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Sean W
@shidarin.com
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VFX/Animation/Film professional. Pipeline and Cloud architect. Pilot. Gamer. Dad. Cat owner.
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Of course I have two keyboards… but sometimes I am prevented from using them.
A white and brown ragdoll mix with unusual ears and too many toes lays on a desk with one paw on a normal keyboard. The normal keyboard has blue, purple, and white keycaps. Behind the cat is what is undoubtedly a “posting keyboard”, a split orthodox keyboard with orange, black and white Carbon SA keycaps. The cat blocks access.
October 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Super excited to receive my backer package for @spiderwebsoftware.bsky.social’s #Avernum 4 #Kickstarter. The included drawing of a spider is just as good as anything that shipped in Exile 1-3, all those many years ago 😀
An envelope and letter from spiderweb software. Covering parts of the letter, and cleverly obscuring the addresses and phone numbers, are a variety of stickers, including an Avernum 4 logo sticker, an Avernum spider sticker, a ghostly wraith holographic sticker which I’m sure is lore related but I’ve completely forgotten about, and a child’s drawing of an Avernum spider. The letter reads: Greetings! Thank you so much for supporting Avernum 4: Greed and Glory! Enclosed are all the physical goodies you ordered when you backed our game. We hope they provide you with comfort and amusement as we work to get the game out the door for Windows and Mac in October (and for the iPad not long after). As we've been keeping Spiderweb Software alive and developing, Kickstarter has been an enormous help. In fact, without Kickstarter, we would have a very hard time staying in business. Thank you so much for your trust in backing us, and we hope to keep providing our electronic amusements to you for many years to come! - Jeff Vogel Keeper of Avernum
September 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Standing room only at the 10 year anniversary for the #SIGGRAPH Going Cloud Native Birds of a Feather.
Liv Constantinescu and Doug Sherman stand at the front of a crowded room, small text from a slide deck is presented on a screen.
August 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Off the air but not off my mind- put up my #StarTrek #LowerDecks one sheet today. Completely forgot that I bought this gigantic 27”x40” poster by Matt Ferguson. Cerritos Strong!
A 27x40 inch poster for the animated series Star Trek: The Lower Decks in a black spotlight hot swap display frame on a white plaster wall giving off Southern California post-war vibes. The poster is by Matt Ferguson and says “Rarely Going Where No One Has Gone Before, Star Trek: Lower Decks”. Below the text, the USS Cerritos, a California class starship, flies towards the viewer. Below the Cerritos are the four main characters of the series. The poster is by Matt Ferguson. It look better than a Kirk sundae with Trip Tucker sprinkles.
August 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Finally picked up a 24x36 portfolio from Baroque Portfolios (by @bottlenecknyc.bsky.social). The OBEY portfolio with extra sleeves was just too good to pass up. These portfolios make managing an excessively large screen print collection easy. #MoviePosters #ScreenPrints #OBEY
An OBEY 24 inch by 36 inch portfolio sits closed on an extremely dated and out of style coffee table. The front of the portfolio has the classic OBEY giant logo- André the giant’s face. The portfolio has a really nice red trim. The OBEY portfolio is open to the first page, showing a Shepard Fairey “We the People” 24x36 offset print (unsigned). The print shows a Muslim woman wearing the American flag as a hijab, with “We the People are greater than fear” written below it. Opposite the first portfolio page, the inside cover of the portfolio has a slip pocket and a tag reading “OBEY X BAROQUE”. A close up of the binder clips inside the portfolio. On the left is a Guardian’s of the Galaxy screen print. On the right is a Shaun of the Dead screenprint. Both by Matt Ferguson. A wide shot of the portfolio open and showing two 24x36 screen prints by Kilian Eng. On the left is The Legend of Zelda, which shows Hyrule Castle in the top half and a dark forest with the Master Sword at the bottom. Link is approaching on the Master Sword. On the right is a Castle in the Sky screenprint, which shows the floating castle, airships, and a farm above Japanese text.
July 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Just another beautiful day in this beautiful city. #HollywoodBowl #LosAngeles #LooneyToons
View of the stage at the Hollywood Bowl. Most of bowl is in shade, with the sun setting behind the camera. The stage is empty save chairs.
July 12, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Waiting for the #KaijuNo8 panel at #AnimeExpo
Inside the Peacock Theater at LA Live, which serves as the main stage for Anime Expo in Los Angeles. Camera shows the stage with generic Anime Expo slides on screen. People are exiting from the previous panel. A live broadcast camera is on screen right.
July 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Can’t believe I slept on #persona5 for so long. Absolutely addicting gameplay loop and a story just as relevant today as when it was first released in 2016. Still need to catch the OG ending. Great game for handhelds like the Switch or Steam Deck.
A screenshot from the Steam Mobile app showing 179.6 hours of Persona 5 Royal play time, with a last played date of today. The Persona 5 Royal box art is displayed next to the text.
June 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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@vfxgordon.bsky.social now you’re in my reels for a deleted tweet.

Hey, there are way worse things to go viral for.
A deleted tweet from vfxgordon with the initial theory, now disproven, on how the tariff math was calculated. The tweet is screenshotted and added to an Instagram reel, with the caption “oh my fucking god” added to the top.
April 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Me when I saw Popehat quoting you
A man points at a screen because he recognizes the person on it.
April 5, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Once you’ve got official @aswf.io stickers, everything is an official ASWF product!

Merchandising, merchandising, merchandising! How the real money from the movie is made!
What is clearly an ancient airpop popcorn maker with its brand sticker replaced with a tiny generic Academy Software Foundation sticker. The popcorn maker is in operation, with freshly popped popcorn spilling out of its top into a Cuisinart metal bowl. The popcorn looks tasty. The popcorn maker is located in a generic kitchen in front of a window, with blue/white leaf pattern curtains.
March 16, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Simple flow chart that doesn’t even account for how much cost of living is about to go up for many, many people.

No surprise, Trump and the GOP’s tax plan is a massive gift to the wealthy paid for by the poor and middle class.
Flow chart showing tax breaks for people making above $360,000 a year, and an increase in taxes for people below. If above, those making 360k to 915k will have their taxes go down an average of 7k. If above, they will go down an average of 36k. For those making at least 157k, it goes up by $610. Above 28k, $1,530, and below that, $790.
February 24, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Cat.
A close-up of a ragdoll mix in front of a Christmas tree.
December 21, 2024 at 1:10 AM
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At #reinvent, giving a presentation on using AWS to do rendering for #vfx and more.
December 2, 2024 at 4:00 PM