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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 11h

#TheCatintheHat #DrSeuss #DNEGAnimation #WarnerBros #Animation youtube.com/shorts/CH7Q-oC… Yet another adorable short promoting "The Cat in the Hat"! Not much here, but Cat's character is incredibly adorable in this adaptation, so I wanted to share! 🥰🎀

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#Furryart #Macabre #Halloween #paws Thank you to 🎨 - MTAche on Furaffinity/FA for letting me use their character - Feta - for a juxtaposing Halloween-themed art piece. I hope you all enjoy!

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I wish I knew. Too many animation directors strictly focus on story and wide-angle spectacle these days, rather than subtle but exciting corporeal expression that can say a lot more than dialogue sometimes. The 90s and early 2000s were the best for those who wanted their foot & paw obsession (1/2)

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I sure hope so. It was a step in the right direction with Nick's paws in Zootopia 2. When he puts them up on his table.

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Because those are paws. They have toes, soles, paw pads etc. They aren't just lazily done Sonic-style blobs.

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I do. I just meant I like most characters with feet and toes rather than blobs 😂

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#TheCatintheHat #DNEGAnimation #WarnerBros #Animation youtube.com/shorts/ObqwG... Check out this new "The Cat in the Hat" short from Warner Bros and DNEG Animation! Just Cat being clumsy and cute! <3 💞

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He checks all of our boxes. #TheCatInTheHat

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

want a sequel. Cat's personality is contagious, adorable, and wild. He makes you want to get up and dance even when there's no music playing. I'm so excited for November 6th! <3 💞 (3/3)

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

characters. He's manic, crazy, and reckless, but he's simultaneously a caretaker. He wants nothing more than to make people happy and forget their worries. They picked the perfect actor/voice actor to play this iteration of the Cat. I will 100% support this. I haven't seen it, but I already (2/3)

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#TheCatintheHat #Animation #DNEGAnimation #WarnerBros I genuinely love how caring and joyful Cat looks in this adaptation. His personality is the entire reason I want to see this film. He's heartwarming, energetic, capable of sympathizing and empathizing with the other (1/3)

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

His character, alone, sells me on this film. I'm excited to see how he interacts with the world around him. He reminds me of a fellow autistic person who is excited to discover new things despite the danger that could lie ahead. I hope this film is successful! <'3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk2j...

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THE CAT IN THE HAT Final Trailer (NEW 2026) 4K

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

energetic, manic, and chaotic personality of the Cat. I'm impressed by his effort thrown into the voice work. He makes Cat so cute even when he's being creepy to his co-workers. This is the most accurate I've seen Cat's personality portrayed on the big screen, in an expansion. I love it. (2/3)

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#TheCatintheHat #DrSeuss #Animation #DNEGAnimation #Moviesky I am SO incredibly excited for this film! I can't wait to see this animated adaptation! Right away, I can tell it's immediately better than the live-action adaptation that came out in 2003, with Mikey Myers. Bill Hader fits the (1/3)

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

turns me off from watching the series as a whole. I apologize. This scene has been on my mind for a while, because my mind says, "You want me to back THIS generic, everyday cinematography-typs cartoon? Hell no." Sorry for the venting, but it was randomly on my brain again. (7/7)

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

the fact that the director(s) and animators are too lazy to add extra effort into creating a silly yet thrilling scene. I absolutely HATE when my heart starts to pound fast, and that dopamine isn't met with its expectations. It disappoints my entire nervous system and (6/7)

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

of passion rather than both passion and a lack of budget. Everything having a high budget completely crushes the experience for me. It's a lifeless and generic peril scene with, yet again, no effort put behind it. I will not be backing this project on Kickstarter due to (5/7)

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

series within 25 seconds. The minute that 2D animation was able to use rigs and digital backgrounds, I was f$%ked in terms of taste of cartoons and being able to feel something with such shows. Now, when animators show a direct POV shot, it has to come from a place (4/7)

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Zippy's paws. It feels as if there's no real emotion put into the animation during big sequences like this. It feels flat, lifeless, copped out, and doesn't leave a good impresssion on me. Sorta Stupid Studios found the secret ingredient to making me lose interest in a (3/7)

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thrusting a hand drawn shot of Zippy's feet dangling in the foreground would've been a lot more convincing, adrenaline inducing, and create a bigger sense of tension. There's no visual payoff, no real tension or excitement, no actual foreshortening of the drop below (2/7)

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#BillyEndsTheWorld #Indieanimation #Animation #Cartoons I was thinking about this scene again, from "Billy Ends The World" and it still bothers me. This scene falls completely flat due to the fact they used a digitally pre-rendered background for the aerial POV shot. (1/7)

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh, relax. He's safe. These scenarios exist within a toon realm. They can be resurrected back to life ^^

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am, but I approach the people I want when I want to comm something.

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

screen space I need animated, and two; I want this to be a true throwback to the days of 90s 4:3 CRT TVs. I hope you enjoy this preview! 😄❣️ (2/2)

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#SimonandtheTreasureRebels #Indieanimation #Animation #Storyboard #90sCartoon 🎨 - @freyaeverly1.bsky.social Here's a sneak peek of a story board panel drawn for me by the very helpful Freya Everly! I'm going to be doing this show in 4:3 style for two logical reasons. One; it cuts down on (1/2)

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#EliRoth #IceCreamMan #HorrorMovies #Horrorsky #Moviesky letterboxd.com/toonsquirrel... Check out my review for Eli Roth's "Ice Cream Man"! A crazy and twisted romp of a ride that I feel is underrated. Just hear me out. It's an acquired taste of a film =)

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A ★★★½ review of Ice Cream Man (2026)

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

to make every single Digimon in the show a piece of A///I is not an acceptable choice for what I'm used to. (13/13)

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the Digimon like living, organic beings rather than just digital data meant to hack and destroy things, or just be simply data in general. It makes them feel much less grounded in character or personality. It almost feels artificial. I get the point of BeatBreak was A///I, but going so far as(12/13)

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

or more. I'm unsure how much an entire series costs to produce or even how much a single episode costs, but if I were to choose between these two, Digimon Data Squad/Savers is my preferred of the two. Itō is just an overall better director in my opinion. I like how he still treats (11/13)

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

While a decent budget for anything is necessary, I do wish a lot of things wouldn't go crazy with production budget in animation. It's the one area where I prefer a lower budget to be used. Less than 75 million, in fact. I always get worried when an animated film's budget is 80 million (10/13)

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

have to rely on wide angles that showed incredibly flashy, overly stimulating action to have GOOD action. I like how Data Squad/Savers uses close-ups of extremities connecting with the opponent, or waist-up shots that conveyed how a Digimon was feeling or what they were preparing to do. (9/13)

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

my opinion on the director in general. I don't want to check out anything else Miyamoto has done due to how I felt about his writing in BeatBreak. Adventure - Fusion/Xros Wars will always be my favorite seasons for the fact that they knew how to use their budgets in clever ways. They didn't (8/13)

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I feel like they should've just rehired Naoyuki Itō to make the perfect dream team with Yamaguchi. That would've made 180 difference in my opinion about BeatBreak. I prefer Itō's directing over Miyamoto's. I could tell Miyamoto had a stricter criteria for his vision, and it personally soured (7/13)

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Before this, he only ever directed some episodes of One Piece, directed One Piece Film: Gold, and took part in that "Dream 9" crossover with DBZ, One Piece, and Toriko characters. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that BeatBreak was his Digimon version of a Shonen anime in that case. (6/13)

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That might be the thing though. The director was different for BeatBreak while Data Squad/Savers and BeatBreak share the same WRITER. As well all know, the director has the most control over what goes on in a series or film. Hiroaki Miyamoto wasn't the best choice for this, I personally think.(5/13)

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

However, it felt like Ryōta Yamaguchi cared more about the characters in Data Squad, in my opinion. Marcus and Agumon's chemistry worked incredibly well. Changing Agumon from a shy and small character to a clumsy and tough fighter was a brilliant subversive decision on Naoyuki Itō's part. (4/13)

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

together while having a fun, wild, entertaining, and sometimes silly adventure. That wasn't anywhere in BeatBreak as far as my thought process can connect. It was battle after battle after battle. It felt more like a DBZ wannabe in my eyes. I'm aware how ridiculous that sounds, don't worry. (3/13)

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

and I'm definitely in the minority that doesn't like it, but I feel like the limited budget, time, and simpler designs of Data Squad made things a lot more appealing and fun to spend time with. I missed moments where the Digimon and their human partners just spend a bit of slice-of-life fun (2/13)

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#Digimon #DigimonSavers #DigimonDataSquad #Anime #ToeiAnimation #BandaiNamco I'm aware that Ryōta Yamaguchi wrote both Digimon Savers AKA Data Squad and BeatBreak, but I feel like his writing really fell short in BeatBreak. I know it's one of the more divided entries in the franchise, (1/13)

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

like I was in the character's space. I'm a little worried about the reveal for the 2027 anime, but I'm trying to stay cautiously optimistic about it. Until then, I'm just waiting for info. (4/4)

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

way. The cinematic minimalism is perfect in my eyes. All the wide and medium shots in Digimon BeatBreak completely broke my immersion. I felt like I was an observer rather than someone fully invested in the characters' journeys or personalities. The close-up camera angles allowed me to feel (3/4)

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Simon Squirrel🐾🐿️ (Director/Writer) @adventuresquirrel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I got stuck somewhere down the line, and I'm unable to process the modern industry shifts. I never knew how much having a lower budget could mean to me. High budget animation tends to skip over those close-up and intimate camera angles I love so much. I like the budget being used in a clever (2/4)

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