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Director at Powerhouse Animation Studios Inc. Director of GODSLAP. Prev: Sonic Origins, Sonic Frontiers: Divergence, Sonic Superstars: Trio of Trouble

Austin, TX
Joined June 2009
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Very excited to be directing this. Huge thanks to @MoistCr1TiKaL , Meatier Productions, Lyrical Animation. The @powerhouseanim crew behind this is gonna knock yer socks off.
First teaser for ‘GODSLAP’, a new animated film based on MoistCr1TiKaL's comic series. The film follows a boy with an extraordinary slapping ability who ventures out into the world for the first time.
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If you don't put 2D animated films in theaters for 20 years, it's pretty easy to say people don't see 2D animated films in theaters.
Brad Bird says he’s happy with the final CG animation of ‘RAY GUNN’, but also thinks Hollywood has turned against 2D animation. “Studios think audiences won’t accept that... I don’t agree that hand-drawn animation isn’t commercial.” Find out more... discussingfilm.net/2026/09/2…
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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is a pretty great rubric for how to tell new stories in a series whose lead has aged out of the role. We don’t need new films, but I will gladly take a new Indy movie-game hybrid every 5 years or so until I’m dead.
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big bada boom
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So, uh, what’s the animation community’s consensus on app migration? Where we at/going?
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RTing again because one of my favorite things about working at this company is that I can always recall who animated what shot and the challenges they approached and surmounted to achieve what’s on display here. This whole reel is full of rock stars in all departments.
Check out our Boutique Department's new Demo Reel! Our team is always ready to drop the heat, jumping from style to style to suit our clients' needs! 🔥👏 youtu.be/VPkX6qv4YJ8?si=pY2y…
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Let us make something cool for you.
Check out our Boutique Department's new Demo Reel! Our team is always ready to drop the heat, jumping from style to style to suit our clients' needs! 🔥👏 youtu.be/VPkX6qv4YJ8?si=pY2y…
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Two good friends and animation industry vets have started a children's decor venture and today they've launched their store with the first line of prints! If you or your kiddo have good taste and struggle to find quality art to hang, check this out. roomyatx.com/
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more work for @PALATINEshow. While the in-shot use of this painting is horizontal, I think it looks dope vertical (and makes for a pretty good phone BG 👀)
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$5 gets you behind-the-scenes looks at every single update from crew as it comes. Best way I could think to up the value of subscription in an instant.
UPDATE: all paid-tier patrons now get eyes on the discord server's production channels! See works-in-progress as crew post them, discussions and notes from leadership, and strike up a conversation with us in the patrons channel.
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Hi! I'm a director at Powerhouse Animation, developing an animated series concept in my free time, @PALATINEshow. A small crew and I are chipping away at a trailer, but I'm paying out of pocket and I'd love to show you some cool stuff in trade for some of your dollarydoos.🙏
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Ben outdid himself with this one. 👏👏👏
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Today marks 13 years for me at @powerhouseanim. What makes this studio so special to me? Anything the studio creates outside of its fantastic TV series is made by the same, extremely versatile crew of ~25, most of whom are longstanding vets of the studio.
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Powerhouse's Boutique department carries the torch of the its origins as a short form 2D animation service provider. Whatever comes through the doors, whatever goals the client has, it provides. Crew members are chameleons of style. Boredom and mundanity is next to impossible.
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Gen AI isn't the next democratizer, a la the internet. It's spearheaded by greedy narcissists who correctly notice a public who doesn't care about the largest property theft in history & a do-nothing congress too old to understand a fucking computer, let alone a training dataset.
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And we're all sitting here hoping the giant corporations that actually run things will decide that the financial losses due to AI infringement of their copyrights will outweigh the savings of firing humans and using AI itself. This shit is so bleak.
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Like, it's really easy to dunk on this fucking garbage, so I'll refrain. Instead, let's call out the opportunistic, shameless, self-fellating and entirely clueless piece of shit you have to be to DO this sort of thing. Like everyone involved. Get bent, dawg.
Toys "R" Us has released the first OpenAI SORA generated brand commercial The use of generative AI in commercial work is here.
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I'm late to the party, but what I wouldn't give to still be a teenager on Metroid forums in the 2000s again freaking out about that Prime 4 trailer. Where my SCU people at?
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I try my best to not say incendiary things about the animation industry, I really do. However, its absolute disdain for original works, aside from a rare few, is the most deflating and massive backhand for a workforce absolutely brimming with spare imagination.
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Color scripting saves lives
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