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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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Owen Dennis: Infinity Train/Among Us Show creator @owendennis.com · 03/04/2026

Please watch and share my new pilot called Deathahedron! It took me a year to make it, it's made almost entirely with little models that I made and shot in my backyard. I had to make the costumes, hand animate the effects, it's a labor of love! V----CLICK HERE----V www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FNC...

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Deathahedron Pilot

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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 28/03/2026

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

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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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Now Go Make A Movie! @nowgomakeamovie.com · 16/02/2026

Doing a rewrite on a script today (and for the last week+) and it’s been really - REALLY - fun. Creative fulfillment was a struggle for decades, TBH, because there’s a HUUUUGE difference between creating someone else’s thing for a company vs creating something you want to exist.

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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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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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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 · 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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Now Go Make A Movie! @nowgomakeamovie.com · 19/10/2025

By chance, I was in a store and met a Disney exec, so I took the opportunity to ask them why doesn’t Hollywood want to make movies anymore? Their answer cracked my brain a little, but I am not so perplexed anymore. Hope this helps you too…🧵 /1

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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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Now Go Make A Movie! @nowgomakeamovie.com · 15/10/2025

“7 little hand-drawn animated shots - how hard can it be?” This is the first - and maybe the last - time I do cleanup, color, and tones (shadows) on my own animation. I’m really enjoying it, but it’s taking FOREVER! Doesn’t help to have three characters, either. (It’s for an upcoming YouTube video.)

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The Animation Podcast @animationpodcast.com · 22/09/2025

I love seeing indie animation go for it. Worth a watch to see what’s possible. NIGHTS OF GUINEVERE: PILOT

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KNIGHTS OF GUINEVERE: PILOT

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Now Go Make A Movie! @nowgomakeamovie.com · 18/09/2025

Hand animating a TEENY clip for a YT video and I feel so… EMPOWERED. Creating something from scratch – FOR MYSELF, BECAUSE I WANT IT TO EXIST – feels like a giant middle finger to everything wrong in tech and entertainment right now. Trying out Clip Studio Paint for this, and I’m mostly liking it.

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Now Go Make A Movie! @nowgomakeamovie.com · 09/09/2025

Burn the AI Slop movies projects because we can have things like Decorado made by humans. There are thousands of people with good ideas and the talent to make them. Support them.

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The Animation Podcast @animationpodcast.com · 06/09/2025

Doing some hand-drawn animation for myself after a LOOONG break. Rusty, but it comes back. Funny, wanted to do a slow-in, so I instinctively drew a timing chart and it worked! Lots of things are coming back & I’m done w/ a rough pass. Time to tie down. I dunno, just sorta happy and wanted to share.

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