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mélanie daigle
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Character animator with a passion for acting and an eye for design • Director • Author/Illustrator (#amquerying!) ✎
https://melanie-daigle.com (she/her)
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Bailed at Science World because of the rain, but turns out this (minus whatever the hell happened North of Stanley Park) still adds up to 24KM 💪
Map of the Vancouver seawall with a massive glitch North of Stanley Park.
December 20, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Big fat walk! Even when she’s cloudy she’s still pretty.
The Vancouver seawall, its cliffs, and Siwash Rock on a cloudy day, with freight ships on the horizon. Seagulls perched on rocks in the ocean with a sprinkling of ducks and mountains behind them. A crow perched on top of a driftwood branch in front of the ocean on a cloudy day. A beached sailboat in front of Burrard bridge on a cloudy day.
December 20, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Me: "OMG George Saunders is coming to Vancouver!?? I'm reading one of his books right now!! Dude, what is up with the universe??"

Adam:
Screencap of the "Side Eyeing Chloe" meme, a blonde child with her two front teeth peeking out of her mouth sits in a carseat and side eyes towards the camera with an uncertain look on her face.
December 2, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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A local restaurant posted this obviously AI-ed illustration (look at the legs) on Insta, and I was like “Welp, that’s too bad. Not going there now.”
November 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Today’s the feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal and I’m thinking of my meeting with Sister Maria Jose on the Camino 💛
November 28, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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I don’t think I’ve ever had a “Jesus, when did I get so Vancouver?” moment… whatever that might mean?
November 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Look, the sentiment is valid. But so much of what grates me about the way acting is often handled in animation stems from this attitude.

Acting isn’t emoting.

Acting is doing.

If the emotion isn’t a byproduct, you’re doing it wrong.
November 27, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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LEOOOOOOOOOO (XIV) 😭💕
Black text over a light blue background that reads: “In this Jubilee Year, the Church invites us to journey towards hope. Your presence here from so many different countries, and your artistic work in particular, is a shining example. Like so many others who come to Rome from all over the world, you too are on a journey as pilgrims of the imagination, seekers of meaning, narrators of hope and heralds of humanity. Your journey is not measured in kilometers but in images, words, emotions, shared memories and collective desires. You navigate this pilgrimage into the mystery of human experience with a penetrating gaze that is capable of recognizing beauty even in the depths of pain, and of discerning hope in the tragedy of violence and war.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Oh, how I've missed reading Peter Markham's monthly dose of 🤯💕🙌
White text on a black background that reads: "What are the particular elements in the story that the director connects with? What questions the story poses do they find the most compelling? What is their attitude to this material-in other words, what tone do they adopt? Is the viewer to feel the same way as the characters, or as one character above all others, or as several, or do their emotions differ, perhaps contrast? How close to the characters might the audience feel, or how distant? Should the style complement the nature of the film's world and story, or should it run counter to it-even subvert it? As recently, sadly lost Spanish novelist Javier Marías put it in his novel Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me: Everything can be ridiculous or tragic according to who is doing the telling or how they tell it."
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Generational change is what happened in New York last night, not whatever the fresh hell this is:
November 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Bit extreme, but walking the Camino de Santiago. It’ll even renew your faith in humanity. Somehow.

“Solvitur ambulando.” St Augustine. “It is solved by walking.”
October 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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October 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Jesus Christ… 🤦‍♀️
October 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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"OK, let's check what the radio is saying about the Bloquons Tout strikes and protests..."

"...right."
Image of a red microphone with a France Inter logo laying down on its side with a caption reading: "Programmes perturbés en raison d'un movement de grève"
September 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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How whackadoodle is geneology??
September 8, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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When you start going back far enough into the family tree that you land on the Camino Francés / some of those 23andMe stats start making sense 😳
September 8, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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Anyone else following the two Americans’ saga after they bought tickets for and got on a flight to Tunis thinking it was going to Nice?? 😂
Screencap of a TikTok comment where user NotCondi writes: “I called it. I knew that the only people who would be on this situation would be people who use chat GPT to plan a trip.”
September 8, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Plus ça change, plus ça reste pareil…
September 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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🫠
Black text on a white background that reads: “Carney's cabinet is also hearing from pollster Jean-Marc Léger on the mood of the country, Scotiabank's Jean-François Perrault for an economic outlook and private sector leaders, including an artificial intelligence-focused venture capital firm.”
September 4, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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After exploring the director and the narrative and then the director and the screen, this third book is to be about the director and their self. It's based on a lecture I had the pleasure of attending at a time where I was struggling... the timing was perfect.
White type over a black background that reads: "On one of several inner 'voices'. The Whisperer On the one hand this insidious inner voice may sow doubt, its sibilant nagging creating a sense of unease. The whisperer may seek to unnerve, its quiet insistence eating away at the director's search for steady decision-making, even at their confidence. On the other hand, the whisperer might be a kind advisor, someone whose gentle, quiet intervention allows the filmmaker time to consider matters that, given more immediate pressure, might prompt a poor decision. It is this ambiguity that can render the whisperer a challenging voice to interpret."
September 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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My teacher and mentor Peter Markham is working on his third book! 🤓

He's shared some snippets:
A block of white type over a black background that reads: "Far from an offering a purely introspective focus, this book takes a broad look at how the director might understand both their interior and their exterior processes. In what areas lie the decisions they need to take? When do they need to take them? What goes on that prompts the director's decision-making? Is their response to their material founded in helpful inner resources or are other, perhaps hidden agendas playing out — ones that may have little or nothing to do with the film the director is making?" White type on a black background that reads: "One designed image can say more than the controlled, orchestrated vista of a high budget studio movie. A dozen extras judiciously placed and moving in coordination with the camera and the frame can be more effective than a hundred configured arbitrarily. A camera angle chosen with emotional impact on the viewer or "critical" comment on subject matter in mind can avoid the need to show everything when that cannot be afforded or set up without wasting valuable hours of shooting. Restriction, limitation, challenge are part and parcel of the creative process."
September 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Today’s adventure: secret tunnel!
September 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Best animated movie of the year, I’m not even kidding (probably the only animated movie I’ll watch all year but SHHHHH 🤫)
August 29, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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When you've been ripping your hair out trying to solve a thing but then you remember that it's FICTION and that you can, quite literally, do ANYTHING.

YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL!
August 27, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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I need to get my hands on this book. To read, but also to smack against a few carefully selected heads.
August 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM