sci fi film like this, hope we get more! Cheers @manmademoon.bsky.social

#VanityFair

Sketchbook drawings of some fave animals from the past month ✍️

Count on it 👇

What with spooky season starting, drafting the list for this month to watch 🖊️

You’d think there’d be one animated show on there…

Disney has been cutting jobs all year, and another round could be close. Its top lawyer is warning of “hard choices” ahead. Meanwhile, the company made $2.64 billion in profit last quarter and is spending billions buying back its shares. www.cartoonbrew.com/business/dis...

The most ridiculous thing is people who run hollywood don’t watch movies outside of hollywood 🤷‍♂️

Brad I’ve missed you…

Oh shit, it’s today.

JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran says Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu are removed from power.

BREAKING: 60 Minutes has shown people saying they can get pardons from Trump for a price. Pardon brokers Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl said that for $300,000, they could help a felon get a pardon from the president. They said their services included working with influencers to advocate for his case

Look at this loathsome repulsive creature yelling at a reporter. In addition to the fact that he’s the worst president in US history, he’s one of the worst human beings on planet earth. His supporters have a very serious defect in their character.

We’ve got a great thing going with indie animation - but there’s a lot of incredible lesser-known talents out there, outside of your Glitch and Spindlehorse shows. The cool thing about indie stuff is it can come from anyone and anywhere; you just gotta look for it and share what you love.

If you're not using asbestos yet, you are being left behind. Everyone is using asbestos, there's no point in trying to fight it. Asbestos is the future.

As it is Skynet Day, it seems as good a time as any to share that data center based LLM Ai is caught in a death spiral which is going largely unreported in the media. In short, major insurers are creating carve outs for Ai, refusing to insure it, causing corporations to abandon its front facing use.

Really enjoying The Prestige on a rewatch, but man I forgot Scarjo’s cockney is…. something…

Unpopular opinion, but I like Scott doing these, they’re wild and wacky! 🤪

It’s alright for me, but not for thee

Laurence Fox must be furious that his campaign for smaller childrens lungs failed. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Also have my birthday today, very much a fun coincidence 🕷️