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Ashley?!

Ashley?!

@helloashleylam.bsky.social

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🖥 helloashleylam.com 🖍 Storyboard Artist 🎙 Voice Actor 🛍 Merch Artist 📍 Coordinator in feature animation 📢 Posts are my own!

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Ashley?! @helloashleylam.bsky.social · Jan 14

Hellooo #portfolioday!
I'm a story artist that's open to paid freelance or full-time union work in animation.

I have a new piece on my site that, because of the recent events in LA, requires a cw: fire.

But I've got lots of happier things on there too! And pitch videos!

ashleylamstory.com

Ashley?! @helloashleylam.bsky.social · 23d

But to artificially create that, whether through CG or A//I? Booooooo.

This is where I have to exercise my negotiation skills. Cuz he’s going for funding, big funding, and I want him to be true to this art, god dammit.

Ashley?! @helloashleylam.bsky.social · 23d

Who’s gonna model that in CG? Who’s gonna take a pass at a fingerprint look treatment? If you say A//I, I will spit on you. The very thing that makes stop motion so beautiful are the traces of actual humanity in it. Finger prints. Shifting hair and fur. Stuttering poses. How imperfect it is.

Ashley?! @helloashleylam.bsky.social · 23d

I’m a firm believer in stories being able to inform the type of animation you do, much like how if you’re gonna make an animated show, you make it ANIMATED.

And what this guy is pitching is great, it’ll be beautiful in stop motion. REAL stop motion. He said he loves seeing finger prints in clay.

Ashley?! @helloashleylam.bsky.social · 23d

Someone asked me to board a few scenes for their CG-to-look-stop motion short and part of me caught on fire. They were talking about how they want there to be truth in materials and I’m like “Bro, let’s just do it in actual stop-mo. Please bro, you gotta.”

Ashley?! @helloashleylam.bsky.social · 23d

Buhhhh I can’t stop staring at this! Like I can really feel the weight in Twi’s hips and the way he’s trying to pull her up and aaahhhhhhh

Ashley?! @helloashleylam.bsky.social · 27d

Hello I exist solely to remind you to get giant buttons of your pfp made for Lightbox (if you can) so I can recognize you.

Ashley?! @helloashleylam.bsky.social · Sep 7

HEHEHEHHEHEEEEE I absolutely DARE you to try to play Hollow Knight.

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Chris Shehan_Comic Art @chrisshehanart.bsky.social · Aug 2

“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.”

Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?

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That damn cat @catcoded.lol · Jul 27

Found this on TikTok and it made me emotional ❤️

Artists create universes from nothing.

Being an animator is an intimate understanding of life, environments, physics, what it MEANS to be alive, and the ability to convey the beauty within our world in seconds.

Ashley?! @helloashleylam.bsky.social · Jul 21

Star Wars is one of those bucket list franchises for me, and I’m so happy that @moxieiii.bsky.social asked me to participate in her take on it!!

Emily Oetzell (available for work) @moxieiii.bsky.social · Jul 21

(1/2) After crash landing in the Tie Fighter Graveyard, Rey and BB8 look for a functioning fighter. But they are not alone... Pt 1

Editor: @mattandmegs.bsky.social
Rey: @helloashleylam.bsky.social
Kylo Ren: @garbcakes.bsky.social

#starwars #rey #kyloren #bb8 #storyboard #storyboardartist

Ashley?! @helloashleylam.bsky.social · Jul 3

Y’all… this gigantic tote bag is a quarter of my whole display.

(Anime Expo lets gooooooo)

Ashley?! @helloashleylam.bsky.social · Jul 2

Running right alongside you, lovely. 💖

Ashley?! @helloashleylam.bsky.social · Jul 1

I need y’all cooking on those K-Pop Demon Hunters fanfics to write faster cuz the news is hurting my tummy and I want my heart to feel some tasty yearning thank you

Ashley?! @helloashleylam.bsky.social · Jun 29

Promoting again with more hashtags so people can find meeeee
#animeexpo #ax2025 #ax2025artistalley #axartistalley2025 #axcatalog

Ashley?! @helloashleylam.bsky.social · Jun 10

IT’S MY #ANIMEEXPO2025 CATALOG AHHHHHH.

I’m a lucky little lamb to have gotten off the waitlist and was able to get a butt ton of stuff made with just a 3 month heads up and two other huge events before AX.

Ashley?! @helloashleylam.bsky.social · Jun 23

I’ve got a collection stainless steel drink tumblers coming with me to #AnimeExpo, but this one is gonna be an AX/Chibi exclusive!

Drink something Delicious in the Dungeon and make sure you’ve got the energy to find the red dragon!

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Zwei 🍄 @ Art Giveaway @zwei2x.bsky.social · Jun 19

Always and forever grateful to my friends and supporters and people for leaving comments. 💜💜💜

Ashley?! @helloashleylam.bsky.social · Jun 20

WHO IS GONNA HAVE GIVEN MERCH AT AX I STG I WILL BUY IT ALL

Ashley?! @helloashleylam.bsky.social · Jun 20

If anyone has a show or manga similar… plz. Feed me.

Ashley?! @helloashleylam.bsky.social · Jun 20

Anyways, the long awaited SK8 the Infinity OVA is out (since April), and I narrowly managed to catch the last [given] movie premiering in theaters and I am completely re-obsessed and cried a little in my car listening to the music.

Ashley?! @helloashleylam.bsky.social · Jun 20

What I miss about peak Twutter was when my feed would tell me what anime to watch or game to play because it would be FLOODED with people screaming and fanart. It helped me feel connected to people and spaces that I have difficulty accessing irl.

Ashley?! @helloashleylam.bsky.social · Jun 12

I have Etsy! I’d say it’s middle passive once you’re all set up. I don’t have the time to advertise on social media consistently so I like that it’s a marketplace. The fees can be pretty high for sure, but I like that Etsy collects and remits sales tax on my behalf, which is worth the fees (imo).

Ashley?! @helloashleylam.bsky.social · Jun 10

And part 2 cuz that’s just how much stuff I made!

Wish me luck on the tumblers and the ridiculously XXL tote bag; those I press by hand but I’m also the most excited for those!

And the Witch Hat sticker sheet, that makes me giggle.

Ashley?! @helloashleylam.bsky.social · Jun 10

IT’S MY #ANIMEEXPO2025 CATALOG AHHHHHH.

I’m a lucky little lamb to have gotten off the waitlist and was able to get a butt ton of stuff made with just a 3 month heads up and two other huge events before AX.

Reposted by Ashley?!

Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · May 25

btw if you're so petrified of doing a bad job that you can't even start, then what you need isn't advice on how to make comics. you need to learn to embrace being messy and bad at things and being okay with that because it's necessary, and actually it's GOOD. being messy is WONDERFUL

Ashley?! @helloashleylam.bsky.social · May 18

I'm still suckling on the dopamine I got from a conversation I had on Thursday where I used the word "bifurcate" without even having to think about it or rehearse it and it's like, the smartest I've felt this decade.