Emily Abele

Happy #PortfolioDay I am still looking for animation comp or light/comp work :) -Lead exp -2D, CG, stop motion, live-action -TV & feature -Nuke, After Effects Available immediately for full time, part time, fixed contract, short term, or freelance! Union preferred, willing to relocate!

今週末は小雨が降りそうだ…だから金曜日、ジョギングをするつもり。

"But the preferred option comes with a price tag of more than half a billion." Oh no! We couldn't possibly run hourly trains between two of the North Island's three biggest cities for a price tag as steep as *checks notes* 1/7th the cost of a motorway to save a few minutes on the drive to Northland

This beautiful, surreal film is a masterpiece of stop motion. It's one of the very best by director Hermína Týrlová. Our new issue looks into The Blue Apron, and into Týrlová's love of putting life into mundane objects: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/an-invisib...

111 books read so far this year. And there’s still a few months left. My physical TBR is getting whittled down.

Tragic incident at Annecy, and now this just after Lightbbox…correlation isn’t causation but hey guys, no more animation gatherings in 2026, yeah?

The Superman No Smoking Ad, but I lost the audio track and dubbed it from memory

Off to contribute to Wildwood’s weekend ticket sales

The show became a success because of the crew involved and they get rewarded by all being fired/not renewed as production moves to Canada, where Canadians get cursed by being paid dirt and being yelled at to deliver the same quality for less money and most likely less time.

Something I wish more people would realize.

Just kidding I was told this afternoon that they no longer need me.

If any of my network would like to put in a good word for me at Glitch, I applied to the lighting supervisor position 🙏 I have the lead light/comp experience, know how to QC work, and provide excellent notes, and come with bonus TD experience too!

Back on that overnight render wrangler grind for the weekend

I can’t believe they aren’t even finishing the next Mass Effect. I thought we had more time. I thought there was a chance.

私、貯金するの上手でも…お金を金使いことで心配すぎだ

This forever

It felt important to immortalize the exact outfit I chased down my neighbor’s husky in when the meter reader didn’t realize there was a dog in their yard:

What would a 5% tax on billionaire wealth actually look like? There are 938 billionaires in America with more than $8 trillion in combined wealth. So Ben and I decided to make the numbers visible—and then ask a simple question: what could that money actually do?

Kinda wild that sleeping porches never took off in Southern California. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one and I am an extensive browser of real estate websites for homes I can’t afford.

[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!

Skydance now owns Nick, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Comedy Central, and MTV, effectively ending US TV animation as we know it. Countless jobs will be lost, and fewer new shows will be created. An apocalyptic scenario for cartoons, yet it's maybe the 5th-worst thing about the Paramount-WB merger!

Saw *another* AI illustrated book at my day job - please for the love of humanity, hire real people for your art hirehumanartists.com

i thought he was gonna talk about the phenomenon where cops in the suburbs will literally pick up homeless guys from their suburb and just drop them off on the street downtown, but this is good too.

昨日はエアコンが壊れちゃったて明日、金物店に行かなければなりませんから、新しい小さいエアコンを買うよ。今週と来週は暑いすぎだ。私の猫は暑いすぎだ。でも新しいエアコンが高いすぎそうだ…

Goodreads removing reviews for a book to boost its numbers? Who could have imagined.

All my Instagram ads are career coaching for laid off/unemployed lmaoooooooo Honestly tempted to contact and be like “so animation, know anything about that?”

Quads of a male ballet dancer, the rest of me…much less like any kind of ballet dancer but certainly not a male one.

For @shapelessink.bsky.social, a block print version of his most viral piece 💜

“Improve yourself with these books” No thanks, I only want to read things that will make me worse 🥰

Bonta, you bitchass coward. May your pillow never be cool.

Just like the Baltic Way.

I’m gonna need boomers in waiting rooms to not have their phone’s ring tones and volume generally on the highest setting. Please. I beg. You are in public.

holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway

I miss these so much.

just learned this today

They were right.

“Our latest findings on their feeding adaptations counter the myths that drove the thylacine to extinction.” This animal was hunted to extinction. They assumed it was a livestock predator with no evidence. There were bounties. Fuck British colonizers forever, man.

There is one constant in Los Angeles life: My neighbor’s shitty dog(s) barking at 2:00am for an hour, mere feet from my windows.

Most recent would be a short story from Writing Battle, but I’m working on more things :) www.writingbattle.com/story/debrie...

Majority of US animation companies: anyone can apply! No geofence or restriction Australia, New Zealand, Canada, UK, Ireland, etc: if you don’t allow us to qualify for a tax subsidy you can FUCK OFF. Don’t even bother filling out a form.

“Thank you for your mortgage payment.” You’re welcome, I don’t have a choice.