Jess Idlehart
@idlehart.bsky.social
LA-Based concept artist in animation and gaming with twitchy eyebrows and feet so flat it’ll make a duck go quack.
✍️ Art Director, Concept Artist, & Compositor
👻 Netflix, Nickelodeon, Chromosphere, Rough Draft
🎓Calarts Experimental Animation alum
✍️ Art Director, Concept Artist, & Compositor
👻 Netflix, Nickelodeon, Chromosphere, Rough Draft
🎓Calarts Experimental Animation alum
Built a small rain loop in Unreal + Blender + Fusion... part workflow test, part reminder to make things just for fun.
☔ Dream Fields → www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzXJ...
☔ Dream Fields → www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzXJ...
Hacking in the Rain — 5 Hours of Cyberpunk Rain Ambience for Sleep, Focus & Motion | Dream Fields 1
YouTube video by Idleharts Club
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October 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Built a small rain loop in Unreal + Blender + Fusion... part workflow test, part reminder to make things just for fun.
☔ Dream Fields → www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzXJ...
☔ Dream Fields → www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzXJ...
In a dark, dark room there was a tote bag I never use and inside of that tote bag was another tote bag I never use and in--
July 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
In a dark, dark room there was a tote bag I never use and inside of that tote bag was another tote bag I never use and in--
I'll randomly remember Threads exists, hop on and immediately realize my feed is all age-related engagement bait. Every post begins with something like "I'm in my late 30s and..."
It feels like "Oops! All Algorithm" but it's only using your location and age data.
It feels like "Oops! All Algorithm" but it's only using your location and age data.
June 27, 2025 at 5:33 AM
I'll randomly remember Threads exists, hop on and immediately realize my feed is all age-related engagement bait. Every post begins with something like "I'm in my late 30s and..."
It feels like "Oops! All Algorithm" but it's only using your location and age data.
It feels like "Oops! All Algorithm" but it's only using your location and age data.
Milanote, but pronounced like La Notte.
May 6, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Milanote, but pronounced like La Notte.
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Master and Commander/TNG Intro
this was rendering all day while I was out lol
this was rendering all day while I was out lol
April 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Master and Commander/TNG Intro
this was rendering all day while I was out lol
this was rendering all day while I was out lol
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Satoshi Kon was a master filmmaker -- and a master storyboarder. His detailed sketches were blueprints for his movies.
Take Millennium Actress. He spent nine months boarding it alone, on a quest to make a great film with a small budget. We explore:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-satosh...
Take Millennium Actress. He spent nine months boarding it alone, on a quest to make a great film with a small budget. We explore:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-satosh...
April 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Satoshi Kon was a master filmmaker -- and a master storyboarder. His detailed sketches were blueprints for his movies.
Take Millennium Actress. He spent nine months boarding it alone, on a quest to make a great film with a small budget. We explore:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-satosh...
Take Millennium Actress. He spent nine months boarding it alone, on a quest to make a great film with a small budget. We explore:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-satosh...
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The earliest surviving animated feature, and a stop-motion masterpiece
From: The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), dir. Lotte Reiniger
From: The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), dir. Lotte Reiniger
April 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The earliest surviving animated feature, and a stop-motion masterpiece
From: The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), dir. Lotte Reiniger
From: The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), dir. Lotte Reiniger
I wish I lived in a society that respected the knowledge of teachers, scientists, and doctors rather than CEOs, politicians, and podcast comedians.
April 5, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I wish I lived in a society that respected the knowledge of teachers, scientists, and doctors rather than CEOs, politicians, and podcast comedians.
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March 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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A good case for a quadruple-breasted suit. A drawing of mine from a few years ago.
November 30, 2024 at 12:26 AM
A good case for a quadruple-breasted suit. A drawing of mine from a few years ago.
We should be 5 years deep into this being the fashion of the 2020s.
March 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
We should be 5 years deep into this being the fashion of the 2020s.
I think I'm just on Bluesky to read Nancy comics.
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
March 12,1955
March 12,1955
March 13, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I think I'm just on Bluesky to read Nancy comics.
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It’s overwhelming to think about how neither the place I live (both country in general and city itself) nor the industry I make my living in exist in the same way that they did 3 years ago and it’s hard to know what I’m supposed to be doing on an day to day or hour to hour basis some days.
March 11, 2025 at 4:08 AM
It’s overwhelming to think about how neither the place I live (both country in general and city itself) nor the industry I make my living in exist in the same way that they did 3 years ago and it’s hard to know what I’m supposed to be doing on an day to day or hour to hour basis some days.
If you see this, post your black and white art 🖤🤍
March 6, 2025 at 8:06 AM
If you see this, post your black and white art 🖤🤍
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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
![[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreihuubdwcftfkvvlnepoaf6pfxqulryfp7ydrydi5fe2pflwz63wgm@jpeg)
February 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
I kept making tweaks to this paiting in order to keep my hands busy from doom scrolling. #illustration #art #digitalart
February 19, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I kept making tweaks to this paiting in order to keep my hands busy from doom scrolling. #illustration #art #digitalart
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We should first recognize that gender codes are socially constructed. Clothing is not inherently masculine or feminine—codes are contextual and can change over time. Aristocratic men once wore bright red heels. Then they became womenswear until that notion was challenged again.
February 16, 2025 at 6:10 AM
We should first recognize that gender codes are socially constructed. Clothing is not inherently masculine or feminine—codes are contextual and can change over time. Aristocratic men once wore bright red heels. Then they became womenswear until that notion was challenged again.
Mind blown! Just found out Washington DC is short for Washington Diet Coke.
January 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Mind blown! Just found out Washington DC is short for Washington Diet Coke.
You say haunted doll like it’s a bad thing?
January 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
You say haunted doll like it’s a bad thing?
A smoothie place near me closed and I'm convinced it's because of their lame drink names.
They "Jamaican Me Crazy'd" too close to the sun.
They "Jamaican Me Crazy'd" too close to the sun.
January 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
A smoothie place near me closed and I'm convinced it's because of their lame drink names.
They "Jamaican Me Crazy'd" too close to the sun.
They "Jamaican Me Crazy'd" too close to the sun.
The scent combination of books + coffee is like a steroid for creativity.
If I could achieve a proper concentration of it in my apartment, you'd be looking at a post of a drawing instead of this text.
If I could achieve a proper concentration of it in my apartment, you'd be looking at a post of a drawing instead of this text.
January 25, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The scent combination of books + coffee is like a steroid for creativity.
If I could achieve a proper concentration of it in my apartment, you'd be looking at a post of a drawing instead of this text.
If I could achieve a proper concentration of it in my apartment, you'd be looking at a post of a drawing instead of this text.
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A universe in motion seen from the International Space Station during a night pass over Earth (view fullscreen).
January 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM
A universe in motion seen from the International Space Station during a night pass over Earth (view fullscreen).
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The millennial experience is growing up with the internet, and watching it go from a free, open, democratic, and eclectic ecosystem to a wasteland of five websites controlled by billionaires, and now seeing it quickly fill up with AI-generated slop.
I want our World Wide Web back.
I want our World Wide Web back.
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
January 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The millennial experience is growing up with the internet, and watching it go from a free, open, democratic, and eclectic ecosystem to a wasteland of five websites controlled by billionaires, and now seeing it quickly fill up with AI-generated slop.
I want our World Wide Web back.
I want our World Wide Web back.
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My first #PortfolioDay on bluesky✨
Hi! I'm Anya. I draw colorful and detailed fantasy illustrations. I hope to find some work in cover designs, book illustrations or anything that might suit my style.
You can check my portfolio through this link:
anyachalina.myportfolio.com
Hi! I'm Anya. I draw colorful and detailed fantasy illustrations. I hope to find some work in cover designs, book illustrations or anything that might suit my style.
You can check my portfolio through this link:
anyachalina.myportfolio.com
January 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
My first #PortfolioDay on bluesky✨
Hi! I'm Anya. I draw colorful and detailed fantasy illustrations. I hope to find some work in cover designs, book illustrations or anything that might suit my style.
You can check my portfolio through this link:
anyachalina.myportfolio.com
Hi! I'm Anya. I draw colorful and detailed fantasy illustrations. I hope to find some work in cover designs, book illustrations or anything that might suit my style.
You can check my portfolio through this link:
anyachalina.myportfolio.com