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It's hard to find nuance in a charged situation that aligns with your own but Flora puts to paper the complicated emotions I've been feeling since the news came out.

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 19h

Tracked down the footage behind my decade-long profile picture.

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Youtube in Firefox was so borked until a Reddit thread told me to pause Ghostery. Hope this helps you too.

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today I learned there's a Google Messages web-app that can let you access texts via a web portal. (Used it to download a file my parents sent over text wouldn't download on mobile)

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Integer Passes. C4D Setup and AE Implementation for a Mosaic Logo. I needed a solution to select clones via Essential Properties but cryptomattes need to be clicked to make selections. Integer Passes to the rescue! I couldn't find any info online about using them in AE so here's my contribution

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 29/05/2026

It's no surprise that we are seeing the result of this issue now: A lot of tokens being used with lots of cost, but not much to show for it. The problem, of course, isn't directly AI. It's management. AI has amplified the issues of bad management, and lays them bare much more quickly.

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Animators and Motion Designers! How good are your keyframes? arcade.tackstudio.co/curveball/

arcade.tackstudio.co

Curveball — A Game by Tack Studio

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Pet Peeve? Pins on a digital map with the anchor point centered so zooming in changes where the position indicates!

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Love when someone known for one thing gets to geek out about another thing (I might have gotten to the Mike Schur EP of @99pi.org’s power broker series)

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I saw this picture and immediately had to show it to some level designers.

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freestylemograph.bsky.social @freestylemograph.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Extra Medium Power, Extra Medium Responsibility

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Don't sleep on Sparks of Tomorrow

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Reminder to leave keyframes at frame 1 and frame time-1 if you're using a time track in C4D

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The Chicago Mograph Community's personal project fest Moonlighters (@moonlighterschi) happened on Wednesday and it was so good! I contributed a shot for the cryptid/alien/occult title sequence, and it ended up being the first montage shot! Felt good to set the tone. I can't wait for next year!

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Moonlighters this year was so good! Lots of gifs, lots of short films, a lot to inspire cool work. That we come together as a Chicago community to celebrate each other's work is honestly incredible. I needed it

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I was at the #makingmidwest Motion Design conference last week! Here's a bit of what you might have missed!

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Victoria @fakegreendress.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

After Effects 26.3 is live! A lot of long-awaited stuff in this release: 🎥 Depth of Field in Advanced 3D 🌟 Copy & paste Illustrator and SVG content 🤿 Faster, more accurate Mask Tracker 📋 Copy frame to clipboard 🌀 Brand-new Curl Noise effect 🔤 Variable font filtering helpx.adobe.com/after-effect...

A 3D rendering of a tiny wooden town with a tilt-shift effect created with depth of field in After Effects' Advanced 3D rendererer.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

incredible murder-mystery premise though

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Saluting this fallen Zoom H4N. It's been in a mount as my audio interface and as I went to adjust it the threaded insert crumbled the plastic around it. 🫡

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Gary J Kings 🎮🎞️ Game Trailer Maker @garyjkings.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Can't believe Derek just released his newest course for free.

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animatedjen @animatedjen.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I made this by stealing the Rocky footage from a PHM social ad, then filmed BD in front of an in-game "green screen" in Jedi Survivor. Now they're friends!

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Intentional decision making is lost in pursuit of flexibility later in the pipeline where someone else will make the call.

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Tonight's a "compare yourself to the creative output of the entire industry" kind of evening

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Etherington Brothers @etheringtonbros.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Our feature artist/reference for today is this SIMPLY BRILLIANT gif on ANIMATING LOOPS by the amazing @kinucakes! The explanation of the differences here using those black line examples is pURE GENIUS! #gamedev #animation #animationdev #anime #manga #conceptart #characterdesign

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Apps are just websites where it's illegal to ad block and prevent tracking. If you research a flight, the tracking says you're back for it so they increase the price because you must want it. You can't turn that off in an app. You can with a browser.

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Got this @freestylemograph.bsky.social render to a place I'm happier with it. Onto the next one!

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Mocha and CC Power Pin are really a match made in heaven.

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I'm about 80% of the way through this project and I just remembered CC Power Pin can unstretch. If you stack one Power Pin to unstretch and then a copy to re-stretch, tracking becomes so so so much easier. It's a shame I only remembered now after so much work completed

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Better than I expected tbh! Some I absolutely couldn't see. I did learn I need to clean my monitor though. www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Where the AI that caramelizes onions huh?

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 11/03/2026

How many times in the last ten years has a reporter asked a question in THIS manner to this one person? It’s a breath of fresh air and I’m guessing we won’t see a reporter do something like this again for another 18 months or so.

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Every Predator movie should have a corresponding Assassin's Creed game

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Where's the AI that can kern letters properly huh?

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

hope this helps @okremiok.bsky.social c:

Freya's scribbly diagram of all the parts of the lighting function from TF2 in the quoted tweet

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Clients want to be JRPGs. You get to the final deliverable and nail it but only then is it revealed there was a secret stakeholder the whole time. What do you mean these notes have a third boss phase?!

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Rolling credits on Alan Wake II and I'm enjoying how many post production shops were involved beyond the typical game dev outsourcing. I know not every game can be made by Remedy but a boy can dream

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Pulling footage for a reel can make you feel like you've never made any good work in your whole life.

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

somehow no matter how many times I turn off promotion notifications it turns back on because they're getting paid to promote gambling. This is not okay venmo

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

How Motion Graphics&Animation Professionals landed in between Estonian Social networks and Swedish Malm FF Supporters I'll never know

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Calvin and Hobbes meme: Every Jason Statham movie is a transporter, a snatch, or a meg. Beekeeper? That's a transporter. Expendables? That's a snatch. You'd think the Italian job would be a transporter but it's actually a snatch.

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This is so cool If the setup didn't seem so fiddly (like most racing sims) I'd be all over it

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

My new conspiracy theory is... with the knowledge that stopping support for Animate would have backlash, Adobe used the "Door in the Face" negotiating technique. By rolling it back users are inclined to be slightly less annoyed than if it was the original ask.

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Snowgraph Chicago - Winter Retreat @snowgraphchicago.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Snowgraph 2026 was a huge success! We hit the slopes, played board games, talked shop and had a great time. Thanks to everyone who made it out. You make this event special. Here's looking forward to our 11th Snowgraph next year!

a group of people stand in front of a ski/snowboard slope

a group of people in ski gear sit in a bar with food

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VFX Apprentice @vfxapprentice.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

🤔 What is the shape frequency threshold in VFX, and why should you implement this principle in your work? Catch up on the timeless Shape Style Guide from Jason: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQDQ... #gamedev #vfx #realtimevfx #rtvfx

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

What an incredible look into how product design is just as iterative a process as graphic design or motion design. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avey...

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We spent 4 years designing the perfect lid.

YouTube video by Craighill

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JC Tecklenburg @jct.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

It's crazy that in 2026 you can't temporally stop notifications on a slack channel.

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