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Malcolm Rambert @malcmanishere.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Special thanks to those whose writing helped inform this piece (@delhiwacky.bsky.social, @alissajadyn.bsky.social, @eroscestlavie.bsky.social, Leila Ettachfini) as well as those who showed interest during the WIP (@geibuchan.bsky.social, @thatdaffyduck.bsky.social @queeranimation.bsky.social).

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Malcolm Rambert @malcmanishere.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Just made my first post on Substack. Took the whole month, but anyone here that knows me will certainly enjoy reading this. Wanted to pay tribute to "The Proud Family" revival while also calling out the very lazy critiques of it. malcolmrambert.substack.com/p/the-proud-...

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"The Proud Family": Using Legacy Responsibly and Giving Credit Where It’s Due

Saying farewell to a legacy sequel series of a childhood favorite by praising an under-discussed element of its entire run, while also noting how doing so is currently rare for “certain” series.

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Jay Lender @jaylender.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

When I was working background design for Hey Arnold I made this handy guide to standardize the front door to the Sunset Arms… but once those off-model drawings are in the wild they breed like roaches. (Enjoy Craig's hilarious, tolerant note.)

A clean ground-level drawing of Arnold's stoop with notes describing exact features:

THE PORTHOLE
•hangs just below molding
•approx 1/2 height of other 1st floor windows

Loo! There are exactly 5 STEPS

Rounded sills are GOOD on Arnold's house!

THE CROWN MOLDING
This is made of rounded shapes!
Interior lines are only to suggest dimension. They DO NOT DEFINE FLAT PLANES!

THE FRONT DOOR
•six planks
•don't make window too complicated

(a post-it note from Craig Bartlett)
Jay-
Thanks for the extremely detailed front-door manifesto. Now how about a whole house? C.B.

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Miguel @thatdaffyduck.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It's so funny that the "but what if the film ends up SHIT?" questions that were constantly getting raised about Coyote Vs. ACME ended up meaning nothing. I'm so happy both this and The Day The Earth Blew Up were able to get the proper release they deserved.

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Comedy for Animators @comedyforanimators.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A lot of build up, great payoff. #comedy

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Miguel @thatdaffyduck.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My Twitter account got hacked RIP

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Miguel @thatdaffyduck.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Go listen NOW, or else Cecil Turtle will corner you in an apartment and shoot you.

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BuffoonPOD @cartoonbuffoons.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

And up on the free feed is our episode on THE LOONEY TUNES SHOW with our friend @thatdaffyduck.bsky.social Find it below on youtube!!

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Cartoon Buffoons 104 - The Looney Tunes Show w/ ThatDaffyDuck

YouTube video by It's Only Magic!

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BuffoonPOD @cartoonbuffoons.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Its friday you knowwhat that means!! The buffoons are back with a new episode up early on Patreon, this time we cover THE LOONEY TUNES SHOW and we brought back our looney guy @thatdaffyduck.bsky.social . Its a good time check it out below on patreon.

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EARLY RELEASE! Cartoon Buffoons 104 - The Looney Tunes Show w/ThatDaffyDuck | It's Only Magic!

EARLY RELEASE! Cartoon Buffoons 104 - The Looney Tunes Show w/ThatDaffyDuck by It's Only Magic! on Patreon. Join It's Only Magic!'s community for exclusive content and updates.

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Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I don't know who needs to see this, but I found this size chart of Cartoon Network characters from 2003 when I was working at Primal Screen. These modelsheets were important for when we'd do promos or IDs featuring all the diff characters together, like in live action scenarios. #wardsmorguefile

A model sheet featuring many of the Cartoon Network characters all together, with a size chart next to them. Powerpuff Girls, Scooby Doo, The Flintstones and Jetsons, Samurai Jack, etc.

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Miguel @thatdaffyduck.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

"WORLD'S FINEST" (1997) Batman has never looked better in animation than in the DCAU's prime. Incredible direction by ex-Miyazaki animator Toshihiko Masuda. It's visually closer to a higher budget OVA from the time than it is your average '90s TV cartoon.

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Miguel @thatdaffyduck.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Since Twitter is a busted hunk of shit, I haven't been able to send any original posts for the last 3 days. I guess Bluesky came in clutch after all!

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Miguel @thatdaffyduck.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

If WB had it their way, The Animated Series would've served as an extension of the Tim Burton films (they wanted Burton to EP the show, even!) and NOTHING else. Bruce Timm, Eric Radomski, Paul Dini, Alan Burnett & the rest of the crew ended up giving us something far more substantial than that.

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Thomas Marrone @thomasthecat.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.

Silhouette of Batman from Batman: The Animated Series

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Possum A-ko @kaiserbeamz.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Oh this video's going places.

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Toon4Thought @toon4thought.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I swear, Ellison and the way he speaks is THE core argument as to why anti-trust enforcement has to be pushed far back from the current status quo. Like, just saying the quiet part out loud like this (and y'know, getting the Saudis involved) should get you kicked out the room right then and there.

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Miguel @thatdaffyduck.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Maybe it doesn't play as well today, but after watching a camrip of Space Jam, I can confirm this gag got one of the biggest laughs.

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Miguel @thatdaffyduck.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

and then, the pig did a fucking BACKFLIP you guys—

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Miguel @thatdaffyduck.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Bless whoever conceived the photo mode.

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🦆 Eliza Herndon! 🦆 @ducktwacy.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

The nature of gif making sadly compressed this, so PLEEEASE do yer peepers a favor and look at it proper!

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Toon4Thought @toon4thought.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

AHHHHHHHHH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA-HAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

Animation cel of the final shot of "Stimpy's Invention", which I just received from Heritage Auctions.

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Lorenzo Estrada @lozoescartoons.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I went as often as I could to watch the orchestra and I happened to film this part while it was still just a board. Before I wasn't sure what direction to take this shot's animation cause the temp music was bare, then I heard those 3 brass stings and it was done. (used my phone's audio!) #TDTEBU

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Miguel @thatdaffyduck.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Checked her IMDB to see which film she was referring to, and it's Lego Ninjago lol. NGL, I regularly forget that film exists.......and you probably do too.

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Miguel @thatdaffyduck.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

maybe Jameson will give me a raise after I show him these.....

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Miguel @thatdaffyduck.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Spielberg came a long way from his "I want a new background for EVERY shot!" suggestions back in the Tiny Toons days. Glad to see his input leaned more and more toward his specialty, the storytelling, as he got involved with more animated productions.

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Miguel @thatdaffyduck.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Arkham Knight's photo mode is still absolutely incredible. One of the best looking games from 8th gen.

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Miguel @thatdaffyduck.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Incompetence, thy name is Warner Bros. (With a different spelling, of course.)

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Lorenzo Estrada @lozoescartoons.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

If I went back to my childhood self and told him I would one day be credited on a movie alongside these absolute titans of animation he would beat me up and call the cops. I’n beyond grateful, immensely honored, and serving time in 1999.

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Miguel @thatdaffyduck.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

If you're like me and love the Duck Dodgers TV show, you'll be happy to discover that DC was doing tie-in stories for it on a semi-regular basis as the show was airing! Art was primarily handled by Dave Alvarez and my pal @neals.bsky.social. Great cartooning in these!

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Miguel @thatdaffyduck.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Cat's Don't Dance is better than nearly every WB animated film that came after, and it was the one WB had the absolute least to do with.

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🦆 Eliza Herndon! 🦆 @ducktwacy.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

ONE WEEK UNTIL THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP RELEASES IN THEATERS! That means tickets are on sale RIGHT NOW! Please support The Little Film That Could, it’s the first completely animated Looney Tunes movie in the series’ 95 year history! It’s history in the making! I’ve got my tickets booked! Have you?

A drawing of Porky Pig and Daffy Duck. Porky is manning a box office in a theater usher’s uniform, glaring in annoyance at Daffy, who is leaning up against the box office with a dollar bill in his hand and saying:

“Ticket fer one active duty senior citizen student just celebrating his first birthday, if you puh-lee-uhze. And I do believe it’s discount Tuesday?”

There is also a calendar that plainly labels the date as Friday the 14th.

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Miguel @thatdaffyduck.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Animaniacs, a show Paul Rugg wrote for during its entire run, was edutainment in every sense of the word. The idea that childrens TV *can't* educate is at best an extremely flawed one (I do agree that it shouldn't be a necessity however).

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Derek Drymon @derekdrymonart.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Doodled expressions while listening to character dialogue. This must have been a stressful moment in the movie #animatedmovie #behindthescenes #hollywood #spongebob #squidward #mrkrabs #sketches #storyboards

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Miguel @thatdaffyduck.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Animated by Chris Sauve, 2003. Imagine if they'd actually put this in Back in Action lmao

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Michael Ruocco @michaeljruocco.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Ever wonder where your missing socks end up? Well some say the Sock-King goes out at night, gathering all the spare socks it finds behind dressers, under beds and inside dryers to add to it's collection.

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Miguel @thatdaffyduck.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Never thought "1.1K+ upvotes on r/Kendrick Lamar" would ever happen. I don't even use Reddit, so imagine my shock!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/01/2025

i’m kind of amazed at how this is just the crudest, most obvious n****rbaiting you can imagine. “the people you don’t like, yeah, they are responsible for everything bad.” and it works!

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Miguel @thatdaffyduck.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Finally hopped on the Procreate train about two weeks ago. Here's a couple (now old) sketches!

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Miguel @thatdaffyduck.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

They're both, in a lot of ways. Most of our best TV animation wouldn't exist without that studio serving as an inspiration point. On the flip side, most of the worst tendencies within TV animation were also popularized by that studio (assembly-line outsourcing being maybe their biggest crime).

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Miguel @thatdaffyduck.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Worse, they aren't even truly live-action most of the time! Alice in Wonderland, Dumbo and Beauty & the Beast utilize so much CG, right down to major characters in each being CG, that there's more animation in then than there is live-action.

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Miguel @thatdaffyduck.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

That.....looks like Jon McClenahan's animation. Shit.

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WHYx3 @whyx3.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Today I'd like to announce "The Animation Smears Book: Uncovering Film's Most Elusive Technique," which is the first document of it's kind to preserve the art of abstract motion blur frames. Essential for anyone who wants to know more about animation smear history! www.routledge.com/9781032724348

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The Animation Smears Book: Uncovering Film's Most Elusive Technique

Throughout cinema, there have been various techniques to depict motion, and one style in particular is the fascinating use of smears in animation. Incredibly popular and captivating to artists, these ...

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