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Daniel Laney - Available for Work

@daniellaney.com
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Professional compositor, motion designer, video editor. Work: PHA - Castlevania, Masters of the Universe, etc. SEGA - Sonic Symphony Titmouse - LoVM, Pantheon Lex & Otis - ARK: The Animated Series Compositing director on animated short film "TINKERHELL"

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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 04/09/2026
Ahhh thank goodness, in my area there were limbs everywhere 😂 so ive been playing cleanup crew for my neighborhood for the last week lol. Good you didn't get bombarded while sick, that woulda been some awful insult to injury. Glad you're recovering, you got this brother 🫡
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 04/09/2026
Damn dude, pretty awful couple of weeks to get it too. Glad you seem to be on the rebound now. And hope last week's storm didnt hit you too bad either!
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Ashley Nichols @ashleynichols.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Isn't she lovely 💖
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 16/03/2026
Dude a lot of people i hold in high regard have respected you for a LONG time and think this whole thing is garbage. DLSS 5 is clearly an overvearing ai image generation. Its not just "supersampling" anymore. This is FUNDAMENTALLY gross and needs to be ernestly criticized.
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 11/03/2026
Hey fuck this.
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 26/12/2025
i was wondering where the new followers came from lmfao THANKS BROTHER
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 25/12/2025
You're an inspiration
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 22/12/2025
Incredibly proud to say I was the editor and motion designer for this here trailer, and boy am I excited for people to play this game! :D This project is incredibly sick and every day it just keeps getting better, when the demo drops I know yall are gonna go crazy with this. Stay tuned everyone!!!
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Son Studios @sonstudios-dev.com · 22/12/2025
Here's A Look at the first trailer for Saturday AM: Battle Manga! We at Son Studios and the talented folks, @saturdayam.bsky.social are proud to give you guys a sneak peek at our 2v2 Tag Fighter! #indiefgc #fgc #gamedev #fightinggame #SABM
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caitlin rose boyle @caitlinroseboyle.com · 15/12/2025
pokemon red/blue screencap - the player is looking at the tv in their home. the subtitle says “There’s a movie on TV. Four boys are walking on railroad tracks” referencing Stand By Me
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 29/11/2025
perfection honestly
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kami @karekareo.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
My credits paintings for our #HoYoFair MV 'Dawn Again' (out now on YT)! I've had the pleasure of working as director, producer, and animation lead on this! With a bit of songwriting and production on the music side too ❤️☀️👁 #HonkaiStarRail #art
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 22/11/2025
Ur a major reason why dude haha hope to collab with you again!!
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 22/11/2025
VERY excited to say I worked on this as a compositor and vfx artist along with @mattpichette.bsky.social !! Thanks to @karekareo.bsky.social for the opportunity to work on something so cool, hope you all enjoy it :D
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 10/11/2025
Same
My dog Speedwagon, a texas heeler pitbull mix, looking up wearing his birthday bandana looking very tiny
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kami @karekareo.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
『Dawn Again』MV teaser! I participated as director, producer, and animation supervisor! With performances from Andrew Russell and Brenna Larsen! 🤠🐎 Releasing 22 November 2025, 8:00 PM JST at the #HonkaiStarRail #HoYoFair Special Program "Chimerric Park"! See you there! #animation #officialwork
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 04/10/2025
What the fuck do you think made people join this site in the first place lol We know who's paying you. It's your venture capitalists. Whatcha think will happen after a massive exodus, projecting the site to be a failure? You're betting that wont happen. Hope you're prepared to be dead wrong.
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 03/10/2025
yeah uh no.
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 03/10/2025
The video Owen linked is an incredible showcase of Adam and Swirsky doing this, though I wanted to show how sometimes its even worth breaking apart the form manually for an extra bit of layering and visual hierarchy. Requires a lot more work, but it can pay off esp. when the art is largely flat.
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 03/10/2025
🤝 well said On castle we used lotsa "microgradiation" & for cuts that were absolutely essential to get right, especially scenes with a low amount of movement, we'd dress out the character art with polish dramatically. It's a value add that IS noticeable. One such example: bsky.app/profile/dani...
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 03/10/2025
If @oweeeeendennis.bsky.social just wants a preset that takes in a color & a midtone i can whip something up but it'd be reallly basic LOL, if you dont mind an example tomorrow!
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 03/10/2025
...on an above layer, doing something like the original colors set to "luminance" blend mode and adjusting it to half or w/e feels right. This will get you most of the way there. It wont account for some things we often want to do like darker midtones for silk etc getting washed out, but its a start
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 03/10/2025
my own *personal* preferences though include slapping down some color cards set to multiply and/or overlay of the background color mixed in with the sun color (mayyyybe setting the sun one to add, since thats how it works IRL), and doing the same but darker for the shadow tones, then...
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 03/10/2025
🤔the question is confusing, are yall asking a quick way to get characters to match the background color generally? Yeah there really isn't a one and done way to do that, certainly no plugin that does it. What we usually do is separate the midtones and shadows & just kinda... wing it 😂
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 22/09/2025
Felt. You'll get there dude.
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Fred Wood @fredtwood.com · 22/09/2025
It feels incredibly special to be included in this. Thanks y'all.
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 16/09/2025
Ten years ago, today, released a game that dramatically changed the course of my life. It's given me friends and relationships I wouldn't have had otherwise, strengthened my bond with many others, and inspired me in so many ways I can't even begin to count. Happy bday Undertale, what a work of art.
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✪ !CHRiS! Jones ✪ Mista Jonz ✪ @mistajonz.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
✨Sonic the Hedgehog SatAM, insert Blaze the Cat✨
Blaze the Cat in Sonic the Hedgehog SatAM with Sonic, Tails and Princess Sally
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Hello from Washington DC, where hundreds of people and what seems like an unreasonable amount of police are assembling for the We Are All DC March This is the first pre-planned, DC-focused protest since the occupation began. Let's see how this goes 🧵
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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Nelvana, one of Canada’s most biggest animation studios has reportedly shut down after 54 years. (1974-2025). Workers are saying the studio has closed down its doors last Friday.
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 31/08/2025
Any artists or cool people at the con, I'll be at the alley / dealer's den wearing this basically till closing. Keep your eyes open!
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 31/08/2025
Yeah UTDR is pretty stacked here lol Hope to run into ya !
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 26/08/2025
💕
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 22/08/2025
Post crew solidarity 🫡😭🙏
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 22/08/2025
Tysm david!! 💖 No doubt the editing team is intimately aware of just how *transformed* some cuts can be from start to finish when we wanna try something crazy haha, appreciate the kind words <3
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 21/08/2025
Thank youuuu ❤️ That cut ended up getting used for the trailer--because of course, it's a great shot and Adam's comp work was sublime--and knowing that might happen I knew we had to nail the look haha. Glad you think so!!
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 21/08/2025
We didn't have access to Nuke for Nocturne, but I managed to use AE in a similar way with some effects like CC Composite and Set Matte and a few nested compositions haha. The end result is a track job that gives way more dimension and shape than you'd get from a basic flat pattern track!
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 21/08/2025
The majority of the actual compositing in this cut was done by @adamdeats.bsky.social (you can thank him for the "final polish" part haha), but the pattern tracking + making it consistent with other cuts was all me :D
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 21/08/2025
This cut was a REAL challenge! For Nocturne Episode 3, we wanted Edouard to have a brilliant felt coat with a pattern, but drawing that would be very complex. In his big turnaround shot, I put in a lot of care to make the pattern have shape and dimension. Lotsa steps went into that. Take a look!
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 07/08/2025
How??????????
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 06/08/2025
I tend to be a yapper Lowest call volume of the ppl in your comments but not too bad eh?
Call time for Mastercard: 12 minutes 37 seconds
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 06/08/2025
Wanted to show off this breakdown from this TINKERHELL scene; it was real important to me that we establish this tiny thing as something truly unnerving when we get a closeup of her face so the post production REALLY went all out on this cut. Take a look!
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 27/07/2025
This looks ripped right out of btas, excellent work :)
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 21/07/2025
i got a 3080 recently for a great deal and as much as I want the turbo insane 5080/90 for parallel work as well, this is already a huge upgrade from my previous *1060* haha Sounds like you're putting that monster VRAM to work though!
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 09/07/2025
Seems I missed #portfolioday but if anyone's still checking, I wanna say I'm available for #compositing #editing and #motiongraphics work! I got over 7 years of experience in the animation industry and worked on quite a few shows, and have worked on ad campaigns, youtube channels, you name it!
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Parker Simmons @parkersimmons.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
This animator did a really good job doing what I usually do: taking old manual artwork and animating it. Except they took the idea to completion with a whole commercial for the original Legend of Zelda! Give it a watch, it's very well done.
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Lost 80's Commercial for The Legend of Zelda on the NES
YouTube video by Capsyst Animations
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 24/06/2025
We all collaborated a lil bit, sam doing footage recording for a majority of these, and he and i even stayed up in a call motivating each other in the final stretch of I'm Here Revisited + Find Your Flame lmao He killed it with Break Through It All tbh w/ Kennie's typesetting, damn
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 23/06/2025
Oh hey! You can now find the full versions of the Sonic Symphony's lyric videos for the TITAN themes! I had the honor of working on two of them, Find Your Flame and the extended version of Undefeatable. :D The other two were done by @samprocrastinates.bsky.social and @kennieadventure.bsky.social
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📺 Music video distribution 🎵

The official music video for the vocal track that accompanies the boss battle in " #ソニックフロンティア is now available on Apple Music, iTunes, Spotify, LINE MUSIC, and more! ✨

The game brings back memories of fierce battles with formidable opponents and last year's Sonic Symphony Tokyo concert...! 🔥
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 23/06/2025
Oh! Is this still on display there?? I should go check it out when I got time :D
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Daniel Laney - Available for Work @daniellaney.com · 07/06/2025
Like i know the final product doesnt have exactly what u contributed to it probably but this all looks super dope and i have no doubt you were instrumental to the exploration getting it to this point haha Good stuff regardless and I hope I get to see your initial concepts sometime 👀
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