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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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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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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
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Sometimes Kakizaki's a genius too
Screenshot of Kakizaki from SDF Macross in his pilot uniform, looking thoughtful while speaking. Subtitles read: If I lived in a society where I couldn't hang out with women, I'd wanna die!
November 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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I barely remember the Goofy game, but I sure do remember doing stupid voices. Thanks again to Charkie and BGHoF for having me on, it was an absolute treat!

...I hope to never have to return to Slime World again in my life.
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Our first Sega Genesis edition of "Games From a Hat" is up now on YouTube! Tune in for bad behavior in a Busytown, the misadventures of BAD and ASS, and @spacequeenemily.bsky.social's incredible impressions of Disney characters. youtu.be/b2feVOvdaAQ
Games From a Hat: Genesis Edition! [#01] - Bad Game Hall of Fame
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November 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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introducing LIVES OF THE ARTISTS, a trans riff on the myth of the renaissance

(the comic isn't straight smut, but smut will be included)

this is page one!
Page one of a comic called "Lives of the Artists." In the first panel, we see a blind-folded angel flying over a densely-wooded forest. The angel is holding a spear. In the second panel, the angel shrinks as he flies into the distance. Meanwhile, a sound effect emerges from the trees: "huff."
September 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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While there are certainly more issues with photography and compositing than under Grantray-Lawrence's tenure, the Ralph Bakshi-helmed seasons two and three of Spider-Man '67 certainly offer more compelling composition, draftsmanship, and visual design that compensates for their lack of consistency.
First in a series of screenshots from the 1967 animated television series "Spider-Man". Peter Parker stands on a dock at night, looking pensive as he is framed in shadow. Spider-Man stands in a doorway, lit from behind, front in shadow as he approaches a cornered criminal. Low-angle shot of the Master Technician issuing orders into a handheld microphone. Overhead view of a machine operating, with onlookers below.
June 19, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Much of this is Johnnie Vita's wonderful backgrounds, which are far more evocative than the first season's more conventional style. It's a shame that so much time is spent in fantastical locales to allow recycling of materials for Rocket Robin Hood, because Vita's moody, doomy New York is lovely.
More screenshots from the 1967 Spider-Man animated series. Watercolor illustration of New York's skyline, with xerox lines of the buildings taken from a photo. New York buildings, cast in reds and greens with stark angles. Red, pink, and purple New York skyline with a bridge in the foreground.
June 19, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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The cel layer of the Guncannon here is alternated with either a high contrast Xerox copy or a tracing of the initial illustration done with a grease pencil.

These alternated drawings give a strobing effect that - when combined with practical light flashes - really enhances the sense of impact.
Initial drawing of the Guncannon. Grease pencil tracing/high-contrast Xerox copy of the initial drawing of the Guncannon. The Guncannon awash in white from a practical light source illuminating the shot setup on the animation stand during photography.
April 13, 2025 at 5:24 PM