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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 30/04/2026

Since I broke my big toe months ago (all good now), I hadn’t worked out - until two days ago.

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Now Go Make A Movie! @nowgomakeamovie.com · 10/04/2026

New vid to answer: “Who the BLEEP is Clay Kaytis?” Made a couple scraps of animation for this one too! youtu.be/jzRiUlz54w4

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Who the BLEEP is Clay Kaytis?

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 08/04/2026

Definition of a strong marriage… Monica: What are you working on today? Me: I’m animating myself as a zombie. Monica: Oh, that’s cool.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 28/03/2026

What do I need to buy to play the best Zelda game ever? I’m looking for console and game title.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 08/03/2026

For my @nowgomakeamovie.com channel, I’ve posted the same set of short videos across IG, TikTok, and YT. If you’re interested in online things like this, here’s my stats: IG: 223 followers TikTok: 630 followers YT: 107 subscribers And my latest video: IG: 681 views TikTok: 1006 views YT: 739 views

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Now Go Make A Movie! @nowgomakeamovie.com · 08/03/2026

One way to get rights to write a screenplay based on IP. I explain Shopping Agreements youtube.com/shorts/0j5s3...

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I explain Shopping Agreements

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 28/02/2026

Sorry, can’t talk. Drive to Survive is ON

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 09/02/2026

Just my wife and me at this Super Bowl party sending IG reels to each other

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 09/02/2026

Bad Bunny’s halftime was pure joy 👏 👏 👏

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 27/01/2026

If any good comes out of this, it’s that Bluesky needed a thread of people talking about how the broke their toes.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 27/01/2026

If I didn’t break my big toe tonight, I will be amazed. The pain. Does one go to the ER for a broken big toe? Is there anything the hospital could actually do for it aside from an x-ray and a “yep, you broke it.”?

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The Animation Podcast @animationpodcast.com · 27/01/2026

Finally got a chance to set up my new podcast studio for the first time. About halfway to where I can start testing.

Clay Kaytis sitting at a wood table that is set up for podcasting with two microphones, a monitor, and dark curtains in the background.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 26/01/2026

I went and made a FIVE HOUR woodworking YouTube video of me building my walnut desktop. BTW, I’m not a woodworker. Everyone said “Are you going to cut it down into episodes?” NOPE! Enjoy… if you dare! COMPLETE beginner makes a custom walnut desktop - LONGform woodworking youtu.be/oyrX_ko-RAw

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COMPLETE beginner makes a custom walnut desktop - LONGform woodworking

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 09/01/2026

Is it weird to post a six hour woodworking project video on YouTube? Cuz I made one.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 01/01/2026

Happy New Year, friends!

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 17/12/2025

At this comic shop in Santa Barbara I appreciated the real spiderwebs getting in on the theming.

A hanging sign that says “Metro Entertainment Comics Games Toys” with a Spider-Man figure and real spiderwebs backlit by the sun.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 15/12/2025

So weird to see this. We had this exact lithograph framed and hanging at the entrance to our kitchen for all of my years in school.

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Now Go Make A Movie! @nowgomakeamovie.com · 15/12/2025

I feel I can somehow, for myself, soften the blow of Rob Reiner’s death by reflecting on how impactful his work was in my life, specifically through the films he directed throughout my Jr. High and High School years. Stand By Me showed me what real friendship could be. 1/5

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 13/12/2025

Apparently The Christmas Chronicles played in Regal Cinemas across the country for one day this week. Weird, and cool. I found out from a Google alert.

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Yolanda Sfetsos @yolandasfetsos.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

So sick & tired of all these assholes selling out to AI. Disgusting. Disgraceful. You want to help students create, tell them to draw & write, let their imagination run wild on the page. You don't push the thieving machine. Also, fuck AI!!!

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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Man, sounds like it would have been easier to just make an ad the usual way.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 05/12/2025

Just like he empowered our country’s “hidden” racism to crawl out of the shadows for everyone to see, he’s revealing how corrupt the world really is through everything he touches and everything that dares touch him. Gross.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 01/12/2025

Amazon’s new AI (Boris, or Basil, or Bobo, whatever) told me the product I was searching for was no longer available on Amazon. So I went to the product’s company website, clicked the “Buy on Amazon” button and there it was… on Amazon. AI is a scourge.

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Now Go Make A Movie! @nowgomakeamovie.com · 01/12/2025

Let’s GOOOOOOOOOO!

An image of the top three Kids Movies on Netflix: 1) K-Pop Demon Hunters 2) In Your Dreams 3) The Christmas Chronicles

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 01/12/2025

You know what’s weirder than seeing a driverless car? Seeing a driverless car being driven by a person.

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Now Go Make A Movie! @nowgomakeamovie.com · 27/11/2025

The Christmas Chronicles is warming up early on Netflix this year!

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Now Go Make A Movie! @nowgomakeamovie.com · 26/11/2025

I wonder if The Macy’s Parade will ever bring the Angry Birds Red balloon out of retirement. The photo on the left was the last time I saw him in 2018, when we were designing the balloons for The Christmas Chronicles. @f3rgal.bsky.social

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Now Go Make A Movie! @nowgomakeamovie.com · 26/11/2025

Finally reached the end of my first draft and the final video in my Writing a Screenplay series! Writing a Screenplay - Day 30 - FADE OUT / THE END youtu.be/47ySFDYjKks

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Writing a Screenplay - Day 30 - THE END

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 18/11/2025

What a nice reminder. Thanks @david-william4.bsky.social! & here I was going through the day with zero awareness that today’s the anniversary of A Christmas Story Christmas! To commemorate, here’s a photo from right before filming the first shot and another of the last shot before we wrapped.

Director Clay Kaytis taking selfie on the exterior “Chicago” set of A Christmas Story Christmas on the Nu Boyana backlot in Sophia, Bulgaria.

Looking over the shoulder of Director Clay Kaytis at Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) at the typewriter. This was the last shot filmed before wrapping A Christmas Story Christmas.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 15/11/2025

Apple should just go all in and rename the Apple Watch the Apple Timer because that’s all I use mine for.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/11/2025

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 14/11/2025

Every time I vacuum up a bug or spider, I like to think of it as the beginning of a heartwarming animated adventure about returning home.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 13/11/2025

We got a super soft rug for around our bed so the dog would have traction to jump up at night, but now she always sleeps on the rug. What have we done???

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 10/11/2025

That 🎄🎅🏻 mood is right around the corner!

Dates for when A Christmas Story Christmas airs on TBS and TNT. TNT: December 19 6:45pm ET/3:45pm PT. TBS: December 14 12:30pm & 1am ET/PT, December 25 8pm & 12:45am ET/PT

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 10/11/2025

Glad to see the Super S is still going strong

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 08/11/2025

I’ve seen a dog sneeze, and a dog choke/gag, but I don’t remember ever seeing a dog cough. Do dogs cough?

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 31/10/2025

I’m so close to becoming a rogue “sign guy.”

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 31/10/2025

You’d think this amazing AI could be used to send spam to the junk folder, but instead we get racoons riding on dogs videos.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 27/10/2025

It’s sad. My dad left me his classic car and it seems scammers are phishing car club members via email because they know it’s a large concentration of old people who might fall for their scams.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 25/10/2025

@lightboxexpo.com was huge, packed full of enthusiastic artists, and exciting as always. @bobbychiu.bsky.social has created something special to look forward to every year. Here’s our panel on Friday, you can’t see the screaming, cheering audience, but they were there, trust me.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 24/10/2025

Who’s at Lightbox today?

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 23/10/2025

Had a dream someone was presenting spaceship designs and one was so massive, I asked if those little specks all over the surface were windows. They proudly said Yes. Then I said “That’s no ship, that’s a space station.” No one got the reference and I had to explain. I’m awkward, even in my dreams.

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 19/10/2025

Feel like a lot of people will want to know this 👇 #filmmaking

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Clay Kaytis @claykaytis.com · 18/10/2025

I’ll be at Lighbox Expo this Friday, speaking on a panel at 3:30 - Adapting Games into Animated Series and Films - with my Angry Birds directing partner Fergal Reilly @f3rgal.bsky.social. Hope to see some familiar and new faces there!

Adapting Games into Animated Series and Films

Civic Auditorium | Maureen Fan, FERGAL REILLY, Patrick Osborne, Clay Kaytis, Jony Chandra, Katherine MacDonald
Recent animated game adaptations have crushed it with fans like Arcane or at the box office with Sonic. Making them is hard though: these games have rabid existing fanbases much larger than comics, the games are still ongoing, some have thin story, and Hollywood + games have had a storied history with many previously failed film adaptations. Hear from the creatives, who adapt these beloved IP into animation, share how they do it well.

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