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Simon Cottee
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Australian Canadian 2D animation director in Montreal / FOREST MASTER
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Simon Cottee @simoncottee.bsky.social · Nov 22
My 3rd animated film The Pioneers is now online. It has a lot of blue sky in it so it's appropriate to post it here. Psychadelic 2D animated documentary about animal testing during the space race featuring an original score by Kid Koala!
#space #spacerace #2d #animation #documentary #shortfilm
The Pioneers (2022)
YouTube video by Simon Cottee
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Hey professional Artists. The industry (at least what I've experienced in MTL Canada as a 2D Animation director) is at an all time low. Most industry professionals like myself have been looking into the PIVOT. Where we plan an off-ramp or a float career alternative. Cont... #animators #arts
September 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Today we have a 24 hour live stream of all the short animated films made for our To Gaza With Love animation jam! Check it out:

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To Gaza With Love | Palestine Solidarity | Help Gaza Live Stream
YouTube video by Animation Community 4 Palestine
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September 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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An illustration from 2018 depicting a tense flying minivan ride from our old Starfinder campaign. The NPC is obviously the one bleeding. #traditionalgames #illustration
July 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Moving down the cliff day! #duneawakening
July 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Play Dune Awakening like Death Stranding! When building your base, make traversal infrastructure for your fellow spice freaks! Instead of a grey box, why not make a bridge?! A mountain side staircase? A comfortable spot of shade to wait out the midday sun? Strand (sand) type gaming! #duneawakening
July 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Listening to this at work. I used to play Phantasy Star Online on me dreamcast when I was like 15. Now at 39 and listening to it I'm getting flooded with emotions. My first experience to this kinda game, and the music was such a large part of the vibe. aetherial and drifting
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Phantasy Star Online Soundtrack • Dreamcast
YouTube video by Yay Can
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July 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Gunpla mini kit, Zaku Canon mobile suit. This is my first gunpla paint job. Pretty satisfied. But the assembly with the painted pieces was a mini nightmare. This is probably unique to mini kits, compared to a standard HG kit. Mini is so fiddly and fragile #gunpla #zaku #minis #paintjob #zakucanon
July 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Elon Musk’s Culture obsession might mean he uses this alien Library solution on Grok. Not destroying human knowledge but rearranging it all into confusion.
Quote about alien general Traff and his promise not to destroy a captured library Traff already knew what he was going to do. He solved the problem by shuffling the library, sorting every word in it into alphabetical order and every pixel of every illustration into order of color, shade and intensity. The original microfiles were wiped and re-recorded with volumes upon volumes of "the"s, "it"s, and "and"s; the illustrations were fields of pure color. There were riots, of course, but Traff was in control by then, and as he explained to the incensed and-as it turned out, literally-suicidal guardians of the library, and to the Empire's Supreme Court, he had kept his word about not actually destroying or taking as booty a single word, image or file.
June 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Landing that knife double kill #FragPunk
June 14, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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need to revisit her model occasionally to justify all the work i put into it
#art #blender3d
June 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Sure all these new AI music systems are "neat", but me? I only fuck with Microsoft Songsmith:
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Microsoft Songsmith Commercial
YouTube video by Duker91
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June 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Started up a new mothership campaign at work. Created a new gang to build out some lore. #mothership #ttrpg
May 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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the omen #MerMay
Digital painting of a giant ominous man, sitting cross legged, levitating in the sky, surrounding by flying giant oarfish, overlooking structures and buildings. The man is a merfolk; mostly humanoid, but with a giant oarfish tail that he's sitting on. He's dressed in a religious tunic, with a red band resting over his shoulders, a helmet fashioned to look like an oarfish head, and he is holding a horn closely, as if he's about to blow it. The his sclera are bloodshot. Around him are dozens of giant oarfish, rising from the sea and floating mid-ar. Beneath them are deserted buildings, homes and infrastructures.
May 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Calling all ANIMATORS. There is an Animation Jam to raise funds for animation workshops in Gaza. Donate what you can and sign up to participate and submit your 10-30 second animation with love to Gaza #animation #gaza #anijam

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TO GAZA WITH LOVE: A Global AniJam
REGISTRATION PAGEJoin animators and artists around the world in a powerful creative call for peace, love, and solidarity with Gaza.TO GAZA WITH LOVE is a global aniJam initiated by AC4PAL (Animation C...
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May 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Here is the 2nd film presentation for the Gaza Animation Workshop patreon. The Kids Fixed It. Made by 20 girls aged between 9 and 14. Join up and support animation for kids in Gaza #gaza #animation #animationstories #palestine

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02 - The Kids Fixed It | Animation Stories
Get more from Animation Stories on Patreon
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May 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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ROUND 2 RESULTS of CUTIE FACTIONS! Oh no, a bubble tea misshap. Cutie factions is an ongoing story engine project that YOU can participate in. Just reply with a CUTIE FACTION ACTION with a photo of a dice roll using 2d6! Most liked faction action will be used. #cutiefactions #ttrpg #roleplaying #rpg
May 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Get hyped for the indie 2D animated feature Death Does Not Exist! By Félix Dufour-Laperrière. Who has "oh-so-casually" made 4 2D indie feature films here in Montreal. #animation #cannes #indiefilm #embuscade

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Watch: 'Death Does Not Exist' First Look Revealed ahead of Cannes Directors' Fortnight
Cinephiles today got their first look at Death Does Not Exist (La Mort n’existe pas), the latest hand-drawn feature from celebrated Canadian filmmaker Félix
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May 13, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Just a real lil guy in the yard. One of the littlest guys out there.
May 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Lil game designers out there game designin!
seecreature.bsky.social Dale Hayward @seecreature.bsky.social · May 10
This guy was inspired by @simoncottee.bsky.social to make his own game: Hunters & Gatherirs, a dice battle game
May 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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THE RESULTS OF ROUND 1 OF THE CUTIE FACTION ACTIONS! The doors are now open to post your action desire with a photo of your roll of 2d6! SUBMIT YOUR ACTIONS IN THIS THREAD FOR AN ANIMAL FACTIONS ACTIONS! Further instructions found below. #cutiefactions #cutiefactionactions #ttrpg #storyengine
May 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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LET'S PLAY A CUTIE FACTIONS TTRPG ON BLUESKY!

Submit your FACTION ACTION along with a real photo of a 2D6 roll (any cheating will result in a IRL curse).
I will draw the outcomes of your actions.
1 Action per reply. 1 Action per Faction. Ties broken by comment likes.
#cutiefactions #ttrpg #cutie
May 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Charlie Jane taught me to do the faces. So I'm a full time cutie artist now. Only cutie based content from now on. The cutie lifestyle got me like 🐷
May 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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"These are the largest living material structures produced using a first-of-its-kind biofabrication platform" "adapting the Canada Pavilion to provide enough light, moisture, and warmth for the living cyanobacteria within the structures to grow, thrive and change."

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Canada’s participation at La Biennale Architettura in 2025
The Living Room Collective presents Picoplanktonics at the Canada Pavilion during the 2025 Venice Biennale of Architecture.
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May 8, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Today's minute(ish) of brilliant animation is from Patlabor 2 (1993), directed by Mamoru Oshii. It might be my favourite Oshii.
May 7, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Canada needs to redirect all that tax credit $ for American film / TV productions back into Canadian made content quick bloody smart. Trump's about to tank the entire thing. We need our own free steaming platform filled with locally made culture. Short films Features Series. The works #canada #film
May 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM