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Chris Hendricks (Screenhog) @screenhog.bsky.social · 13h

My short film, the Town that Cried Wolf, is 90-95% finished. I need to make the credits, which means that the Late Pledges on the Kickstarter needs to be shut down. If you wanted to get in on that, this is your last weekend to do so: www.kickstarter.com/projects/scr...

The Town that Cried Wolf

A short film that asks "What if, after the boy cried 'wolf', the rest of the town started doing it too?"

www.kickstarter.com

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Chris Hendricks (Screenhog) @screenhog.bsky.social · 2d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=675d...

Tristan Harris – The Dangers of Unregulated AI on Humanity & the Workforce | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

www.youtube.com

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Chris Hendricks (Screenhog) @screenhog.bsky.social · 5d

I've been doing Inktober this year. Let's see if I actually manage to do all of the days.

Here are the first four:

#inktober #inktober2025

1 - MUSTACHE: a wizard with no beard but a ridiculously long mustache

2 - WEAVE: a failed knitting project on two knitting needles, with a stickman unimpressed, saying "This is not a scarf"

3 - CROWN: Prince John putting on his crown from Disney's Robin Hood (1973)

4 - MURKY: Pointillism clouds of murk and dust

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Chris Hendricks (Screenhog) @screenhog.bsky.social · 10d

There is. They have a secret network called "the light web".

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Chris Hendricks (Screenhog) @screenhog.bsky.social · 10d

Also my reaction.

Chris Hendricks (Screenhog) @screenhog.bsky.social · 14d

Is there anyone else in Western animation doing amazing turnarounds like this? It often feels like he's responsible for every single one...

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Chris Hendricks (Screenhog) @screenhog.bsky.social · 22d

Two protesters. One looks angrily at the other, who has a sign that says "I'm not protesting, I just like to hold up signs"

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Chris Hendricks (Screenhog) @screenhog.bsky.social · 22d

Ooh, that's a good question. It technically could be me, as I certainly played it in 2000. It also could be his brother Chris (who was also heavily involved with Club Penguin's development).

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Chris Hendricks (Screenhog) @screenhog.bsky.social · 23d

AI companies don't care if we finish the thing we want to do. They get money because consumers have flashy ideas of something that they want to make without much effort. It doesn't matter if the idea works; AI's already earned its money from "helping" you.

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Chris Hendricks (Screenhog) @screenhog.bsky.social · 23d

2. Let's say that coming up with the idea was the hardest part. Either AI will have bugs building what you need it to build (and then you won't know how to fix them because you didn't build it), or AI will do it perfectly, which meant that someone else already figured out how to do your "new idea".

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Chris Hendricks (Screenhog) @screenhog.bsky.social · 23d

So, I get these YouTube ads that promise that if I can imagine a website, AI can build it for me. Because, after all, "coming up with the idea is the hardest part".

1. No, coming up with the idea isn't the hardest part. The hardest part is FINISHING THE THING YOU'RE WORKING ON.

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Chris Hendricks (Screenhog) @screenhog.bsky.social · 23d

I love it!

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Chris Hendricks (Screenhog) @screenhog.bsky.social · 23d

"It wasn't me! My older sibling was impersonating me, I swear!"

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Sheep vs Gravity @sheepvsgravity.bsky.social · 23d

Yes, the same universe that has “Chee-zed-Its” and Oh Calorie soda 😆

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Chris Hendricks (Screenhog) @screenhog.bsky.social · 23d

A full six drawings between when the arrow hits the hat and when John reacts. Superb acting all around.

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Chris Hendricks (Screenhog) @screenhog.bsky.social · 23d

I wonder if there's an alternate universe where the breakfast cereal is called "Cheeri-zeroes"?

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Chris Hendricks (Screenhog) @screenhog.bsky.social · 28d

Yeah, that too! It's tough to remember that the thing I'm sick of working on some days is brand new for other people.

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Chris Hendricks (Screenhog) @screenhog.bsky.social · 28d

I don't know if I could properly convey how much of my job in a creative field is spent going:
- "I hope this works."
- "Trust the process."
- "Will the end product be as good as it is in my head?"

This, followed by the joy when, after many scribbled out lines or misplaced notes, it works.

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Chris Hendricks (Screenhog) @screenhog.bsky.social · 29d

Yesterday, I learned about Dorothy Ashby, an African-American jazz musician from the 1950s-1980s.

Her instrument of choice? The HARP. In jazz music. And it sounds amazing.

Just listen to this. Seriously. This is my style right here.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0nD...

Dorothy Ashby - Action Line (by EarpJohn)

YouTube video by EJ - Dorothy Ashby

www.youtube.com

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Chris Hendricks (Screenhog) @screenhog.bsky.social · Sep 5

Those rocks! So good!!!!

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Chris Hendricks (Screenhog) @screenhog.bsky.social · Sep 5

Crossword puzzle lovers have their own bubble of word knowledge. I guarantee 95%+ of them knew about the baking ingredient "oleo", the fencing sword "epee", or baseball player Mel Ott. Crossword puzzles, by necessity, favor the weird words just to make the rest of the puzzle work.

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Chris Hendricks (Screenhog) @screenhog.bsky.social · Sep 3

Whoa! I've never seen them that close! Or three at once.

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Chris Hendricks (Screenhog) @screenhog.bsky.social · Aug 9

I only mentioned distance, yeah. There's also weight and temperature.

I certainly prefer Celsius, but I deal with Fahrenheit enough to know that 30°F/0°C=freezing, 50°F/10°C=cool, 70°F/20°C=warm, and 90°F/30°C=hot. (Those aren't exactly the same, but close enough for me to remember.)

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Chris Hendricks (Screenhog) @screenhog.bsky.social · Aug 8

Canada's very much like that as well. A weird imperial/metric limbo.

Though we don't have "stone", at least.

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Chris Hendricks (Screenhog) @screenhog.bsky.social · Aug 7

One of the problems with adopting the metric system in North America is the number of syllables to say anything.

Imperial: inch, feet, yards, miles
Metric: centimeters, decimeters, meters, kilometers

I'm in Canada. We're supposed to be all metric, but most everyone says their height in feet/in.

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