iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Matthew McCleskey @matthewmccleskey.com · 31/05/2026

Just found out cats can get stuffy noses. Damn. That sucks. I'm 6 foot btw

Matthew McCleskey @matthewmccleskey.com · 29/11/2025

I'll see you guys there! I'll be playing the Stardew Velly arcade games and actually trying to beat them (for the first time ever...)

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Matthew McCleskey @matthewmccleskey.com · 10/11/2025

Me playing this damn game when it's out

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Matthew McCleskey @matthewmccleskey.com · 05/11/2025

I finally got around to making a second channel video playing one of the CD-I Zelda games. (It may actually be kind of good?) youtu.be/ql4_Z0MAfB4 #zelda #thelegendofzelda #loz #link

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Are the CD-I Zelda Games really THAT Bad?

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Matthew McCleskey @matthewmccleskey.com · 08/10/2025

I worked around the clock the past couple of months to finally bring you this complete animation: Basically Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater youtu.be/iNOno6QDHfs @konamina.bsky.social

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Basically Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater

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In The Black Media & Talent @intheblacktalent.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

We asked @matthewmccleskey.com 3 questions to share his insight for other creators to grow. Here's what his answers were...

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Matthew McCleskey @matthewmccleskey.com · 11/09/2025

Thank you 2K for providing me with an early access Borderlands 4 key! @borderlands.2k.com

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Matthew McCleskey @matthewmccleskey.com · 12/07/2025

It's rotoscoping (but with a shortcut) I do film it on green-screen and then draw over it, but I only have to draw over a few frames per shot and run it through a free program called EbSynth. It interpolates those drawn frames to match the rest of the shot! No need to draw every single frame.

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Matthew McCleskey @matthewmccleskey.com · 25/06/2025

Instead of cute little Pikmon noises when he's thrown, it's shrieks of terror

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Matthew McCleskey @matthewmccleskey.com · 09/04/2025

Game 2 is really long! Way more than would fit into a 7-8 episode season without major cuts. There is also a lot of flashback sections of the game that might work as its own season if they added a bit to it. We'll have to see!

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Matthew McCleskey @matthewmccleskey.com · 02/04/2025

Nintendo reinvented Zoom and caught up to the Covid era!

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Matthew McCleskey @matthewmccleskey.com · 11/03/2025

Me transferring my Epic Games save of base-game Control to the Steam version of Control: Ultimate Edition to play the new mission

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Matthew McCleskey @matthewmccleskey.com · 04/03/2025

The writing is so consistently good from the big story moments to the mundane side quests. It's all narratively gripping and the gameplay is so much fun as well.

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Matthew McCleskey @matthewmccleskey.com · 27/02/2025

In the age of 2FA, I have become elite at memorizing six digits for up to 45 seconds at a time.

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Matthew McCleskey @matthewmccleskey.com · 28/01/2025

Follow me on Twitch! My streams are going to be getting much more interactive over there! www.twitch.tv/matthew_mccl...

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Twitch is the world

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Matthew McCleskey @matthewmccleskey.com · 16/01/2025

YouTube should be embarrassed to have spent any amount of money developing this feature. The only options the AI could generate was slamming two titles of videos together and they are all "low-interest". Yeah, great work, guys!

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Matthew McCleskey @matthewmccleskey.com · 01/01/2025

YouTube, you have just GOT to let us change Shorts thumbnails...

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

In stardew valley there’s a holiday where the whole town makes a big soup and everyone has to drink it

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Matthew McCleskey @matthewmccleskey.com · 24/12/2024

They're putting chemicals in the water that are turning the yuletides gay!

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Matthew McCleskey @matthewmccleskey.com · 20/12/2024

Me when I post a new Stardew Valley animation

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Matthew McCleskey @matthewmccleskey.com · 19/12/2024

This is genuinely a smart person thing to do

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Matthew McCleskey @matthewmccleskey.com · 16/12/2024

Please give creators the option to turn them off. Please give creators the option to turn them off Please give creators the option to turn them off

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Matthew McCleskey @matthewmccleskey.com · 13/12/2024

Any time that I try to change any part of my workflow (no matter how small) it takes GREAT effort to retrain my brain. I have become so automatic. It's always worth it though!

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Matthew McCleskey @matthewmccleskey.com · 04/12/2024

Almost exclusively Remedy, actually.

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Matthew McCleskey @matthewmccleskey.com · 03/12/2024

Always something new in the comment section

YouTube comment: "His mouth is agape! Vile!
Anakin Skywalker is no mouth-breather but a Human being, don't degrade him into a mere intellectual aka sith"

YouTube Comment: "3:51 "devolved to" - mouth-breather misuse of "de" prefix to render a fake term.

It is fake as it spits in the face of "evolution" being a continuous adaptation to ever changing environment = you can't "de" or "un" it, it juat is, it can not be "undone as ot innately has o back or forward, it is just thr essence of change, it is constantly shifting never static enough in a conclusive ppint that is finished product which can be reversed.

Thinking is alien to those who ise the miuth to breathe, this is why you misuse suffix and preffix, your sense of "morphology" and sintax are monotone mess. That is why you are sith aka intellectual instead of Sapient"

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Matthew McCleskey @matthewmccleskey.com · 02/12/2024

Anybody know the guy who puts a little too much adhesive on the popcorn bags so they tear when you open them and make you look and feel like an idiot? ...I just wanna talk.

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Matthew McCleskey @matthewmccleskey.com · 26/11/2024

I posted an animation yesterday that involves a car-chase made in Blender. I am so proud of how it turned out so please give it a watch! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XDj...

Batman and Joker in front of the Gotham City Skyline with the Batmobile wooshing past in the foreground

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Matthew McCleskey @matthewmccleskey.com · 25/11/2024

If you need me I'll be sitting on the floor destroying my posture and playing Ocarina of Time again Don't need me...

A 13' Symphonic CRT TV on a shelf next to an NES and a Wii

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Matthew McCleskey @matthewmccleskey.com · 19/11/2024

The way corporations rush to use AI instead of artists and then make their logos in Microsoft Word baffles me

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Matthew McCleskey @matthewmccleskey.com · 19/11/2024

Stop saying that my James Sunderland looks like Tek Knight!

James Sunderland in rotoscope animation style. Arguably similar in appearance to The Boys' Tek Knight...

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Matthew McCleskey @matthewmccleskey.com · 19/11/2024

Along with some needed combat changes! Sounds like they will make combat feel a bit better which is nice! Might have to go back and finish it - I burnt out side-questing. My gaming curse.

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Matthew McCleskey @matthewmccleskey.com · 17/11/2024

Wish my ears could hop back like a cats. I'd call it Sport Mode

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