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CKWoolman

@RedWonder_

Director 🎬 Storyboard Artist 🎭 Comic Book Artist 💭 Barbie Mysteries, MLP:FIM, The Hollow, and a million NDA's

Joined August 2015
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On one of my first shows I was working 16 hours days for 6 months straight including weekends. I was struggling with the work load and told my boss several times I needed help but was told "theres no help available and you will get faster over time everyone goes through this" 1/2
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I turn in my last episode 2 weeks late, suffering from burnout. On my last day I passed around the crew a book to sign like a yearbook. The book gets to my boss and they say, to my face, "Mind if I give this back to you two weeks late?" Was radicalized immediately. 2/2
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Bring me back my block feature!!!! I had advertisement accounts blocked in the multi-THOUSANDS which I wore as a badge of honour!!! It was like a game to me!!! Bring me back my block feature!!!!!!
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does my banner make sense now lol
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I consider myself incredibly lucky to of made my directing debut on this incredible show with an even more incredible crew who put their heart and souls into this new and visually striking iteration of Barbie! You guys are in for a treat :)
Animation Magazine (@animag) profile pictureAnimation Magazine
@animag30 May 2024
Mattel & Netflix Ride Again with 'Barbie Mysteries: The Great Horse Chase' | Animation Magazine animationmagazine.net/?p=325…
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Still crazy to me that I made a whole comic in a month. Highly do not recommend that😎I won't be posting the comic online just yet (still some physical copies available tho😘), but I wanted to show off some of my favorite pages cause im proud of 'em dangit!!
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Me (my mortal enemy), last month: "Yeah I can write an illustrate a whole comic in one month how hard can it be? Come visit me at in the gym where I'll be debuting my comic Have You Seen Nico - story about siblings willing to go to any and all lengths to rescue their brother :)
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first time tabling at anything aaaaaaaaaaa
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I have never seen the aurora borealis before and omg
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Surprisingly the hardest part of my job is the psychic damage
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Nearly every client I’ve ever had asks for more poses or to break up long scenes. Whenever we add in beats to let the scene or audience breathe it’s asked to be cut. Scripts nowadays are nearly all dialogue.
Miguel (@thatdaffyduck) profile pictureMiguel@thatdaffyduck30 Dec 2023
Animation veteran Frans Vischer's (Cats Don't Dance, Mickey's Christmas Carol, Roger Rabbit) take on Wish. Important to see an animator pinpoint the exact problems with the animation itself, since the regular viewer might not know how to get across those specific critiques.
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It’s as if clients are afraid that if something isn’t moving on screen at all times the audience is gonna immediately lose interest.
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I love Epic: The Musical a normal amount lol
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I feel like people are grabbing the wrong message from this. It’s not that modern animators are intentionally avoiding referencing real life or pulling from experience- it’s that big studios are no longer asking for it.
Bilge Ebiri (@BilgeEbiri) profile pictureBilge Ebiri
@BilgeEbiri9 Nov 2023
Not a day passes that I’m not reminded of these words from Ric Sluiter, art director of LILO & STITCH. vulture.com/2022/10/an-oral-…
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Studios don’t want to spend money to risk a new animation style or on a story that’s not universally digestible by the largest demographic possible. They want to make something that will make them the most amount of money the cheapest way possible with the least amount of risk
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So yeah, Sluiter is right- it’s all formulaic because clients tell us to “make it LOOK spiderverse but we don’t want to PAY for spiderverse”. If you wanna kill the math you gotta kill the algorithm because that’s what decides what gets made and how.
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🇨🇦Ani Industry working conditions: -make anywhere from 2-4x less than our US buds for the same job -can have your contract "cut short" (fired) for any reason -only 3-10 "flex" days, no vacation days -no paternity leave -no 401k/RRSP benefit We need protection so bad you guys
Canadian Animation Guild, IATSE Local 938 (@CAG938) profile pictureCanadian Animation Guild, IATSE Local 938@CAG9381 Sep 2023
📣WILDBRAIN WORKERS ARE FORMING A UNION!📣 One of the biggest Vancouver studios is on its way to joining CAG, with hundreds of workers having already signed union support cards! What happens next? Bring all your questions to the WildBrain Digital Town Hall, Wednesday at 7pm!
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btw these conditions aren't exclusive to just WB, it's a Canadian industry wide issue. But unionizing the largest Canadian studio would be a huge step in the right direction towards Canadian animation worker's rights.
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I love my job and I love this industry, but as it is now I can't afford kids and I cant afford to ever retire. I just want to be able to do what I do in a healthy and sustainable way, ya know?
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