🦋 joabaldwin on Bluesky
Author of the Noss Saga (LGBTQ+ epic fantasy series)
Layout & Cinematography @ Disney (Zootopia, etc)
Opinions are my own
He/him🏳️🌈
I urge everyone to move, NOW. It sucks to have to rebuild, but this place is owned/overrun by the worst kind of people, and it'll get worse. Bluesky has safeguards to keep your community/posts if shit implodes, and seems billionaire-proof. Join us there?
This is super adorably cute and I wish it had happened in the episode. It's frustrating that I still feel anxiety when retweeting something as tame and lovely as a kiss, despite all the progress we've made. We can still do better. ✨🐯💕🐃✨
"Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow!"
This pangram (a sentence using every letter of the alphabet) is so much more bad-ass than the stupid "quick brown fox" that I had to illustrate it. A tribute to master Jean Giraud (aka Moebius).
"What brush do you use?" is a valid question, artists should stop feeling insulted by it. Finding a brush that feels right and makes you enjoy the process means you draw more and learn more. If I had to draw with the default brushes in most software I would hate drawing/life.
Disney needs to take action at once. No more of Bob Chapek's empty words, do something concrete. Start by pulling the funding for bigoted politicians, immediately.
#DisneySayGay
#DisneyDoBetter
Finally announced! Zootopia+ will premiere November 9th on Disney+. Can't wait for you all to see it! It was a very fun series to work on.
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I wanted to share this touching moment.
@Reo_Grayfox
was telling me his story, and said those lines while staring straight into his fursuit's eyes. Hearing personal stories like this makes you appreciate the vastly diverse reasons why the furry fandom is essential to so many.
Fireworks from our balcony, using the pull-focus technique. I figured out a good timing to avoid overexposing: 1.5sec f/1.8 ISO100, focus to infinity, click shutter when firework is about half-way up, pull focus really quickly after it explodes (but not too soon after).
This famous 3000+ year old tree at the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest has been photographed countless times, but I found a new angle by shooting with the telephoto and extender at 800mm from very far away.
Mt. Williamson is behind it, warmed by the last glow of sunset.
As we fall into this numbing repetition where time moves but goes nowhere, try to find a little spark of passion, a random obsession, a daily goal to make time more meaningful, as we wait for the better days that lie just ahead.
Enjoy my new short, with music by
@RadicalFace
This is even more fucked up than spec work. You first have to PAY for Adobe products to have the privilege to participate, then you have to ADVERTISE for them by posting publicly, then you have to GIVE UP your work for free in perpetuity.
Billie and
@Adobe
want to see your designs in the
#BillieXAdobe
Make the Merch Contest. Visit for a chance to have your unique art featured on a piece of official merch on Billie’s tour.
#Contest
Seems that some clips from Zootopia+ were just released on a Disney+ promo. If you spotted Gary and Larry, I would like to take full responsibility for them being there. That's all, carry on, people.
Animators: start setting up your accounts now: it takes some time to transition, but it's so worth it. VIDEO IS COMING. DMs are already there. Custom feeds (your choice of what to see) is integral to how things work. No lemon husk.
Zootopia+ is out today! The most fun thing about working on these shorts was having to do completely different styles for each. Here's a super quick overview of how we did that in layout. Split in six parts. 🧵
I wanted to share this touching moment.
@Reo_Grayfox
was telling me his story, and said those lines while staring straight into his fursuit's eyes. Hearing personal stories like this makes you appreciate the vastly diverse reasons why the furry fandom is essential to so many.
Air purifiers are sold out everywhere, it would take weeks to get a good one, and the smoke in CA is unbearable right now. Bad headaches and burning eyes, super unhealthy. I built this setup, box fan is about $20, filters are 20x25x1 MERV 13 rating, $25 each. Loud, but it works.
We had a serval cat for drawing class today! His name is Tag, he was really hard to draw, couldn't stay still for long. I wanted to cuddle him but I also didn't wanna die.
Over 700 games for $5? This is real, it's nuts, and it's for a good cause. Check out the Bundle for Racial Justice, includes amazing games like Night in the Woods, Celeste, and so much more.
Finished the commission for the second place in the charity auction I ran. The commissioner (u/NickWildePics in Reddit) is a Nick Wilde connoisseur, who had a very specific, moody scene he asked me to paint. Titled "Midnight Blues."
I still don't understand how they did this shot. Did they swap actors through a cut? Did they hide the swap behind the motion of the glasses? It couldn't have been CG back then. It's so smooth.
Judy's longing stare is so intense that you can see her eyes through solid metal. My guess is that someone put the eye specular pass on the wrong level, ruining the whole movie.
"An inordinate fondness for bears"
I promised you bears, so here is a variety pack with one bear of each species. Polar, brown, black, spectacled, sloth, sun, moon, and panda.
Seven Democratic candidates and their relative net worths. Infographic created by Ross Blocher from
@OhNoPodcast
, I had to reformat it to make it fit here.
Eat. The. Rich.
I don't take commissions, BUT: as I'm on the verge of crossing 20K, I wanted to thank you all for your support, so I'm giving away one illustration commission. Good luck! And you are all awesome ♥️
He literally gassed protestors before the curfew so he could go hold a Bible right after giving a dictatorial speech where he mentioned nothing about police brutality, and incited more violence. Fuck this fascist dictator.
To those of you questioning if centaurs are insects: NO, they are arachnids. The two human legs are still there as vestigial bones under the skin, like how a whale still has them.
Not linking to avoid feeding the algorithm, but posts like this end up spreading a ton of disinformation about how anything works. Simply put: 1) That is not what the TOS says; 2) Every other social site works the exact same way; 3) What you should be afraid of is scraper bots.
Did you notice that in Zootopia Plus this shot (which was in the original movie) was extended? We had to add a tiny bit more time to it, so it went back to animation/render. Time to update your reaction GIFs.
@rulesObeyer
@AmazonFCCarol
I am so proud of being a real person who enjoys his work in the wonderfully humane Amazon fulfillment centers. I am happy I love box I get so many pee breaks I am so full of organs.
Found this old Zootopia reference clip I recorded. We spared no expense in our donut research. Our technology knows no bounds, we will stop at nothing but the utmost donut rolling realism.
I'm auctioning a Zootopia maquette of Nick Wilde in support of
#BlackLivesMatter
. Bid generously, 100% will be donated (no fees, thanks to the eBay For Charity system). Auction will last one week. Good luck, and please share!
Perhaps my favorite Dall-E bear so far. His name is Horatio Huckleberry. He loves organic farming, camping under the stars with no tent, singing sad ballads, and fishing (by fly or claw).
If you are reading this, unclench your jaw, relax your shoulders, unhinge your mandibles, split your unfused lower jaws around the elastic ligament, rotate them from your quadrate bone till your maws expand enough to vore your friends. Swallow. Don't hold onto the stress. Relax.
Griffith Observatory under the smoke from the
#BobcatFire
. I just took this. I saw the smoke clouds shifted, so I rushed to a spot to line up the shot. The sun barely showed up minutes before sunset, just in time.
#californiafires
#lafire
#cawx
ISO 640, f/11, 1/30s, 370mm
Zootopia+ easter egg! The box used to say "English Tea," but I kept complaining in every possible meeting that there could be no England there, so it needed fixed. I whined about it so often that Hans—the Head of Environments—just changed it to "Joaquín's Tea."