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Sundown McMoon
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He/Him | Animator and Artist, Arguably | Animation Critic at Zekefilm | Member of @BombSquadProds | Old Cartoon Enjoyer
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think i'm on to the next new trend for youtube thumbnails
picture of me making a smug face while holding a microphone, with the text "this video is so uninteresting oh my god it sucks so fucking bad", a banner that says "videos_2000 channel", and the broadsword from dark souls 3 with a red circle around the handguard, with a question mark and exclamation point next to it
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Rewatching King of the Hill and remembered I drew this year ago.

#dragonball #kingofthehill #bobbyhill #boomhauer #gohan #ドラゴンボール #キングオブザヒル
Boomhauer and Bobby Hill from King of the Hill as No. 16 and Son Gohan from Dragon Ball. "B-BOBBY HILL.... TELL Y'WHAT MAN AIN'T NO CRIME TFIGHT F'R GOOD KNOWWHAT AHMEAN? TALKIN' 'BOUT SUM PEOPLE AIN'T GOT TIME LIST'NIN TO WORDS, MAN. FEEL YER ANGER.. SET YER PASSIONS SET YER PASSIONS FREE, MAN. POWER LEVEL DANG'OLE MAN TELLIN' YOU 'BOUT BIRDS MAN THEY AIN'T GOT NO POWER LEVEL I KNOW HOW YA FEEL MAN TALKIN' 'BOUT HOLDIN' BACK ... BUTCHA DON HAFTA HOLD BACH"
July 16, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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Autism Powers saying "Monster, baby! YEAH!" while eating a mister energy
November 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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FUUKA #Yotsuba #よつばと
Fuuka from Yotsuba&!
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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"You'll be visited by three spirits."

The three spirits:
Shammy, Kim and Vanessa from Macross, and Shammy is gonna rip your pants off.
November 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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I beat King's Field III last night and was deeply unprepared for the narrator's voice performance in the final text crawl
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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New One Piece Season 3 visual goes hard, excited to hear Ron Perlman join the cast.
November 25, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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man................
November 11, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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This was my white whale for a long time, but the sourced audio sample during Xenogears' "Blazing Knights" boss fight track was taken from Christian Brando's manslaughter trial in 1990!
November 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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"So won't the real Slim Shady please come out

Please come out

Please come out"

- if Eminem was a homo
November 25, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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i told @sundownmcmoon.bsky.social that his mouse cursor was on screen so he did this
November 25, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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New One Piece Season 3 visual goes hard, excited to hear Ron Perlman join the cast.
November 25, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Truly incredible that they left this bit from Megazone 23 in Robotech: The Movie.
March 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Layout (1) and model images (2 & 3) for "Belladonna of Sadness" by Reiko Okuyama (credited as Keiko Kitagawa).

From Anido's "Reiko Okuyama: Legendary Animator - Her Animated Drawings"
Layout image by Reiko Okuyama (credited as Keiko Kitagawa) created for 1973's "Belladonna of Sadness". Model images by Reiko Okuyama (credited as Keiko Kitagawa) created for 1973's "Belladonna of Sadness". Model images by Reiko Okuyama (credited as Keiko Kitagawa) created for 1973's "Belladonna of Sadness".
March 31, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Caricatures of Hayao Miyazaki by fellow animator Reiko Okuyama. (1/3)

Taken from Anido's "Reiko Okuyama: Legendary Animator - Her Animated Drawings"
January 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Model images of Sayaka and Koji dancing from the 1974 Toei feature "Mazinger Z vs. The Great General of Darkness" (マジンガーＺ対暗黒大将軍) by animator Reiko Okuyama. (1/4)

From Anido's "Reiko Okuyama: Legendary Animator - Her Animated Drawings"
November 15, 2024 at 5:18 AM
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Oh hey look, it's my first piece for the AV Club!
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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This is worth highlighting, though is complicated by the fact that Disney was considering scuttling their animation unit in at the time and the transition to Xerox machine tracewas viewed as economic necessity. Disney himself, initially optimistic about the technology actually disliked the effect.
roisinstudios.bsky.social Róisín @roisinstudios.bsky.social · 3d
the reason 101 dalmations looks like that is because disney incorporated xerography (ie early photocopying technology) into the animation process. rough pencils (by mostly male animators) were copied onto the cels so that disney could fire the (mostly female) inkers. remember that art can lie to you
A post from twitter with a screenshot from 101 Dalmatians. The caption says, “A lot of animation snobs will say that the sketchy linework of Disney movies in the 60s and 70s was sloppy and cheap, but man I adore it. The shifting outlines do just enough to remind you that every single frame of the movie was made by a human being.”
November 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Mechtober 2022 Day 21: Nobel Kitty | Mobile Fighter G Gundam X Hello Kitty

Inspired by the extremely good Sanrio collabs with Sailor Moon and Gundam!
December 15, 2023 at 3:32 PM
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Finally got around to coloring this sketch! Belka from the wonderful manga and OVA Space Family Carlvinson cosplaying as Kei of the Dirty Pair!
September 27, 2023 at 11:02 PM
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Reiko Okuyama's model images for the demon Lafleur from episode 11 of Toei's 1972 Devilman series.

Taken from Anido's "Reiko Okuyama: Legendary Animator - Her Animated Drawings"
An illustration of a
October 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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roisinstudios.bsky.social
for anyone interested in Frank's book, here's an intro from my notes. it's actually an edited version of a manuscript that she left unfinished at the time of her (tragically early) death
The cover of Hannah Frank's book, "Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons." Hannah Frank (1984-2017) was a professor of film studies at the University of North Carolina at the time of her untimely death at age thirty-three. She had a master’s in film studies from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in cinema and media studies from the University of Chicago. In his editor’s introduction, Daniel Morgan writes: “Frame by Frame is basically the dissertation that Frank defended in August 2016. It is not the book that she would have published. In the months before her death, Frank had begun to think about how she might revise and change it.” On its publication, the book appears to have made something of a splash. J. Hoberman’s review in Artforum begins: “It’s not every day that a posthumously published Ph.D. thesis nudges the world of cinema studies off its axis.” Hoberman puts Frank’s book in the lineage of Ester Leslie’s Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde (2002). In his foreword to Frank’s book, Tom Gunning describes her intervention as a turn to the still image and the labor that went into making it: “Frank makes us look at cartoons differently—no longer as images that flit across the screen, but as documents of human labor that should be scrutinized.” (p. xiii) Another of Frank’s interventions is to treat animation as a photographic medium. Daniel Morgan notes that animation is generally not treated as a photographic medium, and has therefore been excluded from film theory. Morgan writes: “Historically, animation has been defined as what cinema is not. The radical gesture Frank undertakes is to show that the two are inextricably intertwined, and to insist that we treat each cartoon seriously as a succession of photographic documents.” (p. xxxv) Frank forges this continuity between animation and cinema by shifting focus from the cel to the photograph of the cel. Morgan continues: “the photograph of the cels, the creation of an image of an animated film, is actually of the world of its production.” (p. xxxvi)
November 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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All the discussion of 007 and continuity has me thinking about one of the more interesting bits of of Takao Saito's 1964 adaptation of Live & Let Die.

Here, we see Saito establishing continuity between his manga and the film series in a subtle way, by evoking Quarrel's death in Dr. No (1962).
Continued: Panels from chapter 1 of Takao Saito's adaptation of "Live and Let Die", featuring a trapped Bond as he watches Mr.Big's henchman Sam Miami burn a traitor to death with a flamethrower mounted in his desk. Read right-to-left. Panel 1: Wide shot of the device being used on its victim, Bond looking on in shock. Panel 2: Close-up of the victim. Panel 3: Close-up of Bond, distraught. Panel 4: Close-up of Sam. Sam (thinking): Ufufu...
November 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM